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What mattresses do the best hotels use?
If you like to travel in luxury, you probably notice when the hotel bed is extra comfy. Many hotels reward their guests with high-quality mattresses that may be a step or two above what you’re used to, so don’t be surprised if you get home and immediately start thinking about upgrading your mattress.
Unless you remembered to ask an employee for details on your most recent hotel mattress sleep, you might not be sure where to look to buy one of your own. Take the guesswork out of your mattress buying experience and let us give you a hand with this look at the top-quality mattresses used by your favorite hotels.
What mattresses do the best hotels use?
Many popular hotel chains like Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott hotels have their own mattresses available for purchase. Due to the high quality and materials used in these innerspring, foam, and hybrid mattresses, prices can be steeper than what you’d find elsewhere.
Let’s break down the comfortable and inviting mattresses that the best hotels use — and take a look at some affordable alternatives that can give you the best sleep you’ll ever have from the comfort of your own bedroom.
The best hotel mattresses — and cheap alternatives we love
Wondering where hotels get their luxury mattresses, bedding, pillows and other sleep essentials? Read more about specific hotel mattresses and find the perfect equivalent for your own bedroom below.
All prices listed do not include box spring add-ons and are for queen size mattresses, but all options are available in sizes ranging from twin to King or California king. Some hotels sell mattress and box spring combos for a higher price.
Four Seasons hotels
Since 2014, Four Seasons hotels have taken the hospitality industry to a new level by offering their specific mattress design for home purchase in three variations: signature, signature firm or signature plush. Their hybrid mattresses feature pocketed coils for motion isolation and layers of foam for added comfort — more if you invest in a plush mattress and less if you go with a firm one. Shop the signature Four Seasons mattress at prices starting at $3,400.
Need a cheaper alternative? The Helix midnight luxe, one of the best hybrid mattresses available today, has a similar balance between plushness and firmness to the Four Seasons signature mattress. This mattress is currently marked down 20% from the original price of $2,373.
Marriott hotels
Most Marriott hotels offer guests a nine-inch tall foam mattress that offers a medium plush feel, perfect for a cozy sleep no matter your sleep position. There is also a slightly taller (13 inches) hybrid innerspring model for sleepers interested in a slightly firmer mattress. Shop both the foam and innerspring mattress at Marriott’s online mattress shop, which currently offers a 20% discount on all mattresses. You can get a queen size for $1,596.
As an affordable alternative, we recommend the Nectar premier mattress. This 13-inch memory foam mattress offers more than five inches of supportive foam layers and peak cooling technology, ideal for side sleepers or those who run hot throughout the night. Similar to the Marriott hotel mattress, you can choose between the base memory foam mattress or a hybrid version for a slight price increase. All Nectar mattresses are currently 40% off.
Hilton hotels
The custom-designed hotel mattresses used by Hilton comes with top-notch support thanks to a strong base layer of pocketed coils. Hilton’s luxury innerspring mattress also boasts reinforced edge support and maximum motion isolation to keep everyone safe and undisturbed while sleeping. Available via the Hilton to Home online shop, this hotel mattress is available in a queen size for $1,645.
Want something more budget-friendly for your bedroom? Check out the Signature Design by Ashley’s eight-inch medium-firm innerspring mattress. One of the highest rated mattresses you can buy without breaking the bank, this supporting mattress offers maximum pressure relief to sleepers looking for something to rival Hilton’s hotel mattress. Available for just $240 (more than 30% below the list price of $352), this is a steal for shoppers searching for great deals on a new mattress.
Hyatt hotels
Hyatt hotels pamper their guests with a luxury firm mattress that excels at supportive comfort thanks to temperature controlling foam layers and a motion isolating base of pocketed coils. Pulled straight from the Black Napa mattress brand, this firm hotel mattress in a queen size can be found through the Beautyrest guest purchase program for $1,989 (currently marked down a whopping 50% from the list price of $3,978).
If you want something just as luxurious but at half the price, we recommend the Saatva classic luxury firm mattress. Touted by Saatva as America’s best-selling online luxury innerspring mattress, this luxurious mattress is as responsive and durable as it is plush and comfortable. At $1,795 (a $300 markdown from the list price of $2,095), this luxury firm mattress is worth the small price difference when compared to the Hyatt’s hotel mattress in our opinion — and we know Saatva mattresses.
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Former Bolivian President Evo Morales claims his car was fired upon in attempted assassination
Former President Evo Morales of Bolivia claimed he survived an assassination attempt on Sunday after unidentified men opened fire on his car. He was not injured and there was no immediate confirmation of the attack from authorities.
Morales alleged the shots were fired while he was being driven in Bolivia’s coca leaf-growing region of Chapare, the ex-president’s rural stronghold whose residents have blockaded the country’s main east-west highway for the past two weeks.
The roadblocks — protesting what Morales’ supporters decry as President Luis Arce’s attempts to sabotage his former mentor and bitter political rival — have isolated cities and disrupted food and fuel supplies.
Morales, who led Bolivia from 2006 to 2019, emerged unscathed from the alleged attack Sunday, appearing on his weekly radio show in his usual calm manner to recount what happened.
He told the radio host that as he was leaving home for the radio station, hooded men fired at least 14 shots at his car, wounding his driver.
Morales was quick to blame his successor, President Arce, with whom he is fighting to be the candidate of governing socialist party in next year’s presidential election. He claimed that Arce’s government resorted to physical force having been unable to defeat him politically.
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“Arce is going to go down as the worst president in history,” Morales said. “Shooting a former president is the last straw.”
Officials in Arce’s government did not respond to requests for comment on the incident.
Cellphone video circulating online shows Morales’ driver bleeding from the back of his head. Morales can be seen in the passenger’s seat holding a phone to his ear as the vehicle swerves and a woman’s voice shrieks “Duck!”
The footage shows the car’s front windshield cracked by at least three bullets and its rear windshield shattered. Morales can be heard saying, “Papacho has been shot in the head,” apparently referring to his driver.
“They are shooting at us,” Morales continues on the phone. “They shot the tire of the car and it stopped on the road.”
Morales’ claim deepens political tensions in Bolivia at a volatile moment for the cash-strapped Andean nation of 12 million.
In June, there was an apparent attempted coup by a rogue military general leading a rebellion, where armored vehicles and troops marched to the presidential palace and tried to force their way into the building. The rebellion retreated after Arce confronted the general, bringing the alleged coup attempt to a head, and ordered him to stand down. The general and other senior officers were later arrested.
Then, last month, Morales led a massive march against the government’s mismanagement of the economy that quickly devolved into street clashes with pro-government mobs. Imported goods are scarce and prices are rising. Drivers wait for hours to fill up at gas stations. The gap between the official and black-market exchange rates is widening.
Earlier this month, the feud between Morales and Arce moved to the courts as Bolivian prosecutors launched an investigation into accusations that Morales fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl in 2016, classifying their relationship as statutory rape.
Morales has dismissed the allegations as politically motivated and refused to testify in the case. Since reports surfaced of a possible arrest warrant against him, the ex-president has been holed up in the Chapare region, in central Bolivia, where supportive coca growers have kept vigilant watch to protect him from arrest.
President Arce accuses Morales of trying to undermine his administration to advance his own ambitions.
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