Nest Alexander Mattress Review (Signature Series)

Nest Bedding Policies: Shipping, Returns, & More

If you buy a mattress online you should expect four things at minimum. The first thing is free shipping. Some brands ship their mattress inside a box via FedEx or UPS, others use white glove delivery through regional carriers.

Nest Bedding does both. By default, they offer free shipping via FedEx with all of their mattresses. The entire process takes about a week, which is actually remarkably quick considering they’re shipping an entire mattress to you. As you might have expected, the mattress will show up compressed inside of a box.

If you want white glove delivery, you can request it, but it costs more since it’s more expensive to use a regional delivery firm than it is to use FedEx. White glove delivery basically means that someone will not only deliver the bed to your house, but will also set it up for you, remove the packaging, and sometimes even dispose of your old mattress. You can check Nest’s website for more details regarding white glove delivery.

The second thing that you’ll get with any bed-in-a-box mattress is a trial period. After all, how are you supposed to say yay or nay if you haven’t felt, seen, or even laid on the mattress before?

Like Leesa, Tuft & Needle, and a lot of the other mattresses we’ve reviewed, the Nest Alexander Signature Series comes with a 100-night trial period. There is a little wrinkle that you should be aware of, though. For the record, this is not uncommon. Nest requires that you test out the bed for at least 30 nights before you request a return. After the first month, you can exchange or return the bed for free. They will even send an individual to your house to pick up the bed, and that is at no extra cost to you.

If you’re happy with the Alexander Signature Series and want to keep it, Nest backs this mattress, and all of their beds, with a lifetime warranty.

They also offer a lifetime comfort guarantee, which serves as extra protection against buyer’s remorse. Nest basically says that you can buy a new mattress at a discounted rate if—at any point after the trial period—you’re not happy with your current Nest mattress. So, if you want a firmer or softer bed, you can get one. If you want a king size, but you currently have a queen size, you can get one. It’s a pretty neat policy and, to my knowledge, we’ve really only seen one other company (that being WinkBed) that also offers the comfort guarantee.

Nest Alexander Price & Coupon Code

If price is your only concern, this mattress isn’t for you. We think it’s a nice value, but it’s not the cheapest bed on the market. And that’s where I lost 95% of the college students. Here’s a pricing breakdown for the Alexander Signature Series mattress.

One interesting thing about Nest is that even though they’re a premium, luxury brand, they still offer discounts fairly regularly. They’re not like Saatva or Purple that outright refuse to offer mattress coupons or deals. As such—and as you might have guessed—they offer their best deals during major US holidays. Usually during these big sales events (July 4th, Black Friday, etc.) they’ll give a discount plus throw in sheets or a pillow. You click here to see current offers on Nest’s website. We also should have an evergreen coupon on this page that will work year-round for you.

Construction of the Nest Alexander Mattress

This bed has four layers of foam and measures 12.5” thick in total. The bottom is a dense layer of support foam. Next is a transition layer of SmartFlow Foam. And on top is 4” of memory foam (1.5” of standard memory foam and 2.5” of gel memory foam). The cover is a softer material and is quilted, which gives it a premium, I-can’t-wait-lay-on-this-bed look.

All of the foams are CertiPUR-US certified, which, in a nutshell, means they’re safe to be around and lay on. This particular mattress is made in Phoenix, AZ at the same facility where Brooklyn Bedding mattresses are manufactured.

To be honest, the bed does actually look a cut above most memory foam beds, especially the cheap ones like Lucid or Cocoon Classic. It has the quilted cover, stitched perimeter, handles, and little details that a lot of other beds will omit. The Nest Alexander really does belong in that upper tier with the Simmons Beautyrest Black and other beds that typically over $2,000.

How the Bed Feels

Since this is a memory foam mattress, naturally, it feels like memory foam. It has more of a soft, yet supportive feel to it, although you definitely can tell that you’re sleeping on memory foam.

You end up sleeping more on top of the bed, and eventually the foams contour to the shape of your body; this gives you a slight stuck-in-the-mud feeling. It’s not overwhelming, but it does take a little extra effort to wiggle around on this bed. We find it comfortable, but to each their own.

As you can see, the bed doesn’t immediately respond to pressure. This is just a characteristic of memory foam—it remembers your shape (hence the name).

How Firm is the Nest Alexander Mattress?

This depends on which firmness level you select. The Alexander mattress comes in a Medium and Luxury Firm, so that you can choose whichever you think is better for you. Here’s a breakdown of where we think the Alexander mattress falls on the soft/firm spectrum.

The vast majority of people will prefer the Medium option. It will be more universally accommodating, but if you want a firm memory foam bed, the Luxury Firm is the better way to go.

Softness/firmness also fluctuates person to person, which is why we show it on a spectrum. The heavier you are, the softer beds will feel. Conversely, the lighter you are, the firmer beds will feel.

Back & Stomach Sleepers

You should be just fine with this bed if you’re a strict back or stomach sleeper. The memory foam does a nice job of filling the space under the small of your back.

The foam contours to the shape of your body, but doesn’t give so much that you feel unsupported. Now, if you’re really concerned with keeping a neutral spine you might consider the Luxury Firm version to the Medium one, but we think for most average and petite sized people, either model will do.

Side Sleepers

Side sleepers will definitely want to stick to the Medium version. That offers a lot more pressure relief and will be more comfortable for you.

A mattress for side sleepers needs enough pressure relief that you don’t experience pain in your shoulders or hips when you wake up in the morning. It still has to be supportive, though, so you’re looking for a nice balance there—which we think this mattress has.

Also, it’s important to keep in mind that all mattresses will soften over time. As such, if you first experience the Medium version to be too firm, rest assured that it will soften, so don’t jump the gun making your final decision.

What if You Rotate Positions at Night?

This is what we call a combo sleeper. Typically, combo sleepers will have a dominant sleeping position, so choosing a mattress is mostly about catering to that dominant position.

If you’re 80% a side sleeper, you’ll want a softer bed and therefore the Medium version makes more sense. If you’re 80% a back sleeper, you’ll want to first look at the Luxury Firm.

Of course, this is all relative. If you’re 80% a back sleeper, but you weigh 100 lb (like Slumber Yard team member Kaite Kale), the Medium option is the way to go. So just know that you need to do a little internal calculus before you crown a winner.

Another thing that’s key for combo sleepers is responsiveness. This bed is a little bit slower to respond (better than a lot of memory foam beds, but not the best). This makes switching sleeping positions slightly more difficult and just requires that you invest more energy to rotate from your back to your stomach, for example.

For most people, it won’t be a big deal, but if you’re a really light sleeper, you might find that the slower response times make you feel more restless. If this is the case, we’d say check out the Nest Alexander Hybrid mattress, which incorporates coils and is highly responsive.

Heavy People

In general, we do not recommend individuals over 250 lb go with all-foam beds, especially the budget ones like Tuft & Needle or Casper Essential. They simply do not have the support that a heavier person requires. With the Nest Alexander Signature Series, however, our rule falls apart a little bit. It’s more of a proceed-with-caution situation.

It’s not our favorite mattress for obese or heavy people, but at 12.5” thick it is a much better alternative than a lot of beds. One mattress that Nest makes that we actually quite like for heavier people is their Hybrid Latex mattress, which combines durable/resilient latex foam with steel coils.

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Hot Sleepers

Despite the fact that Nest Bedding uses a phase-change material in the cover of this mattress, the bed sleeps overall more neutral now that they’ve made some upgrades in the past few years. It is important to note that temperature regulation isn’t just affected by the materials of the bed—there are other factors at play as well.

The firmness level is an important element that is often overlooked. The firmer the bed, the cooler you’ll sleep because you will stay more on top of it versus sink into it. All this is to say that Nest Alexander is not the best cooling mattress, but you can’t outright claim that it sleeps hot. Let’s put it this way: if you told us that you wake up sweating in the middle of the night and wanted a cool-sleeping bed, we would not direct you to this mattress.

Edge Support

A little known, but important, factor to consider when getting a new mattress is edge support. If your mattress is soft and unsupportive along the edges, there’s a chance that it will leave you feeling as if you’re about to roll off of the bed.

If it’s just you sleeping on the mattress, edge support isn’t much of a problem since you have the entire bed to sprawl out on. But if you’re sharing your mattress, that’s where edge support becomes worth investigating more closely. On a smaller size mattress such as a queen or full, the available sleeping surface is limited. As such, you’ll want to be able to use the entire mattress, even the edges, to sleep on.

Luckily, Nest Alexander has really good edge support for an all-foam mattress. It’s not as great as the Stearns & Foster Estate mattress, but it’s not the worst we’ve tested.

Motion Transfer

This will be more important for couples, particularly if one partner is a light sleeper. Fortunately, a lot of these modern mattresses are surprisingly good at limiting motion transfer. And since Nest Alexander uses a good amount of memory foam, it’s highly efficient at isolating motion.

Nest Alexander Mattress Review: Verdict

If you want a luxury memory foam mattress, it truly is hard to do any better than Nest Alexander. It really is a nice blend of a number of factors. It’s durable, comfortable, well made, and comes in multiple firmness levels. It’s not for everyone, but we think there will be quite a few people that will love this mattress.