The Puffy Royal is a mid-range hybrid mattress. It has a support layer of pocket coils topped with several layers of foam, including a memory foam comfort layer, as well as a soft quilted layer.
It has a medium-firm feel that makes it best-suited for lighter and average back and stomach sleepers. Most side sleepers will want a plusher mattress for proper pressure relief, while some heavier back/stomach sleepers will want a truly firm mattress for better support. You won't sink very deeply into it, but its upper layers mold around your body closely. While it's not very bouncy, especially for a hybrid mattress, it has a responsive feel that helps prevent you from feeling stuck in place.
Our Verdict
The Puffy Royal offers a very good sleeping experience. It has a very responsive feel, which helps make it feel easy to move around in your sleep. Its very good motion dissipation performance means you won't feel every little move your partner makes, and it's cooling enough for most people. However, if you sleep hot, you'll probably want a slightly more cooling mattress. Its edge support is also weaker, so it's not a good option if you need sturdy edges for getting in and out of bed.
Highly responsive, so you won't feel stuck in place.
Good motion dissipation means you'll only feel bigger movements.
Cooling enough for most people.
Medium-firm feel suitable for light and average back/stomach sleepers.
Edge support is mediocre, making sitting or sleeping on the edges less comfortable.
Uses only low-quality, less durable foam.
Too firm for most side sleepers, and not firm enough for some heavier back/stomach sleepers.
The Puffy Royal has a good cooling performance. It doesn't feel overly warm when you first get into bed and does a good job of dissipating heat overnight. It won't make most people feel warmer. However, if you're a hot sleeper, you'll probably want a slightly more cooling mattress.
Cooling enough for most people.
The Puffy Royal has a very good motion dissipation performance. You won't feel every move your partner makes, since it does a great job of preventing movement from traveling across the mattress. However, you'll feel bigger movements near the source, like in the middle of the mattress when your partner rolls over. Motion dissipates somewhat slowly, so the mattress can seem to wobble or jiggle, which makes movements a bit more likely to wake you.
Good motion dissipation means you'll only feel bigger movements.
The Puffy Royal's edge support is just okay. The edges of the support layer are reinforced with firm polyfoam, but it doesn't do a great job. The sides compress quite easily, which makes it harder to get in and out of bed and less comfortable to sleep near the side of the mattress.
Edge support is mediocre, making sitting or sleeping on the edges less comfortable.
The Puffy Royal is very responsive. It bounces back quickly after being compressed, so it adapts to your movements almost immediately. This helps make it feel easier to change sleeping positions and helps prevent you from feeling stuck in place.
Highly responsive, so you won't feel stuck in place.
The Puffy Royal isn't a very durable mattress. All of the foam layers consist of low-density, lower-quality foam. This makes the mattress prone to sagging and forming permanent indentations sooner than mattresses that use higher-quality foams.
Uses only low-quality, less durable foam.
Performance Usages
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Puffy Royal mattress comes in standard sizes, including Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, California King, and Split King. We tested a Queen-sized mattress, and you can see our unit's label.
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Popular Mattress Comparisons
The Puffy Royal is a hybrid mattress with a good performance in general, but it has some drawbacks that are disappointing for a mid-range mattress. It has good cooling and motion dissipation and offers a responsive feel. However, its edge support is mediocre, so if you want to maximize the comfortable sleeping space or need sturdy sides for getting in and out of bed, the Bear Elite Hybrid may be a better option for you. It contains mostly low-quality foam as well, unlike more durable mattresses like the Saatva Latex Hybrid or the Novaform ComfortGrande Plus.
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The Bear Elite Hybrid is better for most people than the Puffy Royal. Both mattresses have a medium-firm feel with good cooling and motion dissipation, but the Bear offers significantly edge support, so you can sit or sleep on the side of the bed more comfortably.
The Saatva Latex Hybrid is better than the Puffy Royal for most people. The Saatva's better cooling performance makes it more suitable for hot sleepers. Its significantly better edge support gives you more space to sleep comfortably and makes it easier to get in and out of bed. It's more responsive and much bouncier, which helps make it feel easy to change sleeping positions. The Saatva also uses much higher-quality foams that will last longer without sagging. However, keep in mind that it's firmer and less suitable for lighter people and side sleepers.
The Puffy Lux and the Puffy Royal perform similarly, but the Royal has the edge because of its better cooling performance. The Royal is also more responsive, so it adapts to your movements more quickly. That said, the Lux's bouncier feel also helps make it feel easier to move around in your sleep. Most side sleepers will prefer its 'Medium' firmness, while the medium-firm Royal is generally better for back and stomach sleepers.
The Beautyrest Mattress offers a better sleeping experience for most people than the Puffy Royal. The Beautyrest offers slightly better cooling and motion isolation. Its edge support is much better, so it's easier to get in and out of bed and more comfortable to sleep near the edge. That said, you'll sink less into the Puffy, which you might prefer.
We've recently started testing mattresses. We use objective data and repeatable testing for key characteristics like firmness, cooling, and motion isolation, to ensure each mattress gets the same treatment. Since we buy all of our mattresses, we can tear them down layer by layer and isolate the mechanical properties of every component: quilted tops, foams, coils, and any special materials. Our approach gives us unprecedented insight into how each product design decision contributes to a mattress's overall performance and feel, and allows us to tailor our results to different body types and sleeping positions.
Test Results
The Puffy Royal is a 14"/35.6 cm mattress (ours was a little taller at 14.1"/35.9 cm), so you'll probably need to use deep-pocket fitted sheets.
It's a medium-firm mattress, making it best suited for average and lighter back and stomach sleepers. Some heavier side sleepers might also find it suitable, but most will want a softer mattress for sufficient pressure relief.
This mattress isn't very bouncy. It doesn't push back very much against movement, which gives it a less lively feel than bouncier mattresses and can make moving around in your sleep feel more difficult.
You don't sink into the mattress very deeply, so you feel like you're sleeping 'on' and not 'in' it. The memory foam upper comfort layer helps make it highly contouring, however, so it feels like the mattress molds around your body.
It has a very responsive feel. It recovers its shape very quickly after being compressed, so it feels like the mattress responds immediately when you move. This helps avoid the feeling of being stuck in place and makes it feel easier to change sleeping positions.
It has a very good motion dissipation performance. It's good at keeping motion isolated, so you won't feel every little movement across the mattress. However, you'll feel bigger movements near the source, and it's not as good at dissipating motion quickly, so you may feel like the mattress wobbles a little when someone rolls over or gets into bed, which makes movement more likely to disturb you.
The edge support is okay. The sides are quite easy to compress, so when you sit on the side of the bed, you'll sink in quite far, which makes it more difficult to get in and out of bed. You might also want sturdier edges if you like to sleep near the very edge of the mattress.
It has very good cooling. It doesn't feel overly warm when you first get into bed, and continues to dissipate heat efficiently overnight. It's cooling enough to keep most people comfortable, but hot sleepers will need a mattress with slightly better cooling.
The manufacturer doesn't disclose what material the cover is made of. It's removable, unlike most mattress covers, but not machine-washable.
The sides of the support layer are made of polyfoam instead of springs, which is meant to help reinforce the mattress edges. Instead, the sides compress fairly easily, leading to edge support that is just okay.
The mattress's quilted top includes layers of polyfoam and fiber fill, which create a soft-feeling upper layer. Below it, a firmer memory foam layer adds contouring, which helps with pressure relief, without enveloping you. The polyfoam layers below are also quite firm and more responsive, which helps give the mattress its responsive feel and adds support for the heavier parts of your body.
This mattress uses only lower-density, lower-quality foam in its construction. You can expect the foam layers to start forming permanent indentations or sagging sooner than mattresses that use higher-quality materials.
This mattress has nearly 8 inches of foam above its spring support layer. The quilted layer includes separate layers of polyfoam (2.4 cm) and fiber fill (1.6 cm) and is only 1.6"/4 cm thick overall, so you'll likely compress it fully and also interact with the 2"/5.0 cm memory foam upper comfort layer, which adds contouring. There's a firmer 1" layer of polyfoam, which helps add support, and finally a 3"/7.5 cm layer of softer polyfoam, which can help the heavier parts of your body sink further into the mattress and prevents you from directly feeling the coils below.
The springs are 13-gauge coils, which indicates a firmer spring. The layer isn't very dense, but overall, it has a moderately firm feel.
While it has a lot of foam layers above the spring layer, most are quite firm, which helps explain the mattress's low sinking level. The quilted layer is the softest, and you'll easily sink into it. The memory foam upper comfort and polyfoam lower comfort layers are much firmer. The memory foam helps add contouring, but because of its firmness, you won't sink deeply into it. The polyfoam transition layer is softer, but still quite firm. This can allow the heavier parts of your body to sink in further if you compress the upper layers enough.
The pocket coil support layer is on the firmer side and helps add support for the heavier parts of your body. The coils are slightly softer in the lumbar area, which may help your hips or lumbar to sink in further.
Most of the foam in the mattress is quite resilient, or bouncy. The least bouncy layer is the upper comfort layer. This is normal for memory foam, which is usually slower-moving and not very responsive. The memory foam used in the mattress is relatively resilient for the material, though. The polyfoam lower comfort and transition layers, as well as the polyfoam in the quilted top, are all quite resilient, which helps give the mattress its responsive feel.