Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Make no mistake, memory foam (gel foam) mattresses WILL feel very different from what you are used to. I have slept on coil spring mattresses all my life and was stubbornly skeptical of the claims on these. After 24 hours and a first night sleep I am beginning to convert. No morning pains and only mild stiffness from my spine getting used to this new (and better) feeling. So a few notes on what to expect... You WILL need to get used to the very different FEEL of this mattress, I figure a week will do it... You CAN sleep on it after the first 12 hours of waiting for it to pretty much stabilize and expand. The comfort will increase after a few nights I expect... Edge support is surprisingly good, but if you are an "edge sleeper" like my wife is you will need to train yourself to stay at least 6 inches away from that edge or risk an undignified plunk on the floor... Whatever your decision, before you buy KNOW you will have to get used to a different feel before you click order... As this is my first memory foam mattress I have no way to compare brands, but Novilla appears to be very quality conscious. It has a cotton outer casing and looks to me like it will last a long time. So far I am happy and that first night's sleep was really good. I thank them... **Oh, a side note...I was expecting a foam mattress to be light, but this one weighs pretty much the same as my 15 year old coil spring mattress... **Two week adendum** I have read a number of negative reviews about these Novilla mattresses and felt compelled to address some of them...I can only presume that some people want their expectations matched exactly OR ELSE... 1. Several complaints were about ordering a specific thickness and the actual thickness was less. Mine is a 12 inch and at first I thought it was only 10 1/4 inches after the first 12 hours. The next day (after I had slept on it BTW) it had caught up to just under 11 inches. When I put a new 9-12 inch mattress cover on it on the third day it went on a little snuggly, so yes it is a 12 " (I messured the cover thickness), and I would call that pretty exact... 2. Don't know about these strange smells I read about, I have had this mattress for two weeks and only experienced something of a "new product" smell on the first three days, then nothing else. 3. Lots of complaints about firmness on both ends of the scales. Some say too soft and others say hard as a rock...My suggestion if you are not easily pleased is to go to a local mattress store that includes "mattress in a box" types and lay down on their floor model BEFORE YOU ORDER ONLINE. For me I knew there were three different layers, a dense bottom firm support layer, a less dense middle layer that can be called "medium firm, and then the soft feeling top layer that 'YOU EXPECT TO SINK INTO A BIT'...I am 6' 2" tall, 75 years old and weigh 212 pounds, and I am enjoying my new mattress...thank you for putting up with my rant...