At Hong Kong’s Langham Place hotel you can add a high-tech twist to your holiday by hiring an iPad to act as your city guide.
We’ve seen the iPad adopted as an in-flight entertainment system available for rental to passengers and now an up-market hotel has added iPad rental to their roster of services.

Guests at Hong Kong’s Langham Place can rent an iPad for use in the hotel as well as out and about in Hong Kong.
The hotel has six 16GB Wi-Fi iPads available for daily hire, as long as guests plonk down a deposit of HK$7,000 (or A$1,030, leaving ample margin in case a guest adds an iPad to their haul of soap and slippers).

Each iPad is loaded up with Langham Place’s own Hong Kong city guide, a Cantonese-English translator of must-know phrases, maps of Hong Kong, a guide to using the city’s  superb MTR metro system, as well as a restaurant locator and information on how to match Hong Kong delicacies with wine. A selection of magazines and e-books are also installed.

The iPads can be used throughout the hotel or taken out on day-trips into the city, although connectivity there will of course rely on finding a handy and free wireless hotspot.

The hotel’s concierge desk is also equipped with iPads to provide up to date information on the city’s must-see and must-do attractions.