In terms of the instructors, the dancing and locations AM dance studios are good, I'll give them that.
But there is always the sales pitch at the end of almost every lesson, and it is extremely difficult as a customer to keep track of how many dance lessons you've bought/used up.
My husband and I used to take dance lessons at the AM in Cleveland, which has (better: had) the same owner as the Wexford, PA studio. He closed the doors of the Cleveland studio without giving any kind of notice, not to mention any information as to how we were going to retrieve the money / dance lessons we had already paid for. His business behavior has been despicable, an absolute horror!!
We and everyone else we knew at the studio has not been able to recoup their investments, and his fishy deals that Mr. Mario Cardinali keeps offering have never turned out to be anything but empty promises and ways to keep us hanging in the air.
Therefore, if you are considering purchasing dance lessons from any Arthur Murray Dance Studio owned by Mr. Mario Cardinali - be very careful, or better yet: go to someone trustworthy!!! (I have meanwhile seen the practices of other dance franchises, where they put more money in an escrow fund and thus can only get your money after they've provided you the service you paid for - this is not the case here!)
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