Good morning Guys and Gals. We need to replace the factory installed King size mattress in our '06 Monterey.Any suggestions would be great. We are located in central California.    Thanks Rick

Before taking delivery of our coach in 2006, we had them replace the original King with a Queen, which created a little more room around the bedstead.  The factory mattresses, though touted by Beaver Coach Sales as good ones, were way too firm for our taste, so after our first uncomfortable night in the BCS overnighter's lot, we went to the Bend Costco and got a "pillow-topper" for ours.  It helped, but is still not as good as our top-of-the-line Serta we're used to at home, and it made the bed uncomfortably higher for the person on the side away from the wardrobe where the floor isn't raised.  When money is available (if ever), a Sleep Number RV Edition Premier mattress will likely be our choice - $1100 at Camping World.

-Joel

I HAVE A SLEEP NUMBER BED AND HAVE HAD ONE IN BOTH MY COACHES.  I FEEL THEY ARE THE MOST COMFORTABLE AND CAN BE ADJUSTED FOR TWO SLEEPERS IF YOU HAVE DUAL AIR CHAMBERS.  ONLY THING ONE NEEDS TO  BE AWARE OF IS THAT AIR MUST BE DECREASED IF AN INCREASE IN ALTITUDE IS ANTICIPATED.  IT IS NOW ON MY CHECK LIST FOR TRAVELING AS I HAVE ENCOUNTERED PROBLEMS AND HAD TO REPLACE  THE AIR CHAMBER BECAUSE I DID NOT DEFLATE IT SOME BEFORE TRAVELING TO INCREASED ALTITUDE!

THEY ARE GREAT MATTRESS AND I HAVE THEM BOTH IN MY COACH AS WELL AS AT HOME.

We replaced the king mattress in our '06 Monterey with a Comfortaire air mattress.  They make a RV model with rounded corners at the foot and was the correct width.  The Camping World model was a bit wider and would have been a tight squeeze between the night stands plus square corners.  We are very pleased with it.

http://www.bearbeds.com/ Bear Beds are touted to be as good as the Sleep Number and you do not pay for the advertizing that Confort Air does.  

We purchased a Select Comfort RV mattress 4 years ago.  After 1 1/2 years the hand held control manfunctioned.  The company sent us a replacement pump and control at no cost.  About a year later, the new control malfunctioned.  When we called the company, we were told it would cost $278 for a remanufactured replacement pump and control.  We have heard others have had this same problem.  We declined the expensive offer since the pump works fine and we deal with the hand control.  We waiting for an entreprenur to come up with a fix for their electronic board.  

Bob & Carol Carlson
96 Marquis

We moved our Select Comfort from our old coach to the Beaver.  We really like it.  We have problems sleeping on a regular mattress now, no matter how nice ($) it is.

We have had some problems with the controller intermittently not working.  I took the pump apart and found that there is a vertically mounted circuit board that plugs into a horizontally mounted circuit board.  The plug seems to shake loose as we bounce down the road.  The vertically mounted board is held in place by a slot on the top cover of the pump.  I added a piece of foam between the circuit board and the cover to better hold the vertically mounted board in place, thus the plug stays plugged in.

We needed to replace the bed in our motorhome a month ago and purchased a Select Comfort (also called Sleep Number) RV mattress. If you have a short Queen with rounded corners you need to specify this or you will get a regular sized bed. Unfortunately for us I have found it one of the more uncomfortable beds I have ever slept in. Mike finds the comfort level to be 'OK'. We have tried many different settings and perhaps would have been happier with a foam topper on a regular mattress 'IF' we could have found the correct size. At the store we were warned about the altitude problem and it was suggested that we put the bed at number 20 as part of our travel routine.

Mary
02 Marquis

I understood, perhaps erroneously, that the newer RV version of the Sleep Number Premier mattress (manufactured by Select Comfort) had a relief valve in it, so you didn't have to worry about a gain in altitude causing it to overexpand and pop a leak.  Not sure how that would work, because the problem is caused by a decrease in ambient (outside) barometric pressure, not by a change in pressure within the mattress.  Keep in mind that there are various models of the Sleep Number mattress, and more than one of their RV version - different price points and features.  Your level of comfort may be relative to which model you buy.

My brother-in-law and others swear by their Tempurpedic memory foam mattresses;  that is always an option.  Mary is the first I've heard complain about their Sleep Number bed.

Mary you might like the a memory foam topper of at least two inches.

We have a memory foam topper that we used with our other mattress. We thought of trying it with the new bed. Do you think it would be a problem with the change in pressure on either side of the bed and a foam divider in the middle?

Mary

We have a queen 2 compartment air bed with a Costco memory foam on top.  Lois has her side at 95 and I use 45.
It works great for us.

Marty

Does anyone have a foam topper that they have put on top of a mattress w/rounded corners at the foot?  Our current mattress is a quen I believe with such corners so you can walk around it.  Like Joel I find it too firm and a topper may be an improvement.  If we get a standard queen topper can we trim the corners at the foot into round to match the mattress?

John F
2002 Patriot Thunder

John

That is exactly what we did.  Used heavy duty scissors to trim the pad and then got a muslin envelop-type cover to put the pad in.  Then a full cover mattress cover to cover the whole thing.  

Marty

The topper we bought at Costco was, shall I say, all inclusive.  There is about a 3 inch-or-so thick memory foam pad sewn into quality material that baffles to and also encompasses a 1-2" thick insulation pad.  In theory, one can turn the topper with either the foam or the insulation up, depending on whether it is summer or winter.  The entire thing has a long elastic-edged "skirt" that allows it to be tucked under the mattress.  It pretty much fits our queen mattress that came with the coach, and that, as mentioned in my previous post, is way too hard for us to sleep on without a topper.  

The topper makes the mattress tolerable, but the arrangement is certainly not comparable to our great pillow-top Serta at home.  One cannot take scissors and trim this topper's corners, since it consists of several components sewn together as a unit.  Trimming the corners would involve opening seams and a lot of rebuilding and resewing that is totally unecessary.  We found the square topper corners overlapping the rounded RV mattress corners not to be a big problem;  tucking the skirt in under the mattress pulls the topper corners down so they don't stick out.

As previously mentioned, one annoyance with the topper is the added height;  the wife at 5' 2" sleeps on the wardrobe side of the bed only because the topper makes the other side uncomfortably high for ingress and egress.  She would prefer that side since it is closest to the bathroom, esp. in the dark, if she has to get up at night.  I worry that she will half-awake stumble some night over the step-up/down over the engine hatch on the wardrobe side.  To help resolve that risk, I finally found a battery-operated, motion-sensored LCD lamp unit I will mount on the carpeted short wall near the hazardous step.

Of course the real resolution is a Tempurpedic or Sleep Number mattress, when finances allow.