Over the years, many of you have commented or told us that you replaced the mattress that came with your RV for a new, more comfortable one. Sadly, the ones that come with your RV aren’t always so comfortable. We’ve never asked this question as a poll, so here we are!
Does the bed in your RV have the original mattress that it came with, or have you replaced it? If you replaced it and love your new mattress, will you leave a comment? You might help others looking for advice on doing the same.
Thanks for voting.
The first thing I did was replace nine with a Costco memory foam (not a topper). It’s nicer than the one in my stix& bricks
We also got a memory foam. Much nicer on the old bones.
Replaced 8 year old OEM mattress with new firm foam mattress, cut to size, from Ikea
Added a very dense firm 2″ layer (buyfoam.com) underneath. Works well.
For our Class B+, most readily available commercial mattress are too tall and put the bed at or above the windows.
We bought our TT almost five years ago from the original owners. They bought it new in ’01. The mattress appears original but with a separate 2″ foam top. Very comfortable. I sleep like a baby — Wake up in the middle of the night crying, wet, and hungry.
😆 —Diane at RVtravel.com
Original to us when we bought it used in 2009, as bad as it is, it has to be original. We added a 4″ foam topper and now have no reason to change it.
That was the first thing to go.
Replaced with memory foam and sleep much better. Original way too thin.
Added 3 inch foam topper. Much better.
Yes, but we added a memory foam topper. Very comfy.
We bought our 05 ItascaMeridian and ours is a sleep number and it is even more comfortable than our sticks and bricks mattress.
No way and no offense to the previous owners. We upgraded the mattress and sleep better in the rv than at home.
After four nights we removed the short king and replaced it with a standard queen Tuft & Needle foam mattress.
Before purchasing the trailer I measured to see if a standard mattress would fit.
My wife and I used the original mattress for the first trip in our new (2016) Jayco Greyhawk and promptly replaced it with a new gel mattress. Happy sleeping still 4 years later.
In our 2021 Micro Lite TBS22 our mattresses are heated and on the super firm side. My husband can sleep on anything but a 4 nch Zinus topper made it very comfortable.
I’ve got one of those mattress that fold up about 2/3rds the way down so the slide in can move in. Plus because of the height difference between the slide nd the bottom base platform, the bottom third is about 1 inch thicker. I don’t know if they make a replacement. besides, with a padded topper, it’s actually comfortable!
We put our sleep number mattress in our 5th wheel when we started fulltiming in 2010. Learned an expensive lesson a few years later. If you’re travelling in mountainous areas, the sleep number air bladder will expand as you gain altitude. I usually remembered to adjust beforehand, but forgot once in the Rocky Mountains. Bladder sprung a leak right on the seam, a $500 lesson. Later we went with a gel foam mattress when they got real cheap. Very happy with gel foam.
We bought a new mattress for our first Class C, then when we sold it, we switched out our mattress for with the newer Class C’s. Then when we bought the Class A, the mattress was the first thing we replaced. Sleep comfort is very important to us. We love the Foam mattress.
When the trenches got too deep we found a “short queen” all foam mattress. With a memory foam + fiber fill topper topper it’s almost better than the bed in our house.
Two years ago this month, my wife and I bought a used, 2017 Coachman Chaparral 391QSMB 5th wheel. The king size bed in it was an upgrade option, but the quality of the mattress was NOT upgrade! As strange as it may sound, we removed the king size mattress AND deck, and then cut the king size deck down to queen size. We have slept on a queen size bed for the 38+ years we’ve been married, so we reduced the bed size in our RV from king to queen to gain more walk around room in the bedroom. We replaced the mattress with a Zinus 6″ memory foam.
Took out 3 inch foam from original then replace it with 3 inch memory help a lot. Thinking to do it again with another 3 inch to replace as I look. There are e section of foam in our mattress.
After just a few nights in our new 5ver earlier this year, we removed the full queen factory mattress and put in a Sleep Number air bed plus a 2 inch foam topper. Literally a dream machine.
Same here. Best mattress we’ve owned including when we owned a house.
Yes,We have a great mattress. Added a topper and now even better.
The mattress in our nearly two year old 5th wheel is original. We planned on replacing it this year, but with COVID and us not traveling very often, it’s on the back burner.
We’ve been in the new rig(Entegra Accolade) for about a month. Surprisingly the mattress ain’t too bad for either of us! Very firm, but a gel layer on top. We might get a topper, but no big rush.
We bought our RV in July of 2016. But because we lived in the RV for 8 months while our house was built, we have slept on our Wolf RV mattress several nights over the last 3 1/2 years. It is a memory foam-type mattress and works very well for us
Our 2005 Bounder still has the original mattress, but we’ve added a 2-inch layer of memory foam on top. The added foam increased comfort dramatically. However, it’s a bit more work getting the fitted sheet on when we change the sheet. The trade-off has been well worth it.
We replaced the original mattress in our 90s Itasca with 4″ high density foam .. best bed ever!
Our 2002 Lance camper has an original queen spring mattress and it is 98% as good as the foam. Go figure.
We ordered our 5th wheel, including the upgraded Serta mattress. So, yes, we still have the original, upgraded mattress. It was definitely a good decision.
Same memory mattress (I love it!) but I cut it down from King to Queen with an electric knife. Now I can make the bed more easily!
The camper king mattress in our MH was just OK and then we put a My Pillow Company custom made topper to go over the camper king. What a huge difference it makes!! My pillow will make any size mattress topper you want and I believe that they have a camper queen in stock but I suggest you measure twice and order once.
Hard to believe but our foam mattress is 23 yrs old! We replaced the horrible mattress in our Damon Daybreak with a foam mattress. We saw the ad in the back of an RV magazine. When we bought our 02 Dutchstar we kept swapped out their mattress (also not very good). The most incredibly comfortable mattress ever. Wish I had kept the receipt so I knew where we bought it. Think it was company in Colorado. Probably out of business. It was a short queen. Dutchstar platform for a regular queen. We added a piece of foam at the headboard so we can use regular sheets. Mattress had 250,000 miles on it, but it’s still great!
*has not had. Guess miles don’t matter….lol. But lots of nights.
Added a 4″ foam layer I got from a mattress making company. Makes for a great and cheap upgrade.
Funny to see the rv pic of the day with stairs. Reminds me of a couple articles in the past covering how many rv parks are becoming trailer parks.
I always buy a new mattress as we buy used campers.
Only six months old. Don’t think it needs to be replaced….yet.
Absolutely,positively,definitely,HELL NO.
If they could make those things any cheaper they’d have to give them away.
I doubt that I’ll ever buy another RV but if I did that would be a delete as far as ordering a unit. I’d be ashamed to put that junk in a camper with my name on it. My 4th rv and each one had a junk mattress.
We replaced ours after 6 months. Went with one from Wilderness Rv Mattress Company. My husband likes it better than the one in our home.
Yes and almost 10 years old. We did add a memory foam topper when it was new however.
No. We now have a Sleep Number bed.
The OEM bedding & furniture in my 2015 Dynamax DX3-37RB was very attractive CRAP. Nowhere close to being comfortable. I was amazed that Serta (or was it Seeley) put their name on such poor quality mattresses. In year two while in Elkhart, IN, I had virtually ALL of the crap furniture replaced with QUALITY and comfortable upgrades (the “barrel” chair at the entry door was firmly bolted to the floor; I left that in place). The best upgrade was going from the oddball “King” mattress (73″wide x 76″long) with a TRUE STANDARD QUEEN width mattress that has been SUPER comfortable (it is limited in length to 76″ as that’s all the room there is with the slide closed). Standard Queen bed linens fit nicely without being sloppy. For a Super-C diesel puller who’s MSRP was almost $300k, poor furniture is totally unacceptable.
The original mattress in our Denali fifthwheel was comfortable but we replaced the short queen with a narrower full size memory foam mattress to gain walking space around the bed. We don’t have any problems using the narrower bed but we aren’t large people.
Yes original mattress but has a nice topper. Bought trailer new in 2010- very comfortable
We still have the original mattress but it is now the base for our memory foam topper.
Yes it’s the original mattress but by year 3 we got a nice 3” thick topper!
We put a Sleep Number mattress in our 5th wheel about 10 years ago. We love it!!
No! We purchased from MattressInsider.com and very glad we did.
Oh my gosh, I sure hope any of them over 8-10 years old have been changed. Mattresses are not made to last forever.
I keep hearing that but the one in my house is fifty years old and we have no complaints. Guess we’re just weird. Looks like it will outlast me.
After three nights on the original mattress, we replaced it with a Sleep Number bed. That was 12 years ago, and we almost like it as much as at home.
I just got a new GD Imagine TT and we love the mattress, but my old Surveyor was missing the mattress. The prior owner loved it so much that they took it with them! I bought a cheap foam mattress for it and we were quite happy with it. I guess we just aren’t that particular!
Regarding mattresses … even though we bought a Tiffin, we replaced it with a top-quality Denver Mattress before we slept in it the first night.
Original mattress with a topper, too thin otherwise.
Original mattress with a 3″ gel foam topper. That mattress was as hard as a rock!
With 3 inch memory foam topper.
We told our dealer to remove the factory mattress from the new 5th wheel as we were bringing a new 10 inch memory foam. Our 5 year old trade in had a 10 inch MF in it we had replaced the original one with. We had used a MF prior to full timing and saw no reason to stop. We have no idea how the two original mattress were as we never used them.
We purchased our RV new. I spent one night in the driveway on the original mattress. Threw it out the next day. Hard as a rock! Felt like sleeping on a board. Replaced it with an RV mattress made for us. We’ve been sleeping well for three years now.
Well, yes but our original mattress is a sleep number mattress so it pretty nice from the beginning.
We replaced our hard uncomfortable mattress with a sleep number mattress like we have at home.
Original mattress with a 3 inch memory foam topper.
Bought the rig used so have no idea.