Malibu Beach Inn lets you request room service via iPhone / iPod touch

by Darren Murph posted Oct 20th 2008 at 6:09PM

Take one look at the room rates at the Malibu Beach Inn, and you'll fully understand why you'll be treated to a loaner iPod touch for the duration of your stay. For those who already own an iPhone / iPod touch, they'll be given access to a web application that was built for the Safari browser to give guests all sorts of remote capabilities. For instance, ordering up room service, setting a wake up call, requesting luggage, renting a limo and flipping the door placard to "Do Not Disturb" no longer requires any strenuous work; instead, users can simply hit a few buttons and be on their way. The hotel chose a web app in order to avoid the Apple certification process and to make it available on other hot devices in the near future. But then again, if you can swing this place, you've probably got a butler handling the front-desk inquiries, anyway.

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Filed under: Handsets, Software, Misc, Apple, iPhone OS

Tags: apple, california, hotel, iphone, iphone 3g, iphone hotel, Iphone3g, IphoneHotel, ipod touch, IpodTouch, lodging, malibu, malibu beach inn, MalibuBeachInn, motel

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maikel @ Oct 20th 2008 7:14PM

The iPhone seems to get the royal treatment these days.

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wuzy @ Oct 20th 2008 9:49PM

So all you need is a full-rendering web browser and WiFi right? I don't see how they can limit it to only Safari.
I can do that from any of my WinMo + Opera 9.5 devices.

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efekt @ Oct 21st 2008 5:23AM

Uh, just a small question - Who gives a flying f*ck about that?! They think that now tons of people start making reservations at the inn through the iPhone, or that the iPhone sells would now soar?
As wuzy said, I bet you could do that with almost ANY browser, so what's the big deal...