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| - As a treat for a friend and I having a hard time, I booked appointments for couture pedicures together, which was the highest service you could get.. a spa pedicure basically. The place itself is cute and clean- they had us in a small room together which was great.
First though... these are just benches with pillows, not pedicure chairs. That was not the BFD. The BFD was that although we'd made appointments, showed up at time and paid for the highest service, the guy doing my pedicure raced through the crappiest pedicure ever. My friend got there 10 minutes before me, I somehow was finished 10 minutes earlier than she was. Her pedicurist, a woman, was just lovely and sweet and the guy I had couldn't have put in less effort if he tried. There was no massage, he literally just put lotion on me and called it a day. He didn't do any scrubbing of callous.... There's a part of the massage where they wrap your feet in hot towels, which sounds lovely, but these actually hurt, and I've got a pretty decent pain threshold. I mentioned it to him immediately (as in, Holy Christ, that's too hot!). The other pedicurist actually said, "I wait a minute so they cool off". Guy didn't wrap toes to separate nails, so they were all screwed up by the time I left. Most things were notable only because we were getting side by side pedicures, so it stood to reason they'd be the same. They were not, which made it laughable.
By the end of the pedicure we were openly commenting in a polite way, "hey, don't let me rush you" (which he took literally.... he was busy sweeping the floor while my friend's pedicure was being finished.)
To be fair, I didn't bother tipping him I was so annoyed. And to top it all off... you have to pay $1 surcharge to use a credit card. Don't get me wrong, its a buck. but its insulting.
Wouldn't go near them again and writing this out actually annoyed me again so much i'm calling them tomorrow to say something.
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