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Tuft & Needle Nod Mattress Review: A Bed for Budget Shoppers – CNET

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7.0

Tuft & Needle Nod

Score Breakdown

Performance 6.3Support 6Return Policy 6Pressure Relief 6Features 6

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Like

• Ideal for budget shoppers
• Medium firmness level that suits all sleeping positions
• Great at motion isolation
• Best for people under 230 pounds

Don’t like

• Not supportive enough for heavy sleepers over 230 pounds
• Thinner than other foam beds
• Not great for those who want a very soft or very firm bed

Product details

• Type Poly foam mattress
• Firmness medium or 5
• Trial 100 nights
• Warranty 10-year limited warranty

Tuft & Needle, the ultimate budget bed-in-a-box brand, is best known for its wallet-friendly mattress options. It’s one of several online brands that have broken through to the mainstream mattress retail space — you may have even seen its products at Target or Crate and Barrel. 

Here’s a breakdown of the 8-inch Tuft & Needle Nod mattress’s layers:

• First is a 5.5-inch layer of dense poly foam, and it’s meant to provide most of the bed’s support. 
• The second is a 2.5-inch slab of soft poly foam, and it’s the bed’s only comfort layer, but it does the job well.

It’s a simple, straightforward design — like pretty much everything else about this mattress. 

Feel

Some people dislike the restricting feel and resistance of memory foam, especially when trying to move positions. Luckily for those people, the Tuft & Needle Nod mattress doesn’t feel like memory foam at all. Poly foam is a more responsive, lighter foam with better aeration and less density. It gives the comfort of memory foam without the “stuck” feeling, and it’s a generally comfortable foam that most people end up liking. It’s like cloud foam found in slide sandals; it molds to your body and provides pressure relief with ample support. 

Motion isolation

Considering the fact this bed is all foam, I wasn’t surprised to see that it was great at stopping movement across the mattress. It absorbs motion from your partner (or pet), so you won’t bounce and jiggle every time they change positions or get up in the middle of the night.

Edge support

This is where the Tuft & Needle Nod mattress takes a back seat. It’s thin and not great for support, so the edges aren’t as sturdy as the Tuft & Needle Nod Hybrid or the regular Tuft & Needle mattress. If you share a mattress with a partner and you usually have to sleep near the very edge, you won’t feel like you’re falling off. Still, you probably aren’t going to feel comfortably supported unless you’re more petite. 

Temperature

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that the Tuft & Needle Nod mattress isn’t going to actively cool you down. The good news is it’s not going to heat you up, either. I think it’s good at keeping most people’s temperature neutral because it doesn’t retain heat like a traditional memory-foam mattress. If sleeping hot is a problem for you, make sure to check out our best cooling mattress to get a more comfortable night’s sleep. 

Who is this bed best for?

When deciding whether or not a mattress is right for you, take your sleeping position and weight into consideration. Believe it or not, it matters.

Position

Side sleepers typically like medium to soft mattresses that provide pressure relief to the hips and joints, while back and stomach sleepers often sleep best on medium to firm beds that provide ample back support. Tuft & Needle Nod has a medium firmness level that appeals to each of these sleeping positions. 

Remember, though, the lighter you are, the firmer a mattress is going to feel, and vice versa. For example, if you’re a petite side sleeper, you will probably want a softer mattress because this will feel more like a medium-firm. 

Body type

I recommend Tuft & Needle Nod to people under 230 pounds. It’s only two layers and 8 inches thick, so it won’t be very supportive or durable for a heavier individual. It also won’t last as long as a mattress should, which is an important consideration when you’re spending hundreds of dollars on something. 

People over 230 pounds should consider the Tuft & Needle Nod Hybrid bed. It’s still a budget mattress but is made with steel coils in the foundation to provide a bit more support. 

Price

Here’s the main reason why you’d want to buy a Tuft & Needle Nod mattress: the attractive price tag. It’s one of the most reputable low-cost mattresses on the market, so you can trust you’re getting a quality mattress for cheap. It has over 3,000 reviews on Amazon and almost a five-star rating, so the proof is in the pudding. A queen size 8-inch Tuft & Needle Nod is about $499, almost $400 cheaper than the Original Tuft & Needle model.