Rem-Fit 500 Pillow Review
Current at GBP 89.99 under this exact name. The Rem-Fit renumbering applied to its mattresses, not to its pillows.
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Verdict
Worth clearing up first, because this page had it wrong: Rem-Fit renumbered its mattresses, not its pillows. The 500 Cool Gel Pillow is on sale now under that exact name at GBP 89.99, with no former-name note anywhere on its page, and the 400 Memory Foam Crumbed Pillow is too. What you are buying is gel-powder visco foam under a Tencel and polyester cover.
Buy it if
You want a straightforward cooling foam pillow and you already know what loft suits you.
Avoid it if
You want adjustable loft, or you want the coolest option. A sprung or loose-fill pillow breathes better than foam under any cover.
See the current Rem-Fit offer
Three Rem-Fit schemes, 10 per cent each, plus multi-buy tiers on pillows. Who qualifies is not published.
No code needed. The discount is applied automatically at checkout. Opening the site in a new tab.
Rem-Fit on Amazon UK
Widely listed. Confirm the model, because the range was renamed.
No code needed. Prices on Amazon change frequently, so check the seller and the returns terms before you buy. Opening in a new tab.
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Type | Cooling foam pillow, current under this exact name at GBP 89.99 |
| Range note | The renumbering was mattresses only. The 400 and 500 pillows are both still sold under those numbers. |
| Construction | Visco elastic polyurethane foam with gel powders, under a 40 per cent Lyocell from Tencel and 60 per cent polyester cover |
| Guarantee | Up to 5 years, and only if you use a pillow protector |
| Discounts | Rem-Fit runs three schemes at 10 per cent each |
The scores
A sound gel-foam pillow at GBP 89.99, and the dearest of the five Rem-Fit sells.
The dearest of Rem-Fit’s five pillows, and the only one with gel in the fill.
Solid visco foam, which holds one height well and does not let you change it.
Good once set to a height that suits you.
Depends on the fill. Open structures beat solid foam.
The height can be changed after sleeping on it, which removes the guess.
Machine washable, so the pillow itself gets cleaned rather than just the case.
A renamed range makes older coverage unreliable.
The renumbering missed the pillows
Corrected on 19 October 2026
This page used to tell you that Rem-Fit had retired the 400, 500 and 600 numbering, so a 500 pillow might be something else now. That is true of the mattresses and not of the pillows. Rem-Fit prints a “Formerly” note on three mattresses, the 3000 Supreme, the 4000 Ortho Elite and the 5000 Lux Elite, and on no pillow at all.
Both numbered pillows are current under their original names: the 500 Cool Gel at GBP 89.99 and the 400 Memory Foam Crumbed at GBP 49.99. An older review of a Rem-Fit 500 pillow is describing this pillow.
The general caution still stands, and it is worth keeping for the next product rather than this one. Manufacturers rename, re-specify and quietly change construction without changing a listing, which is exactly why marketplace star ratings mislead: an average covers a product's whole history. It is also why a renumbering has to be checked range by range rather than assumed across a brand, which is the mistake this page made.
The defence is to compare specifications rather than names. For a pillow that means the fill type, whether the height can be adjusted, and the dimensions. For a mattress it means depth, spring count, spring type and firmness. Those describe a product; a model number describes a position in a catalogue at a moment in time.
Whatever the name, height decides it
Height is what determines whether your neck continues the line of your spine, and it depends on your sleeping position, your shoulder width and how soft your mattress is.
Lie in the position you actually sleep in for ten minutes so the pillow settles, then have someone look at you from behind. Tipped up means too high, dropped means too low.
Two involuntary signals are more reliable still. An arm habitually under the pillow means too low. Waking having pushed it aside means too high.
You are not sleeping on the pillow, you are sleeping on the case. A cheap polyester case insulates and holds moisture against the skin, which is what people actually experience as sleeping hot. Cotton percale or lyocell costs a fraction of the pillow and does more for how cool it feels than the choice between pillow types.
A correction worth making
Commonly repeated, and wrong
A renumbering is assumed to cover a brand, and it covers whatever the brand says it covers. Rem-Fit renumbered its mattresses and published the mapping on three product pages, and left its pillows alone: the 400 and 500 pillows are both still on sale under those numbers. So the rule is not that model numbers are unreliable, it is that you check the specific product rather than reasoning from the range. For a pillow that means the fill, the adjustability and the dimensions; for a mattress, depth, spring count, spring type and firmness.
Should you buy it?
Reasonable at GBP 89.99 if solid cooling foam at a fixed height is what you want. It is the dearest of the five pillows Rem-Fit sells and the only one with gel in the fill.
Check whether you qualify for one of the 10 per cent schemes. And set the height with the ten minute test rather than trusting a description.
The renaming did hit the mattress range, where it changed what the digits mean. The 500 Ortho page explains that, and it is the page to read if a mattress rather than a pillow is what you were looking for.
Where this sits
Other pages on this site that bear on the same decision.
- Rem-Fit Hybrid Pillow Review
- Rem-Fit Snow Pillow Review
- Pillow Reviews
- Best pillows UK
- Rem-Fit Discount Codes
Questions people ask
Can I trust an old review of a mattress or pillow?
Only if the specification still matches. On this pillow it does: the 500 Cool Gel is still sold under that name. Rem-Fit renumbered its mattresses only, so for those compare depth, spring count, spring type and firmness rather than the number.