Holiday Inn Telavi is a four-star hotel in Telavi. The hotel offers a pool, a restaurant and breakfast. It scores 4.6/5 across 511 guest reviews — an excellent rating. In our 2026 scans, rooms ranged from US$95 to US$112 per night depending on dates and occupancy. It sits about 2 km from the centre of Telavi. Most rooms can be booked with free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
About Telavi: Telavi is the working capital of Kakheti, and most travellers sleep here because the rest of Georgia's wine country sits within forty minutes of its central square. All hotels in Telavi →
Rooms and rates
Across our 2026 scans we logged 11 priced stays for Holiday Inn Telavi: rates ran from US$95 to US$112 a night depending on the date, how far ahead you book, and occupancy. Rates in Telavi move with demand: midweek stays booked a couple of weeks out are where our scans found the widest choice of free-cancellation rooms. The price you see after tapping “Check availability” is the live app.impt.io rate for your exact dates, not an estimate.
Location
Holiday Inn Telavi is at Rustaveli Avenue 2 Telavi Kakheti 1 1 5, Telavi, Georgia. That puts it about 2 km from the centre of Telavi's hotel district, based on the coordinates in our scans. The nearest city with a bigger hotel scene is Tsinandali, about 11 km away — compare Tsinandali hotels too if your plans are flexible. This page's “View on map” link opens the exact spot in Google Maps, so you can measure the journeys that matter to you.
The facilities, in detail
For food and drink, the hotel lists bar/snack/cafen', bars, breakfast, breakfast in room and coffee. On the wellness side there's fitness center, indoor pool, outdoor pool, pool bar and sauna. Practical services include 24 hour front desk, 24h. security, car rental service, concierge, laundry service and luggage storage. In the room itself: air conditioning, bath, bathrobe, bathroom, free wifi and hairdryer. The full list of 63 facilities is below; double-check the ones that are deal-breakers when you book, as hotels adjust what they offer by season.
Good to know before you book
Booking is straightforward: pick dates and guests in the widget, check the live rate on app.impt.io, and complete the reservation there. Most rooms are offered with free cancellation until a few days before arrival — the exact deadline is shown next to each rate before you pay. Every confirmed booking also removes a tonne of CO₂ through IMPT's carbon-removal projects, at no extra cost to you. When comparing, note that the four-star rating reflects the hotel's declared standard; the guest reviews on this page tell you how it actually feels to stay. Prices on this page are shown in US dollars, converted from the euro rates our scans observed; the exact total for your stay, including any taxes and fees, is confirmed in the booking funnel before you pay.
Where our data comes from
Through 2026 we ran 22 weekly scan rounds against the live IMPT booking funnel, probing one-night stays across the coming weeks for every hotel in this guide. Holiday Inn Telavi returned bookable rates in 11 of the stay windows we probed, most recently in August 2026. Prices you see here are per-night room rates converted to US dollars at the single euro rate used across this site; they are a planning aid, not a quote.
About staying in Telavi
Telavi has 37 hotels in this guide; 4 of them returned live bookable prices in our 2026 scans, with rooms from US$74 a night. The selection skews upscale: 6 five-star and 30 four-star properties. Hotels with observed prices lead every list; for the rest, the widget checks the live rate in seconds. All hotels in Telavi →
Telavi for hotel guests
It is a real provincial town rather than a resort: a fortress with Erekle II's palace in the middle, a loud morning bazaar, and a park terrace looking north across the Alazani Valley to the snowline of the Greater Caucasus. Across 35 properties in our 2026 scans, rooms started at about US$74 a night, with a typical from-price of roughly US$99 — firmer in the September–October harvest weeks, when the town genuinely fills. All hotels in Telavi →
Facilities
Guest reviews
4.6511 reviewsReception was great. There are very nice girls there. It's a pity our room was not cleaned in two days. The standard room with a balcony itself is really good. The hotel has two swimming pools. I swam in both. The exterior is large, until it was heated in May and it was cold, but I got used to it and enjoyed it. The upper pool is quite small (but it was heated) and there were few places for a few visitors. Breakfast was not bad. Everything was delicious and clean there. And the most important thing is the view from the balconies and in general from the façade side to this magnificent part of c…
expected a higher standard from a 4-star hotel, but unfortunately, my experience was frustrating. Since morning, there hasn’t been a single towel available in the room or provided by housekeeping—even after multiple requests to the front desk. For a hotel in this category, basic amenities like towels should never be an issue. The room itself was comfortable and the facilities seemed well-maintained, but the lack of such a simple necessity severely impacted my stay. I hope management addresses this issue promptly, as it’s unacceptable for guests to be left waiting for something so essential al…
Had wonderful experience here. Well-cleaned rooms, polite and professional staff. They gave us room with balcony after our request and it had amazing view🌠 Definitely must go in Telavi!
Planning your trip to Telavi
When to go
Telavi's year turns on the harvest. Rtveli, roughly from mid-September into late October, is when the Alazani Valley smells of crushed grapes, every marani is open and half the guesthouses will happily put you to work at the qvevri. It is also the one stretch when the town genuinely runs short of beds: weekend rates firm up and the best village rooms go weeks ahead.
May and June are the underrated months. The valley is green, the wall of the Greater Caucasus to the north is still white and visible on clear mornings, and spring cooking — chakapuli, lamb with tarragon and green plums — is at its best. Rooms are easy to find, the roads are dry, and you can walk the old streets without hunting for shade.
July and August are hot, usually low-to-mid thirties by mid-afternoon, though at Telavi's altitude the nights cool off far more kindly than they do in Tbilisi. Cellars are open but quiet, and the vineyards are simply working. This is when discounts appear: plan monasteries for the morning and tastings for the late afternoon.
Winter is honest and empty. December to March brings fog on the valley floor, occasional snow, a town that closes early, and the real chance that the Gombori Pass shuts for a day or two after heavy snowfall — the longer lowland highway stays open. Check that your room has proper heating rather than one tired wall unit.
Getting there and around
Marshrutkas to Telavi leave Tbilisi from Samgori (Navtlughi) station throughout the day, take roughly two to two and a half hours over the Gombori Pass, and cost on the order of 10–15 GEL. They tend to fill up rather than follow a strict clock, so travel in the morning. The Telavi stand sits beside the bazaar, five minutes' walk from the fortress.
There are two roads from the capital: the shorter Gombori Pass, winding and genuinely beautiful, and the longer lowland route via Sagarejo and Gurjaani, which drivers switch to in bad weather. A private car for the transfer costs several times the marshrutka fare, and a hired driver for a full day around the valley typically lands in the low hundreds of lari.
Telavi itself is walkable end to end in twenty minutes. Beyond that you need wheels: town taxis are a few lari, Tsinandali or Ikalto perhaps 15–25 GEL each way, Alaverdi and the two Shuamta monasteries a little more. Village marshrutkas exist but run thin and stop early, so fix a return time with a driver before you set out.
Where to stay, zone by zone
The centre — Erekle II Square, Rustaveli Street and the lanes around Batonis Tsikhe — holds most of the town's hotels. You are walking distance from the fortress, the 900-year-old plane tree, the bazaar and the kitchens that stay open latest. It is also where the marshrutkas and the morning trade make their noise, so ask for a room off the street side.
Nadikvari, the slope below the park, is the view address. Rooms on that terrace look straight north over the Alazani Valley to the Caucasus, and it is a five-minute climb back into the centre. Steep in places and quiet after dark — the right choice if you want the balcony to be the evening's entertainment.
Around the bazaar and the bus stand you find the cheapest guesthouses and small family hotels: practical if you arrive late or leave at dawn, less charming otherwise. Kurdgelauri and the outer roads towards Tsinandali have newer, larger hotels with parking and pools, which suit people with a car far better than bus travellers.
Then there are the villages — Tsinandali, Kisiskhevi, Vardisubani, Shalauri, Ruispiri and others within a quarter of an hour of town — where family wineries rent rooms and cook dinner. This is the best version of a Kakheti night, and the least flexible: you will need a car or a taxi for anything at all after supper.
Eating and going out
Kakhetian food is the point of being here. Mtsvadi grilled over vine cuttings, khinkali priced by the piece at a lari or so, badrijani with walnut paste, shoti bread straight from a wood-fired tone, and chakapuli in spring. Portions assume a table of six, so two people should order noticeably less than instinct suggests.
Wine arrives by the jug as often as the bottle. Amber qvevri Rkatsiteli and Kisi, dark Saperavi; a tasting flight at a cellar usually runs to a couple of dozen lari, and a good bottle to take away is somewhere around 15–30 GEL. Family maranis in the villages often pour generously for little more than the price of the meal.
Nightlife is thin, and that is not a complaint. There are a few bars in the centre and restaurant terraces on the Nadikvari side, but kitchens generally wind down by ten or eleven, earlier out of season. A late night in Telavi belongs at a guesthouse table with the host's wine, not out on the street.
Booking well
Across 35 properties in our 2026 scans, Telavi rooms started at about US$74 a night and the typical from-price sat near US$99 — modest by Georgian standards, but remember that a from-price is the smallest room on the quietest date. Harvest weekends and the better village wine houses sit above that; a midweek February night sits below it.
Book the harvest well in advance: six to eight weeks is not paranoid for late September and October, particularly for anything with a vineyard view. The rest of the year you can usually arrange a room a few days out, and walking in works in winter — though a good share of the small places simply close until spring.
Confirm the practical things in writing: heating in winter, air conditioning in summer, whether breakfast and dinner are included at a guesthouse, and whether parking exists if you have driven. Cards are normal in town hotels and unreliable in village maranis, so carry lari. Ask your host to arrange a driver for the day — it is usually cheaper and better than a booked tour.
Frequently asked about Holiday Inn Telavi
How much does Holiday Inn Telavi cost?
Prices we observed in 2026 started at US$95 per night. These are scan observations, not a live quote: the final rate depends on your dates. Use the check-availability widget on this page to see the current price.
Where is Holiday Inn Telavi?
The address is Rustaveli Avenue 2 Telavi Kakheti 1 1 5, Telavi, Georgia, Telavi, about 2 km from the centre. This page's "View on map" link opens the exact spot.
What facilities does Holiday Inn Telavi have?
The hotel lists 24 Hour Front Desk, 24H. Security, Air conditioning, Alarm clock, Balcony and Banquet. The full list (63 facilities) is in this page's facilities section.
How do I book Holiday Inn Telavi?
Pick dates and guests in this page's check-availability widget: it takes you to the live price on app.impt.io, where you complete the booking. Most rooms come with free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
What currency are the prices in?
Prices on this page are in US dollars, converted from the euro rates our 2026 scans observed. When you book, the exact final total is shown before you pay.
