The Best Hotels in Tartu

The hotel takes its name from a 19th-century Estonian cookbook author, which tells you something about the level of thought that went into it. Set where Tartu's Old Town meets Toomemägi Hill, Lydia is a boutique hotel with a defiantly modern building among stately neighbors, and interiors that weave period details through a sharp contemporary sensibility. Comfortable in a properly luxe way, without the stuffiness of a grand hotel.

A spa hotel in the lively café-and-shops district of central Tartu, V Spa Hotel takes its name from "vitality," which gives the spa team something to live up to, and by most accounts they manage it. Multiple pools, saunas, and water-focused treatments fill out the wellness side, while the rooms run toward soft textures and room to breathe, with allergy-friendly and family-sized options available. A comfortable base for mixing city wandering with genuine downtime.