Sun Tan City

Sick of resembling a fish’s belly? Tired of your friends accusing you of glowing in the dark? I was so I came in here to add some color to my previously pastey body.
This is a tanning salon. No matter how you dress it up it has one function– making pale bodies less pale. I went in here determined to beat the Seasonal Affective Disorder blues and the sales girls got me to buy far more than I’d intended. Be careful with them! They are all very knowledgeable, friendly and helpful and it makes you want to buy things… their lotion is DEFINITELY over priced but the actual tans are cheap, especially with their promotions that they switch up practically daily. The grass is always greener and the promotion they offered a week after my fate was sealed gave me a bit of buyer’s remorse haha
They have three tanning tracks or bed styles– Fast, Faster and Fastest. Fast is good enough for us regular folk but occasionally you’ll have to upgrade to faster to make sure you don’t look like a zebra when you lift your arms– the stand up is ‘Faster’. I was feeling a little saucy one day and decided to try the Fastest bed… omg it’s like Star Trek in there. The bed itself is beautiful (yes, I just said a tanning bed was beautiful. Who doesn’t like shiny well-​lit things?) and it is sooo comfortable. I’d make a terrible soldier because I can’t sleep in strange places and it takes me forever to conk out… I was out within five minutes in this baby. The lights keep you so cozy and warm and the air conditioning feature on the bed (yes, it is AIR CONDITIONED) makes you feel just as comfy as you do when you flip your pillow over at night so you can nuzzle into the cold side or pop a foot out of your blanky to hit the cold-​warm sweet spot. I now use my upgrade points to get into the Fastest bed far more often than a person educated enough to have heard the words «skin cancer» before should. The Fastest is totally customizable and wonderful but I still love me some good, old-​fashioned Fast bed (in the early morning before a thousand previously-​pale people have overheated it). It’s like a personal sauna without the humidity.
I’m not loyal to this location since I work all over Des Moines and never know which one I’ll be next to. I do love the staff at this spot, but duty calls. That was what made me choose Sun Tan City– there are a bajillion locations and you can go to any you like with your membership. Each location has the same beds (I think, don’t quote me) and the same tracks. Just heed the warning and go in there with a budget in mind or you’ll end up spending farrrr too much money! Thanks to this place I have a pretty little heart on my body that is much paler than the rest of me and the winter blues haven’t kicked in yet! I shall return.