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Thanks Scott! I got a big kick out of your wife when she said "Thank you -thank you - thank you for convincing us to buy this bed" after sleeping on it for a few nights.
I know it was more expensive than originally budgeted - and I wish they cost less, but they use premium materials and those raw goods are just flat out costly for Royal Pedic to produce. On the uptick side of all that, you will find these will give roughly double the life span of conventional bedding (Serta/Simmons/Sealy/ etc) while not degrading during the product's useful life. Its the only bedding line I carry - and its what I sleep on, too.
Be careful when you rotate that king mattress - its about twice the weight of what you had before!
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At least twice the weight....
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You should see my delivery guy's faces when I tell them they have a Royal Pedic to deliver. First think they ask : "Is it a King?" If I say "Why yes it is", then I have to bribe them with a free lunch to keep them from leaving for the day. The very hardest delivery we do is a Royal Pedic King Size mattress - we call it the "Heartbreaker", and the guys earn their pay on those. Last one I delivered personally was about 5 years ago and I hope I never have to take another one up a staircase.
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In the next year or so a mattress will be on our purchase list. We have a long steep staircase, but easy access to the master bedroom. Would the latex mattress be less heavy than the cotton, in king? One feature that would be important is the no roll effect of a mattress. The non-distrubance feature of the tempurpedic mattress is a major selling point. Other members of our family have the Tempurpedic mattresses and love them, but I could not stand to have a hot mattress. Getting to sleep is hard enough without adding that too warm effect. I'm not sure I would care for the sink-in feeling of an all foam mattress either.
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I didin't like the warm effect of the Tempurpedic either. Slept on one at a friends condo and hated it. We have a Kluft mattress and it is probably pretty close to a Royal Pedic in cost and it a wonderful bed. When ever we get back from a trip it's like heaven to get back into our own bed.
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They're both heavy in a King Size. No fun to carry them at all. You will be likely to get less roll from a latex than an inner spring mattress, but they do feel and sleep differently!
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Bloomingdale's is very liberal with returns, and that is why they are priced so high. It's against the law in every state to re-sell bedding once its been delivered, so they have to dispose of all returned sets and that is built into the price structure. At my store, you cannot return a mattress if displeased with it, however I sell the similar Royal-Pedic at about 1/3 the price of the Shifman Master's at Bloomies. At this point my recommendation is to step up to the Shifman - they make a very solid, well-engineered bed that gets very, very few complaints. Since you are already into Bloomies for $ 5K, just add some and go to Shifman. They do have several model lines so you should be able to get one for less than $ 9,800 - but try to stay in their Master's collection if you can as that is their top build spec. Good luck!
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Thank you! So Shifman is a step up? Wow I do like that you can flip the mattress if a Hump should develop. Again, thank you!