A first trip to Georgia: where to start
Choose an arrival city, a first base and one onward connection before you book the route across Georgia.
Batumi & the coast
A city stay, the Black Sea and gardens beyond the centre.
Decide how much of the stay belongs to the city and how much to the coast. Use the tourism authority's guide for the places you want to visit, then check the journey and current access. If arriving by train, verify your departure date and stations with the railway.
Plan your visit
When to visit Georgia: choose the season by region
Choose a season around the place and activity you want. Georgia has sharp climate differences between its coast, lowlands and high mountains.
Official entry sources for a trip to Georgia
Use Georgia’s Foreign Ministry and e-Visa sources to find the rule that applies to your travel document and purpose. The guide does not decide personal eligibility.
Lari, cards and cash in Georgia
Learn what the National Bank’s exchange-rate tools show, compare the costs of currency exchange and card conversion, then match payment methods to your own route.
Visiting churches and monasteries in Georgia
Approach active religious sites with respect, ask before taking photographs and follow each church’s own visitor instructions.
Planning a Batumi and coast visit
Choose between a city-based stay, a garden visit north of town and a separate coastal outing in Ajara.
Arrive & get around
Planning intercity rail in Georgia
Search the exact route and travel date, identify the station, and follow Georgian Railway’s current ticket and identity rules.
Choose a place to stay
Central Batumi or Green Cape?
Choose between a city-focused stay near Europe Square and a Green Cape base organised around the garden and coast.
Places, food & local life
Shoti and the tone oven
A concise guide to Kakhetian shoti, its tone oven, local wheat and place at the shared table.
Eggplant with walnuts: a Georgian table dish
A short guide to Imeretian eggplant with walnuts, its seasonal preservation and related walnut sauce.
Churchkhela and janjukha: grape sweets by region
Follow the difference between sweet grape juice, concentrated badagi and the finished nut confection.
Satsivi and the Georgian New Year table
Read satsivi as a poultry and walnut dish with family and regional variations at the New Year table.
Gurian Kalandoba and the winter table
A concise account of Gurian Kalandoba, its chichilaki symbol and food customs.
Ajarian dishes beyond khachapuri
A concise guide to Ajarian borano, sinori and other coastal or highland dishes.
Qvevri: clay vessel and inherited practice
A concise guide to qvevri making, cultural transmission and regional storage practices.
Rtveli: the harvest work behind Kakhetian wine
A concise guide to Rtveli, shared harvest work and Kakhetian pressing and fermentation.
Mchadi, chvishtari and ghomi
Compare mchadi, chvishtari with cheese mixed into corn dough, and ghomi, a Samegrelo porridge.
Eating in Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi
How to choose regional dishes, read a restaurant menu and check ingredients and the bill in three Georgian cities.
Khachapuri: a guide to regional forms
Choose a style by region and shape, from Imeretian and Megrelian pies to the Adjarian boat and Svan forms.
Plan a Georgian wine tasting by region and method
Choose a region, grape and winemaking style before arranging a tasting. Official wine sources make the differences easier to compare.
A guide to Georgian food and wine culture
Read a Georgian table through regional dishes, shared meals and the living traditions behind qvevri wine.
Places & services
Places to stay
Royal Hotel Batumi
Royal Hotel places its Batumi address on Baratashvili Street beside Europe Square.
Calligraphy Hotel
Calligraphy Hotel is in Green Cape, nine kilometres from Batumi according to its official site, beside the Batumi Botanical Garden.
See & do
Batumi Botanical Garden
Batumi Botanical Garden is a coastal garden at Mtsvane Kontskhi, around 9 kilometres from Batumi.
Getting around
Batumi International Airport
Batumi International Airport publishes its own passenger guide, flight information and terminal map.
Eat & drink
Moonrise Specialty Coffee & Kitchen
Moonrise describes itself as a specialty coffee and kitchen business, with a Batumi cafe on Davida Mamuladze Street and a second location in Gonio.
Café Adjara
Café Adjara is a restaurant and bar in Old Batumi at 11 Kutaisi Street.
Everyday services
Batumi Water
Batumi Water is the water company identified on Batumi City Hall’s municipal organization page.
Sources & checks
- Batumi visitor guideTourism authority. Checked 22 October 2026.
- Georgian Railway passenger informationOperator information; check your departure date. Checked 25 October 2026.
Image credits
- Hito illustrated adaptation of Black Sea coast from Batumi Botanical Garden. FingerWiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
