DreamCloud Luxe Hybrid  Mattress Review

The DreamCloud Luxe Hybrid is a 14" mattress. Ours measured a little more at 37.6 cm (14.8"). You may need to use deep-pocket fitted sheets.

The DreamCloud Luxe Hybrid is a Medium-Plush mattress. It's best suited for average-weight and heavier side sleepers and isn't bad for lighter side sleepers. On the other hand, it's also not that supportive for most people and isn't ideal for back/stomach sleeping.

This mattress's body conformity performance varies significantly depending on your weight. It offers fantastic conformity for heavier people, who will sink deeply into the mattress's comfort layers. Its performance is excellent for average-weight people, who will also sink in enough for comfortable side sleeping. However, it's much less conforming for lighter people. It offers an adequate performance for people in that weight category, but you might want a more conforming mattress for side sleep.

It doesn't offer great support for most people, regardless of weight. It's most supportive for people in the lighter weight category, offering an alright performance. It offers worse, mediocre support for average-weight people and disappointing support for heavier people, so it won't do a good job of keeping your spine aligned and isn't a good option for back/stomach sleeping.

It's even less bouncy than the DreamCloud Premier Hybrid, so it doesn't seem to push back against your movements. This can make it feel more difficult to move around on versus springier models.

It's not a very enveloping mattress. You'll sink quite deeply into it, which helps as it offers good overall pressure relief, but the sleeping surface isn't very contouring, so it doesn't have a hugging feel.

It has a responsive feel. The sleeping surface responds quite quickly to your movements, so you don't feel hugged or stuck in place.

It has great motion isolation. While you'll feel more of your partner's movements compared to the DreamCloud Premier Hybrid, like that mattress, it does a great job of keeping motion localized, so you won't feel movements all over the mattress. Motion also dissipates quickly, so it doesn't feel like the mattress wobbles or bounces whenever someone rolls over or gets in or out of bed.

It has decent edge support. The edges of the mattress are quite easy to compress, so you'll sink in significantly when you sit on the side of the bed. This isn't ideal if you want a solid surface for getting in and out of bed. However, they compress quite evenly, without forming much of a ramp, so you can sleep near the edge of the mattress without feeling like you might slide off.

It has a very good cooling performance. It doesn't feel very warm when you first get into bed, and it does a great job of moving heat away from you overnight as well. However, it's not more cooling than the lower-end DreamCloud Premier Hybrid or the DreamCloud Classic Hybrid, despite its advertised cooling feature.

The manufacturer says the cover is made of a blend of materials: Polyester: 66%, Viscose: 18%, Polyethylene: 6%, and Barrier Coating: 4%. That accounts for 94% of the cover, and they don't disclose what makes up the remaining 6%.

The edges of the mattress's support layer use the same 13-gauge coils as the rest of the layer. The coils aren't very stiff, but they help give the mattress a decent edge support performance.

The mattress's quilted top includes a thin layer of fiber fill, a memory foam layer, and a polyfoam layer. The less bouncy memory foam means it's only slightly springy. The upper comfort layer is also made of memory foam with a contouring, unbouncy feel. The manufacturer advertises a 'Dynamic Temperature Control Layer,' which isn't a separate layer, but seems to be a coating on the upper comfort layer that makes it feel cool to the touch. The last foam layer is a polyfoam transition layer. It's advertised as a 'zoned support layer,' and the foam is perforated at the head and foot. This is intended to give the layer a firmer feel in the lumbar area, but it doesn't have a noticeable effect on the mattress's overall firmness.

The mattress includes some good-quality foam, including the memory foam comfort layer and polyfoam transition layer. These layers will help the mattress resist showing signs of wear, like sagging, for longer. However, the memory foam in the quilted layer is lower density (42 kg/m³ or 2.6 lb/cu ft), as is the polyfoam layer (25.1 kg/m³ or 1.6 lb/cu ft). These layers will be prone to forming permanent indentations or body impressions sooner than higher-quality foams.

This mattress has 15.2 cm (6.0") of foam above its spring support layer, so it has thicker comfort layers than lower-end mattresses from DreamCloud, like the DreamCloud Premier Hybrid. The upper layer is a 5.3 cm (2.1") quilted top that includes 1.0 cm (0.4") of fiber fill, 2.5 cm (1.0") of memory foam, and 1.8 cm (0.7") of polyfoam. There's a softer 5.0 cm (2.0") memory foam upper comfort layer below it that allows most people to sink quite deeply into the mattress, followed by a much firmer 5.0 cm (2.0") polyfoam transition layer that helps distribute your weight over the support layer and prevent you from feeling the individual coils.

Pocket coils make up the support layer. This spring design, with individually wrapped coils, helps with motion isolation and adds contouring compared with continuous coil designs. The 13-gauge coils are made of thick wire that often corresponds with higher stiffness, but are taller and less tightly coiled compared to the much firmer 13-gauge springs found in mattresses like the Plank Firm Luxe, and the layer overall isn't very firm.

The quilted layer includes a layer of polyfoam and a layer of memory foam. The memory foam has medium firmness, and the polyfoam is medium-firm. Overall, it's slightly firm for a quilted layer, but the memory foam upper comfort layer below is significantly softer, allowing most people to sink into the mattress quite a bit. The transition layer is much firmer, so it'll help add support and distribute your weight over the springs. This is the advertised 'zoned support layer,' and while it doesn't use different foam for different zones, it's perforated at the head and foot. Holes in a foam layer can create a softer feel, but we didn't measure a significant difference between the firmness at the head/foot and lumbar.

The spring support layer isn't very stiff. If you compress its upper layers enough, you may also sink into the springs, despite the firmer foam layer above.

The quilted top includes a layer of unbouncy memory foam and a much more resilient layer of polyfoam. Overall, it has a little bit of bounce. The memory foam upper comfort layer is much less resilient, so it has the slow-moving feel you may associate with memory foam. The polyfoam transition layer has a much bouncier feel, so it creates more 'push back' and adds springiness.

The springs are moderately bouncy, and combined with the less resilient memory foam comfort layer, they create a less bouncy mattress overall.