If you can tune out Emma's marketing, the Original Pro Mattress is better than the hype around it: a sound mid-price hybrid, memory foam on zoned pocket springs, in a medium that suits most back sleepers and plenty of couples. Skip it if flipping your mattress matters to you, and avoid it if the duvet already ends up on the floor by morning, because there's memory foam on top.
Emma's adverts get more eye-rolls from me than any other brand's, and it's no favourite of mine. This one deserves a fair hearing anyway.
Under four trademarked foams sits a proper spring unit
Ignore the trademarks for a moment and the build is sensible. MemoryAdapt is the foam Emma says eases built-up pressure, and ThermoSync is a foam infused with graphite, which Emma sells on keeping you fresh. Then come a soft foam for cushioning and a base soft foam, all sitting on a seven-zone pocket spring unit, with firmer support under the shoulders, back and hips. Foam wraps the edge to cut the roll-off feeling, and the whole bed is 27cm deep. Mattress Online doesn't give a spring count.
The graphite is a small help with heat and nothing more. Memory foam still closes round you, and a hot sleeper will notice that long before they notice the infusion.
Springs at a medium make the Pro the rung to buy
The Pro sits between two other Emma Originals at Mattress Online. The Emma Original Classic has no springs at all, just memory foam on a reflex foam base, 25cm in all, and the Emma Original Elite is 27cm with pocket springs but a softer, soft-to-medium grade. The Pro's case is simple: springs at a medium. That's where I'd start a back sleeper, or a couple still making up their minds.
There aren't many owner reviews yet. They're all early, and they're all glowing. One owner who replaced a five- or six-year-old Emma Original says the Pro feels noticeably more comfortable and supportive. Another points out that nothing on the mattress tells you which model you've got, and the only check was feeling for the springs inside.
So check the label sewn into the mattress and the name on your order when it arrives, because Mattress Online still lists a 2025 Pro too and nothing published says what changed between the two. One more owner says the chemical smell took a couple of weeks to go, which is longer than I'd like.
One side to sleep on, so rotate it and expect it to soften
There's one sleeping side, so turn it round head to foot each season and never flip it. Foam softens over the years, and with only one side, all of that wear lands in the same place, so expect it to feel softer in year five than in week one. It arrives vacuum-packed and rolled, and the cat will have claimed the box before you've cut the plastic. It comes in five sizes topping out at super king, all 27cm deep, so a deep-fit sheet will do and you won't need an extra-deep one.
The 100-Night Comfort Trial at Mattress Online swaps the mattress instead of refunding it, and it only applies if their own protector went in the same order. And you must sleep on it for a month before asking. I'm no fan of protectors on a good mattress, yet without one bought here you have no trial at all, so add it at checkout.
What to buy instead
If turning matters, buy a double-sided pocket-sprung mattress instead, which shares the wear between two sides. If you like Emma's foam and don't need springs, the Original Classic is Emma's springless option, so price the two in your size. Anyone else choosing between the three Originals should take the Pro.
