Nest Quail Mattress Review

Shipping, Returns & Warranty For This Bed

Nest Bedding is one of the more popular online mattress brands. They make numerous beds, but Quail (formerly known as Love & Sleep) is their budget mattress that’s designed to compete head-to-head with Tuft & Needle, Tulo, and a few others.

Like pretty much every other online mattress, Quail ships for free and is rolled up and compressed in a cardboard box. From there, all you do is cart the box inside and remove all of the packaging. The unboxing process is easy and actually pretty fun. Be sure to let your mattress decompress and air out for about 24-48 hours before sleeping on it.

From date of delivery, Nest gives you a 365-night trial period to test out the mattress and see if it’s the best bed for you. Remember, it can take your body several weeks to adjust to the new mattress. If you decide that this isn’t the best bed for you and you don’t want to keep it, simply contact Nest Bedding for a complete refund and return. They will also send someone to retrieve your mattress, then remove it and try to donate it to a local charity in need—all for free.

Also, if you ever have any questions about the Love & Sleep bed or any other Nest mattress, you can call the number 1-888-992-2001. This is the company’s customer support line. Nest Bedding employs a staff of individuals to answer consumer questions and help them decide which mattress best suits their needs. If you decide to go the phone route, be sure to mention the code SY10 for 10% off your purchase.

Quail Price And Coupon Code

While we wouldn’t consider Quail a luxury mattress, it’s clearly built to a higher standard than a lot of Amazon mattresses, for example. Not only is it manufactured in the United States, but it’s also thicker than a lot of foam beds (more on that below). We mention this because it’s all part of the reason that we think Quail is a really nice value. Here’s a pricing breakdown before you apply any discounts.

Inside The Quail Foam Mattress

Quail is an 10-11″ mattress made entirely of foam. For the record, most all-foam beds are in the 9-10″ range. A few examples used to include Casper Element and Leesa.

Quial starts with dense polyurethane foam, which acts as the foundation for the mattress. Next is a transition layer and then Energex foam, which sort of has the pressure relief of memory foam, but is a lot more responsive and doesn’t trap heat as much.

All of the foams are made in the USA and are CertiPUR-US certified, which means they’ve been tested by a credible 3rd party for any known harmful chemicals. Nest Bedding mattresses do not contain any flame retardant chemicals. Instead, they use hydrated silica as a fire barrier, which protects the entire mattress. In the event of a fire, this barrier melts onto itself and suffocates the oxygen needed for fire to burn.

The Quail mattress has also earned a Greenguard Gold Certification and NAAPA (National Association of Academic Psychiatric Administrators) Award.

Quial has a soft cover that incorporates a phase-change material, which helps with temperature regulation (more on this below).

The cover is made of polyester-cotton blend material, and has a nice wavy pattern on it. It is non-removable, so if you have any accidents, just spot clean with some mild soap and warm water.

Overall, we like the cover on the Quail mattress, but it does tend to snag easily. If you look closely in the image above, you can see the lint and snags. It’s not a big deal, but we thought it was worth mentioning since we haven’t really experienced this with many other mattresses.

Firmness Options For The Quail Mattress

Unlike a lot of bed-in-a-box mattresses, Quail is available in two different firmness levels: Medium and Firm. The Medium option is, unsurprisingly, in between a medium and medium-firm on the soft-to-firm spectrum. The Firm option is closer to a proper medium-firm.

As for overall feel of the bed, it’s pretty neutral, but still very comfortable. It doesn’t feel like a memory foam mattress or a latex mattress. Rather, it just feels like a giant slab of softer foam. In other words, it has no distinct feel the way so many of these budget mattresses do.

It also responds quickly to pressure being applied and removed. This is important because it indicates that switching sleeping positions on the bed will take very little effort. A lot of memory foam beds will hold their shape and therefore require you to exert more energy to switch from your back to your side, for example. This can leave you feeling restless. The good news is Love & Sleep is highly responsive, so rotating positions shouldn’t be an issue for you at all.

Will Back/Stomach Sleepers Like It?

The Quail mattress is great for back and stomach sleepers. This is because it’s on the firmer side (especially if you opt for the Firm version), which helps to keep the spine in neutral alignment.

Keep in mind that softness/firmness is relative to your weight. The heavier an individual is, the more they sink into the mattress, so the softer the bed feels. The lighter an individual is, the more they lay on top of the mattress, making it feel firmer.

Thoughts On Side Sleepers And Combo Sleepers

Quail is just fine for combo sleepers, especially if they stay predominantly on their back or stomach. Because the bed is so responsive, as mentioned previously, moving around is effortless.

We can’t recommend Love & Sleep to strict side sleepers. It just doesn’t offer enough pressure relief under your shoulders and hips. To be fair, though, for anyone in the 250 lb zone, Love & Sleep will likely work if you plan to sleep on your side, it just wouldn’t be our first choice. If you’re a strict side sleeper, make sure to check out our Best Mattress for Side Sleepers list.

Is Nest Bedding Love & Sleep Good for Heavier People?

Eh, not really. In general, we only recommend heavy people look into hybrid/coil mattresses, as these tend to provide more long term support. That’s not a knock on Quail—it will certainly work for the right person. It’s just not a mattress for heavy people. It is designed for individuals weighing under 250 lb. If that’s you, Love & Sleep should be A-OK.

Nest actually does make several other mattresses that we would recommend for heavy people, however. These include the Nest Owl, Nest Sparrow, and others.

Sleeping Temperature For This Bed

We’d call it more temperature neutral. They have the “Thermic Phase Change Cooling Fabric” in their cover, which helps to dissipate body heat through the mattress. We think it works well enough to keep you from heating up excessively, but not enough to actually make it a cooling mattress.

Is It A Good Mattress for Couples?

Overall, we’d say this is a good bed for couples. The edge support is pretty good on this bed. This means when you and your partner share a full size bed and you’re constantly fighting over who gets to hog the middle, the other isn’t falling off the side onto the floor because the edge of the mattress can’t support them.

The other reason that we say Quail is suitable for couples is that it’s fairly good at isolating motion. As you can see below, in our very scientific test, motion does transfer through the mattress, but not enough that we worry about light sleepers using this mattress.

Our Final Thoughts On Nest Quail

This is a solid mattress for the money, and the name is pretty fantastic, too. We’d specifically recommend this bed for back, stomach, and combination sleepers that want a neutral-feeling bed. If you’re working with a limited budget, Quail is one of the better options out there. It might win outright on price, but it has a lot going for it.

Nest Quail Competitors

Tuft & Needle — This is the bed that Quail reminds us of most, however, there are some notable differences. For instance, Tuft & Needle is more affordable (typically) by about $50, give or take. Quail comes in multiple firmness options, has the lifetime warranty, and clocks in at just over 10″ thick. We can’t tell you what to do, but we can tell you that this will be a difficult decision to make.

Tulo — While they might not feel the same, they feel similar, though, Tulo has a little memory foam thrown in, while Quail is as neutral as it gets. Both are offered in multiple firmness levels and both are good options for medium and petite size individuals. One difference we can note is that Tulo has the soft option, which is the softest bed out of the five (3 for Tulo and 2 for Nest Bedding). That said, we have not seen hardly any other beds that have a lifetime warranty and are sold at the price point of the Love & Sleep mattress.

Casper Element — This is the entry level foam bed from Casper, the most popular bed-in-a-box brand online. The obvious thing to point out between these two is the Casper Element is actually more affordable—even after discount—than Quail, given that the Element has an MSRP of $600 for the queen size mattress.

Lucid Gel Memory Foam —This is what we would consider a truly cheap mattress. It’s only constructed with two layers and has a bland cover. It also is made in China, while the three beds above—and Quail—are all made in the United States. That said, it actually is offered in multiple firmness levels and thicknesses and is one of the best-selling mattresses on Amazon. If you want a true memory foam feel, that’s certainly what the Lucid Gel Memory Foam Mattress offers.

Tomorrow Sleep Memory Foam — There are two beds available from Tomorrow Sleep: an all-foam version and a hybrid version. In this section we’re speaking about the all-foam model. It’s the most affordable of the two and has a memory foam feel. Really, the only reason it’s a competitor to Quail is the price—it’s a budget bed as well.

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  McKenzie Dillon

  Combo Sleeper

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  Tharon Green

  Stomach Sleeper

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  Wesley Ott

  Combo Sleeper

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  Lauren Thomas

  Stomach Sleeper