I was staying at the Sheraton Mesa and came in a little after 5pm on a Tuesday night. The salon is clean and pretty. The manicurist was extremely nice which is why I'm giving it 3 stars, but unfortunately I got what was literally the worst manicure of my life.
I was trying to find a no chip (gel) color I liked but there weren't many options. She mentioned that as long as you use a gel base and top coat, we could make a regular nail polish look like a no chip. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I had never heard that but I figured I would try it. I picked a color and we started. The whole process took just shy of two hours, TWO! I am used to a mani AND pedi in 1.5 hours so it was painful. It took forever to get the no chip off but she did do a nice job on grooming my actual nails and cuticles. Then we put the polish on and went thru a few coats. A couple nails looked bad so she said she wanted to redo them. Which I appreciate but I was exhausted and just wanted to be done. And unfortunately I could already tell it was a bad job but I just wanted to get back to my room so I did not say anything. It was 55$ and I tipped $15. When I got back to my room I could see that it was uneven and they started buckling, a few nails didn't even have paint all the way to the cuticle. There were only three nails that looked okay. It was disappointing, esp for a $70 manicure.
Being from Chicago, we have an abundance of nail salons so maybe I am spoiled. Especially when you can get a no chip mani AND pedi for $50 and 1.5 hours. IF I went back, it would be bc the service was nice and I would pick an actual no chip polish but I would probably wait til I was back home.