Serenia Sleep Plush Gel Memory Foam Mattress Review

Let’s get one thing out of the way fast — this bed is soft. If you want a firm base, you’re going to want to look elsewhere.

But if you’re a fan of the plush feel, there’s a good chance you’ll love the Serenia Sleep Plush Gel mattress. It feels luxurious rather than giving you that sinking feeling that some cheaper soft mattresses have.

It’s definitely effective at easing pressure points and I don’t think you’ll be waking up with aches and pains — unless you’re someone that craves a bit of firm support.

Memory foam has a reputation for retaining heat during the night, which it struggles to be rid of throughout the day. As a result, you can wake up feeling sweaty and uncomfortable instead of refreshed.

Luckily, the Serenia has a layer of gel which saps the heat away from the foam and away from your body.

The third layer of Smart Temp foam then helps dispense with this heat, so the gel doesn’t carry it over to the next night. All in all, it ensures the bed remains cool even on warm summer nights.

This is especially great for those of us living in warmer climates or who sleep hot. No waking up sweaty!

If your mattress has you waking up with aches, pains, and overall misery, upgrading to the Serenia Plush mattress may just be your saving grace.

Thanks to its unique combination of layers, you can be assured of a reasonably supported night sleep.

Since the base layer provides a great deal of support, you’re not at risk of sinking too far into your mattress, but the micro touch points of the second layer help cradle your body.

This ensures better spinal alignment throughout the night and relief to your aching joints.

To be clear though, this isn’t the most supportive mattress I’ve slept on and people with injuries, back pain or who simply require a little more support, it may be worth looking at something a little more specialist.

The moment you begin sharing a bed, there’s always some fear that your bed partner is going to be keeping you awake at night. With low motion transfer, this is a worry of the past.

The best memory foam mattress is the one that lets you wiggle to your heart’s content without disturbing your partner, and we’re happy to note that Serenia Sleep has succeeded in making this a reality.

If you’re used to your partner waking you up with their stirring, or if you’re on differing sleep schedules, you’ll definitely be a fan of this minimal motion transfer mattress.

Most of the mattresses I review nowadays are a ‘bed-in-a-box’ style like this Serenia Sleep, but every once in a while I’ll have a traditional one delivered and remember why I appreciate the bed-in-a-box format so much.

It’s delivered straight to your door compressed and rolled in a mid-size box that you simply need to carry to the room of your choice.

Lay it on the bedframe, open it up and wait for time to do its work. Within hours, you’ll have a fully expanded mattress on your hands.

Serenia recommend leaving it for 2 days for full expansion, but I thought it got there significantly quicker than that — within a couple of hours easily.

One thing to note is that it is a heavy box, so get a friend to help out if you live alone and don’t lift weights.

At 14 inches thick, comfortable and cool, I was expecting the Serenia Sleep Plush Gel to have a much higher price tag than it actually has.

It’s not a perfect mattress — as I’ll discuss shortly — but it’s certainly a pretty good one. And undeniably attractive with its low price tag.

This is definitely a good choice if you’re looking for something luxurious that won’t break the bank.

I would have preferred the Serenia Sleep Plush have a little more support to it to make it a truly great mattress.

As it stands, while it’s very comfortable, it won’t be supportive enough for heavier people, those with back pain or any other injury that needs a little more specialist support.

If you don’t fit into any of those categories and like a plush mattress, however, you’ll be rocking and rolling with the Serenia Sleep.

And on that note, I think most people will find that the edge support is really lacking unfortunately.

This isn’t a mattress for sitting on the edge of the bed putting on socks. This might be something to consider if you roll around a lot in your sleep too.

It’s simply retained its softness all the way through the mattress. A more expensive, better engineered soft mattress would have reinforced the edges to stop this from happening — take a look at the Sealy Response Premium if you want to see something like that.

At just under one hundred pounds for the Queen configuration, this is a mattress that will take some effort to move.

Luckily you won’t be dragging it upstairs or from your car, thanks to the easy delivery, but if you ever need to move your bed to another room or home, it will be cumbersome.

As I mentioned before, it might be best to enlist a friend or neighbor to help — especially if you need to get it up a flight of stairs.

Maybe I’m being petty, but I would have really liked to have the option to flip the Serenia Sleep Plush occasionally.  Flipping a foam mattress every 6 months helps to prevent sagging and just generally helps to freshen things up.

Unfortunately this isn’t an option as the layers have been carefully arranged to provide optimal comfort and support.

Not a dealbreaker but something to be aware of for sure.