My wife and I were overall disappointed with our experience with Arthur Murray Dance Studio Scottsdale. We were having a destination wedding and thought we should do just 1 or 2 classes to prepare for our fairly low key first dance. My wife found the ad for this studio online.
First, their advertised "free introductory lesson" never happened as we paid $260 for two thirty minute lessons. There was no defined contract as the instructors came up with the pricing on the fly; there is no defined pricing listed as we could determine. I paid the bill somewhat skeptically. Who knows if our charges were baseline/ reasonable/ comparable to others. $260 per hour of instruction is exorbitant.
This place honestly felt like a shady car dealership. The dance instructor was facetiously fawning over us. He was very nice but was totally just blowing sunshine up our a**. "You guys are born naturals. Have you done this before?" Jesus. Just. Stop.
The staff kept wanting to upsell us more classes even though we stated that we only desired one or two sessions. There was no way I was going to spend more than what we already paid. The cost was not commensurate with the product.
To top it off, on our last session, he told us that we were going to go through one more run through of the full dance with our first dance music that would be video taped. He then just disappeared to dance with another couple - leaving us in the center of the dance floor looking around and wondering if he was coming back. After a while, we just left as it was evident he had just moved on to "instructing" some other couple. All in all; the experience was quite lacking. You can-- and should do better.