Film accommodations. Apartool for movie and TV Productions on the RAC&GO Podcast

September 30, 2025

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Accommodation is often a headache in audiovisual productions, sporting events, or international corporate projects. Coordinating hundreds of people, controlling the budget, and ensuring the comfort of every professional is no easy task.

This was precisely the central theme of the RAC&GO podcast on RAC1, where Marc Vilar, CEO of Apartool, and his client Laura Espinosa, Travel & Accommodation Coordinator, shared their experience with journalist Oriol Llop.

Below, we encourage you to listen to the full podcast and we’ve summarized the most interesting points from the conversation.

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Live testimony: A hollywood-style accommodation

The intervention of Laura Espinosa, Travel & Accommodation Coordinator at a film production company, made clear the demands of large-scale productions:

“A shoot can involve hundreds of people. For superproductions like House of the Dragon or The Fantastic Four, we’ve had to accommodate 700-800 people”.

Mainstream accommodation platforms are not a solution due to the large volume of people that need to be relocated. In contrast, the experience with Apartool improves the process completely:

"Apartool makes my day-to-day in the office much easier. I send them an email with the people, budget, and city, and in less than 24 hours, I have a proposal”.

Laura's testimony and the examples shared in the podcast highlight the advantages that film production companies and large businesses value the most from Apartool's services:

Fast response time and scalability for projects of any size.
Budget control, even in cities saturated by conferences or high season.‍
Attention to detail for demanding professionals, as Marc Vilar illustrated with a curious anecdote:

"A member of a production wanted exactly the same toaster they had at home. We had to scour the city, but we found it. And the client was thrilled”.

A solution designed for professionals

Unlike general platforms, Apartool is exclusively designed for professional clients. As Marc Vilar explained on RAC&GO:

"We don't work with private clients. Everything goes through corporate agreements. And we don't work with individual property owners, but with professional apartment managers”.

With this model focused on professional clients, Apartool has positioned itself as a leader in corporate accommodation for film productions, TV series, and advertising content.

Laura's testimony clearly demonstrates the potential of this tool for managing the accommodation of large multimedia productions. However, it is also a highly useful resource for international-scale events, which share many similarities with a film shoot. A clear example was the management of accommodation for over 600 people from Emirates Team New Zealand during their participation in the 37th America's Cup in Barcelona, a successful case that Marc Vilar also covers in detail in the podcast.

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A specialized team for projects

To address operations of the scale required by large international productions and sporting events, Apartool Pro was created: a service specialized in accommodating groups ranging from dozens to thousands of people.

In this way, Apartool Pro becomes the ally of all mobility project managers, whether for a production, an event, or a corporate project that requires relocating a large group of people.

In addition to large projects, Apartool also quickly manages the more common corporate accommodation needs of corporate travel agencies, relocation agencies, and companies that need to accommodate their teams anywhere in the world.

An upward trajectory

Who would have thought in 2019, when Apartool shifted its business and moved away from vacation tourism to focus on corporate accommodation for mid- and long-term stays? But from that moment on, the numbers spoke for themselves.

Today, the company boasts a catalog of more than 300,000 apartments and a presence in 85 markets. One thing remains unchanged, however: the company's spirit. As Marc Vilar summarizes:

"Making it possible, even when it seems impossible. Turning challenges into opportunities and, above all, never giving up”.

Listen to the full RAC&GO podcast with Laura Espinosa, Marc Vilar, and Oriol Llop to learn more about how Apartool helps content producers make the challenge of accommodation for movie stars and teams easy and satisfying for all.

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