Virtual tours in Vlorë: ten delivered tours, from a four-station flat to a capsule hostel

Vlorë is the deepest part of our archive: ten of seventeen published tours, 60 stations, 277 overlays, 127 distinct connections and 53 information popups, across three of the six sectors we list. It holds the smallest job we build — four stations — as well as the only retail tour and the only night shoot we have published. All ten are open in a browser without a form.

Everything we have shot in Vlorë

They are published across five project pages: Emigres Apartments, Emigres No. 35, Hostel Kapsul, Restorant Menca and Turist Shop. Each carries its station list and a direct link to the live tour.

Seven apartments, seven tours, and not one show flat

Six of the seven units are laid out alike — a kitchen and living room, one or two bedrooms, a bathroom, in most cases a balcony — and that similarity is the argument for shooting all of them rather than against it. A buyer or a guest being offered No. 29 sees No. 29. The alternative is a representative unit standing in for six, which is the thing a 360° tour exists to make unnecessary. The seventh, No. 35, is furnished differently and has its own page for exactly that reason. Four to six stations each; the range is that narrow because the units are.

The range in one city is the useful part

Vlorë runs from a four-station apartment — the floor of what we will build, and the reason the €160 minimum exists — to a fourteen-station capsule hostel, with a seven-station restaurant and a six-station shop in between. If you are trying to work out where your own premises sit, that spread is more useful than any rule of thumb. It is also why we will not publish a square-metre guide. Put the shop next to the restaurant: one station apart, 13 overlays against 50, and no information popups against 27. Station count describes the walk. It does not describe the job.

What capturing in Vlorë is actually like

• A capsule gives the camera nowhere to stand back to. The hostel names six spaces — a main entrance, two inner entries, a hallway and two bathrooms — and still runs to 14 stations and 34 distinct connections, because the one question a guest actually has, how much room there is once you are inside a capsule, cannot be answered from the corridor. The count is a property of what has to be shown, not of the floor area.
• The shop was shot at night, with the shop open and trading. A lit interior opening onto a dark promenade is the hardest exposure in our archive, and it was chosen rather than avoided: a seafront shop on the Lungomare looks like itself in the evening and like a storeroom at eleven in the morning.
• The restaurant carries 27 information popups across 7 stations — the densest information layer we have built relative to size, and more popups than the whole rest of the Vlorë archive put together. In a self-service restaurant the interest is the counter and what is on it, not the distance covered. Six stations of corridor would have been padding.
• Two of the ten tours are built in Albanian, the restaurant and the shop. A room whose customers walk in off the street gets labelled in the language of the street. Only one other tour in the whole archive is Albanian, and it is a bakery branch in Tirana.
• Vlorë is outside the free-travel radius. Travel beyond 25 km of Tirana is billed at cost with no markup, itemised and agreed in writing before anything is booked; accommodation is at cost with receipts on anything needing more than a day on site. A single four-station apartment is a day trip. Ten tours is not.

Ten tours under one folder

All ten Vlorë tours sit under the same parent folder on our tour host. The hostel is documented as part of that same development, and the restaurant and the shop share the folder with it. The practical reading is straightforward: the Vlorë archive came from one relationship widening rather than from ten separate enquiries.

That matters commercially in a way worth being plain about. The second tour for a client who already has one is a much shorter conversation — the brief is settled, the look is agreed, and the job is to make the new space match the last one so a visitor recognises both as the same operator. It does not make the photographs cheaper; the rate card does not have a loyalty column. What it saves is the part of a project that happens before the camera comes out.

What we have not shot in Vlorë

No hotel, no school, no museum, no factory and no showroom. Three of the six sectors we list have delivered work in this city and three do not — which is worth knowing before you assume a portfolio covers your building type. The gap across the whole archive is set out in the two sectors we list and have not yet shot. If your premises are in Vlorë and you want a count, send the address and roughly what matters inside it.