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Last update: 27 Mar 2024

Mattress

Tahiti Matelas

2023-01-26 00:54:08 UTC

Island: Tahiti

Tahiti Matelas
www.tahitimatelas.com
 https://www.facebook.com/tahitimatelasmoerani/

Papeete next to Avis
Fare Tony Shopping Center
Tipaerui Valley
Tavaroa next to McDonalds
Titora
Mo'orea

2/2023  SV Tavae  We bought a firm 15cm foam with a cover from Tahiti Matelas a year ago. I thought we have the foam for a year,  and went to the shop to complain. They said to me to try with buying a memory foam topper… Then she said that foam should last for about a year. I gave up. But few days ago I was looking for something and found our bill where actually we saw that foam lost its shape much earlier – it lasted about 9 months.

Cover was not tight around the foam as I think it should be. Maybe that was the reason that foam just lost the shape very quickly.

The cover is beautiful but very quickly start to form some fabric balls all over the surface. Not nice on touch.  

The price was about $300 for one Queen size bed.



11/21  SV Aldebaran  We actually just picked up our custom mattress from Moerani today and I have to say it’s nothing but a block of foam no better than the one we had before.

6-21  Tahiti Matelas is a mattress store with 6 locations, including one on Mo'orea. They say their mattresses are "factory direct pricing" and made in Fenua. So if someone wanted a box spring mattress it might be worth talking to them to see if they do custom sizes. Also they sell memory foam toppers and, rare in this part of the world, US "king size" pillows.