{"id":20162,"date":"2014-03-13T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/blue-sydney-introduces-free-ipad-air\/"},"modified":"2014-03-13T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T09:39:00","slug":"blue-sydney-introduces-free-ipad-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/03\/blue-sydney-introduces-free-ipad-air\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUE Sydney Introduces Free iPad Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 21px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">BLUE Sydney, A Taj Hotel has implemented free iPad Airs into every guest room in the hotel. BLUE is only the second hotel in Australia to offer in-room iPads to guests as a service to enhance their stay.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 21px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Using the latest technology, the iPads are used as an electronic in-room compendium which can be updated centrally to amend menus and make announcements. It will also have the functionality for \u2018pop up\u2019 messages on screen promoting Happy Hour or other happenings around the hotel.&nbsp;<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image007\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-461446\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/image0071.jpg\" height=\"172\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/image0071.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px; cursor: default; float: right;\" width=\"172\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">In conjunction with&nbsp;QuirQy, BLUE is now able to provide guests&nbsp;with rock-star customer service and answers on where to eat, drink, shop or indulge.&nbsp;Through devices installed in each hotel&nbsp;room,&nbsp;guests are able to access&nbsp;city guides&nbsp;with tourist information, giving<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">guests&nbsp;the opportunity&nbsp;to&nbsp;explore the best places&nbsp;in&nbsp;the city, browse&nbsp;and&nbsp;locate&nbsp;local shops, restaurants, bars&nbsp;and activities around&nbsp;Sydney.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Guests will also have the ability to surf the web on the iPad at no cost. BLUE\u2019s iPads can be read into five different languages meaning localized content is available to all guests despite traditional language barriers. Blue will also have an additional five iPads at Reception and five iPads at WaterBar for guest use.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">For hotel reservations, please contact Blue on 02-9331 9000.&nbsp;For media information or images, please contact:<b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>BLACK Communications<\/b>&nbsp;on 02-8399 3005 or via email:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Nicole Craig&nbsp;<\/b>at&nbsp;nicole@blackcommunications.<wbr><\/wbr>com.au<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Kate Witenden<\/b>&nbsp;at&nbsp;kate@blackcommunications.com.<wbr><\/wbr>au<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLUE Sydney, A Taj Hotel has implemented free iPad Airs into every guest room in the hotel. BLUE is only the second hotel in Australia to offer in-room iPads to guests as a service to enhance their stay. Using the latest technology, the iPads are used as an electronic in-room compendium which can be updated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}