For all the travel that I do, I still spend more time in my bed than anywhere else on Earth. I’ve long been a fan of beds made by Hästens, the Swedish company that offers the most comfortable–and expensive–beds in the world. But can a Hästens bed that costs significantly more than the median home in the USA or Europe really be worth the price?
Hästens Bed – Worth $660,000?!
Considering how much time we spend in bed (about 1/4 to 1/3 of our lives) and how sound sleep is critical to both physical and mental health, I do wonder sometimes why I do not invest more in my bedding.
Hästens offers a range of beds, but the Grand Vividus is its premier model. The mattress runs about $400K, but when you add on all the extras, it can come to over $600K ($660K according to the UK Daily Mail).
In 2019 I almost bought a Hästens bed (for $25K, not $660K…) and somewhat regret not doing so. My wife thinks the blue and white stripes are ugly, but I love them. Instead, we still sleep on our old mattress which is nearly a decade old.
The client list for the Grand Vividus is small (each bed allegedly takes hundreds of hours to make) and I would never buy one, even if I could afford one. There is too much need in the world and I do not think I could enjoy a bed like that knowing how much was spent to acquire it and the opportunity cost for doing so.
That’s a tricky issue and I do not make personal judgments concerning that (except when it comes to televangelists), except to say that to whom much is given, much is required and I think we often underestimate the difference even a little time or money can make in helping the world to be a better place.
So how much is too much for a mattress? That is something I am trying to figure out…
CONCLUSION
I raved about Hästens beds after experiencing an unparalleled rest in the SWISS First Class lounge in Zurich. Since then (five years), these beds have been on my mind. I had no idea that inflationary pressures, however, have pushed up the top-tier bed to more than most houses. I’m not about to buy one of those, but for all the travel I do there is still no place I spend more time than in my bed and my mattress is past its prime.
Any suggestions?
I am around Hästens beds quite often — which shouldn’t be a surprise to some here — but amusingly I have never seen the most expensive beds in any of the Swedish houses and apartment I’ve been to of people with a net worth of 3+ billion SEK.
Well, you’re busy celebrating Hamas’ massacres. We can all infer your fellow terrorist friends can’t afford one.
You are dirt.
Hamas is a monster, and it also happens to be your beloved’s Frankenstein at that with bloody awful blowback.
About your baseless attempts at character assassination, they are disgusting in their own way; but what else can be expected from the worshippers of your Lord Trump but lies far more problematic than your fictional claims, such as your belief that the 2020 US election was fraudulent and stolen from your twisted Lord. Can your “filthy rich” Lord Trump even afford the damn expensive Hastens bed without using the money of his bamboozled followers? Seems like he is furious about being shown to be poorer than he wanted his fans to believe.
To rationalize the cost, you would need prove the mattress salesperson mentality (“you spend 33% of your life sleeping) and into a comparative shopping mentality. I have a mattress that I love and is comparatively expensive at around $9K. So the question is not what % of your time you spend sleeping, but rather is it X times more comfortable, more restful, more therapeutic than luxury products at 1/60th the cost. I suspect the answer is no.
BC’s got a good way of thinking about it.
I do get the sense that determining comfort level can be rather variable from individual to individual and $600k+ bed won’t change that dynamic.
If a $600k+ bed is stuffed with $600k+ of cash, I’d consider being in the market; otherwise I would find the bed disturbing to my rest.
I think there’s little correlation between the price of bedding and its suitability for an individual person (combination of body shape, weight, sleeping position and other habits etc). I am typing this on a £200 memory foam mattress which I didn’t get around to using after having moved into a house and inherited some furniture from the previous owner. A few months of sleeping in a (seemingly nice, clean, and relatively new) sprung mattress likely resulted in a nasty case of sciatica which promptly went away when I went on a 3-week trip, and thankfully has all but disappeared now that my own mattress is back in place. I wouldn’t spend a six figure sum on a bed, but doing so looks far more logical to me than spending a similar amount of money on a car which is parked up 23+ hours a day.
I also looked at these beds myself but since we don’t have a store here I never really had the time to spend at a store to the level I would be ready to buy it. My wife is very frugal and would be against spending that much money on a mattress but maybe I could convince her. The analogy with the car is an old one but the time I spend sleeping won’t be time I am really consciously appreciating it. I do appreciate the time I am in a nice car.
As for the mattress itself, reviews are all over the place. Some people love it, some hate it. Also, you can get the checkers in different colors. There are other top mattress brands out there but again this is such a personal purchase that is hard to base on reviews or other people’s comments.
I love my Heavenly mattress from Marriott. Amazing for $1,300!
Is Loretta Jackson one of the biggest POS’s on earth or am I just making common sense?
I suggest pity for those in bed with the likes of Trump’s Pillow guy. Living life as a mental midget who should know better (but may not due to their own volition) is truly pitiful. It’s a sad creature who believes in lies or — worse yet — fabricates lies and knowingly spreads them to try to manipulate the gullible.
Well, you’re a self-declared Nazi. I wonder how that will affect your social life.
Your claim about me is delusional.
If you believe your nonsense claim, then please do the world a favor and make a donation to SPLC in honor of your nonsense about me.
SPLC is a great organization that is opposed to various “white supremacist” groups.
I sleep the best outside, on a paco pad, in a sleeping bag. It’s not the mattress that makes it better. It’s our sense of place and happiness.
If you look how the Grand Vividus looks like, there’s clearly a specific target audience in mind — and it’s not Scandinavians..
Has a Grand Vividus even ever been sold to a person residing in Sweden for use in a house or apartment in Sweden. Given what I suspect of the mark-ups on the beds and commissions, the salespersons on the floor rooms definitely don’t seem to be raking it in from sales of that model.
Even major conspicuous consumption types in the region would rather spend to run around with a very expensive car than pay up to get and keep such a bed. Perhaps some foreign oligarchs or petrodollar-loaded types, but based on a bit of sampling I suspect that even the richest families in Scandinavia don’t seem to have been in the market for that model of beds.
Buy a $300 memory foam mattress. It’s by far the best sleep I’ve had and ours has lasted a decade.
Matthew, you’re not Hästens material.
I would hope not. For that, he would have to be a horse of course. And while I don’t want to be the arse in saying this, he’s no Mr. Ed. That hast/horse kicked the can long ago and the horse hair from Mr Ed never made its way to a Hastens bed as far as I know.