Some of us just like a mattress that gives a bit, and if that's you, the Sleepeezee Hybrid Pro 2300 will catch your eye at Furniture Village. It's a medium hybrid that Sleepeezee makes for that one shop: pocket springs at the bottom, two layers of memory foam over them, and a soft quilted pillow top sewn on above the lot. It's the entry rung for the plush Hybrid Pro feel: the lowest of the three beds in the range with a top, with only a firm, flat-topped rung beneath it. Lie down and your shoulder sinks into the quilting first, your hip settles into the foam a beat later, and the springs only take over a few centimetres down, so the feel is of being held rather than lifted.
Next to the Hybrid Pro 2800, the gap is smaller than the names make it sound. Both are graded medium, both carry the same memory foam and polyester top over the same fillings, and neither turns over. The 2800 adds 500 springs in a king, a centimetre of depth and twelve kilos in a double, so the 2300 is the lighter, slimmer bed at 28cm (about 11 inches). What the two share is the bit I'm going to steer you away from, gently: a soft top stitched on for good, on a mattress built to be slept on one side only.
The people who'll love it are light and average-weight side sleepers who want to sink in, lie fairly still and don't run warm, plus couples where one of you tosses about. Skip it if you're heading for eighteen stone or more, if you sleep on your front, or if you wake up hot. And if you're the kind of person who keeps a mattress for the long haul, let me talk you out of it kindly and send you to the Mlily Hybrid Gel 3000 in the same shop, which gives you memory foam over pocket springs with nothing sewn on top.
Is the Sleepeezee Hybrid Pro 2300 any good?
As a sleep, yes, for the right body, and the build deserves its credit first. Pocket springs under two layers of memory foam is a sensible hybrid, a medium grade suits far more people than a firm one, and the bed is made in England. At 33kg in a double, it's also the lightest bed in the range with a top, which you'll appreciate the day it goes up your stairs.
Where it loses me is the top. A pillow top is a separate soft pad sewn onto the surface, and this one is built in, so you can't lift it off, swap it or turn the mattress over to sleep on a fresh side. My worry with any pillow top is that the pad keeps softening where your shoulder and hip go every night, and on a one-sided bed that wear has nowhere else to go. Given the choice, I'd always rather have a mattress I can turn than one I can't, and a stitched-on top is where that preference counts most.
That's why my answer is a kind no. The 2300 is a good feel built around the one layer I wouldn't want to depend on, so lie on the Hybrid Pro range in a showroom if you like, then buy the Mlily Hybrid Gel 3000.
The 2300 sleeps warm and slows you down when you turn
Count the pillow top and you're lying on three layers of memory foam, and memory foam warms as it moulds to you. I'm a heavy-duvet person all year, because the weight helps me settle, so I know the trick of sticking a leg out when I get warm. On this much foam, a leg out won't rescue anybody who properly runs hot, so if that's you, walk past this one.
Foam that moulds is also foam that takes a moment to let go. Roll from your side to your back and you push through a soft dent before the springs help you over, which a still sleeper never notices and a restless one notices all night. If you change position a lot, look for something bouncier, such as springs under a thinner foam.
For a couple, though, that slowness is the selling point. When your partner turns over, the foam takes up the movement on their half, and very little of it travels across to yours.
2300 springs, counted in a king
The 2300 in the name is the spring count for a king-size mattress, and past about 1,500 in that size I treat extra springs as padding rather than support. Before you lean on the number, ask Furniture Village how many of the 2300 are full-height springs and how many are small ones counted in. The count tells you very little about the feel anyway, because the foam and that top decide how this bed sleeps.
Within the range, that's the 2300's best argument. Stepping up to the 2800 buys you more springs and a centimetre under exactly the same top, and nothing in that step is something I'd pay for. If your heart is set on a Hybrid Pro, this is the rung to have.
Owners love the comfort of a new 2300
The owners are pleased with how it feels. "Very comfortable and supportive" is the gist, one calls it good quality, and another says they sleep very well on it. I believe every word. A pillow top is at its kindest when it's new, which is when people tend to write their reviews, and one happy owner says as much: it's "very early day as yet".
I always go to the three-star reviews first, since the fives are written in the glow of a new bed. Here, one three-star comes from a buyer who hadn't slept on it at all, still busy with new curtains for the room, which tells you plenty about the curtains and nothing about the mattress.
The comment worth weighing is from an owner who found it firmer than the bed they'd tried in the shop. Put that down to newness. A display mattress has been sat on all season, and a fresh one starts out firmer and loosens with use, so give yours a few weeks before you judge it.
Furniture Village's guarantee is on the structure, not the soft top
Furniture Village guarantees the structural parts of its beds, the frames and the springs. A comfort layer isn't on that list, and under the care terms a top that settles under your weight is normal wear, not a defect. So the layer I'm uneasy about is the one the guarantee leaves to you, and because it's sewn on, the only way to replace it is a whole new mattress.
The shop's terms also give clearance stock a shorter structural cover than the rest of its beds, so ask in writing which cover your mattress comes with before you pay. While you're at it, note the returns: a short window to change your mind, a charge to collect, and no return at all on a mattress used without a protector, so put one on from the first night.
What to buy instead
Buy the Mlily Hybrid Gel 3000. It keeps what's good about the 2300, memory foam over pocket springs at a medium grade, and leaves the sewn-on top out of it. Two layers of gel memory foam sit over pocket springs, so the softness you're buying is built into the mattress itself. It's 27cm deep (about 10.5 inches), arrives rolled, and the cover comes off.
The gel takes a little of the edge off memory foam's warmth, and I'd take it over plain foam for that alone. It won't turn a hot sleeper cool, mind. For that, you want pocket springs under natural fillings such as wool or cotton.
