Helix Midnight Luxe Mattress Review

In this review of the Helix Midnight Luxe, we take a look at another amazing mattress from Helix’s newest product line.

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The Helix Midnight Luxe mattress is made up of gel memory foam and 1000+ pocketed coils and provides perfect pressure relief for hips and shoulders and excellent airflow to keep you cool.

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Helix Midnight Luxe, King size

This mattress is an amazing 14″ hybrid mattress that comes with some extraordinary features and provides incredible comfort and support in all sleeping positions.

Read our review and find out what we think about this amazing new mattress that is 4″ taller than other Helix mattresses and that includes body zoning technology and premium quilted pillow top with Ultra Breathable Cover.  Review updated Mar 4, 2022 @ 1:50 pm

Is the Helix Midnight Luxe Right for You?

Buy this mattress if you like:

• Sleeping on your side and back – This mattress provides the support necessary for side sleeping and back sleeping without causing any discomfort in hips and shoulders that some mattresses often cause. The plush top comfort layers provide perfect pressure relief for hips and shoulders while pocketed coil system lifts your body weight and provides excellent support.
• A mattress that sleeps cool – The Helix Midnight Luxe sleeps quite cool due to its unique pocketed coil layer that allows the air to circulate freely through the mattress and prevent the build up of heat and a special Ultra Breathable Cover designed to increase airflow through the top of the mattress in order to create a pleasant sleeping surface and keep you cool during the night.
• Beds with excellent support – This mattress features an 8″ thick Zoned Body Shape layer consisting of individually wrapped coils that serve to cradle and support your body while sleeping. They provide the right amount of support to those areas of your body where it is needed most. It offers a softer feel under your shoulders and firmer under hips to cradle your body, align your spine and provide advanced lumbar and edge support.

You might not like the Mattress if:

• You don’t like the bounce and responsiveness of hybrid mattresses – The  Helix Midnight Luxe is a hybrid mattress constructed of multiple foam layers and pocketed coils which work together to give this mattress a lot of bounce and responsiveness.

Construction and Materials

The Helix Midnight Luxe is a 14″ hybrid mattress made up of gel memory foam, 1000 + pocketed coils, and foam and it consists of the following layers.

• 1″ Comfort Layer – This layer is 1″ of Gel memory foam that is extremely soft and designed to provide pressure relief and increase the overall comfort of this mattress.
• 2″ Support Layer – This layer is 2″ of Memory Plus Foam, designed to cushion and support your body.
• 1″ Transition Layer – This layer is 1″ of high-density High-Grade Polyfoam, designed to provide ergonomic support, contour to your body and serve as a transition layer between the top comfort foam layers and firmer coils bellow. It also allows a seamless progression of your body weight into the mattress.
• 8″ Zoned Body Shape Layer – This layer is 8″ of individually wrapped coils that serve to cradle and support your body while sleeping and limit excessive motion transfer. They provide the right amount of support to those areas of your body where it is needed most. It offers a softer feel under your shoulders and firmer under hips to cradle your body, align your spine and provide advanced lumbar and edge support.
• 1″ Base Layer – This layer is 1″ of DuraDense high density support foam that serves as the foundation and support for the mattress and increases its durability and stability.
  

  Helix Midnight Luxe mattress layers

The cover of the Helix Midnight Luxe is extremely soft 1-inch quilted premium pillow top made up of high-density polyurethane foam.

It increases the overall comfort of this mattress and the Ultra Breathable technology that it incorporates helps increase the airflow through the mattress and keeps you cool all night long.

Helix Midnight Luxe cover

Firmness & Support

The Helix Midnight Luxe is designed to appeal to a wide range of sleepers and we felt it to be a medium firm mattress, falling somewhere around a 6 out of 10 on the firmness scale (10 being the firmest).

The company has their own firmness scale on their site and they rate this mattress in a range you can see below.

Helix Midnight Luxe firmness scale

As soon as we lay down in bed we felt how soft and smooth to the touch the pillow top was, and combined with the gel memory foam comfort layer below it offered a really gentle, soft feel.

Together, they allowed me to sink into a mattress to a certain degree and provided excellent pressure relief without making me feel stuck in foam.

The slightly firmer support and transition layers beneath with the pocketed coil layer did an excellent job of providing extraordinary support to those areas of my body where I needed it most.

Zoning technology used in the coil layer offered a softer feel under my shoulders and firmer under my hips which made this mattress perfect for side sleeping. In addition these layers lifted my heavy weight with ease and helped distribute it evenly across the bed.

The Helix Midnight Luxe on my side had just enough give in the comfort layers to mold to my shoulders and hips and enough firmness necessary if I turn to my back.

Helix Midnight Luxe mattress corner view

So, various layers in this mattress work together to provide a level of firmness that works perfectly for all sleeping styles and sleepers of different weights, even the heavier ones such as myself.

A high-quality hybrid construction and materials of this mattress offer the amount of support that a heavy sleeper such as myself needs while it has enough softness and pressure relieving comfort that both Kaye and myself prefer as a couple sharing a mattress.

Comfort

The Helix Midnight Luxe is extremely comfortable. Its unique construction and quality materials all worked together really well to provide a medium feel that we like and a perfect balance of comfort and support.

The premium quilted pillow top increased the overall comfort of this mattress and gave us the feeling of sleeping on clouds. It allowed me to sink quite a bit into it, perfectly molded to my hips and shoulders, and eliminated any possibility of the appearance of pressure points.

It also has a nice degree of responsiveness coming from its pocketed coil layer which, when combined with other the firmer transition and support layer prevents you from sinking too deep into the mattress and feeling enveloped by it.

This also facilitates moving around in bed during the night and makes this mattress perfect for sex.

Sleeping Hot

The Helix Midnight Luxe mattress does an excellent job at sleeping cool due to its unique pocketed coil layer that allows the air to circulate freely through the mattress and prevent the build up of heat.

In addition, this Helix mattress, like other Helix mattresses, features a special Ultra Breathable Cover designed to increase airflow through the top of the mattress in order to create a pleasant sleeping surface and keep you cool during the night.

Sinkage & Motion Transfer

The Helix Midnight Luxe does a great job with minimizing sinkage, especially when compared to most other hybrid mattresses we have reviewed.

Sinkage and motion transfer are largely weight dependent and the fact that I weigh around 230 lbs tends to have a rather large bearing on the degree of sinkage I experience when sitting and lying on a mattress.

I often tend to compress the top comfort layers of most hybrid mattresses quite a bit and come to rest on their coil support layers which are hard and not so comfortable.

But, this was not the case with this mattress. It is true that I compressed the pillow top and comfort layer beneath it quite a bit, but the firmer support and transition layers combined with the pocketed coils prevented me from sinking further into the mattress and feeling enveloped by it.

These layers lifted my heavy weight with ease and distributed it evenly across the bed while the zoned technology of the pocketed coil layer provided just the right amount of support to those areas of my body where I needed it most.

Kaye’s felt the mattress perfectly supported her lighter weight and it didn’t cause her to roll into me which is often the case with lower quality mattresses due to our weight differences.

She also didn’t experience the common feel of “sinking into a hole” which resulted in peaceful and truly enjoyable night’s for both.

Helix Midnight Luxe profile

Edge support is excellent with this mattress and better than with many other beds we have reviewed so far due to the quality pocketed coils used in its construction.

I compressed its pillow top and comfort layer to a certain degree when when sitting and lying near the edge, but the firmer support and transition layers, as well as the pocketed coil layer, supported my heavy weight and prevented me from sinking too much and bottoming out. We also didn’t experience any rolling off the edges sensation.

Smell / Off-Gassing

This high quality mattress gets high marks in this category as well. It didn’t have much of a noticeable smell upon opening the box. Its hybrid design significantly reduced the amount of of-gassing and any smell that was present dissipated within a few hours.

Customer Service

Helix Sleep provides about the standard amount of customer service you can expect in a “Bed In A Box” online mattress retailer. This includes:

• 100 Night Sleep Trial
• 15 Year Warranty
• Made in America
• Free Shipping
• Save $125 on a Helix Midnight Luxe : Use Code: MFT125
• Money back guarantee

Price

The Helix Midnight Luxe is priced a bit higher and comes in at $1649 for a Queen.

However, for a mattress of such a unique construction and highest-quality materials that are used in its construction, this is more than a reasonable price.

Get the Helix Midnight Luxe Mattress

The Helix Midnight Luxe mattress is made up of gel memory foam and 1000+ pocketed coils and provides perfect pressure relief for hips and shoulders and excellent airflow to keep you cool.

Save $125 on the purchase of a Helix Midnight Luxe mattress. Use code: MFT125

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IDLE Sleep Hybrid vs Helix Midnight Luxe

In this review we will focus on two highest-quality hybrid beds: IDLE Sleep Hybrid and Helix Midnight Luxe.

The Helix Midnight Luxe is the new hybrid mattress by Helix Sleep that has recently hit the market with some great features, while the IDLE Sleep Hybrid promises high quality materials and construction in a premium mattress that sleeps cool and at an affordable price, with the added bonus of allowing you to flip the mattress over to extend the life of it.

Read our comparison and find out which one would work better for you?

Read the full IDLE Sleep Hybrid vs Helix Midnight Luxe comparison.

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