The Best Hotels in Tbilisi

A Soviet-era post and telegraph office on Rustaveli Avenue, reimagined by Neri&Hu as a 239-room design hotel with the bones of the original Brutalist structure still showing. The layout borrows from the regional caravanserai tradition, drawing people through public spaces rather than sending them to their rooms, which explains the nine bars and restaurants full of locals who have no intention of checking in.

A curved glass facade designed to mirror the surrounding cityscape announces this 220-room luxury hotel at the edge of Tbilisi's historic Old Town. Interiors by a Paris firm fold in traditional Georgian motifs, chokha-influenced geometric patterns, and work by local artists. Five restaurants, a spa, and a concierge who seems to know everyone round out a hotel that earns its keep whether you've come to Tbilisi once or many times before.