Beach Street Tanning

Beach Street Tanning operates near downtown Auburndale, with business directory records crediting it with 25 years in business, placing its founding around 2001. The business also appears in some directory sources under the corporate name B S Tanning Inc, using the identical address and phone number, most likely reflecting the shop’s formal registered business name alongside the more customer-facing Beach Street Tanning branding used in its everyday operations and signage.

The tanning salon appears to operate in connection with Beach St. Boutique, a retail storefront whose web address is listed as the tanning salon’s own website, suggesting the tanning service is offered either within or alongside a boutique retail shop rather than as a freestanding, dedicated tanning-only business. This kind of combined retail-and-tanning model is a practical setup for a small downtown storefront, allowing a single location to generate revenue from both merchandise sales and tanning bed rentals or sessions, a common approach for small businesses in compact downtown commercial districts where square footage and foot traffic need to be used efficiently.

The salon keeps weekday-only hours, open Monday through Friday from 10:00 in the morning until 7:30 in the evening, with both Saturday and Sunday closed, a schedule that skips weekend availability entirely, somewhat unusual for a tanning salon given that many tanning customers seek appointments ahead of weekend events or beach outings. The extended weekday evening hours, running until 7:30, do provide working clients with an after-work window to visit. The business operates on a cash-only basis and offers free lot parking, both practical details for prospective customers planning a visit to this downtown Auburndale location.

The shop’s location near downtown Auburndale places it within the same general historic commercial district as several of the city’s other small, independent businesses, close to Park Street and the surrounding blocks that make up Auburndale’s original town center. A note on the address itself: source directory listings give an East Park Street address for this business, while independent verification through the U.S. Census Bureau’s geocoding service matches only a West Park Street address at the same house number, a discrepancy that also appears for two other nearby downtown Auburndale businesses and most likely reflects an inconsistency in how the street’s directional prefix has been recorded across different data providers over the years, rather than any real uncertainty about the shop’s presence in downtown Auburndale.

For Auburndale residents interested in tanning services in a downtown setting rather than a suburban strip mall, Beach Street Tanning offers a quarter century of documented operation, though its cash-only policy and weekday-only hours are worth planning around ahead of a visit.