In amongst overseas visitors and a very busy week at work, I agreed to test the Millbrook Utopia last week. I actually had a devious plan to let my visiting uncle test the bed and give me an impartial review.

Not only would this be a brilliant way to gather information about yet another bed, we were a bed short for the week, and this sorted the problem out.

Unfortunately all didn’t quite go to plan, because all I got out of him was ‘very comfortable’ and ‘I slept well’ – the man is clearly not known for his bed reviewing abilities.

The moral of the story here is that I didn’t actually get to write an impartial review of the bed. I have a rule that unless I’ve slept on a bed I can’t review it. So instead, I’ll give you the facts:

Mattress

• The Utopia is a pocket sprung mattress from the Millbrook Impressions range.
• It contains 1400 individually nested pocket springs. This means you are going to get a medium tension feel (for a firmer feel you should be looking for a mattress with upwards of 1800 pocket springs).
• The Utopia’s fillings are natural white fibres and soft foam.
• The mattress is topped with a generous layer of memory foam. The memory foam layer comes in the form of a pillow top, which really adds to the luxury feel of the mattress.
• Everyone seems to be offering a non-turn mattress these days, and the Utopia is no different.
• The mattress sides have 3 rows of hand stitched borders to provide additional support across the mattress.
• As with all Millbrook’s mattresses the Utopia can be used either with its associated divan base, or with a sprung slatted bedstead.

Divan/base

• The base supplied as standard with the Utopia is a sprung edge unit with different spring tensions across the pressure point zones.
• The usual choice of storage options is available, including a 2-drawer and 4-drawer unit.

Sizes/pricing

Taking a look at the Bedstar website, the Utopia is available in the following sizes and pricing structure:

• 3FT single divan and mattress – £535
• 4FT6 double divan and mattress – £670
• 5FT kingsize divan and mattress – £730
• 6FT superking divan and mattress – £880

So, while my uncle Ian was completely rubbish as a bed reviewer, he did seem to enjoy his stay and certainly didn’t have anything bad to say about the Millbrook Utopia.

With the high specification of the product I would have been very surprised if he had complained.