Sometimes the mattress that comes with the RV isn’t always the comfiest. Perhaps you got lucky and your RV’s mattress was/is incredibly comfy. But if it wasn’t, did you buy a replacement mattress for the original one?
A mattress is, of course, a very important piece of furniture. (Is it considered furniture? We’re actually not sure.) Getting a good night’s sleep is important for your health, both physical and mental. Sleeping on a bad mattress is very bad indeed!
If you did replace your original mattress, will you share in the comments what you replaced it with and what that process was like for you? We’d appreciate it! Thanks!
My RV came with an upgraded mattress. It’s the only good thing I can say about THAT dealership. In fact the mattress is sooooo comfortable that I look forward to having too much company at home so that somebody — ME –has to sleep in the camper!!
Factory mattress is crap. Put on a 4 inch memory foam topper. Now it is very comfy.
Added 4″ foam topper
It is original from when we bought the coach used in 2009.It was upgraded with a 4″ Mattress Topper the next day. Whether it is original to 1995, I don’t know.
upgraded to a sleep number. now sleep like a baby
We replaced the original mattress with a futon mattress.
Replaced with bed in the box type foam mattress.
When I bought my RV I had the option to upgrade the mattress and it was a very wise choice.
Ordered the optional Sleep Number mattress that Tiffin offered, works great.
we’re OK with the stock factory mattress. it’s firm enough, and when we’re on the road, it is easy to get a good night’s sleep! because our queen bed is on an east-west slide, our mattress has a fold about 2/3rds the way down, and the height of the upper 2/3rds is different than the lower third. I don’t even know if they MAKE a replacement mattress.
We have been using the original mattress for years, which isn’t bad, but we DID put a “topper” on it. Heaven . . .
Replaced ours before first trip with a Brooklyn Bedding Hybrid. We went from a 70”x80” to a 66”x80” to provide a little more walk-around space.
I made my own using 4 inch foam topped with 3 inch memory foam. Ahhhh
I still have the original mattress but had a mattress firm cut me a piece of 4″ foam to size and placed atop the old mattress then added A quality cover and ended up with a great to sleep on bed.
We finally replaced our original foam mattress with a California King 10-inch (thick) memory foam mattress from the My Pillow company, along with a couple of firm My Pillow King size pillows. What a HUGE improvement that made.
When the “troughs” got deeper than we liked we replaced the original with a solid foam short queen & put a memory foam + fiber fill topper on it.
I replaced the original queen mattress in my Lance Truck Camper with a queen Sleep Number air mattress for 2 reasons. I wanted the additional comfort and also wanted to reduce the weight.
Our 2016 RV came with a king size Wolf memory-foam mattress. We were full-time in our RV for 8 months and have used it extensively otherwise. The mattress has held up very well, showing no signs of wear and has not developed any peaks and valleys through use. We are very pleased with the quality of Wolf’s product and hope that our next RV (currently on order) will also have a Wolf product, or something as good.
Having a Class B, the bed is also the sofa. The sofa cushion is fairly firm, so I add a 1.5 inch mattress topper in the bed mode. So how would you count that? (I answered “No”)
Yes changed my mattress out after our first camping trip with our new 5th wheel.
I know the value of a great night sleep. Our camper is a true queen size so made it easier to get a new mattress. We bought a Beautyrest black hybrid. I like it better than the mattress we sleep on at home, I tried to trade it for the one at home but the wife like the one at home better.
Yes – the camper came with a 4” thick foam mattress – we discarded them and installed a fresh memory foam style, thicker one and converted them bunk beds into a storage area.
We also downsized when replacing mattress from king to queen for more walk around room. It was perfect…….until we went to dealer for warranty repairs! The slide gouged a significant mark in the flooring (a section needed replaced) and the dealer said “the factory will not cover, as you replaced the mattress with one that was heavier. I said “maybe not, as a queen was installed and a king was removed, so should be less weight, right!” Still waiting for an answer, but I’m sure I will pay to replace section or use a rug! 🙂
The first few years the original mattress seemed okay, but gradually became dissatisfied with it and replaced it with one from Mattress Insider. They can make any size, which worked out well for us.
Our first RV had a terrible mattress. We had a mattress repair shop in our town. We took the mattress to the mattress shop and within a week they had reinforced the mattress and recovered it. It was a great mattress that we slept on for 4 years.
Yes we had to replace our factory mattress. It was miserable. We first tried a pad, but the memory foam concept is ridiculous. It remembers your first night and you better want to sleep there forever. We found a perfect inner spring mattress at Mattressinsider.com. It came rolled up, we carried it to the rv and BAM! Perfection at a reasonable price. It is so good we told my sister-in-law to get it to replace the mattress on her bed at home and we will get another for our guest room then when it’s time, the master hedroom
We replaced the factory POS with a hybrid bed in a box. RV King and we love it.
When we first got our motor home I was looking over what we were supposed to get for our model. One was the pillow top mattress that wasn’t included, they had only a 2″ crappy one. Also noticed that our Inverter was a modified sine wave & the build sheet said it was supposed to be a pure sine wave.
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Our factory mattress was terrible, 6” of springs and things, even a 4” topper couldn’t help it. DW got on Amazon after repeated attempts to find a short queen at mattress stores, and found Spring Dreams 9”short queen for $298. This is a great mattress, firm but soft top. We are thinking of buying one for our home bed.
Yes,and not only did we upgrade the mattress, we installed an adjustable base! We bought our diesel pusher used and it didn’t come with a mattress. The adjustable base, is absolutely amazing!! We can raise our head or feet area. Even has massage. The only “bad” is that the bed is pretty tall. No biggie though. My wife and I LOVE it, it’s just as comfortable as our sticks and bricks bed.
Hi Dr. D. Do you have a source for the adjustable base? I’ve been toying with the idea of a piano hinge on the plywood base and a lift motor underneath for the head end in order to watch Tv or read more comfortably. The head of the bed is in front of the escape window also. Thanks. Doug W.
Hi Doug W. I’m pretty frugal so, I searched a while before getting our adjustable base. I ended up finding one on Facebook marketplace that was brand new but, had damaged packaging for I believe $120. Not bad at all!! If you look them up on Amazon, they have decent prices from $300 to $1000. Just depends on what options you would like. Ours had removable legs which helped our height problem. If you are “cheap” like me, lol you could check the mattress stores to see if they have a store display they would sell. There are deals out there. I do know if ours quit working, we would definitely buy another! They are AWESOME!!
Take care and hope this helps!!
Dr Doug
I had to say no the way the question was written. But we couldn’t sleep on the original so we added 3″of foam. Now it’s fine.
We were lucky that our new trailer came with a full-sized queen Serta inner coil mattress. We went ahead and put a 3″ topper on it and it is very comfortable. The last two RVs we owned came with the cruddy foam mattresses and were immediately replaced.
For the first 3 years of our fulltiming, we replaced the original mattress with the Sleep Number mattress from our house. But the air bladders in those mattresses expand significantly when climbing in altitude, like travelling in the mountains. On one such mountain ascent, we forgot to bleed some of the air from the bladders, & one of them burst a seam. We then replaced the mattress with a 13″ foam mattress from Amazon, which we’ve been very happy with.
We have the original, plus a mattress topper which makes all the difference in the world!
Every rv mattress is junk. They shouldn’t even send the rv out with that crap. It’s a shame that you got a mattress that can’t be used and have to buy one that can. And the designers make it so tight you can’t tuck in sheets or blankets. Last time we bought a double. Same length as short queen but 5 inches narrower. Still plenty of room and can make the bed. Present rv had a mattress that when you put shoulder down, touched the wood below.
I think many are junk, but in our ’08 Winnebago it’s a quality mattress. We only installed a topper but that’s it. The bed is easy to make also. BTW, the mattress was manufactured in Winnebago’s factory- where they build all their own furniture as well.
Ours is a replacement from IKEA!
Ours also.
Same!
After three weekends of camping in our new RV back in 2009, my wife demanded we get a better mattress. Both of us could barely move, due to back pain after sleeping on that pile of junk. Since we use a Sleep Number bed at home, we went with one on closeout from CW. We just had to get used to the air chambers expanding as we went up in altitude (lower atmospheric air pressure). The bed goes from prefect at sea level near our home, to bouncing quarters off of it at 9k feet by Crater Lake!
Our bed slides out the side then you have to unfold the mattress. Not sure what to do yes may just get a topper that will fold up an put it on top.
We measured the bed in the show model and then ordered ours without a mattress. We put our $1000 mattress from our nearly unused guest room in the motorhome after we sold the house.
When we bought our new Carriage Cameo 5th-wheel during an extended winter trip in 2010 the king mattress wasn’t so bad but it was too big for us. We were used to a queen mattress and wanted the extra space to walk around the bed. We weren’t able to do a swap with the dealer for a smaller mattress so we immediately purchased a nice queen mattress and sold the one that came with the rig to someone in the campground (we were several states away from home). Ironically, we had trouble donating it even though it was brand new, still wrapped up, and never used.
No, but we have added a four-inch foam pad, a one-inch “egg crate” pad, a thick mattress pad, and a winter fluffy blanket on top of the mattress and below us and we are so-o-o-o comfortable.
Replaced the smaller RV queen with residential queen sized mattress.
Replaced a short king with a residential queen in order to have more room on the sides.
Ours is original mattress but we added a topper.
My old mattress was thin and falling apart. Replaced it with a memory gel foam short queen. Huge difference!
Our Mountain Aire came to us (used) with a high quality mattress, but it wasn’t what we liked. In addition, it had square corners which took up room at entry to the bedroom and the master bath.
We replaced it with a Sleep Number made for RV’s (actually a factory option the original owners did not want) which has rounded corners at the bottom that match the bed base and allows each of us to have the feel we personally prefer.
If you use a Sleep Number mattress, be sure to lower the pressure in it before going into the mountains or if your day’s journey is going to include a significant rise in elevation.
Same mattress that came with it, but we added a subertech mattress topper for just over $100. It is the cats meow. If we upgrade it will be to a purple mattress.
We replaced the factory POS with a hybrid bed in a box. RV King and we love it.
same mattress but added 3 inch memory foam 2015 Rockwood
The OEM Serta mattress Dynamax installed as OEM equipment was NOWHERE CLOSE to being comfortable (as was all the other OEM furniture). I upgraded the year after I bought my DX3 and have slept well ever since.
We replaced the wafer thin torture device that was standard issue with a S&B version of a C4 select comfort Queen with lion energy lithium battery for stable pressure when boondocking. We usually do not need to change the settings when we are dry camping but the Lion Energy lithium battery does the job nicely if needed
We replaced the mattresses with custom cut foam from “Buyfoam.com.” Cut to our desired size and density and thickness needed to fit our RV, not a generic size. Perfect for us.