★★★★★

The Best Sleep I’ve Ever Had!!

“I bought this mattress because of positive reviews from family. The first night and every night since I’ve had the deepest and most restful sleeps I’ve ever had. I would recommend this mattress to everyone! I absolutely love it!”

-Tyler O., Verified Buyer
01/29/23

★★★★★

“Best sleep I have ever had. We stayed in an Airbnb and they had the mattress it was so nice we ordered one before even getting home.”

-Clifford K., Verified Buyer
03/11/23

★★★★★

“This is our first foam mattress and we couldn’t be happier. It allows for great sleeptime temperature regulation (not too hot, not too cold) and motion transfer is non-existent. We used to disturb one another a fair bit at night when we moved around – the difference with this mattress is pretty incredible. It’s firm, but manages to provide enough soft support to eliminate any pressure points.”

-Greg T., Verified Buyer
02/26/23

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Feel & Firmness

Rather than complicating the buying decision, all three Douglas mattresses were designed to be “medium-firm.” That means they are slightly on the firmer side, but they provide a bit more cushioning than you would expect from a firm mattress.

The third-party testing we commissioned confirmed this very fact. Each of the three Douglas mattresses was rated within three-tenths of a point of each other. The Douglas Alpine received a firmness rating of 6.1 / 10, which is right around where you would expect a medium-firm mattress to land on the firmness spectrum.

Medium-firm mattresses are a great choice for most Canadian sleepers. It tends to be the firmness that suits the widest range of body types and sleep styles. So if you are sharing a bed, are unsure of which firmness to choose, or are furnishing a guest room that several different sleepers will occupy over the years, a medium-firm mattress like the Douglas Alpine is the ideal choice.

Edge Support

Because they are primarily engineered to cushion pressure points and reduce motion transfer, foam mattresses are generally not known for their edge support. This might be an acceptable compromise for many mattress shoppers. Unless you spend a lot of time sitting along the edge of the mattress, or you have reduced mobility and require the extra support to help get out of bed, then robust edges are more of a luxury than a must-have feature.

Surprisingly, the Douglas Alpine earned a very solid edge support score, especially for an all-foam mattress. According to the third-party engineers we commission to test and rate every mattress we review, the Douglas Alpine earned an edge support rating of 6.8 / 10.

To put this score in context, Douglas Alpine has a better edge support rating than the Casper Original mattress (5.0).

Motion Isolation

In the mattress industry, no other brand rates better for motion isolation than Douglas. We have now tested and reviewed over 120 popular mattresses for motion isolation. Of all those mattresses, the three Douglas models – the Original, Alpine, and Summit – have earned three of the four best scores ever recorded, including the two top ratings.

With an 8.5 / 10 rating, the Douglas Alpine has earned the second-best motion isolation rating of any mattress we tested. Only its sister model, the Douglas Summit, has shown itself to be better at reducing motion transfer than the Alpine. If you are a light sleeper or you share your bed with a partner, you will want to seriously consider the Douglas Alpine for your next mattress.

Why is motion isolation so important?

Like how text messages and push notifications can disrupt your focus, movement along the bed’s surface can disturb your sleep. Sleep disturbances, even small ones, disrupt restorative deep sleep and REM cycles, replacing them with less-restorative light sleep. You may not even recognize the effects of fragmented sleep at first, but repeated over many nights, it can lead to chronic fatigue and sluggishness. A mattress with excellent motion isolation can help you feel rejuvenated and energetic during the day by prolonging your restorative sleep cycles by minimizing motion disturbances.

Bounce

Similar to firmness, how bouncy you want your mattress is mostly a matter of personal preference. While some sleepers enjoy more responsive mattresses that offer the body momentum in getting up and off the mattress, others may prefer a mattress that absorbs compression and neutralizes movement.

According to testing by third-party engineers (commissioned by us), the Douglas Alpine has a bounce rating of 3.6 / 10. This score is typical of an all-foam mattress. Reading into the numbers further, we can see that the Douglas Alpine has the solid base of support necessary to provide some bounce; however, the Alpine is more known for its cushioning feel that neutralizes movement.

Shoppers seeking a bouncier, more responsive style of mattress should check out our curated list of Best Hybrid Mattresses.

Douglas proudly promotes its use of eco-conscious materials. If you’re interested in sustainability, you’ll appreciate the company’s efforts to lower its carbon footprint across the entire manufacturing process.

The choice to develop and source environmentally conscious components doesn’t come at a sacrifice to quality. Douglas Alpine feels plush and supportive and delivers the comfort that people have come to expect from the top bed-in-a-box brands.

Douglas Mattress Layers

Like the other two Douglas mattresses, the Douglas Alpine is a combination foam mattress made up of three specialty foam layers.

• First layer: 2.25” of ecoLight® cooling gel foam + Polar® Temperature Balancing. Douglas’ proprietary cooling gel foam is lighter, more durable, and less carbon-intensive than conventional memory foams (as tested to ASTM D3574-I3 Procedure C, against 4lb memory foam). Because it is infused with cooling gel, this layer won’t retain heat and circulates air much more freely than the equivalent layers in some of Douglas’ top competitors.
  

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  The comfort of this layer is also enhanced with Polar® Temperature Balancing, a phase-change material, or “PCM,” that keeps the temperature of the mattress within a comfortable range. The PCM absorbs excess body heat during warm evenings, and releases the heat back to you during colder nights. Foam density: 2.5 lbs/ft³.

• Second layer: 2.25” of Elastex® foam. This transition layer provides spring and support. Many mattresses use latex for similar reasons. The synthetic Infinitex™ foam is free of the allergy-causing chemicals found in latex. Foam density: 1.85 lbs/ft³.

• Third layer: 6.5” Motion-Isolation foam. Lastly, more than half of Douglas’ height comes from the motion isolation support layer. The density of the foam almost eliminates all motion transfer, so you will sleep soundly, even if your bedmate tosses and turns all night long. Foam density: 1.85 lbs/ft³.

Douglas Mattress Cover

Douglas’s patented CoolSense® cover is made from sustainable Infinitex™ fibres. This plant-derived fabric draws moisture away from the surface of the mattress, leaving you with a dry sleep surface. Not only does this help to reduce the chances of odour building up where you sleep, but the cover’s natural breathability also helps to improve air circulation throughout the mattress layers. This breathable gradient allows Douglas’s ecoLight® cooling gel foam and phase-change materials to keep your body at a comfortable temperature.

Are you craving an even cooler sleep? Consider upgrading to the Douglas Summit mattress. The top cover of the Douglas Summit is interwoven with CryoFusion™ cooling nanofibres. This innovative fabric makes the cover noticeably cool to the touch, an extra luxury on warm summer evenings.

Cleaning & Care Instructions

When it comes to care and general upkeep, the machine-washable top cover has a 360° zipper for easy removal. Once the cover has been cleaned, it can be reattached in seconds without lifting or moging the mattress.

How to clean the removable top cover:

1. Unzip the upper portion of the cover;
2. Put in the washing machine on a gentle cycle;
3. Tumble dry on low or air dry.

Douglas is the top-selling mattress brand by GoodMorning.com, Canada’s largest independent online mattress retailer.

The first Douglas mattress was introduced in 2017. At that time, the makers of Douglas recognized an obvious problem in the mattress industry: mattresses sold in Canada were being designed for American sleepers.

The Douglas Original mattress soon filled that gap by creating an extremely comfortable mattress that was:

• Manufactured in Canada using Canadian materials
• Designed for the unique firmness preferences Canadians love most
• Built to perform during all four Canadian seasons
• Made with eco-conscious materials and manufacturing processes
• Sold at the lowest possible price

Douglas quickly started outselling even well-established mattress brands, earning several accolades as Canada’s Best Mattress.

In 2022, Douglas introduced two new mattresses: the Alpine and the Summit. These upgraded models take the same features and values that made the Douglas Original such a success and enhance them with some of the latest innovations in mattress making.

Douglas uses FedEx to deliver their mattresses directly to customers’ doors throughout most parts of Canada. The shipment can even be left on a porch or deck if you are away from home. Shipping is free for most Canadians, but fees may apply for some remote locations. The order ships by ground from Ontario or Alberta, which means you’ll typically receive your bed within 3 to 10 days after placing your order.

How long is the Douglas sleep trial?

At 365 nights, the Douglas sleep trial is among the longest in Canada. The company also arranges to pick up returns for free within the sleep trial period and will issue a full refund.

What happens to returned mattresses?

Returned Douglas mattresses are donated to nearby community organizations or picked up by a local recycling partner, depending on regional restrictions.

How will the Douglas mattress arrive?

The Douglas mattress is delivered in a cardboard box about the size of a hockey bag. The mattress is fully protected from the elements with two layers of heavy-duty plastic – one to form the vacuum seal, and another to keep it tightly rolled in a cylinder shape. If there is damage to your mattress, Douglas has a very responsive customer service team based in Canada who are available to help work out any product issues.

Can you sleep on Douglas Alpine the first night?

Yes! Douglas fully expands in two minutes and is ready to sleep on the same day it’s delivered.

There’s a reason Douglas placed so highly on our list of best mattresses. Find out why we scored Douglas as our top pick and how it could have achieved an even higher rating.

We hire 3rd-party engineers and use public data to rate mattresses on over 25 criteria.

Few mattress brands have had anywhere near the success that Douglas has had over the past decade. The Canadian-centric brand has sold over 150,000 mattresses in Canada and racked up an impressive list of industry awards.

And the thousands of Douglas Alpine owners? They’re big fans so far, too. At the time of publication, the Douglas Alpine has a product rating of 4.8 out of 5. (For reference: The Casper Original has a customer rating of only 4.4 out of 5.)

Instead of considering the Douglas lineup as three distinct mattresses, it might be more helpful to think of them as one reliably great mattress, offered within three common price segments.

But of the three Douglas mattresses, the Douglas Alpine might be the best value of them all.

While it doesn’t have the incredibly low price of the Douglas Original, or the top-of-the-line prestige of the Summit, the Alpine seems to offer the best ratio of features per dollar. It has a reliably comfortable medium-firm feel that over 11,000 Douglas owners have already endorsed with 5-star reviews. It has exceptional cooling, edge support, and motion isolation – even for a foam mattress! And the company continues to act as a steward for both the needs of Canadian sleepers and our environment, helping everyone sleep better at night.

If you’re in the market for a memory foam mattress, you could not choose a better mattress than the Canadian-made Douglas Alpine. And if you do so, you’ll also get a free bedding bundle and 365 nights to be 100% sure that the Alpine is the right choice for you.

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