Venue websites that sell the experience.
Side Studios designs and builds websites for hotels, event venues, and hospitality brands — immersive enough to sell the room before the visit, fast enough to keep a planner from bouncing, and wired so a booking or event inquiry lands the moment intent peaks.
Free, no commitment. Takes 2 minutes.
THE PROBLEM
Immersive, or fast. Rarely both.
Hospitality sites face a split brief: the experience has to feel real before anyone books, but a corporate planner or a couple comparing five venues at midnight will not wait for a heavy site to load. Most venues pick one side — a gorgeous, sluggish gallery that loses the impatient, or a fast, flat page that sells nothing. Either way, the inquiry goes to the venue whose site made the visit feel inevitable.
We build the site that does both. Immersive video and gallery that carry the room's atmosphere, engineered to load fast on the phone a planner is actually holding, with availability, booking, and event-inquiry paths never more than a tap away. Inquiries route to your events team on arrival, so a warm lead is answered while it is still warm. The building sells first; the site closes.
WHAT WE BUILD
Built to fill the calendar.
Every section earns a conversion job. Here is what goes into a hospitality build.
Immersive, fast hero
Video and photography that carry the room's atmosphere above the fold, engineered to load fast on mobile — so a planner feels the space before an impatient tab-close ends the visit.
Experience-led galleries
Rooms, event setups, and moments organized so a visitor can picture their own stay or event, giving the property the job it does best: selling itself before anyone has to explain it.
Clear booking paths
Availability, rates, and booking sit one tap from every page, so a ready guest never hunts for the reserve button — the moment intent peaks is the moment the path is there.
Event-inquiry capture
A structured inquiry path for weddings, corporate, and productions that captures date, headcount, and use case, so your events team responds with a real answer instead of a back-and-forth.
Capture wiring
Bookings and inquiries route straight into your events inbox or CRM on day one — no lead sitting unread while a planner emails the next venue on their shortlist.
PROOF
The building sells itself.
Platform4's Vancouver event-space site lets the building sell first — a full-bleed video hero, gallery-led storytelling, and clean use-case paths for corporate, weddings, photo, and film, with an inquiry flow that reduces the friction of an in-person inspection. One venue, four audiences, one brand that never fragments.
Pricing
Full Studio from $24k.
Studio Sprint from $8k · Full Studio from $24k · Studio + Engine from $42k. Public floors, not bait — final scope depends on depth, content, and integrations.
FAQ
Common questions.
How much does a hotel or venue website cost?
Our public floors are a Studio Sprint from $8k for a focused build or rebuild, and the Full Studio from $24k for a complete website and brand system. Final scope depends on gallery depth, booking integrations, and how many use cases the venue serves. The current floors are at /pricing.
Can the site be immersive without being slow?
Yes — that is the core of the build. We carry the room's atmosphere with video and photography, then engineer it to load fast on the phone a planner is holding, so the experience sells without costing you the impatient visitor.
Can you wire in booking or an event-inquiry form?
Yes. Availability and booking sit one tap from every page, and event inquiries are structured to capture date, headcount, and use case, then routed to your events team or CRM so a warm lead is answered fast.
We serve multiple use cases — corporate, weddings, film. Can one site handle that?
Yes. Platform4 serves corporate planners, wedding buyers, and production teams from one site with clean use-case paths and a single brand that never fragments — exactly the multi-audience problem venues face.
Can you help a Vancouver venue rank locally?
Yes. The studio is Vancouver-based and Platform4 is a Vancouver event space, so local hospitality search is familiar ground. Our Vancouver page at /vancouver covers how we build to rank in your market.
Could an AI website builder handle a venue site?
For a basic brochure, maybe. But an immersive experience that still loads fast, booking and inquiry paths wired to your events team, and a brand that reads premium are where AI builders stop — we lay out the honest trade-off at /compare/ai-website-builder-vs-web-design-agency.
See where your site stands.
Get your Brand Score in under two minutes — a private audit of brand, experience, and booking wiring, with the three highest-impact moves we would make on your venue's site first.
Free, no commitment. Takes 2 minutes.