The Juniper takes your shoulder and your hip further in than anything else in this range, and then a sheet of tiny springs under all that foam stops the lot. At 30cm it is the deepest of the four new Hyde & Sleep beds at Dreams, the softest graded, and the dearest.
Side sleepers are who it's built for, and the lighter you are the more sense that makes. Avoid it if you weigh more than average, or if you want to be asleep on a new mattress soon. I wouldn't buy it. My gripe with this brand is beds that come out too firm and cost a notch more than they're worth. The Juniper fixes the firmness and leaves the money where it was. Buy the Hyde & Sleep Deluxe Ice instead: less money, 2cm more mattress.
Nobody gives you a thickness for any of that 30cm
The order goes knitted cover, a temperature-adaptive Serene foam, a second Serene foam cut into five zones, one sheet of micro pocket springs, then a thick slab of plain foam. Not one of those layers has a thickness against it. The slab is what I'd want measured, because depth is the cheapest thing to add to a mattress and that is where the cheap centimetres go.
The sprung half of this hybrid is that micro-spring sheet, with no full height springs in it, so don't read hybrid here as the pocket sprung bed the word suggests. Micro springs are a comfort layer wearing a spring's name, to my mind, and they won't hold a hip up like a proper pocket unit. The five zones only work if your body lands where they were drawn.
Nothing claims a thing for the edges, and Hyde & Sleep's own instructions tell you to keep off them. A soft edge shrinks a double towards a small double. The person I share a bed with turns over half the night and takes the duvet along every time, so I spend a fair part of the night hanging off the side.
Soft to medium is the only thing it has over the cheaper rungs
That grade is the one honest reason to pay up here: the other three run from medium to very firm, so a soft bed is the thing you can't buy cheaper in the range. There's no firmer or softer Juniper either, so you live with the grade you order.
Dreams advertises contouring memory foam in it and that memory foam is not in the build, so ask about it before you order if that's why you're here. Being without it is no loss. Memory foam traps heat whatever the cover above it is called, and this foam is sold on recovering faster than memory foam.
The one rung in the range you cannot have in a box
Every other bed here comes rolled and this one doesn't, so ordering it means a long wait and no way round it. That alone would stop me. A mattress you're unsure of is one you want underneath you quickly, and this one asks you to commit to an untried feel and then wait.
Check how deep your fitted sheets are cut before you order, because 30cm is where ordinary sheets give up and a deep set adds to the priciest bed here.
Turn it end over end every week for its first three months and monthly from then on, because there is one sleeping side and that is the only evening out of the dips you'll get. Choose the grade carefully first time, too: Dreams' 100-Night Comfort Guarantee swaps the mattress for another instead of refunding you.
What to buy instead
Buy the Deluxe Ice. Same brand, same shop, less money, 2cm more depth at 32cm, and memory foam that's in the name. It's graded medium, which suits more bodies and is the grade I'd put most people on first.
If it's this new Serene build you're after and a medium feel will do, the Hyde & Sleep Lime Rolled is the medium of this range: 27cm, the same spring sheet, three zones in place of five, and it arrives rolled.
