Virtual tours for restaurants, bars and event venues
Let diners pick their table and event planners walk the room before they call. A 360° tour shows the atmosphere a photo cannot: the space, the light and how many it really seats.
In short
A restaurant or venue virtual tour is a 360° photo of each space, linked so visitors can walk from the entrance to the private dining room on your website. Most restaurants need fewer than 10 photos. Making the tour in Panoramr is free; hosting it without Panoramr’s branding costs from £19 a year, in a Vault of up to 10 photos.
- Photos needed
- A restaurant 5 to 10; a wedding or conference venue 15 to 40
- Who takes them
- A 360° photographer, or your team with a 360° camera
- Hosting
- From £19 a year, in a Vault of up to 10 photos
- Bookings
- A button in the tour sends guests to your booking page
How restaurants and venues use a tour
Fill the private dining room
Groups see the room, the table and the view before they book a celebration.
Win the wedding
Couples walk through the ceremony room, the reception and the bridal suite, set up as on the day.
Sell conferences and meetings
Organisers see each room laid out for a theatre, a classroom or a banquet, and the breakout spaces.
Show the atmosphere
The bar, the terrace and the open kitchen: the feel of the place that decides where people go.
- The entrance and the front of house
- The main dining room, tables laid
- The bar
- The terrace or beer garden
- Private dining and function rooms
- Each room set up for a wedding or a conference
- The ceremony space and the dance floor
- The open kitchen or chef’s table
- Accessible entrance and toilets
- Parking and the approach
Two ways to get the photos
A tour is a 360° photo of each space, linked together. Who takes them is up to you.
Hire a professional
A 360° photographer shoots each space and hands you the photos. Many build the whole tour in Panoramr too, and hand it over to your account, ready to publish.
Take your own
With a 360° camera and a tripod, one press takes a whole room. Export the photos from the camera’s app and upload them.
What venues use most
Booking and shop buttons
Book a table, enquire about a wedding, download the menu: a button in the top menu or a link in a room. The tour has no booking form of its own.
How it worksPictures and screens on the walls
Put this week’s menu, a video of last summer’s wedding or a slideshow on a wall or a screen in the photo.
How it worksPicture galleries
A badge that opens pictures of the room set up for different events.
How it worksFloors and areas
Group the spaces: Restaurant, Weddings, Conferences, so each guest goes to theirs.
How it worksVideo in the scene
Open a YouTube, Vimeo or MP4 video in a window, or play it on a screen or a wall inside the photo itself.
How it worksOpen on the best view
Choose where visitors are looking when each room opens: the view from the window, the stage, the bed.
How it works
How a tour is made
- 1
Upload your photos
Open Create Tour, give the tour a name and drop your photos in. No sign-up and no card. They are prepared in your browser, and the tour uploads by itself when they are ready.
- 2
Design it
Choose a theme, then make it yours: colours, menus, buttons and the look of each hotspot. Choose where visitors start looking in each room.
- 3
Link the rooms
Add hotspots so visitors can walk from one room to the next, and add text, pictures, video or a floor plan where they help.
- 4
Keep it
Create a free account and the tour is yours. A guest tour is deleted after 2 days.
- 5
Put it online
Publish it free with Panoramr’s branding, or buy a Vault for it to take the branding off.
- 6
Share it
Paste its embed code into your website, and send its link by email or post it on social media.
What it costs
Making the tour is free. A small restaurant fits the smallest Vault; a wedding venue with grounds may need a bigger one.
Free
£0
Publish up to 10 tours, 250 photos in all, with Panoramr’s branding.
- The free Default Theme, in your colours
- A Panoramr start screen and badge over the tripod
- Listed on Panoramr’s Explore page
- Embed it on your own website
Vault 10
Suggested£19 a year
Hosts one tour of up to 10 photos. Pay once for one, three or five years, or yearly until you stop. You need no plan.
- No Panoramr branding: no start screen and no logo
- Your own design in any theme, Pro themes included
- Your logo and words on the patch over the tripod
- Private, by link only, or listed on Explore
Pro
£99 a year
Several tours? Pro hosts 250 photos at once with no Panoramr branding, shared by all of them, on one bill.
- Upload up to 1,000 panoramas
- Host up to 250 panoramas with no Panoramr branding
- Every Pro theme on your tours
- Your tour in other languages, with a switch for visitors
- Download your tour as a ZIP, in your own design
- Your own branding, private or published
- Hand a tour over to your client
Questions
How much does a restaurant virtual tour cost?
Making it is free. Hosting it without Panoramr’s branding costs from £19 a year, in a Vault of up to 10 photos. A venue with many rooms needs a bigger Vault, or a plan for several venues.
Can guests book a table from the tour?
They can click through to your booking page from a button or a link. The tour has no booking form of its own.
Can we show the room set up for different events?
Yes. Take a photo of each set-up and group them, or open a gallery of set-ups from a badge in the room.
Can we change the menu shown in the tour?
Yes. A menu put on a wall with Surface Media, or linked from a button, is changed in the editor without a new photo.
Does it work on phones?
Yes: guests drag or turn the phone to look round and tap to move between rooms.
Ways to share it
On your own website
Copy the embed code from the tour’s Publish tab and paste it into your page. It works with WordPress, Squarespace, Wix and most other sites.
How to embed a tourBy its link
Send the tour’s address by email, put it in a booking confirmation or a newsletter, or post it on social media.
On Explore
Panoramr’s gallery of tours, with buttons to share yours on X, Facebook, LinkedIn and by email. A free tour is always listed there; a hosted one only if you want.
Only with your team
Keep it private while you work on it, and invite colleagues or your web designer to view or edit it with you.
Related industries
- Hotels & ResortsLet guests walk through rooms, suites, the spa and the restaurant before they book direct.
- Holiday Lets & Short StaysShow the whole cottage, apartment or lodge, so guests book knowing exactly where they will stay.
- Gyms, Clubs & LeisureShow members the gym floor, the pool and the clubhouse, and fans the view from their seat.
Show them the room
Make your venue’s tour free, in your own design. You pay only to put it online without our branding.