Creaky knees and other age related aches

The mattress in our 2010 171 was a lot thinner and much more uncomfortable, The new 179's is a huge improvement!!

Originally posted by Budward I'm actually ok with the mattress in my 179, can't say the same for other RV's I've had though.

Well-  I need to revise my above statement.  At the time we had slept on the mattress maybe 10-12 nights.
After a 30 day road trip the mattress is shot especially on my side. 
Off to shop for something else.....

I ended up getting a 2 inch foam topper with another inch of down on top of that.  Got it at Camping World.  So far, so good.  Met a podder over the weekend who put an innerspring, full size mattress in his pod and it fit well.  Not quite as wide as the short queen that was in there originally, but the length was perfect.  He and his wife love it.

Originally posted by Budward Originally posted by Budward I'm actually ok with the mattress in my 179, can't say the same for other RV's I've had though. Well-  I need to revise my above statement.  At the time we had slept on the mattress maybe 10-12 nights. After a 30 day road trip the mattress is shot especially on my side.  Off to shop for something else.....

More info-   we bought a 5" high density foam "mattress" from here-

http://carolinacustomfoam.com/high-density/

We are very pleased with it!    We actually made the 3 hour drive to the business in Black Mountain NC  to check out the mattress as I didn't want to order something and then not like it.  
The owner was great to work with and talk with during our visit.  He cut it to our spec while we were there.

 Having spent 3 nights on it I'm happy.  It should hold up much better than the OEM mattress, which when we removed it from its cover, we saw how poorly it was made- not really foam, as the label implied,  but 3 sheets of some semi fluffy junk like batting.
He sells by the square foot so a short queen runs around $260-270 depending on if you want 74 or 75 inch length.