Leesa Legend Mattress Review

The Leesa Legend is a luxurious hybrid mattress. If you're willing to pay extra for better comfort at night, you'll get a mattress that combines improved body-contouring side by side with an advanced support mechanism comprised of two layers of springs, pocketed coils for overall support, and micro-coils designed to support the hips and alleviate pressure around the shoulders.

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Pros & Cons

Mattress Construction

The Leesa Legend has 7 layers which include soft and firm foam to provide sleepers with a pleasant melting-into-the-bed sensation without creating too much sinkage. The mattress also contains two sets of coils for better support and bounciness.

Cover Layer: Soft, breathable and hypoallergenic organic cotton, anti-bacterial merino wool and fiber manufactured from recycled bottles.

Comfort Layer: This layer consists of perforated poly foam which makes the mattress bouncy and enables easy movement. The poly foam is aerated to lower heat retention helping sleepers cool their body. 

Recovery Layer : Contouring memory foam to alleviate body pressure.

Zoned Support Layer: 1.5'' Micro-coils located at the head and foot of the mattress with poly foam in between them. The coils improve bounciness and prevent pressure from accumulating in the upper back and shoulders. The poly foam supports the hips and helps side and back sleepers maintain good spinal alignment.

Transition Layer: made of firmer poly foam to separate the upper foam-based layers from the pocketed coils below.

Support Layer: 6'' Pocketed coils which function as the mattress' support layer providing it with stability and durability. The coils also give sleepers a bouncy feel and improve their mobility.

Base Layer: 1'' of hardened poly foam providing a solid foundation for all the mattress' layers.

Feel

The soft poly-foam in the comfort layer and the memory foam in the recovery layer give sleepers a nice cushioning sensation as well as some bounciness, while the firmer poly foam in the transition layer and the coils beneath provide sleeper with stability. This creates proper balance between sinkage and support, so you don't exactly feel like you're floating on top of the mattress, nor do you feel like you are being cradled within it.

Pressure Relief

The Leesa Legend provides good pressure relief for light, average and even heavyweight back sleepers. The memory foam allows adequate sinking which generates comfort while the poly foam in the transition layer and the coils in the lower layers give sleepers the necessary lumbar support to prevent back pains.

Side sleepers mostly need pressure relief in the hips and shoulders and this is where the Leesa Legends does a wonderful job for people who weigh up to 250 pounds. The micro-coils generate extra support for the lower back, the pelvis and areas below the neck. The contouring foam in the comfort and recovery layers balances the effect of the coils and prevents the accumulation of too much pressure.

Stomach sleepers will find the Leesa Legend comfortable and supportive enough as long as their weight doesn't exceed 250 pounds. Heavier sleepers may sink too much and, thus, feel pressure rising in the lumbar area.

Motion Isolation

Even though the the Leesa Legend has two layers of coils which generate quite a lot of bounciness, its ability to isolate motion is satisfactory thanks to the soft upper layers. Put differently, small movements of your sleep partner throughout the night shouldn't disturb you much.

The downside is that over time the mattress' two layers of coils may generate some squeaky noise if you and your sleep partner move too aggressively.

Repositioning

The bounciness created by the coils in the mattress enables easy movement all across the mattress, making sleepers feel nimble and swift. This is a big upside for more intimate moments.

Edge Support

The two layers of coil significantly strengthen the mattress' perimeter allowing you to sleep on the edge and keep stable. In addition, getting off bed doesn't require too much effort.

Heat Retention

The breathable cover layer and the ventilated poly foam in the comfort layer enable respiration evaporation and dissipate heat. The memory foam creates sinkage which may increase heat retention a little, but the coils underneath facilitate free flow of air and help the mattress get cooler. All in all, hot sleeper will feel quite comfortable on the Leesa Legend.

Frame & Foundation

The Leesa Legend is compatible with any type as foundation as long as it's solid enough and flat. The company offers its Leesa Foundation at prices of $224-$359 depending on the mattress size. You can also opt for the Leesa Platform Bed. It's more expensive with minimum and maximum prices of $359 and $629 respectively.

Other foundations you can use comprise a solid box, a Bunkie board on a traditional box spring or a slatted base. In any case, you can contact the company and they'll answer your questions and provide you with assistance regarding the best foundation for your mattress.

Additional Details

The Leesa Legend can be purchased online on the company's website. It cannot be purchased anywhere else on the web. To buy the mattress offline, you can go to Leesa's branded retail store, the Dream Gallery in Virginia Beach, VA.

Leesa also works with brick-and-mortar retail stores, such as Macy's, Pottery Barn and West Elm. Yet there is no guarantee they have in store the company's products, the Leesa Legend in particular. There is a Store Finder on Leesa's website you should refer to.

From time to time, Leesa offers its customers lucrative promotions. They currently have a winter sale which includes discounts of up to $400 on its leading mattresses, the Orginal, the Hybrid and the Legend. The sale ends on January 18, 2022.

Leesa was founded in 2014 and is based in Virginia Beach, VA. The company is B-cROP certified, so it follows the most stringent standards of environmental protection, public transparency and legal accountability.

From the environmental perspective, the Leesa Legend contains polyester manufactured from recycled water bottles. Its coils are made of recycled steel. Moreover, all of Leesa's products are CertiPUR-US certified, which means they contain neither harmful chemicals nor toxic ingredients.

Last but not least, Leesa is deeply involved in charity. One bed out of ten sold is donated to children in need. The same applies to mattresses returned by unsatisfied customers.

Shipping and Delivery

The Leesa Legend is delivered free of charge by UPS Ground and it'll take around a week to reach your doorstep. It will arrive wrapped in plastic and compressed in a box.

The company offers White Glove Delivery in the contiguous USA. This service includes technicians who will install your new mattress and remove the old one. White Glove Delivery demands an additional fee of $150. Shipping time may be extended by one week.

Returns & Warranty

The Leesa Legend comes with a trial period of 100 nights. There is a mandatory 30-night break-in period. In other words, to get a full refund, you can return the mattress only after you tried it for 30 days. The rationale behind it is to give you sufficient time to get used to it.

There is no return fee except for customers in Alaska and Hawaii. They'll be required to pay $100 to cover shipping expenses. It's also important to note that White Glove Delivery is non-refundable.

The Leesa Mattress is backed by a 10-year warranty, which covers factory defects and premature erosion of the mattress' materials. The warranty doesn't cover damages caused by mistreating the mattress or using an inappropriate support frame.

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The Bottom Line

The Leesa Legend is Leesa's most luxurious hybrid mattress. Its hybrid quality which combines body-contouring foam and steel coils promises you optimal sleep experience achieved by delicate balance between comfort and responsiveness on the one hand and firm support on the other hand. It's more expensive than most mattresses on the market, but it offers you real value for your money.

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