Sixty-four stations in Budva, and the only aerial in the archive
Hotel Moskva in Budva is 64 stations, 218 overlays, 211 navigation arrows and 126 distinct connections, at 1.97 connections per station — the loosest density of any tour we have built over ten stations, because a hotel is a chain of corridors rather than a mesh of rooms. It is also the only project in our archive with aerial capture, and that aerial is conventional stills and video from a normal drone. There is no 360° station in the sky. We do not own a 360° drone, and until one is in the studio we will not imply otherwise.
This is the only tour in our published work shot outside Albania, and the second largest in it after a seventy-two-station apart-hotel. Sixty-four stations run the whole place: the lobby, the restaurant, the bar and its outside yard, the basement, the rehabilitation and massage centre, and the stairs and landings of every floor from the basement to the third. The spec is on the project page.
A hotel is a chain, not a mesh
| Counted | Value |
|---|---|
| Stations | 64 |
| Overlays in total | 218 |
| Navigation arrows | 211 |
| Distinct connections | 126 |
| Arrows collapsing as duplicates | 85 (40.3%) |
| Connections per station | 1.97 |
| Most connections from one panorama | 5 |
| Information popups | 0 |
| Named places | 31 |
1.97 destinations per station is the lowest figure of any tour we have delivered above ten stations, and the lowest anywhere in the archive outside the apartments. That is a fact about hotels, not about this hotel. A corridor connects forwards, backwards and to the doors along it; a stair landing connects up and down. Nothing on a floor connects to anything on another floor except through the stairs, so the whole building is a long thin graph. The most connected panorama in the entire tour offers five destinations, where our seafront hotel in Sarandë has one offering nine.
The practical consequence is that a hotel tour lives or dies on its stairwells and landings. Miss one and two floors stop being reachable from each other; carry too few and every visitor takes the long way round. Five of the thirty-one named places in this tour are stairs or floor entrances, and three more are the landings they open onto — a quarter of the names, carrying no product at all.
Seven rooms, and why bathrooms got their own stations
Rooms 103, 113, 205, 206, 304, 305 and 309 are in the tour by number. Their bedrooms, bathrooms and balconies were given separate stations rather than one wide shot each — room 305 alone carries four named positions, and rooms 205, 304 and 309 carry two apiece.
That is a decision, and it costs stations. The argument for it is that the two things a guest is actually anxious about in an unfamiliar hotel are the bathroom and the view, and both are the parts a single wide photograph flattens hardest. A bathroom shot from the bedroom doorway tells you nothing; a station inside it tells you whether two people can use it. If the budget forces a choice, we would cut a corridor before cutting a bathroom.
The aerial, and exactly what it is not
Aerial was captured on this visit. It is the only project in twelve where that is true, and the ratio matters more than the fact: one in twelve. Aerial is bought far less often than the industry's marketing implies.
- What it is
- Conventional aerial photographs and conventional aerial video, flown on the same visit as the interior. Aerial photographs are on the rate card at €15 each. A video built into the tour is €30 per video file; footage delivered on its own is quoted rather than listed, because nothing about it follows from a station count.
- What it is not
- It is not a 360° station in the air. Vronos does not own a 360° drone, so there is no panorama in this tour or any other that you can stand in and look around from above the building. Where a competitor sells an aerial 360° station, that is a different piece of equipment from the one we fly.
- Why we say so this plainly
- Because it is easy to imply and hard to check. A reader seeing aerial stills beside a 360° tour will reasonably assume the two are the same product unless told, and the studio that lets them assume it is the studio that gets found out on the day somebody asks for a roof panorama.
Sixty-four stations and not one popup
Every one of the 218 overlays in this tour is navigation, except seven that are labels and do nothing when clicked. There is no information layer: no popups, no descriptive photographs opening over the panorama, no notes on the rehab centre or the restaurant.
That is worth stating because it is the largest tour in our archive with no interpretation at all, and it sets the ceiling on what it can do. A visitor can walk this hotel completely and learn nothing from it that is not visible. For a hotel that may be the right trade — a guest is judging the room, not reading about it. For the university building we shot, it would have been the wrong one, and the difference is eighty-one popups and a fortnight of build time. That contrast is the subject of eighty-one popups and two tracked floor plans.
Working across a border from Tirana
Budva is well outside our free travel radius, and we would rather set that out than bury it. Travel within 25 km of our base in Tirana is not charged. Beyond it, travel is billed at cost with no markup, itemised and agreed in writing before anything is booked. Accommodation is billed the same way, at cost with receipts, on any job that needs more than one day on site — and a sixty-four-station hotel plainly does.
Both appear in the quote and neither ever appears for the first time on an invoice. The full terms are on the pricing page. What we do not publish is what this job came to, which is between us and the client.
All the counts above were extracted from the delivered tour files rather than estimated. The tour is public and unlocked, so any of them can be checked by opening it.
Questions people ask
- Do you shoot 360° photographs from a drone?
- No. Vronos does not own a 360° drone, and no tour in our published work contains an aerial panorama you can stand in and look around from. What we do fly is a conventional drone for aerial photographs, listed on the rate card at €15 each, and aerial video — €30 per video file if the video is built into the tour, quoted if you want the footage on its own. Aerial has been flown on one of our twelve published projects.
- How many stations does a whole hotel take?
- A four-level hotel in Budva took 64: seven rooms by number with bathrooms and balconies as separate stations, the lobby, restaurant, bar and outside yard, a basement, a rehabilitation and massage centre, and every stair and landing. A smaller seafront hotel took 40. The variable is how many room types are sold by name and how much circulation there is between floors, not the floor area.
- Do you travel outside Albania, and how is that charged?
- Yes — we work regularly in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece and Italy, and will go further. Travel within 25 km of our base in Tirana is not charged. Beyond that it is billed at cost with no markup, itemised in the quote and agreed in writing before anything is booked, as is accommodation on jobs needing more than one day on site.
- Why does this tour have no information popups?
- Because none were commissioned. The tour is a walkthrough: 211 navigation arrows and no interpretation layer. A tour can carry popups that open photographs, notes or prices over the panorama, and one of ours carries 81 of them — but they are a separate piece of build work, they are what moves a delivery date, and a hotel walkthrough is often perfectly effective without them.
