Rant: LA Fitness Hates Mac Users

“LA Fitness has over 160 convenient locations nationwide and offers clean, safe, and well-equiped services. It’s a fun, motivating and healthy environment, with friendly, helpful and supportive staff at great value. ”

Oh yeah? Sounds great. Too bad then, that LA Fitness hates Mac Users. Why? Read on.

LA Fitness currently offers a free 3-day pass, which potential customers can conveniently print out at home and bring into the gym for validation. Unfortunately, LA Fitness appears to be a Windows-Users-Exclusive Gym. How else can you explain that Safari users receive the following error message when trying to access the pass:

Bad HTML coding? No, that couldn’t possibly be the case. With almost 10% market share in the U.S. the web-designers of LA Fitness have surely tried this feature on a Mac. No, they simply don’t want us there.

Now, rest assured, that this computer is running the latest and greatest version of Flash and can access all other Flash websites out there on the Internets. How about Firefox you ask? I tried. Same result: Update Flash.

Again, LA Fitness simply doesn’t want Mac users to come and join their prestigious little club. Maybe we’re too hip or too outspoken or who knows what else. One thing is for sure: Boot up Windows in Paralells and you too can print out your very own 3-day trial pass.

But by the time Windows was up and running I had already printed out a free trial from 24 Hour Fitness instead. They seem to like us Mac users, and that one is good for 7 days anyways…

Does it piss you off, when websites are Windows only? Which ones have you come across lately? Feel free to rant in the comments bellow.

PS: I don’t REALLY think that LA Fitness hates Mac users… or do I?