Website design for Thea, a small hotel and lounge in Prizren's old town

We designed and built theahotel.com for five rooms above an all-day lounge on Shadërvan square. One site carries both: the rooms upstairs, the coffee, menu and bar downstairs, a day at the house told hour by hour as you scroll, in English and Albanian, with every Book button opening the hotel's own booking page.

Client
Thea Lounge & Hotel, Prizren
Live site
theahotel.com
Built
Design · Motion · Booking
Year
2026
The Thea homepage: the hotel's goddess mark fills with light on a dark screen, then the words THEA lounge & hotel settle over a turning rosette of silver filigree in warm lamplight
HomeThe mark fills with light, then the name settles over a silver filigree film we rendered for the hotel.
The Thea homepage on a laptop on a dark sofa: the name over the filigree film, a cream sheet sliding over it with Five rooms above the old town square, then the bar opening in an arch
The homepageFrom the first light of the mark to the bar in its arch, in one scroll.
The intro of theahotel.com: a cream sheet slides over the dark hero, then the terracotta façade on Shadërvan square grows between two notes, Ground floor and Upstairs
Five rooms above the squareA light sheet slides over the hero, and the façade grows between the lounge's hours and the rooms upstairs.
Explore the House on theahotel.com: the title curves along a dark dome rising out of the cream page while a photo of the lounge bar grows inside a round-topped arch
Explore the HouseThe title rides a dark dome as it rises, and the bar opens out of an arch.
The lounge rows on theahotel.com: Turkish coffee poured from a copper pot, the words TURKISH COFFEE in the middle and the hotel's façade, changing to espresso and house cocktails as the page scrolls
The loungeA drink's name travels down the middle and changes as each row passes: Turkish coffee, espresso, house cocktails.
Espresso#16110E
Walnut, coffee
Limestone#F3ECE2
The old town
Terracotta#B8664C
The façade
Bottle green#1D382F
The velvet
ColoursTaken from the house: its terracotta façade, walnut doors and green velvet headboards.
A day at Thea on theahotel.com: a small cream card rides up over the façade, rounds into an arch with THE DAY along its top and grows to fill the screen
A day at TheaA card rides up over the façade, rounds into an arch with THE DAY on its curve and grows to fill the screen.
The day at Thea moving sideways: Morning breakfast, a timber window over the old town, Afternoon terrace coffee under black awnings, Café by day, bar by night
Hour by hourThen the page turns sideways: breakfast, the old town, terrace coffee, café by day and bar by night.
The rooms on theahotel.com: the Twin Room with City View, a velvet headboard lit orange against old brick, then the Deluxe Double and the Family Room wiping up over it
The roomsEach room wipes up over the last, its name, size and beds on one line.
Hosted by people on theahotel.com: a dark dome rises over the last room and the hotel's goddess mark draws itself in terracotta above one line about the hosts
Hosted by peopleThe goddess from the logo draws herself in, part by part.
Walk through the house in 3D on theahotel.com: a dollhouse view of the whole house on black, the lounge and the rooms seen from above
The house in 3DThe hotel's 3D tour plays inside the page: the lounge, the bar and every room.
The old-town map on theahotel.com: walking routes draw from Thea to the Stone Bridge, the Sinan Pasha Mosque and Prizren Fortress over a dark map of Prizren, a card for each place
Old-town mapReal walking routes draw from the door to the Stone Bridge, the mosque and the fortress, a card for each.
The Thea homepage on a phone: the goddess mark and THEA lounge & hotel over the filigree film
A day at Thea on a phone: the cream arch with THE DAY on its curve over the façade
The old-town map of Thea on a phone, with a card for the Stone Bridge
On a phoneThe day card still rounds into its arch, and the map's places come as cards.
The Thea menu opening from the header pill over the dimmed homepage, Home, Rooms, Lounge, Old Town and Contact beside a photo of the square, then a curtain carrying the page to the lounge
Menu and curtainThe menu opens out of the header pill, and a curtain carries every page change.
The lounge page of theahotel.com: Pull up a chair, THE MENU, the breakfast and antipasti columns between photos of the dishes
The menuThe lounge's food menu, from breakfast to pizza, on its own page.
The Deluxe Double Room page of theahotel.com: a column of photos beside the room's name, a short description and its size, beds and view
A page for each roomSize, beds, view and what is in the room, with booking one tap away.
The Prizren page of theahotel.com: Around the old town, over the town and its mountains at sunset
PrizrenA page on the old town: its places on a map, and how to get there.
The Thea homepage in Albanian: the façade on Shadërvan square beside a line about the five rooms of brick, walnut and velvet
In AlbanianEvery page in English and Albanian.
Live sitetheahotel.comWatch the filigree turn in your own browser.Visit the site

Frequently asked questions

Should a hotel with a restaurant or café have one website or two?

One, with a page for each. Two sites split the visitors and the links search engines count, and make a guest choose before they know what they want. On Thea's site the rooms and the lounge each have their own pages, the home page follows a day from breakfast downstairs to the last lamp upstairs, and the lounge page carries the menu. A guest looking for coffee and a guest looking for a bed land on the same site, and each finds a reason to come back for the other.

Should a hotel or café put its full menu on the website?

Yes. The lounge page on Thea's site lists the whole food menu by course, from breakfast to pizza, with photos of the dishes, and the home page shows the drinks the bar is known for. People search a place's name with the word menu before they walk in; on your own site the answer is in your words and your languages, and it changes when the kitchen does.

Does a small hotel or guest house need its own website?

Yes, and a small one gains the most. With five rooms every direct booking counts, and a booking site shows every hotel the same way. Thea's own site tells what a listing cannot: the brick, walnut and velvet of each room, the lounge downstairs, the walk to the Stone Bridge, and a Book button on every page that goes straight to the hotel.

How do you add a 3D virtual tour to a hotel website?

Inside the page, loaded only when a guest asks for it. On Thea's site a still of the whole house stands in the section until someone presses Step inside; only then does the tour load and play in place. On phones it opens full screen with a bar to close it, so a swipe never traps the page. The rest of the site stays as fast as if the tour were not there.

What makes a hotel website feel cinematic?

Motion that tells the house in order, not decoration. On Thea's site the goddess from the logo fills with light, the name settles over a silver filigree film, the façade grows as a sheet slides over it, a day at the hotel moves sideways hour by hour, and a curtain carries every page change. The film is our own: a rosette in the style of Prizren's telqari filigree, built in code wire by wire and rendered frame by frame in three.js, turning one petal every twenty seconds so its loop never jumps. Phones get a simpler telling of the same story.

What is the Thea website built with?

Next.js and React in TypeScript, with GSAP for the scroll animation and Lenis for smooth scrolling. The whole site is exported as ready-made files, so no server has to run when someone opens a page.

Does a website with this much animation load fast on a phone?

This one does. Every page is built ahead of time, every photo is prepared as WebP at the widths a screen asks for, and the films load only as they come near the screen. On phones the heaviest choreography steps aside: the day at Thea stacks instead of moving sideways. With reduced motion turned on, every section simply shows its final state.

How do guests book a room on the site?

Every Book button, in the header, the menu, the rooms and the home page, opens the hotel's booking page on thelobbyboy, the hotel system from Prishtina, in a new tab. The guest picks dates and a room there, and the booking goes straight to the hotel.

Can you build a website like this for my hotel or café?

Yes. We design and build websites for hotels, cafés and restaurants from scratch, with a page for every room, your menu, the languages your guests speak and direct booking. Tell us about your place and you get a free, fixed written quote within two working days. More on hotel website design in Kosovo and café websites, and for another hotel in Prizren, see the Classic Hotel website.

Who built the Thea Lounge & Hotel website?

Pluton Studio is a software studio in Prishtina, Kosovo, founded in 2018 by software engineer Adrian Fusha. We design and build websites, online stores, web apps, mobile apps, custom business software, AI chatbots, AI agents and process automation for businesses in Kosovo, Albania, the Albanian diaspora and across Europe. You work directly with the engineer who builds your project. The Thea site was designed and built in 2026.

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