Sleep setup

7 Reasons Side Sleepers Are Switching to a Two-Pillow Bed7 Reasons Back Sleepers Are Switching to a Two-Pillow Bed

Hotels have done it for years. One firm pillow, one soft, and a better night than your new mattress ever gave you.

Summary: A new mattress rarely fixes a bad night. The hotel trick is two pillows each, one firm and one soft, and you can set it up at home tonight. Comfie sells that setup direct, with 30 nights to decide.

1. It was never the mattress

   I bought a new mattress. I still woke up at 2 a.m., folding my pillow in half to get comfortable. Then I spent two nights in a good hotel and slept straight through, both nights.

   Back home my bed felt flat again. Same mattress I'd just paid for. That's when I started looking at what was on top of it.

2. Hotels give you two pillows each. They have two jobs.

   

   Look at any good hotel bed. Two pillows per person, stacked: one firm behind, one soft in front. It isn't decoration.

   The firm one holds your head where it should be. The soft one is the one you sink into, hug, or read against. One pillow can't do both, which is why yours ends up folded at 2 a.m.

3. On your side, the firm one does the work

   On your back, the soft one does the work

   

   Lying on your side, the gap between your shoulder and your ear is as wide as it gets. A soft pillow sinks into it and you start bunching it up. A firm pillow fills that gap and stays put. The soft one sits in front for when you roll over.

   Lying on your back, your head wants a little lift, not a tower. The soft pillow in front gives you that. The firm one behind becomes your backrest for reading in bed, the way it does in a hotel.

   👉 See the pair

4. On a hotel pillow menu, firm means more fill

   Many hotels let you order pillows from a menu, and they usually offer two: soft or firm. Firm isn't a different material. It's more of the same fill.

   So when you pick firm, you aren't picking a hard pillow. You're picking a fuller one. That's the half of the pair most home beds are missing.

5. Hotel pillow menus charge $85 to $255 for one pillow

   We read the pillow menus of 42 hotels. If you want to take one home, expect to pay $85 to $255. For one pillow.

   I didn't want to pay hotel prices, and I didn't want to buy from a hotel supplier by the hundred. So I built Comfie: the hotel pillow setup, sold direct to your bedroom. The list gets up to 70% off for Black Friday.

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6. Everything goes in the wash

   

   The shell is 400 thread count cotton percale: crisp, cool and matte. The pillows go in the machine on warm and gentle, then tumble dry low with two dryer balls.

   And the third thing the hotel did: a protector under everything. It's the layer nobody sees, and it's in the Comfie range too.

   👉 See how it works

7. Sleep on it for 30 nights

   You can't judge a pillow in a shop, and you definitely can't judge it on a screen. So don't. Sleep on the pair for 30 nights. If it's not for you, send it back.

   👉 Try it for 30 nights

"I wanted the hotel bed at home. It turned out to be two pillows, two jobs."
Clara, founder of Comfie