If you’re all about the van or RV life then you’ll need the best RV mattress you can afford. Enjoying life on the road is much easier when you’re enjoying a good night’s sleep while in the RV. With the best RV mattress for your space and your sleep style, you’ll find it a little easier to catch some z’s while making memories. Space can be tricky when trying to fit more things into an RV, so make sure to measure before going through with your purchase.
Why we picked the Brooklyn Bedding Signature mattress: This bed is already one of our most highly regarded mattresses on the market. So much so it’s featured on our overall Best Mattresses list. It is about 12 inches thick and features pocketed coils as its main support layer. Coils provide some extra bounce and airflow in comparison with a mattress with foam support, and the coils provide more long term support and durability.
The top comfort layers are a blend of proprietary foams from Brooklyn Bedding and those plus the coils gives the Signature mattress an accommodating neutral, hybrid feel that most people really like or can at least get by on.
The biggest reason we chose this mattress though is that it comes in a large variety of sizes beyond the standard twin, full, queen and king. It has three RV specific sizes that are common to a lot of RV manufacturers, and alternative full and queen sizes. The specific dimensions are available on Brooklyn Bedding’s website so you can be sure of the fit.
The Signature also has an optional “cloud pillow-top” that’ll cost you a little extra. We’ve done a whole video on this optional feature on the Aurora Luxe Mattress you can check out. It’s nice to have but not really necessary in my opinion, and it will increase the height of the mattress, which isn’t always ideal for an RV or camper.
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Type: Neutral Hybrid
Firmness: 3 firmness levels | Soft: Medium to Medium Soft or 4 | Medium: Medium or 5 | Firm: Medium-firm or 7
Trial: 120 nights
Warranty: 10-year warranty
Price scale: $$
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Why we picked the Dreamfoam Essential mattress: Dreamfoam is actually a sub brand of Brooklyn Bedding and the Essential mattress is the most affordable bed from Dreamfoam and it also features a plethora of size options.
It has 10 different RV specific sizes, including “RV King” and “RV Bunk” sizes in addition to alternative full and queen sizes. I would be surprised if you can’t find an appropriate size for your RV with the Dreamfoam Essential.
It also comes in a variety of height profiles ranging from 6 inches to 14 inches so you can choose the one that best fits; however, the height profile will significantly affect the firmness profile. The thinner profiles will be firmer than the thicker ones.
The feel of the Dreamfoam Essential is a classic memory foam that you’ll sink into and get a body conforming quality that is also slow to respond.
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Type: Memory foam
Firmness: 5 firmness levels (based on mattress height) | 6 inches: Firm or 10 | 8 inches: Medium-firm to firm or 8 | 10 inches: Medium-firm or 7 | 12 inches: Medium or 5 | 14 inches: Medium to medium-soft or 4
Trial: 120 nights
Warranty: 10-year warranty
Price scale: $
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Why we picked the PlushBeds EcoGreen 8-inch mattress: As a brand, PlushBeds is more well known for its organic full latex beds, the Botanical Bliss and the Natural Bliss, but it also has a set of RV specific mattresses.
Full disclosure, we haven’t actually gotten our hands on this specific mattress, but we chose the EcoGreen 8-inch because it has virtually the same design and uses the same materials as beds we’ve tested, but it comes in RV specific sizes.
The latex foam in this mattress will have a springy, spongy feel that will provide plenty of comfort and cushion while being super responsive as well. Latex foam has a dissimilar feel to memory foam so if you love the sink-in quality of memory foam then a latex bed might not be for you, but for everyone else, I think you’ll find it comfortable.
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Type: Latex foam
Firmness: Medium-firm or 7
Trial: 120 nights
Warranty: 10-year warranty
Price scale: $
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Why we picked the Leesa Studio mattress: Leesa is one of the most popular online mattress brands on the whole, and the Studio mattress isn’t one they tend to emphasize on its website.
The bed’s construction is similar to the more popular Leesa Original, only instead of memory foam being in the middle layer, the memory foam is the top layer. This means the mattress has a responsive memory foam feel that fans of the sink-in sensation should enjoy, but I also think that people who don’t love memory foam should be able to sleep fairly comfortably too, it has a nice balance.
Its firmness profile is also accommodating landing between a medium and a medium-firm in our testing so most people should be able to sleep comfortably in any position on the Leesa Studio.
It doesn’t come in any RV specific sizes however, but if you have the space for a standard size mattress in your RV, I think it’s a great option at an affordable price point.
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Why we picked the Helix mattresses: Helix is one of my personal favorite brands, and it’s pretty easy to recommend to people because it has so many options available.
In total, it has 19 different Helix branded mattresses on its website, which sounds like a lot, but it’s actually pretty easy to understand. It has six different mattresses in its “core collection” and upgraded “luxe” and “elite” versions of those beds. They also have a sleep quiz you can take to help narrow down which of the six beds should work best for you.
We chose to recommend the core models because there should be one that works for every sleeping preference, they’re the thinnest of the three collections to better fit in RVs, and they’re pretty affordable.
Helix beds don’t come in RV specific sizes though so keep that in mind if you’re interested in Helix.
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Type: Hybrid (varies by mattress)
Firmness: Varies by mattress
Trial: 100 nights
Warranty: 10-year warranty
Price scale: $$
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There’s really no one type of mattress that’s best for RVs. It really just comes down to your personal preference on firmness and feel to get optimal sleep in whatever RV you might have.
Certain mattresses feature removable and machine-washable covers, but most of the time you have to spot-clean it if the cover gets dirty.
