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Hyde & Sleep vs Dormeo Mattress Reviews

Compare Hyde & Sleep and Dormeo mattresses side by side: owner satisfaction, support, durability and price, based on aggregated customer reviews.

Checked byBecky Reeve, Staff Writer, Mattress Expert
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Brand

Hyde & Sleep

4.6/5Owners613 reviews
Price range£419 – £1,199
Brand

Dormeo

Our pick
5.0/5Owners1 review
Price range£600 – £850

On aggregated owner reviews, Dormeo scores higher: 5.0 against 4.6 out of 5.

Becky’s take

By Becky Reeve

Checked against current models and prices in October 2026

If you want a firm mattress, buy Hyde & Sleep. If you want anything softer, buy Dormeo. Hyde & Sleep is Dreams' own foam brand, and most of it is firm memory foam. Most people buy the Original, and the Hybrid Ice adds a sprung layer underneath. Dormeo's hybrids all put memory foam over pocket springs and stop at medium-firm, so there's no firm Dormeo.

Plenty of people have reviewed Hyde & Sleep and next to nobody has reviewed Dormeo, so if you want firm, Hyde & Sleep is the easy choice. Buy the Original, or the Hybrid Ice if you want some spring in it. A heavier back sleeper will be fine on either.

If you sleep on your side, or you're lighter than average, look at the softer models. Hyde & Sleep's mediums are the Deluxe Ice and the Refine Air, and both are solid foam. Dormeo goes a step softer again with the soft-medium Octasmart Deluxe, and its springs make a cooler, bouncier bed than a solid slab. Dreams has Hyde & Sleep on its shop floor, while Bensons for Beds sells Dormeo online only, so the Hyde & Sleep is the one you can lie on first.

Head to head

Hyde & Sleep has 5 of its 12 mattresses sprung and 5 all memory foam; Dormeo has sprung throughout, every model a hybrid. Hyde & Sleep runs from soft-medium to extra firm, and Dormeo runs from soft-medium to medium-firm. Hyde & Sleep covers more of the firmness scale, which helps if two sleepers need different feels. Hyde & Sleep is the cheaper way in, though not by much. But at the top end Hyde & Sleep goes further, so it also has the more premium options. Hyde & Sleep's owner score rests on far more reviews (613 against 1), so treat Dormeo's number as the less settled of the two.

How they differ

Hyde & SleepDormeo
Mattresses we list123
Price range£419 – £1,199£600 – £850
Owner rating
4.6/5Owners613 reviews
5.0/5Owners1 review

Mattresses only. Owner ratings are the review-weighted average across each brand’s mattresses on UK retailer sites. Prices read 28 October 2026.

Hyde & Sleep

Still fairly new to the mattress-industry, the Hyde and Sleep brand was the first real attempt from Dreams to get into the popular and saturated bed in a box segment, going head to head with the likes of Simba, Nectar and Otty. The main selling point of the brand is that they are able to offer a market leading sleep solution at a cheaper price than equivalent models in the existing Dreams lineup thanks to reduced logistical issues and reduced delivery costs. Having won multiple industry awards, the Hyde and Sleep range frequently tops charts in comfort and support.

Dormeo

Dormeo first popped up on our radar back in the early 2000’s, finding different avenues to market than traditional with their frequent TV advertising and push toward their own independent store over the conventional retailer derived market. Dormeo typically sells mid to high range products.

Regardless of your budget, there’s likely to be something suitable for a reasonable price point.

Hyde & Sleep owner satisfaction

Owner satisfaction across the lineup is good. Comfort and support are what the reviews praise most, and back pain comes up often on the positive side; one owner wrote that it “has made such a difference to my back pain”. The gripes are a feel some found too firm (“I thought I want a hard mattress but this is too hard”), a chemical smell that took weeks to clear for a few, and dipping on the Original. Temperature splits owners: “surprisingly cool to sleep on” for one, “very hot in the summer” for another.

Hyde & Sleep supportiveness

When it comes to support, Hyde and Sleep have two different support structures, one in the hybrid variety which combines foam and micro springs, and another focussing on pure foam. The tension within these models tends to be firmer than what you get with other manufacturers, with firm to very firm being commonplace across the majority of the segment. Back pain comes up in the reviews mostly on the positive side, one owner writing that “My backache has nearly gone”, though a front sleeper on the Hybrid Ice found it “did not prevent this back ache and stiff spine”.

Hyde & Sleep durability

Durability and longevity are both areas that are key to good quality control. The guarantee offered on Hyde and Sleep mattresses is 5 years. The reviews are less reassuring than that figure: a run of owners, nearly all on the Original, report dipping or softening inside the first year or two, one writing that it “slowly started to lose all of its support” after a good first month and was replaced two years on.

Hyde & Sleep best offers

We've managed to find the following top deals from across the web on Hyde & Sleep mattresses.

Dormeo owner satisfaction

One owner of the Octasmart Premium Hybrid Plus, four weeks in, reported "slowly seeing an improvement in my sleep and feeling better rested".

Dormeo supportiveness

Traditionally we judge a mattress manufacturer's support by the layer denoted to it and in the case of Dormeo this looks to be primarily pocket springs as a base layer. Pocket springs are market leading and outperform equivalent open coil and reflex foam units, they achieve this by having better body contouring, less settlement issues and better durability.

Dormeo durability

The Octasmart Premium Hybrids at Bensons for Beds carry a 5 year guarantee, and Dormeo quotes longer warranties on its own site (both checked October 2026). This is important because without a warranty you will be unprotected in the years that follow.

Dormeo best offers

We've managed to find the following top deals from across the web on Dormeo mattresses.

  • Offers on Dormeo

Owner reviews of Hyde & Sleep mattresses

5 Jerins

looked around.. so many options.. all different prices. We saw this one.. the design was exactly what we were looking for and the price.. was a bit cheap to be honest.. I wondered if we were going to the end up with something flimsy and cheap.. we didn't! This bed is amazing.. the quality is top notch. Gorgeous thick headboard in luxurious fabric.. same on the bed base. The mattress is firm and comfy. No "rolling together" or anything. It is a thick mattress.. no buttons or springs to be felt. We love it. The only thing we did was get some anti slip Matt to put under the mattress to stop or slipping around. I'm a fidget.. that's the only reason why. Fabulous bed.. comfy and quality. I would recommend it to everyone. Lovely delivery guys as well brought it upstairs for us. Service with a smile. Professional. kept me informed of the delivery time as well. Thank you very much

4 Nia.

Overall, very happy with the mattress. I selected it based on the advice from going on the bed in store that assesses your sleeping position. I think I’ve previously had medium mattresses and this one comes up as firm, but I find it soft and supportive. I’m used to a sprung base with foam topper, despite the description making me think this had some sort of micro spring set up it does seem to be essentially all foam. I’m a lot less aware of my husband moving around in his sleep so I guess the foam set up is working. Two small problems that I have with it - firstly it recommends you rotate on a weekly basis for the first three months but it’s really awkward to rotate. There are some handles but they’re underneath the mattress rather than on the side. It’s quite a dense mattress and pretty much a deadweight to try and rotate. The second irritation is that the sheet and mattress protector won’t stay in place. The texture of the mattress cover is particularly slippery and correctly sized fitted sheet keeps on shifting.

4 Martin Glasgow

The mattress seemed firmer than the one tested in the store. I phoned customer services two days after I received the mattress to have this logged. I chose this mattress as I was experiencing joint pain when waking from sleep on my original mattress. I have to say I don’t experience joint pain in the morning now. How the mattress regulates heat I am unsure my wife experiences hot flushes at times and the cooling properties the mattress makes no difference. But no mattress can regulate for hot flushes for to menopause. The edges are firm and hold shape when getting in and out of bed. There is no roll together and the mattress memory foam returns to shape when out of bed. My previous mattress had visible indentations showing where my wife and I sleeped after only a few weeks of use. So I am impressed with this but will be looking out for this over the next few months.

2 RBC1

Really disappointed with the amount of "off gassing" that has happened with this mattress. The smell was awful for the first two days. It very gradually decreased over the first week but we had to have the door shut to the room that the mattress was in and had to keep the windows open for 6 days as the smell was so strong throughout our house otherwise. It took 9 days until we could bear the smell enough to actually try sleeping on the mattress. The chemical small was still pretty strong and the first night sleeping on the mattress I woke up in the night coughing and my partner woke up with a sore throat due to the off gassing fumes. The mattress itself seems comfortable so far, but after having it for 11 days we have only slept on it twice (due to the smell) so I cannot fully comment on the comfort yet. The "ice" element of the mattress is quite cold against the skin which I didn't appreciate when I lay on the mattress in store (as was wearing a coat), so we have purchased a thick mattress protector to feel warm during the winter. Hopefully in the summer this feature will be more useful. We are not overly sensitive to smells but anyone sensitive or who suffers from asthma or allergies should take this into consideration before thinking about purchasing this mattress! Especially if you need to use the mattress as soon as you have purchased it. I expected that there might be some slight odour for a couple of days, but the intense chemically smell from this mattress has been terrible for a prolonged period.

1 Jaws12344

We have had two of these mattresses (having returned the first one because it had a mark on it). Both of them smelt terrible. I can't believe more reviewers don't mention this in their reviews. We slept on the first mattress for a week whilst waiting for it to be replaced, but the smell was awful and both us and the bedding smelt strongly of chemicals. When we received the replacement, we moved into the spare room and aired the mattress - we left it uncovered and regularly opened the windows (in temperatures of 1 degree!) and then reheated the room to try and draw as much 'off gas' out of the mattress as possible. 3 weeks later, we still hadn't slept on the bed and the smell was still strong enough for us to arrange to return it to Dreams. Dreams seem to advise airing these mattresses for 4 hours, but 3 weeks wasn't sufficient. We really wanted to keep the mattress because we had found the first one very comfortable but we couldn't stomach the smell and couldn't believe it would ever disappear. Dreams customer service were very good and we are buying a further mattress from them from a different brand.

Owner reviews of Dormeo mattresses

5 Sandra D

So far (4wks in) it's been good, I'm slowly seeing an improvement in my sleep and feeling better rested. May it continue

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