Much better mattress cover than can be find at the discount stores. Have ordered two of these covers and am very satisfied with quality and price.

I rated this five stars. It has a really nice terry cloth cover. There are two layers on the top cover. The top layer is a cotton, polyester blend. The second layer is a vinyl type material, which is the layer for liquid spills. The remainder of the cover is a elastic polyester, nylon material that stretches around the side area and down around the bottom area of the mattress. I bought this just to protect the top of my new memory foam mattress. It's a true to fit for a deep pocket mattress. The deep pockets on this cover, it will fit up to a 16" mattress height. My mattress is 12", and the cover will stretch around another 4". I plan on adding a 4" memory foam topper, on top of my mattress. I do believe, this will fit over the whole mattress with the memory foam mattress top. I will let you know, if this cover stretches over the extra top part, with the extra foam on top of my mattress. It's a nice cover. I don't worry about getting warm with the mattress cover. Only because I have a sheet and thick blanket on top of the mattress cover. We are unusual sleepers in our house. We sleep on top of the bedspread with separate blankets. My husband hogs the blankets. He's a restless sleeper, obviously. He always took my side of the blankets, and I woke up cold every single night. I use to keep a separate blanket at the foot of the bed, but I was getting tired waking up cold to get the extra blanket. So we sleep with our own separate blankets. Now that I am older, I run hot all the time. So I wouldn't know if the cover would be adding to the warmth. Anyway, it's a nice mattress cover. I would like to get a zipper type mattress cover for protection, but this will do for now.

I bought this product along with the ENCASE Box Spring encasement, made by the same company. While I am more than pleased with the box spring encasement, this product should not be sold as a dust-mite/allergen eliminating product. It is a fitted sheet design, NOT A MATTRESS ENCASEMENT. It has mesh sides with holes more than large enough for dust-mites to get through, and a terry cloth top specifically designed to wick and trap moisture from sleeping bodies -creating a perfect habitat for dust-mites. If you are looking for something for dust-mites, get the ENCASE Mattress encasement or a similiar product from another manufacturer. This type of "mattress protector" will not help with allergies!

That aside, I was pleased with the water-proofing on this product, as tested by my two-year old *sighs*. After receiving my order of two of these mattress protectors, I decided to keep them and bought a Hospitology Sleep Defense System Waterproof/Bed Bug Proof Mattress Encasement for the actual mattress encasement (which I LOVE!!) Because that product is designed to be installed permanently over the mattress, I use one Sleep Tite matress protector as my mattress pad over that encasement, and this way I can sterilize it every week and hopefully extend the life of the Hospitology encasement. This product is comfortable to sleep on, makes no noticible noise and claims to be able to tolerate sterilization at temperatures up to 200 degrees. The mesh sides stretch well enough to extend over both mattress and box-spring, and will hopefully protect the corners of the boxspring ENCASE encasement from damage from my metal bed-frame. I am happy with this product as part of my bedding, but once again, it is NOT sufficient protection from dust-mites on its own!!

The product name is a bit vague. This is not an encasement, it is a cover, like a basic mattress pad. Unlike allergy mattress encasements that go all the way around the mattress/box spring and have a secure zipper closure, this cover fits only over the top and corners, just like a mattress pad would. Having said that, it does have an absorbent quality on top (to the touch it feels like a soft towel) and the corners fit over a very deep mattress, which is nice. The corners are also not an allergy-proof material of any kind. Like a normal mattress pad, the corners are a shear, stretchy, netting material. So basically, in terms of allergy protection/bed bug barriers just think of this more as laying a piece of material on top of your bed and then placing your sheets over it like normal. They are high quality (as they should be for the price I paid) but since I bought them to protect my bed from me and me from it, I believe my money would have been better spent elsewhere.

Update: Not more than 2 days after I wrote my original review I spilled a HUGE cup of bright red fruit punch all over my bed by mistake- 52 ounces to be specific. The sheets and blanket went into the washing machine immediately as I kept stripping the bed as fast as I could. In all fairness, I do have a total allergy encasement protector over my mattress UNDER this mattress pad and that probably would have prevented the punch from getting to and staining the mattress IF it had even gotten to the allergy encasement but there wasn't so much as a drop- not damp- not pink- NOTHING!
I stand by my review in terms of this being a mattress pad and not a full-allergy protection piece HOWEVER, this is one WONDERFULLY absorbent mattress pad. When my cup spilled all 52 ounces, of course, basically all pooled to the center of the bed where I had been lounging. All 52 ounces ended up staining (temporarily, until it was washed) an area only about one foot wide and 2 feet long- that's a lot of liquid in a very small area and yet, this mattress pad contained it all, which is very good since this kind of punch is known for its ability to stain. In fact, I was barefoot at the time that I spilled my drink everywhere and even after a shower the bottoms of my feet and cuticles were still a bit tinted but my mattress and it's encasement were perfectly fine and totally dry so my review is now going to 5 stars for this product's absorbency.

I was definitely expecting a softer, and more plush, mattress protector. But I'm still very happy wit what I got.
It doesn't make noise, you can't even tell it's there! I was VERY careful washing, and I decided to hang dry, because of the reviews I read. I think that may be why it's not as soft as described. But I put sheets over it anyway, so I'd rather it not get ruined in the dryer.
It fits PERFECTLY on my memory foam/gel mattress. But the sides do seem rather thin and delicate, so I'm sure to be careful when putting this cover on.
We live in a particularly rainy area of Maui, in Hawaii. So I needed something waterproof to protect the memory foam. Also, it can get quite hot some nights which causes a lot of sweating. ANY kind of moisture destroys memory foam, so I didn't want to take any chances. This product works very well for our needs.
I deducted the star because of the thin sides. I can see how easily they could rip. And also because I have to hang dry. I don't understand why this company refuses to honor the warranty because someone followed the directions and dried the pad. One reviewer said they told her the dryer had caused "microscopic holes". Sounds strange to me that it would invalidate the warranty when this product is marketed as having "microscopic holes", so that it's breathable (which it is, by the way).
Anyway, I'm not going to do anything to revoke the warranty because the warranty is one of the main reasons I chose this mattress protector over others.
BOTTOM LINE :
Product is/works as described
I am happy with this purchase
I would purchase again
I would recommend to family and friends
Overall, a good, quality, water resistant mattress protector. And great for memory foam!