Short-Effective Sessions

Hot Spot Tanning features specially engineered suntanning booths that utilize a high-powered ballast system (1500 m.a. vs. 800 m.a. in most other booths and beds), so as to accommodate a 160 and 180 watt VHO (very high output) tanning lamp. Due to different type ballasts most other units are limited to using 100 watt tanning lamps.

Does More Power Mean Higher Risk?

Higher lamp wattage and timely lamp changes assure results in shorter-more effective tanning sessions (11 or 12 minute sessions every other day to build a tan and one or two 11 or 12 minute sessions a week to maintain a tan). You won't have to tan every day for 20 to 30 minutes to achieve a tan and several times a week to maintain one at Hot Spot Tanning. Not only will you save more money over the long term, but those long, more frequent exposures to UV radiation may increase chances of eventual damage due to extreme drying and dehydration of your skin.

Scheduled Lamp Changes

If a restaurant posted a sign that read "Fresh Food Today", wouldn't you question the freshness of the food you had been served in the past, and what about tomorrow? In the same respect, we feel that no tanning salon should have to display a "new bulbs" sign to tell you that the lamps have been replaced. The conscientious tanning salon operator keeps track of lamp hours and never lets the bulbs go past their effective tanning range.

At Hot Spot Tanning, lamps are changed and equipment thoroughly maintained on a regular basis. Just as you would expect the food in a restaurant to always be fresh, so should the lamps at a tanning salon. Besides, the lamps in a busy salon may become ineffective long before the sign comes down.

Healthy, Clean & Relaxing

At Hot Spot Tanning, we believe that a tanning session should be relaxing and enjoyable. It should take place in a clean, comfortable and totally private atmosphere. We don't mix other services with tanning, this not only compromises the attention of the attendant a tanning client deserves, but combining hair/nail services with tanning poses an unnecessary health risk , forcing you to breathe in perm, nail or other chemicals during your session.

With the aid of powerful exhaust fans , our custom designed ventilation duct system enables hot air from each booth to be drawn out of the building for a more comfortable session. Heat and other contaminants are not blown directly on you.

Totally Private Tanning Rooms

Our tanning rooms assure maximum privacy. Tanning room doors lock for your added peace of mind. After all, a tanning session is also an escape from phones, kids, and other every day stresses of today's fast-paced world. Music with individual volume controls is provided in each booth.

Professionally Managed

Since tanning affects the bodies' largest organ...the skin, it is most important for tanning personnel to be properly trained and knowledgeable in the health and care of the skin. This includes setting timers according to skin types, knowledge of equipment, effects of medications, and the proper care of tanned skin.

All-to-often, to cheapen the price of tanning services, untrained personnel or self-service tanning becomes the norm. No tanning facility should operate on a self-service basis. That is, the customer should not be allowed to set and control their tanning time nor should they be responsible for disinfecting the tanning unit.

Not All Tanning Salons Are Created Equal

As you may have already discovered, service businesses like restaurants, and hair and tanning salons are not all created equal. Paying the lowest price doesn't always mean getting the best value. If you have ever been dissatisfied with the food or service at a restaurant, or had a bad experience at a beauty salon, you know what we mean. If you ever visited a beauty salon ,and received an uneven, or bad hair cut, or went to a restaurant and the facilities were unsanitary ,or the food was terrible, would you go back
Because it’s cheap? Likewise, if you are not getting results after a few tanning sessions, you may be losing time and money, in addition to exposing your skin unnecessarily to UV rays. While some people have skin types that make it difficult to tan, most are capable of achieving a tan. But, ineffective tanning equipment or lamps that are past their effective tanning life can prolong this for even those that normally tan easily.