As You Wish Pottery Painting Place

I like the place, it’s fun to do. First trip was for Valentine’s day. We did go back to do plate and bowl later on. My only issue is, it’s quite expensive. For my husband and i to do a mug each (first trip), it was 48 $. They charged almost 15 dollars for a mug. When i looked up the same mug online it was 6 $.
For second visit it was almost 70 $ for 2 plate and two small bowls. Back home in Oregon they do not charge a sitting fee (the one by my house doesn’t) so i was a little disappointed that they do here. Although It is fun, it’s just expensive. We will go back some day but not for a while.

So I really do love As You Wish but have had a less than stellar experience the last few times at this location. First off, I called and made a reservation. We arrived right on time to a full house and no table available. But I have a reservation so how can that be? Well your reservation wasn’t put out said the mousy young man helping me… the same one that took my reservation! Grrrr… so there’s a table leaving and he secures it for us in the back corner… great! Then pulls out a card table and squeezes it into the small space near us to make room for another family. Now neither of us can squeeze in and out without disturbing the other… not great! Fast forward a few days. I’m back to pick up our masterpieces just to find the doors locked. I look at the time posted on the window. It says 6pm on Sundays. It is indeed Sunday and it’s only 5:30. I check my watch AND my phone just to be sure. There are people inside so I knock on the door. My favorite (note sarcasm) mousy employee comes to the door after rolling his eyes and explains that they ‘technically’ closed early today. So until this location pulls it’s collective head out of its @$$ I’ll sadly need to stick with a low rating.

My son is working on a long term piece. Tory has been unbelievably helpful & friendly! She has had a lot of ideas and suggestions on how to make it work. She also taught me how to glaze something– for once my work didn’t look like a 5 year old!

First time here. Walked in on a Friday around 1. We were asked if we had a reservation. I said no, I didn’t know we needed one. Girl says no problem, take a look at the wall & have a seat.
So not really knowing what to do, we each choose a little item from the wall and sit down and wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. Finally I go back to the counter and tell them we are ready to paint. She says hang on someone will be right with you. And we wait. Again.
So then someone finally comes to explain the paint which is all basically self serve. Once we got the hang of things it was fun, but if you don’t know what is going on here it’s very confusing. When we were ready to leave, once again we did not know what to do. I think they need a better system of explaining things to beginners.
Overall I think the kids had fun. We had a coupon for studio fees and spent around $ 40 for 4 painting the smallest items. The staff was not very helpful though, unfortunately.

The music is awful (not to mention too loud) and some people actually brought in their own head phones to listen to at least hopefully decent music. The employees do not assist you with anything, as they are too busy standing behind the counter in a cheerleader-​esque circle, just laughing at something on their phone screens. There are at least four workers on duty and hooray for friendships among employees, but F for usefulness. They suck. I’m currently sitting at a table (a seat I’ve occupied for over two hours now) and absolutely no one has spoken to me. One of them even bumped into me and didn’t say anything. There are three of them at the moment standing together just chatting up a storm. The tables are mainly full, only two are unoccupied, and they choose to help no one. The prices are an issue but that’s what you get for coming here consciously. It also helps to only visit when studio fees are waived, or if you have a coupon. From now on I will stick to my Stapley and Baseline location.

It was fun but it was a little pricey. It’s my niece who wanted to go and it was her birthday and she had a good time so that’s all that matters. It’s a great birthday gift. A great activity for family and friend.

So much fun and a fantastic idea, but so expensive. My sweet pea painted two tiny ceramic pieces, a jet and a puppy, and our bill was $ 25. While he did enjoy it, this is not something we would do on a regular basis despite how much fun we had.

Kind of expensive, was looking for something fun to do with my son and wife on a sunday afternoon. The shark bank we created came out great, my son had fun, but it was a little pricey. We had a coupon from a clipper ad that came to the house, which helped with affordibility. May return but next time i’ll be prepared with ideas. You could really make some cool keepsakes

If you are ball’n on a budget this place isn’t for you! They typically have pretty good deals floating around but for the most part the pottery is pretty expensive. On top of that you have studio time which is the cost for using their facility & paints. Enough about draining the wallet, Let’s talk about customer service & memories. This location is always very helpful and we have never had any issues with them. My daughter loves coming here and we have created some wonderful pieces as well as some awesome memories so this place is definitely on our return and do list

I have visited AYW on Stapley and it was an outstanding experience! Clean, organized and well-​stocked and the employees were constantly walking around helping customers. The sink was spotless as all customers and employees were washing up things consistently.
Last night I brought my son and his girlfriend for the first time and went to the location on Germann with a reservation. From the moment of walking in — I could tell the experience would not be as good as the Stapley location. First impression was that is was not as clean and there certainly were less pottery options than the other location. The were far less paints and a lot of the paint chips for color identification were missing.
There was a guy working there and I told him it was their first time and we needed some direction. Although there was only 2 other parties — he spent less than one minute explaining the process. We had many questions but he was not really interested in explaining any more. Throughout our 2.5 hour visit– no employee stopped by to offer help or tips– they were too busy sweeping floors for closing up. The only time someone stopped by was to inform us of closing in 15 minutes.
But here is the crazy part– NO paper towels in the entire store– not one! How can you run a pottery place with no paper towels. Then I asked the girl at the counter for some tracing paper and instead of going to get some from somewhere else– she went to take it off another person’s table! They were shocked as I was. I told her to please get me a new piece and not to take another customer’s.
The other thing that shocked me was the condition of the sink– it was so loaded with bowls, tiles, brushesw and sponges that you could not even get to the sink. I attempted to clean our tools as best I could be gave up as paint and water was splashing all over me due to the full sink. Neither the customers nor the employees were concerned about cleaning it up. It was overflowing by the time we left at closing.
So I hope Germann takes some cues from Stapley location! We won’t be back to Germann until major changes happen and the employees put some effort into making it an enjoyable experience!

While I wish AYW was a little cheaper, they are a fun place for the kiddos to express their creativity.
The staff is, for the most part, friendly and helpful. A few times, the younger female staff have been more preoccupied with chatting among themselves, but that doesn’t appear to be the norm.
Turn around time on the pieces is quick, just a few days, which is nice.