The best duvet I've ever slept in has just plunged in price

Bedding specialist Simba has announced a winter sale - and it might be time to get my wallet out.

Around this time last year, I set out to see if Simba's renowned sleep tech would make a difference, and I kitted myself out with the Hybrid Duvet and the Hybrid 3-in-1 Duvet. Simba insisted I get the full Hybrid bedding experience and try out their posh Hybrid Pillow too. I wasn't going to refuse.

After a year of the Simba experience, I'm still very impressed. The pillow is still lovely, the hybrid duvet has stayed soft and warm, and the Hybrid 3-in-1 still amazes me with its versatility.

I said at the time in my review that these luxury bedding items were a little pricey, but Simba has knocked 20% off the price in the winter sale, so they're actually as affordable as they're ever going to be.

To see all the products in the winter sale, including mattresses with 25% off, click here.

Simba Hybrid 3-in-1 Duvet - was £249, now £199.20

This is essentially a modular duvet. You have two layers, a 7-tog layer for spring and autumn, and a 3.5-tog duvet for summer.

Cleverly, you can combine these layers with a selection of press-studs and create yourself an incredibly thick 10.5-tog duvet for the depths of winter.

There's a clever layer on one side with something called "Stratos cool-touch tech", and that's what you have against your body.

The two layers stay securely fastened together over time, which is great, and 10.5-tog has never felt "too warm". That's probably because of that clever cool layer.

I've tried them separately, too. The thin 3.5-tog layer is too small for this time of year, there are no two ways about that, but it will no doubt be perfect for heatwaves.

Simba Hybrid Duvet - was £139, now £111.20

This duvet is much simpler, and much cheaper, so I was prepared to be disappointed. But it has the same cool-touch technology as the 3-in-1, so you only use it one way up, and the base cover is the same, just with fewer layers.

Although it's a lot thinner, this duvet has a 10.5 rating as standard, which is actually what my wife and I prefer for most of the year.

And it's a remarkable claim because, for obvious reasons, it's much, much thinner than the two layers of the 3-in-1.

This means it's quite a bit lighter than the combined duvet, and much easier to fit into a quilt cover.

It is, however, still absurdly comfortable. Losing the thickness bothered me far less than I thought. Once I was used to the sumptuous layers of the 3-in-1, I thought this would feel less luxurious, but it really doesn't.

It still has a similar softness, it doesn't move around easily, and it's light enough to sleep under but still has a warm, enveloping feel about it.

While you don't have the versatility of the 3-in-1, it's every bit as comfortable and cossetting, and it's just a lot easier to handle.

I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who likes a warm duvet all year round, but doesn't fancy the thickness.

Simba Hybrid Pillow - was £109, now £87.20

I've personally always struggled to find the right pillow. The first one I felt like I'd properly invested in cost me £40 but gave me a neckache. Then I shelled out £70 on one I was promised would transform my sleep, but it was too firm and never felt quite right.

Then Simba's delivery arrived, and I dived straight in to try out their flagship pillow.

Simba promises it's been "Goldilocks approved" because it's not too soft, not too high, not too firm, but it's "always just right". And I was excited to try it out.

Firstly, though, you've got to adjust it. Yes, that's right, there's a process to a pillow now.

The Hybrid Pillow is filled with little foam squares. Hundreds of them, and you're supposed to decant handfuls of them out of the inside of the pillow until you feel it's about the right height for you.

This was a messy process, not helped by my mischievous dog, who thought it was a fabulous game to run off with them, but you're given a little drawstring bag to stuff them into and you can replenish them from this if you want to in the future.

Once you're done disembowelling it, you just zip it up, plump it up, and get ready for what will hopefully be a blissful sleep.

And, guess, what, that's exactly what I got. It did take some fine-tuning, but I can honestly say it's now the best pillow I've slept on.

It has that Stratos Cool-touch Tech that the duvets have, which works even better on the pillow in my book, and its microfibre fillings are perfectly weighted to support your neck without you feeling like you've got it at the wrong angle.

It's certainly on the softer side, after I've taken my preferred portion of "nanocubes" out, but that suits me well. It's incredibly comfortable and, according to my smart watch, I'm sleeping better than I have for years.