Don’t think you can score tickets to one of the exclusive inauguration balls this January? Don’t worry you can just throw your own — for a cool half million bucks.
For the price of a nice condo, politically minded big spenders get three nights in the W’s 1,176 square foot presidential suite, catered meals, spa treatments and their very own inaugural ball — sort of. Included in the weekend deal is a private sit-down dinner for 250 on the POV rooftop, which overlooks the White House.
In a press release the W’s general manager said the hotel, which put together its inauguration package for the first time this year, is trying to appeal to the FOMO in all of us.
“We realized that what guests ultimately want is to truly be an insider on inauguration weekend,” said Meade Atkeson, W Washington D.C. general manager.
And what’s more insidery than getting to say, “Oh, what are my inaugural plans? Well first there’s my ball and then …”
Also included in the deal are first-class, round-trip airfare from anywhere in the continental United States, a private shopping sessions at Saks (hello, you have a grand entrance to make) and a private historian-led tour of “inaugural based locations.”
It’s safe to say that the demographic for this type of thing is pretty small. We’re talking your billionaire bankers and A-list celebrities, many of whom are probably on the phone with agents and assistants as we speak, trying to book their January spot. But unlike Trump’s hotel, the W has the added luxury of being a bipartisan property.
