Aspire 3000 Pocket Wool Cashmere and Silk Pillowtop reviewed

The Aspire 3000 Pocket Wool Cashmere and Silk Pillowtop is a hand-tufted pocket sprung mattress with a pillowtop sewn to its sleep surface, and the cheapest way into Aspire’s natural-filling range. A 4ft6 double costs £430, which is less than the flat-topped 3000 model with the same 1,000-spring core.

Why the pillowtop costs less than the flat version

Aspire shows a struck-through “was” price on every pillowtop in this family, £949 on the double. That reduction is not new: an archived copy of Aspire’s pillowtop category from March 2026 shows this model at the same £270 small single price against a £639 “was” figure. So treat the lower number as the real price. The odd result is that the pillowtop undercuts the flat 3000 Pocket Wool Cashmere and Silk, which sells at full price, by around £200 in a double.

Construction

The product page and its cross-section list ten layers. The micro springs live inside the pillowtop itself, so the softest part of the mattress also has some spring in it:

Micro springs of this kind are, as the National Bed Federation puts it, a relatively new development, used as a highly resilient comfort layer in place of more traditional fillings. Aspire’s spec bullets rate the mattress medium-firm, while its description calls it medium; with a pillowtop over a framed 18cm unit, we read it as medium-firm with a soft first few centimetres. That suits side sleepers who like cushioning at the shoulder and back sleepers who still want a level base.

Sizes and prices

Prices read on 15 October 2026. Aspire does not publish a depth for this model.

Before you buy

A pillowtop is one-sided, so you rotate it but never flip it, and natural fillings settle where you lie, which is normal and not a fault. There is no sleep trial, and Aspire’s returns policy excludes a mattress with a broken hygiene seal from the 14-day cancellation right. The 5-year guarantee is pro rata after the first year, from 20% of the retail price for a replacement in year two to 70% in year five.