The DreamCloud Mattress Review

About the DreamCloud mattress

• Firmness: Medium Firm
• Trial Length: 365 days
• Warranty: Lifetime
• Sizes: Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, California King, Split King

DreamCloud is an online mattress company that proclaims it provides a “luxury sleep experience for less.” It sells three mattresses: The DreamCloud, the DreamCloud Premier, and the Premier Rest. For this review, we tested the company’s best-selling and lower-priced option, The DreamCloud.

The DreamCloud is a hybrid mattress that combines springs and foam to give you the best of both worlds—responsive support and a supple, cushioned upper layer. The DreamCloud starts at $839 for a twin size and goes up to $2,178 for a split king. Like most online mattress companies, DreamCloud often has sales, and it’s rare to see mattresses on the site sold for the full MSRP.

The outer cover of the DreamCloud is made from a breathable cashmere blend. But before you get too excited, the blend only contains 1% cashmere. The mattress itself has five distinct layers. Up top is a layer of soft foam, followed by a layer of gel-infused memory foam and a layer of standard foam. Under the foam is a coil base layer of individually wrapped pocket springs and a final base layer of support foam.

DreamCloud is owned by Resident Home, which also produces Nectar and Awara mattresses.

What we like about the DreamCloud Hybrid Luxury Mattress

It keeps things cool

To test how well a mattress diffuses heat, we warm silicon heating pads to body temperature and place them on the bed on top of temperature sensors. We then cover them with a blanket and measure how quickly they cool down.

The DreamCloud isn’t marketed as a cooling mattress, but it does have several components that aid in heat transfer, such as a breathable cover and a layer of cooling gel memory foam. While it may pale in comparison to heavy hitters like the Setra Arctic and the Tuft & Needle, the DreamCloud did impress us with its ability to diffuse heat.

Motion transfer was kept to a minimum

To test motion isolation, we drop a 150-pound punching bag onto one side of the mattress, and using an accelerometer, we record how the motion registers on the opposite side.

After testing mattresses for so long, we have started to expect predictable results from specific categories of beds. For example, hybrids tend to perform worse than foam mattresses when it comes to motion isolation. These results aren’t surprising, as a dense foam can dampen movement more effectively than bouncy springs. Despite being a hybrid mattress, the DreamCloud did an excellent job of preventing motion transfer and is, at the time of writing, it’s one of the best beds for motion isolation.

If you’re a light sleeper and often woken up by the slightest movement from your partner (or pet), this is the mattress for you.

It provides support and comfort for a variety of sleeping positions

A good mattress should effectively distribute a sleeper's weight. Doing so prevents excessive pressure build-up on certain points of the body, like the shoulders and hips, for side sleepers and the tailbone of back sleepers. To test a mattress's pressure relief, we move weights, like a barbell, across the bed and measure how the weights sink into the surface. The results from this test give a sense of how various parts of the body would be supported or cushioned.

In our testing, the DreamCloud mattress provided a fair amount of weight redistribution and an adequate amount of pressure relief. In addition, the DreamCloud's medium firmness is right in the sweet spot between too firm and too soft. The firmness, combined with the effective pressure relief, should prove supportive and comfortable enough for back, front, and side sleepers.

What we don’t like about the DreamCloud Luxury Hybrid Mattress

The edges aren’t very supportive

The DreamCloud is impressive on many counts but does let itself down when it comes to providing sufficient edge support. We put all the mattresses in our labs through objective and subjective edge support tests. First, for the objective test, we take a 150-pound bag and move it along the mattress to see how and when the edges compress. We also note how much the bag hangs over the edge before it falls off the bed. For the subjective test, the tester sits on the edge of the mattress and notes how much the edge compresses and how easy it is to move from a sitting to a standing position.

The DreamCloud proved a tad too soft in both edge support tests. The edge collapsed and bulged out considerably during our heavy bag test, and we noticed that it felt markedly soft and squishy during our subjective testing.

What is DreamCloud's return policy and warranty?

DreamCloud offers a generous trial period of 365 nights and a lifetime warranty. While longer than most, the lifetime warranty comes with a few strings attached. Dreaamcloud will replace the mattress for your first 10 years of ownership if it’s defective in construction and materials. After the 10-year window is up, the company will still repair, re-cover, or replace the mattress for a fee. This warranty only applies if the bed is placed on an “appropriate base” and is non-transferable.

If you don’t like the mattress during your trial period, you may contact DreamCloud’s “Sleep Concierge,” who will assist in finding a means to donate or dispose of the mattress locally. We aren't sure how this will work in smaller towns without sufficient donation options or in isolated rural areas.

What are other people saying about The DreamCloud mattress

The DreamCloud hybrid mattress can be purchased directly from the brand's website and on Amazon. On the DreamCloud website, the mattress has amassed over 7,000 reviews and has an average user rating of 4.7 stars out of a possible 5.

It’s difficult to find any specific trends amongst so many positive reviews, but generally, customers seem happy with the comfort and support provided by the DreamCloud.

There aren’t many negative reviews, but the few we found draw attention to the DreamCloud’s shoddy edge support.

Should you buy The DreamCloud hybrid mattress?

Yes, it’s a great mattress for just about anyone

If you don’t have a preferred sleeping position or share a bed with a partner with a different sleep position preference, then the DreamCloud might just be the mattress of your dreams. Its perfectly balanced firmness and effective pressure relief make this a mattress that should prove comfortable and supportive enough for everyone.

For those dedicated front or back sleepers who prefer a firmer sleeping surface, the BeautyRest Black is an excellent choice. Alternatively, side sleepers looking for a softer, more cradling experience may find the Zoma Hybrid or the Leesa Original more to their liking.

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