Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe Mattress Overview
The Aurora Luxe mattress from Brooklyn Bedding is widely regarded as one of the best cooling mattresses available online. It combines multiple technologies that make for a bed that’s cool-to-the-touch and stays cool throughout the night. Our Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe mattress reviews go over everything you need to know about this mattress.
The Aurora Luxe mattress from Brooklyn Bedding has a specific target audience, and that’s hot sleepers looking for cooling relief at night. If you haven’t found the right solution, an actively cooling mattress like this might be what you need to get a more comfortable night’s sleep. It’s available in several different firmness levels and has a hybrid construction, making it accommodating for a wide range of sleepers and body types.
How Does the Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe Mattress Feel?
This mattress has a soft neutral-foam feel, but the coil layer gives it a bit of that bounce that you may be used to.
You aren’t going to feel stuck in this mattress at all. The memory foam in this mattress isn’t enough to create that sink-in, stuck-in-the-mud feeling.
The Aurora’s Luxe responsiveness is fast, meaning it’s quick to bounce back into shape. Quick responsiveness is what allows you to switch positions with little effort. It’s also what prevents you from leaving a dip or indent behind when you turn over.
Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe Construction And Design
There are two basic types of beds that you’ll see out there: hybrid or coil mattresses and entirely foam mattresses.
The Aurora Luxe is a hybrid mattress that incorporates pocketed coils, proprietary foam and Energex foam. Specifically, the mattress has five layers:
- Base layer — 1” layer of high-density foam to improve the bed’s durability and to give the coils a good foundation
- Coil layer — 8” layer of zoned support pocketed coils, which provide targeted support for all body types
- Visco-Elastic memory foam — 1” of a proprietary memory-type foam for more cushion and support
- TitanFlex foam — 2” of a proprietary foam for added comfort
- CopperFlex foam — 1.5” of proprietary CopperFlex foam with cooling properties. This layer is for pressure relief and temperature regulation
Aurora Luxe Cooling Mattress Cover
The cover on the Brooklyn Aurora Luxe really plays into the bed’s notable temperature regulation. It’s a soft, smooth Euro-top cover that incorporates a phase change technology to actively cool you down. The company says the bed will cool you down to 88° F, but we can’t vouch for that exact number. We will say that this is a decidedly cool-sleeping bed, though. The cover is cool to the touch.
This cover is not removable and therefore not machine washable. If, for some reason, you find it necessary to clean the cover or the mattress, please refer to our guide on how to clean a mattress.
New Cloud Pillow Top
Brooklyn Bedding recently added a pillow top option to the Aurora Luxe mattress. Designed with dual foam layers, the cloud pillow top is supposed to add extra body contouring, which is great for pressure relief if you often find your shoulders, hips and knees aching at night. And of course, it still features Aurora’s signature cooling technology that will keep you cool all night long.
Body Type Analysis
Aurora Luxe Mattress Sleeper Analysis
How a bed feels will depend on several factors, including your sleeping position and weight. We based our Brooklyn bedding Aurora Luxe reviews on the average-sized body, but we also consider how petite and heavy sleepers will feel.
Is The Aurora Luxe Mattress Good For Couples?
Edge support and motion isolation are two factors that are especially important for couples to consider. You want both partners to get a good night’s sleep.
Edge Support
The Aurora Luxe bed has average edge support, at least for the softer models. You don’t get an overwhelming roll-off feeling around the edges of the bed, but we’ve also felt better. The heavier you are, the more edge support matters—petite folks won’t have any issue with the Aurora’s edges. The firmer model will also be better for edge support.
Motion Isolation
Motion isolation is also important for couples because it’s what prevents your partner from waking up every time you turn over or get up during the night. The Aurora Luxe performs decently well in this category—not the best we’ve ever seen, but we’re not complaining either.
What Does the Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe Cost?
If you’re shopping for a mattress, you’re already expecting to do some moderate-to-heavy spending. If you’re set on keeping to the moderate side of that range, the pricing on the Brooklyn Aurora Luxe will probably make you wince.
You can check out the breakdown of prices in the table below. We wouldn’t consider it expensive for what you’re getting, but we’ve certainly come across cheaper budget mattresses out there. Note that adding on the Cloud Pillow Top will add around $400 to the base price.
| Size | Price (MSRP) |
|---|---|
| Twin | $999 |
| Twin XL | $1,232 |
| Full | $1,599 |
| Queen | $1,865 |
| King / Cal King | $2,265 |
Brooklyn Bedding does run specials during major holidays—you can check BrooklynBedding.com for current offers and discounts. We also should have a coupon on this page to save you a few hundred bucks on the Aurora Luxe mattress.
Is the Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe Mattress Worth It?
Overall, the Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe is a comfortable mattress with some unique qualities. It’s available in three firmness options, which gives you some flexibility in terms of finding what fits your body best. And because this is one of the coolest sleeping beds out there, it’s ideal for those who get too hot while they sleep.
Other Brooklyn Bedding Reviews
- Brooklyn Bedding Signature Hybrid
- Brooklyn Bedding Titan Plus Luxe
- Brooklyn Bedding Spartan
- Brooklyn Bedding Weighted Blanket
- Brooklyn Bedding Pillows
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Brooklyn Bedding Company Policies
The bed-in-a-box industry has some consistent standard policies. In most cases, the company will offer free shipping, a 100-night risk-free trial period, free returns with a full refund or a 10-year warranty if you keep the mattress. Brooklyn Bedding’s policies are mostly standard. When you buy from Brooklyn, you get:
- Free shipping
- 120-night trial period
- Free return and full refund during trial period
- 10-year warranty
Some companies offer white-glove delivery as an option, but Brooklyn does not. Brooklyn Aurora Luxe shows up in a box, much like any other online mattress that we’ve reviewed.
Once you’ve unboxed the Aurora Luxe mattress:
- Leave it laying flat. Do not lean it up against a wall or the layers will become disjointed.
- Allow it a few hours to take its final shape and off-gas (if necessary).
After you do these steps, you’re ready to start enjoying your new bed.
Brooklyn Aurora Luxe Mattress vs. Other Brands
If you’re not sure which bed is right for here, here are some comparisons of other popular bed-in-a-box brands.
Brooklyn AuroraLuxe vs. Purple
In the world of cool-sleeping beds, the AuroraLuxe and Purple are top dogs—especially when you look at the New Purple mattresses (2, 3, 4). While AuroraLuxe will actively work to cool you down through its foams and cover, Purple is all about circulating airflow. Rather than use foams in the top layers, Purple has a grid of Hyper-Elastic Polymer that has little pockets of air that don’t heat up like foams tend to do. The comparison here comes down to an active-cooling bed versus an airflow bed. Do you want a bed that tries to cool you down (Aurora) or one that doesn’t itself heat up (Purple).
Brooklyn AuroraLuxe vs. Casper
Casper is a foam mattress and the Aurora Luxe is a cooling hybrid bed. With Casper, you’ll have more of a soft foam type feel, while Aurora has more of an innerspring feel. AuroraLuxe is the better mattress for heavier individuals because of its support coils, but Casper is the better mattress for college students, guest rooms, RV/Camper, budget shoppers and so on because it’s more affordable. One thing that is interesting with this comparison is that Casper sort of fills the void in terms of firmness that the AuroraLuxe doesn’t offer. The soft and medium models of the Aurora skew softer, and the firm model, firmer. Casper is right in the middle at about a true medium.
Brooklyn AuroraLuxevs. Tempur-Pedic
The new Tempur-Pedic TEMPUR mattresses come in both a coil and all-foam version. Either way, though, they have a dense and deep memory foam feel. They offer a good deal of pressure relief—particularly if you get the softer models—but they feel nothing like the AuroraLuxe. This decision comes down to whether you want a memory foam bed (Tempur-Pedic) or a coil, cooling bed (AuroraLuxe). Despite the fact that the Tempur-Pedic beds have a cooling cover, we would give the edge for hot sleepers to the AuroraLuxe.
Brooklyn AuroraLuxe vs. GhostBed
Similar to Casper and Leesa, GhostBed is a foam mattress that has more of a neutral overall feel with a twist. It has a layer of latex foam on top, which offers more support than your typical polyfoam. If you press on that layer, you can feel that it’s responsive and not quite as pressure-relieving as other foams. In terms of how it compares to AuroraLuxe, however, the story is similar to what you read above—foam bed vs. cooling hybrid bed. GhostBed is more affordable than the AuroraLuxe. You can check our mattress deals page to see the current deals we’ve spotted for GhostBed and other mattresses.
How We Test Mattresses
My Slumber Yard has been around since the beginning of the bed in a box craze. Our team has personally tested and reviewed over 175 mattresses so far, and we keep more than 150 beds in our office so we can compare them (and take afternoon naps).
When testing mattresses, we evaluate the following factors:
- Construction: We cut beds open to see what’s inside and how it’s made.
- Feel: We check if it has a stuck-in-the-mud memory foam feel, or if it’s more of a neutral foam or a plush pillow top, etc.
- Firmness: We have our own firmness scale and evaluate how that may vary depending on your body and sleeper type.
- Pressure relief: We test what’s the sweet spot for different body and sleeper types.
- Support: How that changes by body/sleeper type
- Edge Support: This is important for couples who share a bed. Would you roll out of the bed, or can you sleep confidently close to the edges?
- Motion Isolation: We use the water glass test to see how the bed fares with motion transfer. This is another important factor for couples who don’t want to wake up when they move.
- Temperature Regulation: We use a temperature gun to evaluate if the bed warms up, stays neutral or actively cools while you sleep.
- Noise: This could be an issue in beds with coils or innerspring.
- Off-Gassing: Some beds could have a smell for a few weeks after unpacking, and we try to warn you about it.
- Company policies: We also take into account policies such as shipping, returns, trial period and warranty.
- Value: We look at a bed’s price in the context of what it offers in terms of features and quality of materials and construction.
We were sent this bed from Brooklyn Bedding to post a review. We were not paid to say good or bad things about it. This review was produced completely independently from Brooklyn Bedding (and every other brand).
No, you don’t need to flip this bed. In fact, you shouldn’t. The layers of the mattress are constructed in a specific order, from base to top. You can, however, rotate the bed every six to eight months.
Generally, it takes 30-45 days to break in a bed. In that time, the mattress will have softened up some. 30-45 days is also about the time it takes for your body to fully adjust to a new sleeping surface.
Like almost any new mattress, there’s a new-mattress smell. Even the natural and organic beds have a fresh-out-of-the-box smell, though it’s admittedly less pungent than the usual chemical off-gassing. The Aurora Luxe does have an off-gassing period. The website says 24 hours, but in our (ample) experience with new bed-in-a-box mattresses, it’s more like two days.
Yes, but you won’t get free shipping. Shipping to Hawaii or Alaska starts at $250 per mattress. Brooklyn also ships to Canada now. Shipping to Canada starts at $100 per mattress.
It is made in Phoenix, Arizona.
There are multiple firmness levels, ranging from soft to firm.
Yes. This is an innerspring mattress that features pocketed coils.
Yes. This is one of our favorite cooling mattresses. It even has a cool-to-the-touch cover.
The mattress was designed with cooling in mind and the combination of the pocketed coils (which are great for airflow), Copper Gel Energex Foam and phase-change cover makes the mattress feel cool to the touch.
Both the medium and soft options will be good for side sleepers.
Because the mattress is on the softer side we find that it can accommodate heavier sleepers only if they are strictly side sleepers, and most likely only if they choose the firm option. The medium option could work for some as well, but most heavier people will find the medium to be too soft.
Brooklyn Bedding has discount codes for military, first responders, educators, medical personnel and students. The company runs sales around holidays and special events.