@Jennyhirsch I hope you don’t mind that I brought your discussion on chat about the thinner mattress on the Murphy bed at your studio in the Island Tower over to here. Photos on IG show the big difference. Wow! Liners really need a chart with dimensions of all beds at all resorts.
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For which account am I searching to see this?
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Oh I thought we were comparing across resorts, suggesting that they put nice ones in early and have cheaped out over time.
I wouldn’t expect the two mattresses to have the same exact dimensions. After all, one has to fit into the wall/cabinet.
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I guess it was very uncomfortable.
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That obviously matters more than anything.
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The Murphy bed in the duo suite at Riviera was terrible. I still contend that it was broken. Felt like it wasn’t all the way flat. Hopefully, the duos at Island Tower are new enough the bed isn’t broken. 
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They could have made a deeper cabinet, like they did for Pop. Their two mattresses are the same depth. For once, the value room did something better than a DVC. Here’s a photo I found of Pop.
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DS liked the extra privacy created by the deep cabinet. It was nice. I’m surprised they aren’t all like this.
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Which is definitely not the same depth as a deluxe resort mattress.
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Without a ruler, or some other unit of measure, it’s hard to say. I now travel with a ruler and fridge thermometer, but I failed to measure the mattresses on my recent stays at CSR and Pop.
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The thing is, while measurements are objective, what people find comfortable is entirely subjective. You and I could both stay in the same room on the same mattresses and come away with an entirely different perspective. I’ve slept on the main beds and the Murphy beds across multiple resorts and resort categories and have never found one - except the pull out couch (not chair!) - to be uncomfortable. So I’ve never been clear that these conversations are super helpful in identifying for the wide variety of preferences across the visitors to WDW (or heck, any hotel anywhere)
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I dont mind you sharing my pictures at all. The thinner mattress is just wrong. Go to disneyworld.com and look at the pictures on the Disney website for the Island Tower Duo and Studio rooms. Disney has pics with a thick mattress on that pull down frame. Then look at my pic with the pink phone from this morning. Not the same mattress.
I booked the room expecting what I saw on the WDW website, which aligned with my experience at Riviera in August.
Visited the Island Tower DVC model Duo room and 2 bedroom room this morning. Also asked the nice people in the 1 bedroom suite next door to my studio to let me see their pull down mattress. All the same as my picture.
Pink phone is 6 inches. No more than 2 inches more for mattress height. Such a poor product they are offering.
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I appreciate you raising this issue. I would never have noticed this, since it’s just two of us and we don’t stay Deluxe or DVC. Thanks for checking out the other types of Poly Tower rooms, too.
@Len - Are you aware of this pulldown bed mattress bait-and-switch at the Poly Tower?
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Substantially, actually. One might argue the one that was experienced is thicker by comparison.
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Interestingly, the duo studio at the Riviera does look thicker but not the regular studio. So perhaps it is a distinction between regular bed and secondary bed?
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Oh that’s a good call out
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