Georgia - 12th Oct 2019- Travel & Acomm

Probably will just try and get head down in airport after few beers rather than go into town. We had

Stupid question - is the Station Square metro on Freedom Square.. The map I'm looking at on booking.com doesn't actually say Freedom anywhere..

4 day trip enough ?

Four full days is ideal but remember it takes the guts of a day to get there and you'll be leaving more than likely on a flight in the early hours.

The last time i went for 3 nights but in reality I was only in Georgia for little over 36 hours given the long haul (left London on Friday midday arriving at Tbilisi airport in the early hours of Saturday morning and left after the match on a 4am flight on Sunday night / Monday morning).

Edited by colemanY2K - 28 Sep 2016 at 7:52am

manulike wrote: willmcc83 wrote: Stupid question - is the Station Square metro on Freedom Square.. The map I'm looking at on booking.com doesn't actually say Freedom anywhere.. Station Square is about 4km North of Freedom Square. It looks very handy for the Dinamo Stadium, though - less than 1km... Pushkin Square and Freedom Sq are the two which are spitting distance from eachother

irish_goat wrote: SuperDave84 wrote: Plenty. If you've not been before, I'd recommend a day trip up to Gori and the Stalin museum and a day trip to the mountains.  I'd combine those into the one day. That's what we did anyway. Didn't feel like there's enough in Gori to last a full day anyway.

Aye there's nothing in Gori apart from the Stalin museum which for those who haven't been is well worth visiting. We even failed to find a restaurant or a bar whilst there.

Anyone into hill walking / hiking would love Georgia. The Caucasus mountains are incredible and littered with walking trails. Just throwing that out there as another thing to do.

http://www.caucasus-trekking.com

Edited by colemanY2K - 28 Sep 2016 at 9:06am

We did a trip up the Military Road to the mountains in the North not a million miles away from South Ossetia. Had  few stops on the way, mainly around old churches. Taken up to a church in jeeps because you wouldn't do it in a bus. It was an interesting day and I think it was 10.30pm or so before we got back to Tbilisi. We left about 11am so a fairly full day.

Just booked this one via Amsterdam and Kiev

Doing the overnight in the dam both ways due to flight times

Flight price all in £225 which includes luggage and seat res on Kim

Flights all linked up so no hassle with delays

Now for a hotel

There are a load of options but it depends on your priorities and whether you are prepared to pay a bit more to fly at more sociable hours, or to deal with three flights rather than two. Also, some of the potential cheaper options haven't gone on sale yet, and those that have might yet come down in price.

A lot of people flew three flights each way last time around, the second two with Pegasus through Istanbul, but they aren't up for sale yet. Most of those options involved Ryanair flights to places like Stansted, Charleroi, Amsterdam and the likes, then two flights from there via Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen.

Even the two flight options (generally with Lufthansa via Munich or Istanbul with Turkish airlines) tend to arrive and leave at mad hours, like arriving in at 3am and leaving at 4am.

If you want to leave Tbilisi at a reasonable hour of the day, rather than like 4am, you'll probably need to spend an overnight somewhere on the way back, although maybe not on the way over, flying with Ukraine International Airlines, via Kiev, with ryanair connections booked separately, whether you're flying via London, Amsterdam, Dusseldorf, or somewhere else. There are loads of options.

This all leaves aside the options that go to and from Kutaisi (rather than Tbilisi) with Wizzair and connecting Ryanair flights to those.... however, the Wizzair flights are pretty expensive at the minute. They are likely to come down in price closer to the time, in a way that some other airlines aren't, and could well end up being the cheapest way there and back, depending on the options.

That all being the case, you might well not need to book yet, but it's hard to know. If you find an option at a reasonable price that you are happy with, just go with it.