In April this year, we wrote to you about how iPads were used in the rooms of Hotel Bel-Air to place room service orders. Well, it looks like the Opus hotel in Vancouver is backing up the trend. The hotel has replaced its old-fashioned room telephones with iPhones. But that’s not all. According to USA Today, the hotel also allows the guests to take the iPhones with them as they explore and enjoy everything that the city offers. The iPhones will be used to keep guests connected with the hotel and the Internet as they are programmed to contact each of the hotel’s departments. If the guest will check out, the iPhone will be wiped clean to ensure privacy and security. Like Hotel Bel-Air, the rooms in the Opus hotel also offers an iPad 2 equipped with an iPad Virtual Concierge. “Technology is a way of life today, not just a perk, and that holds true even while traveling,” Opus hotel General Manager Nicholas Gandossi said.
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