Spanish start-up PadInTheCity offers iPads for rent in Madrid. Squarely aimed at tourists, a 3G iPad can be booked online for just 25 Euros a day and delivered to your hotel at the time of your choosing. It comes pre-loaded with a constantly growing number of relevant apps such as maps, tourist info, car rental, weather and hotel booking as well as various others to keep you entertained such as Angry Birds, Hootsuite and even BBC News. Once you’ve spent a day (or more) checking out the city with all the information you need at your fingertips, it gets picked up again, from your hotel (and soon from a pre-determined location chosen by you). Brilliant.
Not being a massive Apple fan I’m unlikely to buy one so I love the idea of being able to rent one in exactly the situation when it’s going to be properly useful. I also think it could be great for families, use the likes of the iSpain app to help you have great experiences during the day and then Angry Birds and Youtube can keep the kids quiet in the evenings!
But can’t you find and use all these apps on your smartphone? Sure you can but a couple of full days roaming for data abroad it’s more than likely going to cost you a fair bit more than the 25 Euro cost for the iPad.
Assuming it all goes well in Madrid they plan to role it across other major cities. What do you think? Would you use one?

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