We bought the mattress for my daughter and son in law for Christmas. She is pregnant and was really uncomfortable on her old mattress. She loves this mattress.We looked at mattresses locally and the price was about double what we paid for this one.My son in law said that it came in a small box (tube maybe). When he got the mattress out of the box it was pretty thin and he thought that it was a cushion for a mattress, but he went to run some errands and when he came back it had expanded to a regular size mattress.They are both happy with the mattress and we were happy with the price.