General Use Observations:
We bought this bed about 10 days ago, but wanted to wait a little while to fully experience the mattress before reviewing the product to make sure we are truly satisfied with it. So far we have no complaints about it at all, and both my husband and I look forward to crawling in bed every night! He says I wake up less during the night, rolling over or trying to get comfortable. He and I both are no longer waking up with any soreness or aching. We are both side sleepers, and we have found that we can practically stay in the same position all night and not wake up feeling sore or achy from sleeping on that side for too long.

Unpacking:
It came in a tall box, maybe 4 or 5 feet long, about 2.5 ft sq wide, and weighed about 65 lbs. When we opened the box, it was rolled up (top to bottom) and wrapped in a couple layers of plastic that were vacuum sealed. Once we broke into the vacuum sealed inner layer of plastic, the mattress immediately began to expand. We cut all of the plastic away, unrolled the mattress, and set it on the bed. Within 4 or 5 hours it had expanded from maybe 4in. thick to about 10 or 11in. thick, which was most of its height. By the next day or two, it had completely expanded and filled up all of the space inside the beautiful cover. (The photo was taken the night we unpacked it, maybe 2-3 hours afterward)

Chemical Smell:
Everyone (including myself before purchasing) seems to be worried about the strong chemical smell that can be associated with memory foam beds. I have to say, once we opened the box, and cut open the plastic I did not immediately notice a chemical smell of any kind. After we finished unpacking it and set it up to expand on our bed frame, we shut the door and left it alone for a few hours. When I went back into the bedroom hours later, I did notice the smell for the first time, but by no means was it intolerable. It does smell a little bit chemical, but it's not a strong-fumes type of chemical smell, like that of kitchen & bathroom cleaners, bleach, etc. It isn't anywhere near that strong or that potent. After more than a week of use, I'd say the smell is completely gone now, but it didn't really bother us in the first place.

Comfort Level:
It is definitely a firm mattress, but not uncomfortably so. When I first sat on it, I began to immediately wonder if it was too firm. However, before I could really finish that thought I realized I was slowly sort-of melting into it and the material was conforming to me. There's no "push-back" feeling like spring-coiled mattresses, which is what we had before. Also it's much more dense than cheaper generic "their brand" versions found in locally-owned-type mattress stores. My parents have one of those types, a generic brand of memory foam mattress, that's essentially a giant magic-eraser-feeling sponge (and as light as one too). Hers is semi-comfortable, but is still nothing compared to this Dynasty mattress, and the cost difference between the two isn't even that extreme - probably only $150-$200. Considering this mattress was about $440, the extra money is WELL WORTH it.

Temperature:
Neither my husband nor I have found that we get hot during the night on this mattress. It was a concern of ours, since the mattress material isn't made up of natural materials and we assumed it wouldn't "breathe" well. However, the cooling technology they've infused in this model seems to really be worth it. My husband always goes to bed feeling hot, and I always go to bed feeling cold, so I was more concerned about him getting hot during the night. So far that has not been an issue for either of us.

Included Pillows:
We both have tried using them. They are comfortable for generic use, like if you want to use it on the couch for extra support (because they are both pretty firm), but for sleeping on it at night, I don't think either of us like them very much. They were free, so we aren't complaining about them really. It's always good to have extra pillows around the house for guests and memory foam pillows aren't that cheap, generally. These are maybe too dense, and maybe even too thick, as I've found when I have tried using it at night, my head is angled upward when laying my head on it. It's not necessarily uncomfortable --I've used worse pillows-- but it's not as good as the memory foam pillows we already had, with cooling gel pockets on one side.

Those are all of the things I wanted to know before making our purchase. Hopefully my information helps some of you potential buyers out there who are looking at this mattress. My husband did find this mattress brand is rated highly all over various mattress rating sites (not just on Amazon). We really couldn't be any happier with it!!

I've had this mattress for about a month now, and I really do love it! It's so much better than my old pillow top mattress, and I haven't been waking up with back pain anymore! I have a lot of trouble sleeping, to the point where I would actually dread going to bed because I knew it would mean a night of tossing and turning, not really sleeping well at all, and waking up with pain and numbness. Since switching from a pillow top to memory foam, almost all those areas are gone! I sleep better, wake up refreshed, and have no more back pain and less numbness in my hands. In fact, my boyfriend even told me I've been in such a deep sleep lately that when he goes to bed after me he can't wake me up enough to have me move over! That's saying a lot for someone with such severe sleep problems that any tiny noise used to wake me up!

Before ordering this mattress, my boyfriend and I went to a mattress store and tried out all kinds of mattresses, from standard spring (blah), pillow tops (ouch), tempurpedic (hated how it felt like you were setting in cement), standard memory foam (nice), and cool gel memory foam (amazing!).

Our favorite was the coolsense memory foam mattress by Sealy Posturepedic, but it would set us back over $2k, and we didn't have that. So we searched online for something similar: a queen sized memory foam mattress with cool gel foam, and this one came back as the closest match with the best reviews for about a quarter of the price of the Sealy!

After sleeping on the Dynasty Cool Breeze for a month, I noticed a huge difference between this mattress and my old KingKoil pillow top: I sleep better (I used to toss and turn all night on the pillow top), and I wake up without back pain! I used to wake up all stiff and sore after (restlessly) sleeping on my pillow top. So, HUGE improvement there! However, this memory foam mattress is definitely FIRM. Not, however, like the tempurpedic, where it's hard as a rock when you get on it and your body slowly sinks into the mattress like you're setting into in wet cement, but just on the firmer side. I do wish it was a little bit softer, but it's still comfy. Though I should note that my boyfriend doesn't think it's too hard. He thinks it's perfect!

It's summer, and we're in a heat wave, and I still sleep with a light quilt at night and haven't overheated at all, and I hear most memory foam mattresses trap body heat, which we definitely didn't want! However, it isn't as cool as the Sealy CoolSense, which felt instantly cool the moment you lay down on it. But, again, I didn't have an issue with overheating, so I'm happy with it.

The pillows I didn't like at all. I'm a stomach sleeper, and they're just too firm and too thick for me, and not a pillow you can cuddle with. My boyfriend loves them though. He sleeps on his side, and he loves how cool they feel under his head. So, personal preference on those I suppose.

Sorry for the lengthy review, but hope it helped! In a nutshell, I love this mattress! It's a comfortable mattress with a gorgeous cover for a very reasonable price! I would definitely recommend this product :)

I would suggest that everyone who has purchased one of these mattresses to take the time to unzip the cover and look at the foam layers included. I ordered two 12" XL Twins for our use at home with a new split-king adjustable bed sourced elsewhere. The mattresses delivered to our home are far different from those described in this offer. Instead of four distinct layers of foams, ours have only rwo. Our mattresses DO NOT INCLUDE the "two 2" state of the art foam layers". Instead we got 3" of blue foam (assumed to be gel) and 9" of base foam. The nine inch layer does have some cut outs that look like they are intended to assist the mattress if intended for use on an adjustable bed. None the less, we are dissapointed to discover this obvious attempt to defraud us with a substantially different product than the one ordered. So far attempts to reach Dynasty for resolution have fallen on deaf ears. Buyer beware!!!!

Had it for 2 years and LOVE IT! We DID wonder WHY there was a hump in the middle that just didn't seem to go away, and today I decided to find out why, and lifted it to flip up, and discovered that it CAME WITH TWO PILLOWS WE NEVER KNEW WERE THERE!! They had partially expanded, and were causing the hump!

Other than that, we love the firmness, and have witnesses NO CHANGE in the mattress after having owned it for two years. It keeps ius cool at night, and was the ONLY way I could get comfortable when I broke a few ribs riding a bike earlier this year. Love it and would absolutely purchase it again.