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Best Mattress for Guest Rooms of 2024 [CNET]
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Owen Poole Senior Video Producer
Owen Poole, a Certified Sleep Science Coach and proclaimed mattress expert, has been producing sleep video content in the wellness space for over three years. After earning his certification from the Spencer Institute and dedicating hundreds of hours to sleep research, he has extensive knowledge on the topic and how to improve your quality of rest. Having more experience with lying on mattresses than most, Owen has reviewed over 150 beds and a variety of different sleep products including pillows, mattress toppers and sheets. Before he was writing about sleep, he graduated as a Digital Communication Arts major from Oregon State University. The current mattress Owen sleeps on is the Casper Nova Hybrid since it helps keep his spine in a comfortable, neutral position. When Owen isn’t reviewing products, he loves to run, cycle and cook healthy food. Pizza is his kryptonite.
With 5+ years of mattress testing experience, we use our different sleeping position and body type perspectives to offer well-rounded, honest reviews.
How we sort our mattresses
Best guest room mattress for small spaces
SweetNight Tri-Fold Mattress
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Mattress shopping for yourself is one thing, but choosing the best guest bed for others to sleep on can be even trickier. You’ll want to get something that’s comfortable and accommodating for the guests without spending a ton of money. There are a slew of options for mattresses that can please anyone, despite everyone having their own preferences and sleep positions.
We picked a handful of beds out of the hundreds we’ve tested over six years that will make your guests so comfy they might not want to leave. From memory foam mattresses to mattresses designed for hot sleepers, these mattresses will help your guests sleep comfortably at night.
What is the best overall mattress for guest rooms?
The Puffy Cloud Mattress is the best option for guest rooms. It has an accommodating soft foam feel that most will find comfortable, and a medium firmness rating that should be suitable for any sleeping position. I also love that the mattress is often on sale for just under $1,050.
Plus, the cover on the Puffy Mattress is machine-washable and stain-resistant, so you can easily give the cover a deep clean after your guest departs. That’s a compelling feature for a guest room mattress.
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Best mattresses for guest rooms of 2024
It also features a stain-resistant cover that wicks away moisture effectively and is machine washable. If you want to give this mattress cover a deep clean, it’s much easier than most beds. We suggest hang-drying as it could shrink in a dryer and may not fit the bed. Read more about the Puffy mattress.
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Puffy Cloud Mattress
Best overall mattress for guest rooms
Our take – The Puffy Cloud mattress is a nice, accommodating choice that most people should find comfortable. It has a three-layer, all-foam construction. Although the top layer behaves quite like a memory foam, the rest of the foams add up to give it more of a soft, neutral foam feel that your guests should generally like.
7.5 /10
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Firmness
5 or about a medium
Warranty
lifetime warranty
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7.8 /10
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Firmness
5 or about a medium
Warranty
10-year limited warranty
We generally try to avoid beds with a classic memory-foam feel for this list because not everyone is a fan of the sink-in quality found in a memory-foam mattress, but the Leesa Studio has more of a responsive, balanced memory-foam feel. When sleeping on it, you’ll know that it’s made of memory foam, but we don’t think it will turn off many people as it’s more responsive than most memory foam mattresses.
The Leesa Studio is slightly firmer than many beds on this list, somewhere between a medium and a medium-firm on our scale, so it should still be plenty accommodating for most sleeper types.
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Leesa Studio
Best memory-foam mattress for guest rooms
Our take – The Leesa Studio is the most affordable mattress in Leesa’s lineup, and it shares many similarities with the ultra-popular Leesa Original. Both beds are about 10 inches thick and feature three foam layers. The most significant difference is that the top two layers of foam are essentially flipped, which means the top layer of the Leesa Studio is memory foam.
7.5 /10
SCORE
Firmness
medium to medium-firm or 6
Warranty
10-year warranty
Firmness
4 or medium to medium-soft (softer side) | 6 or medium to medium-firm (firmer side)
Warranty
25-year limited warranty
For all of our best lists, we have to make the cutoff somewhere, but these top five are by no means the only good options for guest rooms.
- Siena Mattress: This is a super affordable memory foam mattress option, in the $500 range, with a relatively accommodating firmness profile that would be a solid guest room option. In our opinion, its feel isn’t as universally comfortable as the beds we put on the list, so it just didn’t make the cut.
- AmazonBasics Mattress: This is probably the most affordable mattress we’ve ever tested, and if you’re just looking to not spend much at all on a guest bed, it’s hard to argue with the AmazonBasics mattress. It’s comfortable enough for most people, and one of our biggest concerns with it is durability, but if it’s going to be slept on only occasionally, it should last quite a while.
- DreamCloud Mattress: This is just one of our favorite hybrid beds. It’s super affordable, has a luxurious design and has an accommodating firmness profile. It doesn’t share the same memory foam feel as the other beds in the DreamCloud mattress lineup, so pretty much everyone should find it comfy enough. This bed just had a lot of overlap with the DreamFoam Hybrid and the DreamFoam is slightly more affordable.
Be sure to read up on how we test mattresses. For a list like this, we wanted to keep several things in mind when choosing from the hundreds of beds we’ve tested.
Feel
We wanted to find beds that pretty much everyone finds generally comfortable. Some sleepers love a classic, dense memory feel, and others don’t. Some folks love super responsive latex beds or even the unique feel of a Purple mattress, and others don’t. The beds we chose have more of a “safe” feel that we think anyone who sleeps on them will probably like, and a guest room mattress isn’t necessarily for a specific person who might want a specific feel.
Firmness
We wanted all the beds on this list to be around a medium on the firmness scale because they usually work well, or at least OK for all sleeping positions. Whether your guest is a back, stomach, side or combination sleeper, any of these beds shouldn’t cause them any aches and pains.
Pricing
Buying a mattress for yourself that you spend (hopefully) eight hours a day sleeping on can already be a sizable investment, so a mattress for guests to sleep on shouldn’t cost a lot. That’s why we tried to select beds that were more affordable than the average online mattress.
Durability
We can’t lay on the mattress every day for years, so it’s hard to tell exactly how long each bed will last. Based on several factors, like construction, we get an idea of how long we think a bed will last. The average lifespan for a mattress is seven to 10 years. For this list, durability was less of a concern because a guest room bed probably won’t be slept on every night.
Room size
Not everyone has the space available for a guest room that can accommodate larger mattresses like a queen size. Consider full or twin XL mattresses for your guest room, and brands like Brooklyn Bedding and DreamFoam even sell atypical sizes like short queens and short fulls that might better suit your guest room space.
Sleeping positions
You’ll likely have a variety of people sleeping on this mattress, so you want to avoid beds that are extra soft or extra firm because one guest might be a back sleeper and another might be a side sleeper. Finding a mattress around medium firmness should work well enough for a variety of guests.
Construction
We often recommend hybrid mattresses for the long-term durability coils provide, especially for individuals above 220 pounds. For guest rooms, durability isn’t as important, so even if you have heavier guests stay over, an all-foam mattress construction will be fine. All-foam mattresses are perfectly fine for handling medium to petite-size sleepers on a nightly basis.
Budget
The amount you’re willing to spend on a guest room bed is going to be lower than your actual mattress. It might be tempting to get an equally expensive mattress for a guest room because you want guests to really enjoy their time in your home, but just make sure to set a budget and stick to it when shopping for a guest room mattress.
A generally comfortable mattress that pretty much everyone will find comfortable, at least for a few nights.
Ideally, a guest room mattress should be around a medium firmness rating as it should work decently well for any sleeping position.
Memory foam mattresses aren’t ideal for guest rooms because they can be divisive. Some sleepers love the feel of memory foam and others don’t.
The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice. Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition or health objectives.
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