The Best Hotels Near Four Seasons Hotel Baku, by the Record

A boutique hotel inside a stately building that once housed the Caspian Shipping Company, the Merchant Baku sits in the UNESCO-listed Old Town with the seaside promenade a short walk away. Rooms are spacious with high ceilings and natural light; suites add balconies over the city. The bar's summer terrace is quietly the best seat in the house. It holds a Michelin Key.

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Hand-woven kilim textiles and carved wood run through the individually designed rooms of this small boutique hotel on a quiet street just outside Baku's Old City walls. Balcony rooms look out over the neighborhood rooftops, and the Maiden Tower is a short walk. The scale keeps things unhurried, which suits a base for wandering the old quarter far better than a larger property would.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

Balconies that open onto the Caspian Sea, with the Flame Towers filling the skyline and the Old City a short walk downhill: the location does a lot of work here. The InterContinental is a full-service luxury hotel whose interiors quietly nod to Azerbaijani oil-boom architecture and the 12th-century poet Nizami Ganjavi. There's a hammam-equipped spa, an indoor pool, and a restaurant mixing Mediterranean and local dishes.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels