Purchased this for my daughter as she said her mattress was to stiff. She is now in love with her bed!! She now says it’s squishy ) The mattress topper came in a small compact box I was super surprised it was in there!! Not heavy to carry up the stairs either. Once opened I saw it was wrapped very tightly inside plastic. Was easy to open and set up. The topper took about and hour to set to size but was so worth the wait.