Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxury Mattress Review: Best Cooling Mattress for Hot Sleepers

If you are a hot sleeper, you know how difficult it is to find the right pillows, sheets, duvets and mattresses to keep you cool all night long. Luckily, the Brooklyn Bedding Aurora has built-in cooling features to prevent excess body heat and keep hot sleepers cool.

Brooklyn Bedding is a quality mattress brand that produces its own beds, making prices extremely affordable. So instead of spending an arm and a leg on your air conditioning, this bed can be a good trade-off. In this Brooklyn Bedding Aurora review, I explain how the mattress’ cooling ability works and explore other key highlights such as feel, firmness, construction, and price.

First impressions

The Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe looks like a beautiful premium mattress with its royal blue edges and bright white top. As soon as you roll it out of the box and unpack it, you can tell that you are going to sleep on a quality mattress. However, the cooling capacity really surprised me. I’m wary of mattress brands that claim their beds are ultra-cool because I’m often disappointed, but the Brooklyn Bedding Aurora mattress is one of the coolest beds I’ve tested. It is also very comfortable and versatile. I’m honestly surprised this mattress isn’t more expensive, but that’s Brooklyn Bedding for you.

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Firmness

To appeal to as many different sleepers as possible, Brooklyn Bedding offers the Aurora in three different firmness levels: soft, medium and firm. Here’s how I would rate each firmness level:

• Soft: Medium soft or 3 out of 10 on the hardness scale.
• Medium: Medium or 5 out of 10 on the firmness scale.
• Firm: Medium hard or 7 out of 10 on the firmness scale.

I appreciate that it gives you options so you can choose one firmness level that really suits your needs. Soft mattresses provide more support under your joints, while firm mattresses usually provide more support.

Comfort

The Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe mattress is five layers thick and consists of comfortable foam, pocket coils and the brand’s own cooling technology.

Here is an overview of the different layers of the bed:

• Starting from the bottom, a thin 0.75-inch foam layer provides a solid foundation for the spiral layer above.
• Next come more than 1,000 steel coils, each individually wrapped in fabric and encapsulated for better motion isolation.
• The third layer is the start of the comfort foams; it is a 1 inch layer of gel spine memory foam.
• Next is a 2-inch slab of TitanFlex foam, which is responsive and body conforming.
• The final layer is patented CopperFlex foam with Titan Cool. The Copper and Titan Cool technology extract heat from the body and distribute it away from you.

Finally, the cover is smooth and coated with even more Titan Cool, making it truly one of the coolest mattresses I’ve ever tested.

Feeling

Imagine the most comfortable sofa you’ve ever fallen into: the inside is probably made of soft, plush foam. This is what the Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe mattress feels like. It is made of neutral foam and does not react slowly memory foamso it rebounds much faster under pressure than a bed like it Nectar mattress or the Amerisleep. When you press your hand into the mattress, you will not see the shape of your palm and fingers stuck in the foam. It’s a pleasant feeling that I think most people would enjoy – similar to how hard it is to turn your nose up at pizza or puppies.

Motion isolation

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that the coils in the design of the Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe make it more resilient than foam mattresses like the Kasper Original and does not dampen movement very well. The good news is that this mattress isn’t bad at isolating motion. If you have a tossing partner who won’t stop, you may feel some movement, but not so much that it vibrates, shakes and wakes you up.

Edge support

With over 1,000 different coils in the mattress’ foundation, keeping it durable and firm, this bed has excellent edge support. The perimeter is strong enough to stay firm when you get out of bed and ensures you don’t feel like you’re rolling off the side after your bed-swelling partner pushes you to the end of the mattress.

Temperature

The bread and butter of the Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe is without a doubt its cooling capacity. In fact, this bed may be too cold for anyone who sleeps temperature-neutral or cool. The cover feels physically cool when you run your hands over it, as if you put the cover in the refrigerator and just took it out. Thanks to the special TitanCool material, this is a… cooling mattress that really works.

Who is it best for?

Just like clothes or shoes, you want to find the bed that best suits you and your preferences. Not every mattress has a one-size-fits-all option. However, in the case of the Brooklyn Bedding Aurora and its three firmness levels, all sleeping positions can find a good fit.

Position

• Side sleepers: Those who sleep on their sides usually like softer beds that provide pressure relief, so I recommend the soft to medium firmness. Soft is for maximum pressure relief, and medium is when you want equal support and pressure relief.
• Back and stomach sleepers: Firmer beds are usually best for back and stomach sleepers because they support the spine and prevent the back from sagging. Medium or firm is best here.
• Combo sleepers: If you switch positions, the medium firmness level is perfect. It is soft enough for side sleeping and firm enough to support your back and stomach.

Body type

Small, medium, and heavy individuals will be accommodated by the Brooklyn Bedding Aurora mattress. It has strong, durable steel coils in the base layer of the mattress. As such, it is supportive enough for most people, including those weighing over 100 pounds.

Prices

The Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe is not the cheapest mattress on the block, but that’s to be expected due to the high-quality design and effective cooling technology. That said, if you get it during a discount, it will be more affordable than the popular one Purple hybrid and about the same price as the WinkBed.

It also offers RV sizes, which is quite unusual for a bed-in-a-box mattress brand.

Shipping, trial period and warranty

Like all online mattress brands, Brooklyn Bedding offers a number of benefits to make it more attractive to order a mattress via the internet. When you order your mattress, it will be delivered to your home rolled and compressed in a cardboard box. You receive:

• Free shipping and free returns.
• A 120 night trial period.
• A 10-year warranty.

You get the chance to test your mattress for three months before you have to commit to it. If you decide you don’t like your mattress, contact Brooklyn Bedding. They will guide you through the returns process to get your money back.

Your mattress will leave an off-gassing smell as soon as you take it out of the package, but this happens with most bed-in-a-box mattresses unless they are made of organic latex foam. It’s a bit like the smell of a new car, and it goes away after a day or two.

Final verdict

If you sleep comfortably and never get hot at night, you may want to look elsewhere. Hot sleepers and people who sleep with hot sleepers rejoice. This mattress seriously cools and for me it lives up to its promise. Aside from its cooling ability, I also love how versatile it is; With three firmness level options and a durable hybrid construction, it’s suitable for just about any sleeper. Here’s a quick summary of who I would and wouldn’t recommend this bed to:

You might like this mattress if:

• You sleep hot or wake up with night sweats.
• You sleep on your back, side, stomach or a combination thereof.
• You have a small, average or heavy body type.
• You want a hybrid mattress with extra support.

You may not like this mattress if:

• You have no problem sleeping hot.
• You’re on a tight budget.
• You want a simple foam mattress.