The Spa at Eastern

I visited today and received a graduate 90 minute massage and a facial. The massage was $ 40 and the facial was $ 35 (I think). Both were absolutely amazing. I was nervous at first. Since they were graduate services I was thinking that the service would be just ok, nothing amazing. I was pleasantly surprised. Both were professional, pleasant and very skilled. Even better I loved the price! $ 40 bucks for a 90 minute message? Yes please!
I’m giving it 4 stars because when I signed up for my services I also signed up for a mani/​pedi. I requested graduate service which should have been $ 15 bucks a pop. When I checked out it turns out I got a licensed technician which means I paid $ 29 a bucks a pop. Out of all the services it was the one I was least impressed with. Not bad, just nothing special.
In short — it was a great visit, a great value. I highly recommend you go!

I went in for an afternoon of treatments on a non student day, so it was a little less expensive but not deeply discounted like on student days. Therefore services were supposedly performed be graduates/​professionals. The staff was polite, though I questioned the scheduling of my mani/​pedi before my other services. SInce they would need to be very dry to do the facial/​hand paraffin and massage.
As it turns out the girl who did the mani/​pedi did such a bad job it didn’t much matter. She filed back and forth like a saw and then got the dark red polish all over my fingers and despite many attempts to clean it up, I still ended up with blotches of polish around my nails.(If I can I’ll add a picture).
The esthetician wasn’t too bad though she had turned on the steam and then tripped over the machine. She ended up not using it at all (I assume she broke it since I stated that my main purpose for the facial was moisturizing.) I also said I used ultra gentle facial products and never alpha hydroxy… so I was surprised that she put alpha hydroxy on my face. When I got to the massage it made some sense since confused me with the friend came with that day, and it turned out they had mixed our charts.
The massage room was cold, the music was loud and and the treatment was fast and jerky– not the swedish relaxing massage I had asked for. Going with the Spa at CTS saved us $ 20 over our second choice. When you’re shelling out $ 175 to $ 200 plus tips the $ 20 isn’t worth the total lack of quality.
I warn customers as well as people considering being students if this is what the graduate.