Honest Review: Eight Sleep - The Honest Tester
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✍️ The Pitch // Hi-tech mattresses and sleep accessories to visibly improve your sleep
🙎♀️ Founded By // Matteo Franceschetti, Massimo Andreasi Bassi, Andrea Ballarini, and Alexandra Zatarain
📆 Launch // October 2014
📍 Location // New York
💰 Price // $2,995-3,995 for the Pod 3 mattress, $2,295 for the Pod Cover (discounts for both below!)
💤 Category // Sleep Fitness
🖥 Shop // Online at www.eightsleep.com
🥊 Competitors // Sleep Number, Casper, Tempur-Pedic
I was drawn to Eight Sleep, despite its high price tag, because of the temperature setting feature. I run hot and my husband runs cold at night, which means I was often waking up in a sweat while he was bundled up in blankets. We decided that including the app, sleep insights and wake-up features were enough to justify the cost. After asking a few friends for their Eight Sleep reviews, we decided to take the plunge and purchase the mattress as our Christmas gift to ourselves. We bought the Pod 2 Mattress (this was before the Pod 3 came out) in a King Size (our first upgrade from a Queen, never going back!) in December 2021 for $3,195 after a $200 discount — I’m sharing a code with you at the bottom of this post to get the same!
It works. That’s all you can ask for, really. We each set our sides to different temperatures throughout the night and sleep soundly throughout. Neither of us wakes up because we’re too hot or too cold which is honestly a blessing.
The mattress has become the star of our home! Everyone who visits tries out the mattress and raves about it afterwards. They get the best sleep of their lives!
I love the sleep insights each morning. The app gives you a rating for how well you slept that night and you can input factors that contributed — such as alcohol, exercise, working late, etc — so it can spot trends over time. For the first few months we tracked this religiously, now it’s a nice-to-have.
Like most mattress companies, they have a 100 day return policy. It’s a great way to not feel pressured into keeping such a large and important purchase if it truly doesn’t work for you.
This is definitely a big purchase that you can’t make lightly. Eight Sleep offers financing options to ease the one-time burden which I really appreciate.
The app is helpful, but buggy. I keep getting logged out and struggle to log in, which is super annoying when it’s late, you’re tired and you want to lower or raise your bed’s temperature only to be met with a frustrating log in scenario.
I wasn’t aware of this beforehand, but the mattress comes with what looks like an old-school computer that needs to be plugged in to an outlet and sit close to the mattress. You refill this with water every 6-9 months (the app alerts you). It’s not difficult to deal with at all, but something to note if you don’t have much space or an outlet near your bed.
I wasn’t able to use the sleep insights for a long time because I was pregnant and the app weirdly doesn’t have a factor for pregnancy! If you or a partner has been pregnant, you know that it interferes with your sleep a lot. My insights were pretty useless during this time and my first few months postpartum because I was up every 3-4 hours.
I really didn’t expect to like the mattress enough for how much it is, but it’s truly changed our sleep quality for the better. For that alone, it’s worth it. You spend almost half of your life in your bed, and especially as we get older, quality sleep is so so important. We expect to keep this mattress for many more years, so it’s worth the investment!
It’s interesting to me that Eight Sleep is mostly sold online. For the price and commitment they need from customers (you only purchase mattresses a few times in your lifetime), I’d expect more explanatory videos talking about the benefits of their products. I don’t believe they have the brand trust of Tesla to sell a luxury product entirely online, yet. It’s also interesting how they’ve expanded their product line. The Pod Cover is a really smart addition — you can add it on top of any mattress you already have — but the rest of their accessories are “dumb” sleep products like weighted blankets that you can purchase anywhere. If they want to be the sleep tech experts, I expect all of their products to have some sort of proprietary tech involved.
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