Helix vs Douglas Mattress Review (2025)

Top Pick 2025

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9.9 /10

Price Range$599 – $899

Sleep Trial365 Nights

Warranty20 Years

Douglas Original

Meet the Mattress

Douglas Original is a popular Canadian-made foam mattress with a cooling gel comfort layer, excellent motion isolation and pressure-point relief, priced at just $799 for a queen. It’s part of Douglas’s Canadian-made lineup, and it comes with a 365-night sleep trial and a 20-year warranty. Douglas Original is also our top pick for Best Overall Mattress of 2025.

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5.7 /10

Price Range$1,396 – $2,531

Sleep Trial100 Nights

Warranty10 Years

Helix Midnight

Meet the Mattress

Helix Midnight is a hybrid mattress from U.S.-based company, Helix Sleep. It’s part of a customizable lineup, meaning you can tailor features like cooling and comfort to match your sleep style. Helix costs $1,862 for a queen size, and comes with a 100-night sleep trial and 10-year warranty.

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Douglas and Helix are two well-known mattress brands available in Canada. Each offers a medium-firm feel, but is built with a different design. Douglas Original is a gel foam mattress engineered for cooling comfort and support in every sleep position, while the Helix Midnight is a hybrid mattress that combines foam layers with pocketed coils.

In this side-by-side comparison, Douglas scored higher overall, earning a 9.9/10 compared to Helix Midnight’s 5.7/10 rating. Douglas stood out for its affordable pricing, construction, performance, longer sleep trial and warranty, free shipping, and free returns with full refunds.

Helix Midnight is priced at $1,862 for a queen-size mattress and comes with a 100-night sleep trial and a 10-year limited warranty, which are standard for the industry. Helix Midnight mattresses are made in the United States. In Canada, their mattresses are available in most regions (excluding the Territories), although shipping costs a flat fee of $250 USD.

Douglas, on the other hand, includes a 365-night sleep trial, 20-year warranty, and a free bedding bundle at just $799 for a queen size. Douglas is a Canadian mattress brand from GoodMorning.com, one of the country’s original bed-in-a-box companies.

Not sure which mattress is the better fit? We’ve put together all the key details to help you pick the right one.

Top Pick 2025

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Winner

Douglas Original

Top-Rated Canadian Foam Mattress

Our Rating

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9.9/10

Douglas Original is an all-foam mattress designed for comfort and support. A queen size is priced at $799, and its medium-firm feel accommodates various sleep styles.

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Where Douglas Shines

• Affordable at just $799 for a queen-size
• 365-night sleep trial and 20-year warranty
• Great motion isolation and very good edge support
• Machine-washable top cover
• Free bedding bundle with every mattress purchase
• Free returns with pickup service

Publication Features

Canadian Living

Best Overall Mattress 2025

Style At Home

Best Mattress Canada 2025

Forbes

Best Mattress In a Box 2024

Overall Ratings

We include edge support and motion isolation in our overall mattress score, and we present these results using a simple colour system: green (5.0 and above), yellow (3.0–4.9), and red (2.9 and below). Cooling features aren’t part of the final rating, but we still use the same colour scale to show how each mattress performs. Firmness and bounce are more a matter of personal preference, so we display those scores in grey and exclude them from the overall score.

Motion Isolation

8.3

/10

Edge Support

7.8

/10

Cooling Features

5.0

/10

Firmness

6.7

/10

Bounce

3.1

/10

Mattress Overview

Product Details: Douglas Original

Douglas Original is a medium-firm foam mattress designed for coolness and comfort in all sleep positions. The mattress uses ecoLight® cooling gel foam and responsive Elastex® foam to regulate temperature and relieve pressure points. This mattress comes with a top cover that is removable and machine-washable.

At just $799 for a queen, Douglas Original comes with a 365-night sleep trial and a 20-year warranty. It also ships with a free bedding bundle, which includes a cotton sheet set, duvet cover, down alternative duvet, pillow(s), pillow protector(s), and a mattress protector. You can also upgrade to the Douglas Alpine or Douglas Summit models for extra features, like more cooling and plushness.

Product Details: Helix Midnight

Helix Midnight is a hybrid mattress with a medium-firm feel. It blends foam layers for pressure relief with a coil base that adds bounce and airflow. In third-party engineer testing, Helix Midnight performed well for motion isolation and edge support. While Helix advertises 5 layers in total, the mattress we received was missing the 1" foam base layer listed on their site. Instead, it had a thin fabric pad, more like a Tuftex fabric pad.

Helix Midnight is priced at $1,862 for a queen, which does not include the flat $250 USD fee for shipping to Canada. The Helix Midnight provides a 100-night sleep trial and a 10-year limited warranty. Returns are free in the first 45 days of the sleep trial period. Helix will arrange pickup service for mattress returns at no cost.

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Mattress Construction

The Douglas Original mattress is designed with a 3-layer all-foam structure. In comparison, the Helix mattress uses a 5-layer hybrid design, combining foam and coils for comfort and support.

Douglas Original

• 1st Layer: 2" ecoLight® cooling gel foam to offer a memory-foam-like feel, which provides body-contouring comfort and pressure relief. The cooling gel infusion also makes this layer breathable and cool to the touch.
• 2nd Layer: 2" Elastex® transition foam, which adds a level of bounciness and responsiveness similar to latex, while being latex-free.
• 3rd Layer: 6" of motion-isolation support foam that provides support, stability, and significantly reduces motion transfer across the mattress. This high-density base helps to minimize disturbances from movements on the other side of the bed, which is one reason why all Douglas mattresses are known for their great motion isolation.

The Douglas Original has a white, mountainscape cover with a bold red zipper that runs along the sidewall. It's removable and machine washable, making it easy to clean. It has plant-based Infinitex™ fibres that help wick away moisture to keep the surface cool and breathable. That's good for hot sleepers or for those who simply want a cooler sleep surface.

Helix Midnight

• 1st Layer: 1″ of Helix's Memory Plus foam, which provides some softness and pressure relief by adapting to your body's shape.
• 2nd Layer: 1″ layer of responsive foam that adds cushioning and helps smooth the transition to the firmer layers below.
• 3rd Layer: 1.5″ of similar responsive foam. It prevents you from sinking too far into the mattress and adds a buffer above the coils.
• 4th Layer: 8″ individually wrapped coils that provide targeted full-body support, with edge foam for added stability.
• 5th Layer: According to Helix's website, the base layer should be 1″ of dense foam. However, the mattress we received had a thin fabric pad instead of this foam layer.

The Helix Midnight has a clean, all-white top with a navy blue band around the sides, giving it a modern, two-tone look. By default, the mattress comes with Helix's Breathe Knit cover made from 100% polyester, a material that isn't known for its breathability. The cover isn't removable or machine washable, so you can only spot clean any stains.

Mattress Performance

In third-party engineer testing commissioned by us, both Douglas Original and Helix Midnight were rated in the medium-firm range. Douglas scored 6.7/10, while Helix Midnight came in at 6.3/10. This firmness level is ideal for most sleepers, providing balanced comfort and support whether you sleep on your back, stomach, or side.

Both mattresses earned high scores for edge support. Strong edge support helps if you like to sit or sleep near the sides of your bed by adding extra stability and reducing the feeling of slipping off.

Where Douglas Differs:

• Douglas outperformed Helix Midnight for motion isolation, earning a 8.3. Good motion isolation means one person can move on their side of the bed without disturbing their partner, which is especially helpful for couples, or anyone who shares their bed.
• Douglas has a lower bounce score at 3.1/10. This is good for light sleepers who are easily disturbed, and contributes to its great motion isolation.
• Douglas has more cooling features than Helix Midnight and earned a score of 5.0/10. Its moisture-wicking CoolSense® cover, breathable Elastex® foam, and ecoLight® cooling gel foam all work together to help regulate temperature while you sleep. If you like to sleep cool, you might want a mattress with even more cooling features, like Douglas Alpine or Douglas Summit.

Where Helix Midnight Differs:

• Helix Midnight earned a great edge support score of 8.5/10, which is slightly higher than Douglas's score. The hybrid's coil system provides sturdier edges, which is useful if you often sit on the side of the bed or share the mattress and want to use the full surface.
• Helix Midnight was more responsive than Douglas, scoring an above-average 5.1/10 for bounce. While bounce is a matter of personal preference, a bouncier mattress makes it easier to switch positions or get in and out of bed. That said, higher bounce may not be for you if you're a light sleeper.

Delivery & Other Policies

Douglas

Douglas ships mattresses with FedEx and delivers for free to most areas in Canada, usually within 2–10 business days. Douglas offers a longer sleep trial of the two mattress brands at 365 nights, plus a longer 20-year warranty. If you return your Douglas mattress during the sleep trial, Douglas will arrange to pick it up and issue a full refund, all for free.

Plus, Douglas organizes any mattresses returned during the trial to be donated to a local charity. In the case there aren't any charities near you, the company will have the mattress responsibly recycled.

Helix

Helix Midnight ships across Canada through FedEx, with most orders arriving within 4–9 business days, although shipping costs a flat fee of $250 USD.

The mattress is vacuum-sealed in plastic and delivered in a cardboard box. The company offers a 100-night sleep trial to test the mattress at home, and a 10-year warranty.

You can return your Helix mattress during the sleep trial, and initiate a return within 45 days of your sleep trial ending.

Company Background

Third-party review sites like the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and Trustpilot collect and publish customer feedback about companies and their products, and aren't controlled by the companies being reviewed. They offer a snapshot of overall customer satisfaction and highlight common issues shoppers might face. Checking ratings on sites like these can be a useful way for customers to make more informed purchasing decisions.

Both Douglas and Helix are well-known brands, and have high scores on both BBB and Trustpilot. However, Helix's customer review score on its BBB profile is only 1.18/5 stars. In comparison, the BBB customer review score for Douglas's parent company, GoodMorning.com, is 4.9/5 stars.

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Final Recommendation

When you stack the Helix Midnight mattress against the Douglas Original, several key features stand out. Both mattresses are solid medium-firm choices suitable for any sleep style. However, the Douglas Original mattress takes the lead with superior performance in third-party engineering tests, a 365-night sleep trial, and a 20-year warranty.

At $799 for a queen-size mattress, the Douglas offers very good motion isolation and multiple cooling features, making it a compelling choice.

Additionally, all Douglas mattresses come with a free bedding bundle, which includes a cotton sheet set, duvet cover, down alternative duvet, pillow(s), pillow protector(s), and a mattress protector, all essential items for a comfortable sleep setup. Overall, it's an affordable option that provides everything you need for a restful night's sleep.

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