For B&B owners, hotels and local guides
The guest guide that
already knows the area.
Your guest gets one link: the neighbourhood around your front door, with photographs, a map and practical tips — in the language they read. Your name, your colours, on their phone and working offline. You do not have to write up the area yourself.
- The area is already written
- Six languages, one guide for every guest
- Offline, and no app store in the way
Who it is for
Three kinds of host, the same question every day.
“Where can we eat tonight?” At breakfast, at the desk, at the end of a tour: you answer it every day. This answers it once, properly, before your guests arrive.
B&B owners
One QR code in the room, and the neighbourhood is already explained: where to eat, what to see, what is in walking distance — in their own language.
For B&BsHotels
The same QR code in every room opens the guide to your area, in the guest’s language. Colleagues have their own logins, and what guests write about the guide, you read and answer in your dashboard.
For hotelsLocal guides
The tour does not have to end when the tour ends. One QR code on your card, and your group keeps the city with them — with your name on it, in the language you just spent three hours speaking.
For guides
Demo
This is what your guest opens.
A still of a real guide. When a live one is published it runs right here — and any guide link opens the same way on a phone.
What is inside
More than a list of addresses.
What your guest gets on their phone, and what you set up on your side.
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In your guest’s language
Six languages on every plan. With your guide in more than one, your guest picks theirs.
What a guest sees after scanning A guest's phone after scanning the code in the room: the hotel's name and a list of languages to choose from. -
One code in the room
One QR code for every guest. Print it for the room, the welcome folder or the desk.
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Even without a signal
No account and no app store. Once opened, the guide keeps working where your guest has no signal.
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Your favourites
Your picks are marked “Our favourite” in the guide, with a line of your own if you like.
Your favourite, in your guest's guide The guide on a guest's phone: a place marked as the host's favourite, with the host's own line written under it. -
A guide for one stay
Fill in arrival and departure; your guest gets the same places, spread over the days of their stay.
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What only your guests see
Wifi, door code, check-in and check-out times: only the link behind your room code shows them.
What the code in the room opens The guide on a guest's phone, with the wifi, the door code and whatever else the hotel tells its guests alone.
The catalogue
Your city is already in it.
Hundreds of cities carry a checked list of places — restaurants, sights, bars — each with a photograph, a place on the map, a description and a practical tip. Websites are re-checked every month and anything that has closed for good is left out of every guide made afterwards.
Lisbon
Portugal
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Riga
Latvia
Florence
Italy
Bruges
Belgium
Edinburgh
Scotland
Prague
Czechia
Dubrovnik
Croatia
Barcelona
Spain
Athens
GreeceSomewhere that is not in it yet? Ask, and we build it.
Every plate above names its photographer and its source, read at build time from the record the image was fetched with. Impressions we generated are marked in ochre.
From your address to the room, before the coffee is cold.
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Give us your address
We build the guide to your area from our catalogue, in the languages your guests speak.
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Make it yours
Pick your favourites, write your welcome, and add the wifi and the door code.
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Put the code in the room
Every guest scans it and has the neighbourhood in their pocket, in their own language and without a signal. If a guest wants a day plan for their stay, you make one in one step.
From the maker
Why I’m building this
VidiVeni started as a few city guides I made by hand. Fun to do, and a lot of work: looking up dozens of places, checking them, translating them, and then hoping they were still open by the time someone finally read them.
This is that work, done properly once, for everyone who welcomes guests. The area is already written and kept up to date; you add what only you know, and put your name on it.
It’s a small product and I build it myself. While the pilot runs, I set up every host personally and read every message that comes in. Something not right, or something missing? I’d like to hear it from you.
Jasper Venema
Maker of VidiVeni
Fair questions.
What is a guest guide, exactly?
A small app your guest opens from a link or the QR code in the room: the places around your door, with your welcome, your name, your logo and your colours on it. Every place from our catalogue has a photograph, a spot on the map, a short description and a practical tip.
Does my guest have to install anything?
No. It opens in the browser like any page. Added to their home screen, it behaves like an app they downloaded — except there was no store and no account.
Which languages can a guide be in?
Six: Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish and Flemish. A guide is written in one of them, chosen when you make it, so a German guest reads the places, the tips and the buttons in German. What you write yourself, such as your welcome, you write once in your own language: in your guides in other languages it is translated automatically, a line tells the guest so, and you can correct the translation.
Does it work without a connection?
Yes, once it has been opened. The text is then stored on the phone, and the photographs and the map too once your guest saves the guide for offline use. That is the point: your guest is out walking, in a metro, or on a foreign data plan.
Who decides what is in it?
You have the final say. It is assembled from our checked catalogue of real places, and you take out anything you would not send a guest to — before you send it or after, and you can put it back. Nobody else rewrites it: only photographs, addresses and closures keep themselves current.
Does it carry my name or yours?
Yours. Your logo, your two colours and the support address guests write to are on every guide you make. Change your branding later and your area guides follow it, the one behind the code already in the room included, while a guide you made for one booking stays exactly as you handed it over. On the Hotel plan the “Powered by VidiVeni” line at the foot can come off — ask, and we switch it off for your account.
What does it cost?
Nothing for the first hosts, for the length of the pilot. What we want back is your honest opinion, a sentence we may quote, and permission to show your guide. Outside the pilot, a B&B pays a fixed amount per room a month, a hotel a rate per room we agree together, and a local guide a fixed amount per tour a month, every language included. The amounts are on the pricing page.
Zairon · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 We get the first one ready for you.
Every host is set up by hand while the pilot runs. We make the account and have a guide for your address ready beforehand; on the call we go through it together, and it is yours.
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