My 'friends' and sister have been trying to get me to go to a sun bed years, but I completely, absolutely, flatout refuse to. I'm pale (half welsh) and I like being pale. Why would I want to waste the money any way? I'd go a bright shade of red, be painfully blistery and peely for a while and then be the same shade of pale after.
People are really nasty about it too, I'm not planning on being around those 'friends' when I go back for summer. I'd rather sit in a shady spot and work on my pale.