Tuesday 21 January 2014

John Cotton Christmas Bed Bundle

John Cotton is a family-owned manufacturer of a wide range of pillows, duvets and mattress protectors.  Established in 1916, it's brands include the popular names Slumberdown and Snuggledown.

I was extremely pleased to receive this bed bundle for a double bed from John Cotton, free of charge in return for an open and honest review.

Excited to see the quality of this item, I ripped into the packaging to find this very neat and attractive storage bag packed with all the essentials for creating a comfortable bed for any guests you may have. Although, to ensure my review on this product is of my own honest opinion (and as we opted for a quiet Christmas!), we used the bundle on our own bed.

We were amazed such a large amount fitted into such a compact bag, just the right size for storing in an airing cupboard/wardrobe when not in use, dust free and certainly not taking up valuable space.

The double bed bundle I received consists of:

2 Pillows 
1 13.5 Tog Duvet
2 Pillow Protectors
1 Mattress Protector

It took both myself and my partner to remove the bundle from the bag as it was quite well packed!
Once removed everything looked a little flattened with all the smaller items in their individual bags. We previously had a feather duvet which was not only a pain for the feather falling to the bottom, so it was a constant battle with the duvet to get them all back to the top, but it was always an awful job changing the covers, it never wanted to go in without a fight! 
The John Cotton duvet literally took seconds to fit into the cover, much easier and the filling stayed where it should so didn't really need shaking at all.

After seeing how flat everything was coming out of the bag I must say I really wasn't expecting them to plump up as well as they did, but within half an hour the bed looked great. 

The pillow and mattress protectors actually turned out to be extremely useful and were tested to their max, due to our 18 month old daughter being poorly with a bug and spending more time in our bed than her own, the protectors definitely did their job protecting our pillows, we were certainly very thankful for them!

Whilst our daughter did sleep on these pillows we found she was sleeping much better, so we decided to put one of them in her own bed permanently and she is sleeping much better with this - and believe me she has always been an awful sleeper.

The 13.5 tog duvet is great, unlike our feather duvet this one actually holds a lot of heat in, we actually thought we had the heating on one morning.....until we climbed out of bed that was!!

We are both extremely impressed with this bundle, so much that we have decided to stick with this bedding rather than swapping back to our feather duvet and pillows.  It is so much comfier and warm,  we are actually getting a good nights sleep each and every night, which I believe is exactly what the John Cotton group were hoping to achieve.

The bundle is available in single, double and king size and is exclusive to Argos.
For further information on products in the John Cotton range, please check out their website www.johncotton.co.uk


Please note, I received this bundle free of charge in return for an open and honest review.  I hope my review has provided you with a great insight to this fabulous product.