GhostBed Venus Williams Legend Hybrid Review

Sponsored by Tennis legend Venus Williams, the GhostBed Legend Hybrid mattress is perfect for people with an active lifestyle who prefer to sleep on their side and back. It's soft and cozy, and features unique far infrared technology that hastens muscle recovery.

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Pros & Cons

Mattress Construction

The Legend Hybrid mattress consists of four layers of fibrous polymers, foams, and individually wrapped pocketed coils. It is designed for high responsiveness and malleability, and is a durable as it is soft.

Cover: This layer, which consists of 25% recycled water bottles, is a soft and cooling fibrous polymer cover that negates the warming effect of the far infrared materials in the layer below it. This helps you stay cool and cozy throughout the night.

Far infrared layer: This 2" layer of gel memory foam is the main highlight of the mattress. It is infused with far infrared materials that are scientifically proven to improve blood flow and muscle recovery.

Transition layer: A 1.5" layer of soft transition foam that provides additional pressure relief while distributing your weight throughout the mattress. It also serves to separate the far infrared infused layer from the innerspring layer below, which increases the overall durability of the mattress.

Innerspring layer: A thick layer of individually wrapped pocketed coils that serves as the main support and pressure relief unit of the mattress. The layer also features a reinforced perimeter of more rigid coils that make the mattress easier and safer to use at its edges.

Base layer: A layer of high-density foam provides the mattress with some overall durability and sturdiness, and prevents it from moving about on your bed's foundation.

Feel

GhostBed's Legend Hybrid mattress has a responsive feel and a medium-soft firmness. It quickly molds to your shape and reforms just as quickly when you get off from it. The softness of this mattress is ideally suited for side sleepers, but most back sleepers who weigh less than 250 lbs. will also find it to be extremely comfortable.

Pressure Relief

It really shouldn't surprise you that a mattress that's mainly sold on the premise of soreness relief features good pressure relief. The Venus Williams Legend Hybrid is fantastic at keeping your spine aligned and your body fully supported, even more than the Venus Williams Legend all-foam version does, since the pocketed coils layer is fantastic and dispersing your weight. This mattress is definitely a great choice for any side sleeper or light-to-average weight back sleeper who suffers from back pain or hip pain.

Motion Isolation

While the motion isolation of the Legend Hybrid is good, and better than the mattress' all-foam version, it's not perfect. The innerspring layer does a great job a sectioning off the sides of the bed for you and your partner thanks to it being individual coils, but the foams still carry a bit of motion. Still, you won't feel your partner tossing and turning unless you're a very light sleeper.

Repositioning

Repositioning on the Legend Hybrid isn't the easiest, mainly due to how soft it is. Luckily, the mattress is bouncy and responsive enough for it not to be an issue unless you're very heavy, in which case you're better off looking at the best mattresses for plus-sized people.

Edge Support

The edge support of the GhostBed Venus Williams Legend Hybrid is easily one of its best qualities, thanks to the reinforced perimeter of individually wrapped coils. These make sure you can sleep soundly even if you're laying right on the edge of the mattress, hand dangling off it and all. This gives the mattress a much bigger feel, since you can comfortably use its entire surface area without fear of falling off.

Heat Retention

Despite the Legend mattress being infused with far infrared reflecting materials, the top layer of the mattress does a good job of preventing overheating and providing you with a cool and cozy sleep.

Frame & Foundation

The GhostBed Legend Hybrid mattress is 12" tall, which is fairly average for mattresses, and due to its regulation sizes would fit any standard frame or foundation. This is great if you already own a great base for the mattress and prefer to continue using it rather than unnecessarily purchasing a new one.

However, if you lack a suitable foundation for the mattress, you can purchase one along with your mattress directly from GhostBed's website. You have the option for an all-in-one solution — an all-metal bed frame and box spring replacement in one. It's height is customizable and it costs $379-$758 (depending on its size) before any discounts. You also have the option of an adjustable base for $1,599-$3,198 (depending on its size) before discounts. The adjustable base features wireless remote control, dual-side USB ports, 15 quiet massage modes and soft, glowing under-bed LED lights.

Additional Details

The Venus Williams Legend Hybrid is made in the USA and, as its name suggest, is sponsored by the seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams, who decided to partner with GhostBed when she saw an opportunity to promote a mattress that specifically caters to athletes. Needless to say, the mattress is also CertiPUR-US and OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certified, ensuring it's 100% free of any hazardous materials, emits no harmful VOCs, and is even comparatively eco-friendly.

Also, studies have shown that far infrared therapy during recovery period decreases inflammation, pain and soreness, speeds muscle recovery, and increases muscle performance after the recovery period. Therefore, you can rest assured that, if you live an active lifestyle, the Legend Hybrid mattress will noticeably help you and be much more suited for you than most other mattresses out there.

Shipping & Delivery

GhostBed offers free and fast shipping for all their products to all 48 continental US states. You'll usually get your mattress within 2-5 days after placing your order. For some locations, an order must be specially made, which is only possible by getting in touch with GhostBed directly via email. This is only relevant to those living in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Canada and Mexico. The email necessary for making such orders is sleep@ghostbed.com. Orders to Alaska & Hawaii will incur a $600 charge.

GhostBed also offers White Glove Delivery for $199, which extends the delivery time to 1-2 weeks. Once you’ve placed your order, they will ship your items via their delivery company, and you'll receive an email from the delivery team to confirm your order. Once the delivery team has received all your products from GhostBed, they will contact you again to schedule the best day and time for your delivery. If you ordered any other GhostBed products (pillows, sheets, protectors, etc.), those will ship directly to you via FedEx. Upon arrival, the delivery team will unbox and set up your GhostBed mattress (and foundation, if you bought one) and, if need be, remove and dispose of your old mattress along with any packaging materials.

Returns & Warranty

After purchasing the GhostBed Legend Hybrid, you have 101 nights to return the mattress. You may only issue a return after 30 days of trying out the mattress. This is an industry standard, and a prerequisite for the return, because it is recommended to properly break in your mattress in to try it out, and to let your body slowly adjust to its feel.

GhostBed delivers mattresses incredibly quickly, but because of this, orders cannot be changed or canceled once placed. You ought to ensure that all the details you fill in with GhostBed are 100% accurate. If you ordered your GhostBed mattress through a third party vendor, then the return conditions are that of the third party vendor and not GhostBed.

The GhostBed Legend mattress comes with a 25-year warranty managed by Nature's Sleep, a company that has issued warranties in the mattress industry for decades. During the first 10 years of the mattress' life, GhostBed will provide a replacement mattress at the cost of only shipping and handling fees. After the 11th year until the 25th year, the warranty only covers 50% of the total cost. In order to be eligible for the warranties there are certain conditions that must be met. For example, misuse and abuse void the warranty altogether, as does using the mattress without a suitable foundation.

The Bottom Line

If you live an active lifestyle and prefer a luxurious, medium-soft mattress, then this is a real no-brainer. Try out the Legend Hybrid mattress if you can afford it. Your body will thank you. Even if it's somehow not to your liking, GhostBed's generous return policy guarantees that your investment is secure and your money won't be wasted.

There's a reason why one of the world's most renowned athletes is backing this luxury mattress. Get it, and you'll quickly find out why.

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