Juliana Shallcross, an editor at HotelChatter.com, posts an iPhone hotel review from Malibu’s Billionaire’s Beach:
When we found out that The Malibu Beach Inn was running the world’s first iPhone guest management system, Hotel Evolution, naturally we had to go and try it out.
Despite the hotel’s website telling us that rooms were a steep $385 a night (on a Tuesday in a recession), we actually found a rate of $258 within the site. We clicked on one of their promotions which was offering a room and dinner for select days only. Our day happened to be a select day.
So a few hours later we were checking into the Malibu Beach Inn on PCH…
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David Geffen opened his refurbished Malibu Beach Inn last fall, promising the “true Malibu experience” and allowing only registered guests to dine in his hotel restaurant. Since then, room rates aren’t the only thing that have dropped: I received a recent promo email announcing that the Malibu Beach Inn welcomes reservations for Thanksgiving dinner. A follow up call revealed that the hotel restaurant is now open to visitors the rest of the year, too, — with or without a room reservation.
*Updated: The New York Times does a round up on hotels offering the latest tech tools: “Hotels are under such pressure to keep up with their gadget-obsessed guests that they are working with technology companies to regain their edge.” Read more here.
