PADL 4+

A surprisingly easy system - wonderful for someone like me who was in town for just a weekend, but wanted to get in an adventure! Excellent price to rent a SUP for an hour. I paddled out onto a public island in the bay. Lovely experience!

App request: I highly recommend that the developer considers adding Apple Pay as an option. It doesn’t feel safe requiring credit card info to be saved app. I personally know a few people who would opt out of the entire experience because of that lack of third party security, perhaps who would even accept a fee if that’s what Apple charges.

While it’s convenient to rent a board on the spot at the rate 25$/hour, which is already expensive, there is no option for time increments by 15 min or even 30 min, so if you don’t return the board on the station at the exact time or sooner, your account gets charged immediately by additional 25$ even if you are late only a few min. In addition it takes quite a few minutes to take a very heavy board to the water to lunch and then bring it back, so you really get much less time then an hour to actually use it, especially if you don’t have your phone handy right the way when you return the board, bc you need to be right in front of the board already installed back on the base when finishing rental on the app, and fingers crossed you don’t forget to go back on the app to finish rental bc it doesn’t stop time automatically once board is returned.

I live in Key Biscayne (just over the Rickenbacker Bridge from downtown Miami) and having my Padl subscription is awesome. Some friends of mine bought their own paddle boards and they never use them because of the hassle of transporting the boards and equipment from their condo. Meanwhile I get to watch for beautiful weather and then just walk to the beach and hop on a board for an hour, then go right back to whatever I was doing whether it was work or family events. Also when I have friends at the beach I can unlock 2 or 3 boards and just pay like $10 and we all are instantly paddle boarding. Honestly it just doesn’t make sense to me to own a board now that I have Padl!