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The lavatory had a high-tech Toto toilet, though I did not personally use the bidet function. (Would anyone on an airplane?)

“Values of the top two countries are very close; however, China showed the most impressive increase in terms of mattress consumption over the last years, and important growth rates were registered also by other Asian countries like India and Vietnam.”

Dennis is run for the benefit of the Heart of England Forest, a registered charity dedicated to planting tomorrow’s great native woodland one tree at a time.

The two most popular foam mattresses in the world are memory and high-resilience, which have transformed the way we think about mattresses.

“These pillows make absolutely no sense,” he says, holding up a blue velvet one to demonstrate, wrapping it around his neck. “They don’t give you the neck support that you need, and they kind of just sit there, doing nothing.”

Nelson Wu, sales director for Andar, Macau-based Macau Commercial & Industrial Spring Mattress Manufacturing, agrees that it is a strong advantage.

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• Do your homework: Look for a true custom sleep experience. The San Francisco Proper Hotel, for example, sourced its mattresses from Aireloom, a company that makes the mattresses by hand. Its beds are dressed with Bellino Fine Linens from Italy, down comforters, Kelly Wearstler cotton blanket, and hypo-allergenic pillows. You’re unlikely to find that setup in any store.

There are two popular kinds of spring mattresses available on the market: open coil and pocket sprung. Unlike an open coil mattress, a pocket sprung one uses individual springs instead of coils to form a cohesive unit. Pocket sprung is a more innovative version of the early open-spring mattresses as it uses separate springs in supporting the sleeper’s body.

Companies tend to limit the number of mattress types they want to sell via bed-in-a-box. This is so they don’t have endless product variation, Geeraert adds. "They tend to build up a mattress of different layers. Typically these have a support layer, the biggest block, on the bottom, with transition or comfort layers on top," he said. "With the lower density materials, especially if they are produced from MDI foams, there can be issues with recovery."

On Nov. 12, Cristian Sanchez, 28 years old and a recently credentialed attorney, hopped on a three-hour flight from San Antonio to San Diego, and then took a rideshare further south, across the U.S. border. As the sun dipped beneath the horizon, the vehicle journeyed through the darkness of northern Mexico.

Miku Ihara, 22, a woman cadet on the Kaga, says she reads books or studies when off-duty, but misses having access to Line and Instagram. Sailors are limited to a daily maximum of four emails when at sea.