Trump Hotels Charging Megabucks For Wii Personal Training

Tom Goldman

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Trump Hotels Charging Megabucks For Wii Personal Training



At Trump hotels, a Benjamin can get you a solid hour of some guy showing off the Nintendo Wii.

Current late-night talk show host and co-creator of the Man Show [http://www.amazon.com/Man-Show-Complete-First-Season/dp/B00081U6KA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1276638685&sr=1-1] Jimmy Kimmel was surprised by a discovery he made while staying a an unnamed Trump hotel. The hotel was offering a really great, terrible deal of $90 for a so-called "personal trainer" to teach the oblivious or super-rich how to get fit while playing the Nintendo Wii.

Kimmel tweeted [http://twitpic.com/1psoc1] a snapshot of proof, saying: "Trump Hotel offers PERSONAL TRAINERS to do WiiFit w/ your kids. I miss PacMan. And sanity." $90 gets customers a 55 minute session of "Virtual reality/real results" where a personal trainer shows "you and your family how to get the most out of your gaming experience."

While Kimmel mentions Wii Sports [http://www.amazon.com/Wii-Fit-Nintendo/dp/B000VJRU44/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1276638756&sr=8-1] tennis against you for 55 minutes, and leave saying "Sucker!" under his breath as he fans himself with his earnings. Assuming a 40 hour workweek, one Wii trainer alone could be pulling in around $14,000 a month just by showing customers how to move their arms in front of a television.

Hotels are known for offering really expensive everything, sometimes charging by the Skittle, but this "personal training" offer is bordering on insane. I get that some people can throw around $90 like it's a can of beans, but those people should at least be smart enough to go buy a Wii for this kind of money. Or, I don't know, just go to a gym?

Via: Kotaku [http://www.thetanooki.com/2010/05/21/trump-hotel-offers-wii-fit-personal-trainers-for-guests/]

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DividedUnity

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Are you freaking kidding me? Isnt 90 dollars a good portion of what a wii console costs? Doesnt the wii fit tell you how to work out with on screen instructions? Why are people so stupid sometimes? Argh my head hurts
 

Fraught

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DividedUnity said:
Are you freaking kidding me? Isnt 90 dollars a good portion of what a wii console costs? Doesnt the wii fit tell you how to work out with on screen instructions? Why are people so stupid sometimes? Argh my head hurts
I am baffled too, sir.
That's just...mind-boggling!
 

Julianking93

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Are you fucking kidding me?

Are people so goddamn stupid as to not knowing that the wii can just tell you all you need to know?
 

JourneyThroughHell

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Well, good for them.
If there are people dumb enough to require "personal Wii training", they might as well pay up for it.
 

darkknight9

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" I get that some people can throw around $90 like it's a can of beans..."

And I need to be hanging out with those people. :)
 

Jaebird

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I don't know whether to say how stupid this is, or congratulate Trump for having the gonads to do such a thing. Next thing you know, he'll be charging for air in a can, like in Space Balls.
 

swolf

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I wonder, is the market big enough to do this, I mean, JUST this? Teach people how to play games? That would be an interesting job...except trying to teach the people who would rather pay $ to learn what would only take a minimal amount of effort to learn.
 

Jandau

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Bear in mind that to the people this service is intended for, $90 likely seems like a nickel to a regular person...
 

Sennz0r

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They're too rich to do their own workout. They pay other people to get tired for them.