Silentnight Geltex is one of the brand's most distinctive products. The technology combines gel molecules, foam crystals and air cells to create a breathable, pressure relieving sleeping experience that sits apart from standard memory foam.
Taking into account everything you need for a great night’s sleep, these geltex mattresses offer optimal support, with the flexible gel foam distributing your body weight over the surface of the mattress and moulding to your contours to relieve pressure points (foam surfaces are the standard pressure-relieving choice in clinical settings) and support spinal alignment.12 Helping you to wake up feeling fresh, the open cell structure means that air is able to circulate easily, making the mattress extremely breathable and allowing you to stay cool and comfortable throughout the night. View our range below.
What is the best Silentnight mattress?
Mattresses are very much a question of suitability and preference. Anyone that tells you a mattress is the best as a blanket statement without asking a series of questions about body type, sleeping position and pains isn't offering honest and well-placed advice. That said, there are those that represent good value and have a good quality of materials at a fair price. We generally order our products by best reviewed top to bottom, to that end, the products that you see on this page will all be great buys that have consistently impressive reviews from real owners who have to sleep on these mattresses every day.
Are Silentnight mattresses good?
Silentnight mattresses are a great buy, they are one of the longest standing mattress manufacturers in the industry and are able to consistently produce well made and reasonably priced products. The guess-work and guinea-pig testing was done decades ago, now, every one of these mattresses is a winner. Pay special attention to the new Silentnight Geltex range, which mimics a lot of the properties of memory foam, while still allowing you to stay cool.
Is a Silentnight mattress good for couples?
Most of the Silentnight range of mattresses offer some form of roll-together preventative support in part due to the quality of materials used. This roll-together issue is pretty much the only one that can be an issue for couples and one that generally isn't a concern with Silentnight mattresses. If you are looking to avoid roll-together in your silentnight mattress, consider a medium tension or firmer mattress. No amount of roll-together tech or fillings can change the fact that a soft mattress will dip more when pressure is being applied.
Should I buy a Silentnight mattress?
Absolutely, they are tried and tested and have been in the business a long time. Just take a look at the hundreds of reviews we have accumulated over the years below to see just how many people are enjoying their Silentnight mattress right now. Reviews are not only plentiful, they are generally very positive, regularly achieving a typical 4-5/5 stars across most of the range.
Breaking down the Silentnight range
The catalogue is bigger than most people expect, so here's how it actually works.
Miracoil is the continuous coil spring system you'll find on most of the entry and mid-range models. It's a single continuous wire bent into the shape of multiple springs - cheaper to make than pocket springs, and it gives a firm, even feel across the whole surface. Edge support is decent. The catch is motion transfer. If your partner rolls over at night, you'll feel it, because all the springs are connected. It works well for single sleepers, though couples will notice more movement transfer than they would on a Mirapocket.
Mirapocket is where Silentnight does pocket springs properly. Counts range from about 800 on the entry models to 2800 on the higher tiers, and the difference from Miracoil is night and day for couples. Each spring moves independently, so what happens on one side stays on that side. If you're buying for a shared bed, this is the range to focus on. I'd go as far as saying it's the single most important decision when shopping Silentnight.
Geltex is their gel-foam hybrid that sits on top of a Mirapocket base. We've had a few of these across our reviews and the cooling holds up over time - it doesn't fade after a few months the way some gel products do. Worth a look if you sleep warm.
There's also the Healthy Growth kids range, which deserves a mention because it's quietly one of the better things Silentnight makes. Lower chemical treatments than most budget kids mattresses, proper pocket springs rather than cheap open coil, and the price stays reasonable. When parents ask what we'd recommend for a child's bed, Healthy Growth comes up before most of the alternatives.
What we've noticed over the years
The cheap Silentnight roll-ups you see on Amazon and in supermarkets aren't what the brand is actually about. They're built to a price and they wear like it. If someone tells you their Silentnight fell apart within a year, it was almost certainly one of these rather than a proper Mirapocket or Geltex model. The gap between the budget shelf and the real catalogue is bigger than most buyers realise.
Firmness labelling is another thing Silentnight gets right, and it's worth mentioning because not everyone does. When they say medium, it feels medium. When they say firm, it's firm. I've tested mattresses from direct-to-consumer brands that label everything medium-firm regardless of how the thing actually feels under your body. Silentnight doesn't do that, which saves a lot of returns.
Zip and Link on the super king and emperor sizes is a feature worth knowing about if you share a bed with someone who prefers a completely different firmness. Two mattresses, two tensions, one fitted sheet. Most bed-in-a-box brands can't offer anything close to this.
And they're everywhere. Dreams, Bensons, Argos, Dunelm, the Silentnight site, independents. Same model often shows up at different prices across retailers, mind you, so ten minutes of comparing before you buy is time well spent.
Where Silentnight is made and what else the group makes
Silentnight makes its mattresses in Barnoldswick, the Lancashire town where Tom and Joan Clarke founded the company in 1946 and where it has been based ever since. It turns out more beds than any other manufacturer in Britain, and with head office and factory in the same town, the people running the brand work where the beds get built.
If you have been weighing a Rest Assured or a Myers against a Silentnight, you have been comparing stablemates rather than rivals: the Silentnight Group owns both of those bed brands, along with Layezee.
Bargain hunters seek out the Silentnight factory shop in Barnoldswick for clearance stock. For everyone else, Silentnight sells direct through its own web store as well as through Dunelm, Argos, John Lewis, Dreams, Bensons and the independent bed shops.
How Silentnight compares
In the UK mid-market, Silentnight is up against Sealy and Sleepeezee from the heritage side, plus Rest Assured and Myers from within its own corporate group. Against the direct brands - Emma, Simba, that crowd - it's a different proposition entirely. Those brands win on trial length and the convenience of a box delivery. Silentnight wins on the spring systems at the mid and upper tiers, honest firmness labelling, and being a brand you can walk into a shop and actually try before you hand over money.
If trying before buying matters to you, and you want something British-made with a firmness label you can trust, Silentnight belongs on the shortlist. If you'd rather have a 200-night trial and the foam feel of a bed-in-a-box, that's a different category and the direct brands serve it better.
