The Portrush mattress from the popular brand Silentnight aims to offer a pocket spring mattress at a fair price point.
The Silentnight Portrush mattress delivers the latest in comfort thanks to its zoned support layer. With pocket springs at its core, this mattress has springs housed in their own pockets, helping to prevent unnecessary spring movement and giving a better and more contoured support. With edge-to-edge support, you get the maximum sleep space with as little roll together as possible.1
As a comfort layer, you get a layer of premium materials that are sourced from sustainable sources. The sustainable materials in many Silentnight mattresses these days comes in the form of Eco Comfort fibres, with this mattress being no different. Eco comfort fibres are recyclable and are made from plastic bottles. The result is that your top layer is both soft and durable.
Further to the top layer, we have an additional further layer of comfort via a pillow-top. This gives more comfort and in this instance, comes with a generous layer of memory foam.
The end result, eco comfort fibres, pocket springs, memory foam, everything you could ever want from a mattress.
Reviews for the Portrush are mostly good. The thing owners bring up again and again is their back. One wrote "no more lower back pain!" after two weeks, and plenty of others say much the same. The firm tension took some of them a few nights to get used to, but the pillow top softens it, or as one owner put it, "Quite firm but top layer gives plush feel and warmth."
Negative reviews are fewer, and they are mostly about the firmness. Some owners found it softer than the Firm label suggests, with one writing "this model feels noticeably softer than expected" and noticing "a slight slope or dip on one side" after about three weeks. A smaller number found it harder than they wanted. Tension is entirely subjective, which is how the same mattress gets both complaints.
Some also wish it had side handles for turning. A few owners call it warm, mostly as a compliment, though one wondered if the top layer "may prove to be a bit hot in the summer months".