Re: Royal Pedic Review
Thanks for the review and the kudos, Brian! I feel the same way you do about Royal Pedic, and I have found most do as well. I know my wife and I get complacent about how good the bed is (human nature, I think) we realized how superior it is when we go on a trip, be it to family or a resort. The beds we then sleep on are awful. We both say to one another on the way home "Will be good to sleep in our own bed again", and we mean it.
What I find happens most often with customers seeking bedding is they set themselves a mental budget for a mattress and they're not going to exceed that price point. Typically I hear "Two Thousand Dollars is the most I will spend". Well the basic RP bed is easily double that for a King size and they say "Not interested at that price point". But what they SHOULD do is the math. This bedding will go twenty years on a matt and box, so that's 7,300 days. Let's take out 300 days for vacation and travel, and now you have 7,000 days in the lifespan. If a King set is around $ 4,500 then its costing you about 64 cents a night for a premium bed. That's pretty cheap for eight hours of good sleep. And those $ 2,000 beds last about 1/3 the life span, so they actually cost more per day than the RP.
The only negative to the Royal Pedic that I find is that like you say, they are hard to flip the mattress, especially in King Size. I just did mine on Monday (i do it roughly 3x a year) and it's a workout.
I actually have four sets in my house, every bedroom has a Royal Pedic. When guests stay over they invariably say "that's a really good bed in your guest room, a lot nicer than what I sleep on at home".
It's a nice company - I like dealing with them and they are handmade in Los Angeles California. The only other bed I would buy would be a Shifman Master's Collection, which is made in New Jersey. It has a similar build, but at a higher price point than a Royal Pedic.
Duane Collie
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