Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I really wanted to like this mattress pad. I gave it a serious effort and two full months of use, but in the end I returned it when I just couldn't stand being stabbed anymore. In the beginning this pad seemed too good to be true, it was so fluffy that I sank into it every night with a grateful sigh of contented relief. However, as those nights wore on it became apparent that it really had been too good to be true. It lost it's fluffy marshmallow-like loftiness no matter how many times I dug all the way down under the sheets and fluffed it like a madwoman. I expected a certain degree of flattening and could have been happy enough if that was the only problem but within a few weeks it started stabbing the sharp ends of the feathers up through the sheets and waking me up with sharp little pinpricks whenever I would shift in the night. I had expected this as well so I just made sure to run my hand across my sheets before laying down and then yanking out whatever little feathers were sticking out. By the second month of this extended before-bedtime ritual, followed inevitably by several times of being rudely awoken in the night with sharp little stabs, I angrily yanked this whole mattress pad off my bed and then slept like a rock on my first night of freedom from those infernal feathers. I had chosen this pad initially because I was trying to avoid the polyester fill from the "down alternative" toppers since I already sleep so hot but I found that even this topper made me sleep warmer than I expected. In the end I chalk this up to a learning experience, I know that other reviewers said they were happy enough with this topper when they added another cushioning topper between it and the sheets but I was so frustrated with the flattening and the stabbing after two months I decided to just return it rather than add anything else to the equation.