Virtual tours in Tirana: 59 stations, 93 popups and no travel charge
Tirana holds three published tours: the Canadian Institute of Technology at 48 stations, and both Delibros branches at 7 and 4. That is 59 stations, 324 overlays, 129 distinct connections and 93 information popups — more than the other fourteen tours in the archive put together. It is also the only city inside our 25 km free-travel radius, which changes the quote and is the one advantage here we will state plainly.
The three tours, counted
| Tour | Stations | Overlays | Navigation arrows | Distinct connections | Information popups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canadian Institute of Technology | 48 | 271 | 186 | 107 | 81 |
| Delibros, Komuna e Parisit | 7 | 40 | 25 | 14 | 12 |
| Delibros, Rruga e Kavajës | 4 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 0 |
| All three | 59 | 324 | 224 | 129 | 93 |
Our own counts, read out of the files. The university building also carries the only two floor plans in the archive that track your position as you move — every other published tour records no floor plan at all.
All three are live and ungated: the Canadian Institute of Technology, Delibros at Komuna e Parisit and Delibros on Rruga e Kavajës.
Both ends of the range are in this city
The university building is the most information-dense thing we have built: 48 stations across two floors covering a library, an auditorium, five numbered laboratories, a robotics lab, classrooms A1 through E2 and the offices, with 81 popups explaining what each room is for while you stand in it, and two floor plans with a marker that moves as you move. Elsewhere in the same city, a bakery branch is four stations — the frontage, two positions inside and the toilets. Same city, same rate card, two entirely different jobs.
Which is also the clearest illustration of our published turnaround. Most tours are three to five working days from capture to handover and never less than three. A 40-station hotel elsewhere in the archive shipped in four days; this 48-station building took two weeks — not because of eight more photographs, but because 81 popups and two tracked floor plans are most of that build. Features move the date far more than station count does, and you get the estimate with the quote.
The same client, twice, in two rooms
The two Delibros branches are the cleanest controlled comparison we have: one client, one brief, one city, two premises, 7 stations at the first and 4 at the second. Nothing about the second was a smaller ambition; the room is smaller. Station count is a property of the building, and both tours are open side by side so anyone can check that rather than take it from us. One is built in English and one in Albanian. The full comparison is in the same bakery, twice.
Inside 25 km
Vronos is registered at Street Teodor Keko, Fabrika e Miellit, in Tirana. Travel within 25 km of that base is not charged, and the city sits comfortably inside it. That is the whole of the advantage, and it is worth stating precisely rather than inflating: the travel line comes off the quote, the accommodation line never appears at all because nothing here needs a night away, and a return visit costs a morning rather than a journey.
What capturing in Tirana is actually like
- Street frontages come with the street. The first station of the Komuna e Parisit tour stands on the pavement outside, looking at the shopfront. A public street cannot be cleared, so traffic, parked cars and passers-by are in that panorama. That is the honest version of a room that sells partly on the street it is on, and it is why the frontage is a station rather than a photograph.
- Institutions run to a timetable. Capturing 48 stations across two floors of a working university means shooting around teaching: the laboratories, the auditorium and the classrooms all have to be free, in an order somebody in administration has to build.
- The information layer is where the time goes. 81 popups took longer to build than the 48 photographs took to shoot. If you are budgeting an institutional tour, budget the writing, not the shooting — and note that writing the content itself is quoted rather than sitting on the rate card, because the scope is whatever the building needs said about it.
- Being able to come back changes what you can promise. A missed room in Sarandë is a journey. A missed room in Tirana is a morning. That is not a discount, but it is why a phased build is realistic here and a harder promise elsewhere.
What we have not shot in Tirana
No hotel, no shop, no apartment, no museum, no factory. Two of the six sectors we list have delivered work in this city, and one of those is a single university building. That is a thin archive for the capital and we would rather say so than let three tours imply a portfolio. If your building is here, the counting question is answered in how many stations by building type, and the rate is on the pricing page.
Questions people ask
- Is a virtual tour in Tirana cheaper than one in Sarandë?
- The capture rate is identical — €40 for each of the first ten 360° photographs, €30 for each one after, €160 minimum. What differs is travel. Within 25 km of our Tirana base there is no travel charge at all; beyond it, travel is billed at cost with no markup and accommodation at cost with receipts on jobs needing more than a day, both itemised and agreed in writing before anything is booked.
- How long does a tour in Tirana take from capture to handover?
- Three to five working days for most tours, and never less than three. The exception in our own archive is a 48-station university building that took two weeks, because 81 information popups and two tracked floor plans were most of that build. Features move the date much more than station count does, and the estimate comes with the quote.
- What is a tracked floor plan?
- A plan of the building displayed inside the tour, with a marker that moves as you move through it, so you always know where you are standing. Two exist in our published archive, both in one university building. Positioning your panoramas on a plan you already have is €5 per panorama; if there is no usable plan, we draw one at €0.60 per square metre with a €45 minimum.
- Can you shoot a café or bakery while it is open?
- Yes. Both Tirana bakery branches include the frontage from the pavement and the room in use. Most spaces stay open while we work. The one thing worth agreeing beforehand is whether people appearing in the panoramas is acceptable to you, because a public street cannot be cleared.
- Where is Vronos based?
- Street Teodor Keko, Fabrika e Miellit, Tirana, Albania. Registered as Vronos, Person Fizik, NIPT M02312003R. Travel within 25 km of that address is not charged, which covers the city.
