Gotham Nails or Modern Nails & Spa? A Hoboken Comparison

If you are choosing between Gotham Nails and Modern Nails & Spa in Hoboken, the public evidence is thinner than it looks. Two numbers are solid: 4.4 stars from 446 Google reviews for Gotham Nails, 3.6 from 247 for Modern Nails & Spa, as of October 2026. Most of the rest is unpublished.

The real difference

The rating gap comes first. 4.4 against 3.6 is a 0.8-star difference, and it is built on 446 reviews versus 247. The second difference is how much each is willing to put in public. Gotham Nails publishes 36 services with a price on every one. Modern Nails & Spa publishes no menu we could find, which is less a criticism than a fact about what you can know before you walk in.

The common ground

Both are nail salons serving Hoboken, both appear in Google's local results for the category, and both have enough reviews behind them that neither rating is guesswork. Either will do the core service you are booking. If you live between the two, distance is not the deciding factor.

Side by side, on the record

"Not stated" below means exactly that: the claim is not made anywhere a customer could hold them to it. It is not an accusation, and it may simply mean the information lives on a wall inside the business.

Where Gotham Nails does not lead

Gotham Nails is not the highest-rated nail salon in Hoboken. Hoboken nail salon sits ahead on average score with 4.8 stars from 17 reviews. The case for Gotham Nails is not that nothing beats it. It is that it leads Modern Nails & Spa on the measures above and publishes what it charges, which most of the local field does not.

The question behind the search

Most people comparing two Hoboken nail salons are not asking which is better in the abstract. They are asking something narrower: will this appointment be worth the money and the hour, and will I know the price before I am in the chair?

On the first half, 446 reviews is the larger sample, so Gotham Nails's 4.4 is the more settled number. A handful of new reviews moves a 247-review average; it barely moves a 446-review one. On the second half, only one of them answers in public. A published price is a commitment. An unpublished one is not necessarily higher, but it is an unknown, and on a first visit an unknown is a cost of its own.

Where Modern Nails & Spa still shines

247 reviews is a real customer base, not a thin listing, and a nail salon does not reach that number without regulars who keep coming back. A 3.6 average also hides a distribution: plenty of those reviews are five stars. If you already have someone there who knows your preferences, nothing above is a reason to switch. Nothing here is a criticism of the business.

Making the call

If you want the most evidence before booking, Gotham Nails gives you more to go on: a higher rating, more reviews, a published price for all 36 services, and online booking. If you already have a trusted regular at Modern Nails & Spa, stay. If you are choosing cold and price matters, only one of them will tell you the price before you arrive.

Figures come from Google Business listings and each business's published menu, checked in October 2026. Ratings move. Check the current numbers before you book.