Beautyrest Hybrid Mattress Review

A bed with good motion isolation will allow you to change positions and get in and out of bed without significantly disturbing your partner. This is an important factor for anyone who shares their bed with a partner, child or pet – but it’s not a major factor for single sleepers.

The Simmons Beautyrest Hybrid performs very well in this category. By utilizing pocketed coils (which move independently from one another), this mattress eliminates a lot of the motion transfer issues that are common in traditional innerspring beds.

In addition to the pocketed coils, the Beautyrest Hybrid’s multiple foam layers also help to minimize motion transfer. Foam tends to absorb motion, keeping movement on one side of the bed from affecting the opposite side.

Pressure relief refers to a mattress’s ability to relieve pressure on target areas of the body, including common pressure points. Generally, the most important zones to target include the hips, shoulders, and neck.

The Beautyrest Hybrid provides very good pressure relief. It’s a moderately firm bed, which allows for adequate conforming to increase comfort, while maintaining the support needed for proper spinal alignment.

Three inches of memory foam help to cradle the body, relieving pressure. The underlying pocketed coils move independently from one another, allowing for extra support – and extra give – where it’s needed most.

Temperature control refers to a bed’s ability to maintain a comfortable sleeping temperature through the night. This is a noteworthy factor for everyone, but it’s particularly important for those living in hot climates, and people who tend to sleep hot.

The Beautyrest Hybrid performs decently in this category, at a rating of 2/5. The mattress uses a relatively thick layer of memory foam, which tends to trap body heat. Although cooling gel is added to the foam, our testers still found that this bed retained more body heat than the average hybrid mattress.

This mattress conforms well to the body, which is great for comfort. However, it also leads to a warmer feel and more body heat retention. The included coils do help to improve airflow, but overall, temperature neutrality is a weaker point of this mattress.

Edge support refers to the strength and support of a mattress around the outer perimeter. It’s most important for those who have some difficulty getting in and out of bed, or folks who like to sit at the side of the mattress.

The Beautyrest Hybrid scores well for edge support. Its thick layer of pocketed coils, surrounded by rigid perimeter foam, provides a good foundation for the mattress. The three inches of memory foam do cause some sinkage around the edge when pressure is applied, but overall the edge support on this mattress is solid.

Ease of movement refers to how easy a mattress makes it to move around or change positions. This is an important factor for older folks who may experience discomfort when changing positions at night. Typically, all-foam mattresses have less ease of movement than innerspring beds, as foam tends to allow the body to sink in more.

As a hybrid mattress, this model falls square in the middle. The three foam layers do conform to the body, which can mean that a bit more effort is required to change positions. But the underlying support of the coils, combined with the mattress’ medium firmness rating, firms up the feel of the bed and makes it easier to move around.

For couples, how a mattress performs during sexual activities is a factor to consider. Generally, couples want a combination of bounce, comfort and a lack of noise. Hybrid mattresses, such as this popular model from Simmons, present a good option for these factors.

The Simmons Beautyrest Hybrid scores well for couples. Its hybrid design means that there is adequate springiness (from the pocketed coils), as well as good comfort and traction from the foam layers. During sex, couples may notice some noise coming from the coils of the mattress. However, because the coils are individually pocketed in fabric, there is significantly less noise than there would be with a traditional innerspring bed.

Off-gassing refers to a brief period in which new mattresses release an unpleasant odor. The odor is a normal byproduct of the manufacturing process, and off-gassing typically only lasts for 1-3 days after you first set up the bed.

The Beautyrest Hybrid scores well for off-gassing. Some odor will be present due to the inclusion of memory foam. However, this mattress ships in a large, mattress-sized shipping container, unlike most online mattress options which ship compressed in small boxes. Because this model is not shipped compressed, some of the off-gassing should already have taken place before it reaches your home.