It’s easy to spend upwards of £1,000 on a mattress, but in my experience this isn’t necessary. Very often simple is better, especially if you’re sharing a mattress with a partner whose sleeping style is different to yours or if the mattress is for a spare room, where you’ll have a variety of different sleepers. Simba’s hybrid essential mattress, the cheapest in its range, caught my eye for this very reason and I’ve spent just under a year putting it to the test.
I would never scrimp on quality when it comes to mattresses. You do spend a large amount of your life on one. Having slept on Simba mattresses before – it’s my preferred brand – I was fairly confident that the essential would be decent, but I was surprised by just how much I liked it. In fact, it’s convinced me that, provided you don’t have specific needs or preferences, there’s no need to go above the most affordable model of a high quality brand.
