Simba 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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6.1 /10

Price Range$1,599 – $2,499

Sleep Trial100 Nights

Warranty10 Years

Simba 2500

Meet the Mattress

The Simba 2500 is a hybrid mattress with foam and micro-coils, available online at Simba’s Canadian website and at Sleep Country Canada. It has good motion isolation and edge support, as well as 7-zone support in its base layer. As Simba’s intermediate-level mattress, it sells for $2,199 for a queen, more than some other hybrids on the market.

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Douglas (based in Canada) and Simba (based in the UK) are two well-known mattress brands. Both Douglas Original and Simba are medium-firm mattresses with good edge support and motion isolation.

Simba 2500 costs $2,199 for a queen and comes with a 100-night sleep trial and 10-year warranty. Douglas, on the other hand, provides a longer 365-night sleep trial and 20-year warranty for $799 for a queen. Simba is owned by Sleep Country, while Douglas is owned by GoodMorning.com.

In this side-by-side comparison, Douglas outscored Simba with a 9.9/10 overall rating compared to Simba’s 6.1/10. Douglas wins with its higher motion isolation and edge support, a longer 365-night sleep trial, a 20-year warranty, and a free bedding bundle with purchase, all for a lower price of $799 for a queen size.

If you’re unsure about which mattress to choose between a Douglas and an Simba, we’ve put together a detailed comparison to help you make the right decision.

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Winner

Douglas Original

Top-Rated Canadian Foam Mattress

Our Rating

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9.9/10

Douglas Original has a higher overall rating than Simba, according to our scoring methodology that factors in commissioned third-party engineer testing.

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Where Douglas Shines

• 365-night sleep trial
• 20-year warranty
• Comes with a free bedding bundle
• Free shipping and returns in most Canadian locations
• Great motion isolation and very good edge support
• Made in Canada

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

The Douglas Original is a medium-firm gel foam mattress designed to be cool and comfortable in any sleep position. It gently contours to your body for pressure relief, offers balanced support, and provides reliable edge support and motion isolation. It's also made with eco-conscious materials like ecoLight® cooling gel foam and plant-based Infinitex™ fibres. Being medium firm, Douglas is suitable for all back, stomach, and side sleepers.

At just $799 for a queen, the Douglas Original is one of the more affordable foam mattresses in Canada. It comes with a 365-night sleep trial, a 20-year warranty, and a free bedding bundle, which includes a cotton sheet set, down alternative duvet, pillow(s), pillow protector(s), and a mattress protector. You can also choose to upgrade to the Douglas Alpine or Douglas Summit models for extra features like more cooling and pressure relief.

Product Details: Simba 2500

The Simba 2500 is a medium-firm hybrid mattress that offers excellent edge support and good motion isolation. Its antimicrobial top cover is breathable, promoting better airflow. The mattress comes in a single firmness option. While it's described as medium-plush, it scores 6.1/10 on the firmness scale, placing it in the medium-firm category, which is generally ideal for all sleep styles. The Simba 2500 is constructed with layers of memory foam and a layer of pocketed micro coils for balanced comfort and support.

Simba is priced higher than Douglas at $2,199 for a queen. Simba provides a 100-night sleep trial and a 10-year warranty, which are average for the mattress industry. 

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Mattress Construction

Both Simba and Douglas mattresses are designed with a three-layer combination foam structure, while Simba has an additional micro coil layer. Douglas measures 10" and Simba measures 12".

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 mattress has a white mountain scape cover with a red zipper running the entire length of the sidewall. The top cover is machine washable, so it's easy to keep clean and fresh. It's enhanced with plant-based, moisture-wicking Infinitex™ fibres that allow it to stay cool and breathable throughout the night. The stretch-knit fabric feels soft to the touch, but is also extremely durable.

Simba 2500

• 1st layer: 1″ graphite-infused memory foam as a top layer that helps contour to your body while the graphite infusion works to draw heat away, supporting a cooler sleep.
• 2nd layer: 1″ micro-coils individually wrapped in (up to) 2,500 units designed to add breathability. They're surrounded by edge support foam to help with structure around the perimeter.
• 3rd Layer: 3.5″ polyurethane transition foam positioned in the middle of the mattress, which is meant to help reinforce edge support.
• 4th Layer: 6.5″ support foam base made of dense, perforated foam that provides a sturdy foundation and includes 7-zone support to help align the spine and support different areas of the body.

The Simba mattress has a white cover with a diamond-knit pattern. It's made mostly of polyester and polypropylene, with some elastane for stretch. The cover has a zipper but can't be removed or machine washed. It's also hypoallergenic, which is meant to help keep the mattress fresh and cool.

Mattress Performance

In third-party engineer testing that we commissioned, both the Douglas Original and Simba 2500 landed in the medium-firm range. That firmness level works well for most sleep styles, whether you sleep on your back, stomach, or side.

Both mattresses also performed well for motion isolation and edge support. If you don't want to be disturbed while you sleep, good motion isolation is key. It means that if one person moves on their side of the bed, it won't wake up their partner on the other side. This is especially helpful for light sleepers and couples.

Edge support is also important if you like to sit on the edge of your mattress or lie close to the sides. It provides extra stability around the edge to prevent you from slipping off.

Where Douglas Differs:

• Douglas scored lower for bounce, at 3.1/10 which means the surface responds to movement more slowly. That can be helpful for light sleepers or anyone who prefers a mattress that doesn't react to every toss and turn.
• Douglas includes more cooling features than Simba, earning a cooling features 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 through the night. If you like to sleep cool, you might want a mattress with more cooling features, like the Douglas Original.

Where Simba Differs:

• Simba has a bounce score of 3.9/10, which means that this mattress is a little more responsive to movements like getting out of bed and changing positions.
• Simba scored a lower 4.3/10 for cooling, which is below average for a hybrid mattress due to having fewer dedicated cooling features. However, it did earn some points for its open-cell foam, graphite-infused foam, and pocketed micro-coils, which help improve airflow through the mattress.

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.

Simba

When ordered from Sleep Country Canada, the Simba 2500 mattress typically arrives within 3–10 business days. It offers 100-night sleep trial and a 10-year warranty.

Where Sleep Country is different from Douglas is that the company doesn't offer mattress pick-ups for returns or full refunds. Instead, if you return your mattress during the sleep trial, you'll get in-store credit (minus a $65 exchange fee) to use towards a different Sleep Country product. If your next pick is more expensive, you'll cover the difference in price. Sleep Country mattresses are only recycled or donated if Green Glove Delivery is purchased by the customer for an extra $59.99.

Company Background

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Launched in 2015 and based in the United Kingdom, Simba Sleep was purchased by Sleep Country Canada in 2025. Canadian models of Simba mattresses are manufactured domestically. Sleep Country, founded in 1994 in Vancouver, BC, is a well-established retailer with hundreds of stores across Canada, offering a wide range of sleep products, including mattresses, pillows, bedding, and furniture.

Douglas, on the other hand, is a Canadian mattress brand owned by GoodMorning.com, one of the country's largest independent online mattress retailers. In 2017, Douglas entered the market as a high-quality bed-in-a-box brand. It benefits from the extensive experience of its parent company, which launched its first mattress, Novosbed (now known as Octave), in 2009. This gives Douglas access to over a decade of engineering data, customer feedback, and product development expertise.

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Final Recommendation

When you stack the Simba mattress against the Douglas, a few things stand out. Both mattresses are good options for any sleep style and have strong mattress performance results. But the Douglas Original mattress edges out its competitors with its longer 365-night sleep trial and 20-year warranty. Plus, the Douglas's $799 price tag for a queen-size with great motion isolation and multiple cooling features is hard to pass up.

All Douglas mattresses also come with a free bedding bundle, including up to 6 free items: cotton sheet set, down alternative duvet, pillow(s), pillow protector(s), and a mattress protector. It's an affordable choice that provides everything you need for a comfy sleep setup.

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