Telavi, Georgia

Communal Hotel Telavi

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Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (GEL150.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Moorish-modern meld

Setting

Vineyards and valleys

Wine growers are the kings of eastern Georgia’s Kakheti, and design-forward Communal Hotel Telavi puts you in the heart of its quaint, vineyard-flanked capital. Once vintage blends have been sampled, ancient monasteries explored and the encircling Caucasus Mountains admired, traditional Georgian fare is set to impress back at the hotel. Sated and content, head to your room, where butter-soft beds and calming tones make for restorative slumbers. The wine tastings may have helped, too…

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

12, including six suites.

Check–Out

Noon, and check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability and a 50% charge (until 6pm or from 6am respectively).

More details

Rates exclude breakfast, but a buffet spread of local delicacies and made-to-order eggs is available for GEL30 (US$10).

Also

Unfortunately, Communal Hotel Telavi isn’t equipped to support guests with limited mobility or hearing.

At the hotel

Rooftop orangerie and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV with Netflix, air-conditioning, minibar, tea- and coffee-making kit, free bottled water, hairdryer and custom bath products. Suites and studios also have Roberts radios.

Our favourite rooms

The King Suite’s city-watching balcony is a dreamy sunrise spot for your first coffee of the day. But if you’re seeking something with some more space, book into the Suite with Pool Views, which is kitted out with its own kitchenette and dining area; or the split-level Suite with Hot Tub for its mezzanine soaking spot.

Poolside

There’s a small outdoor pool, where you’re welcome to order zesty cocktails to green-striped sunloungers and soak up Georgia’s summer sun.

Packing tips

Your flattest shoes for sauntering round the vineyards.

Also

The Communal Hotel group has equally swish stays in Tbilisi, if you’re considering a twin-centre trip with time in the Georgian capital.

Children

Little Smiths are welcome, although there aren’t any special facilities to keep them entertained.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Head outside and bag one of the blue banquettes as the weather starts to warm.

Dress Code

The brighter the better around here.

Hotel restaurant

In-house Doli glows with an orange-tinted hue, but the restaurants’ tangerine tones aren’t all that make it shine. Menus are filled with traditional Georgian food (tandoor-baked bread, cheese and spicy bean pies, soul-warming chicken soups, deep-fried makali veg) that’s skillfully cooked up with seasonal produce from Kakheti-based suppliers, and paired with local wines.

Hotel bar

Naturally, the bar’s lengthy drinks list is mostly made up of Kakheti’s very best wines, and servers will be more than happy to suggest their favourites to the uninitiated. And if you’d prefer something packed with punch, take your pick of classic cocktails.

Last orders

Doli opens for breakfast between 8am and 11am, and for lunch and dinner from 1pm till midnight.

Location

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Address
Communal Hotel Telavi
11 Cholokashvili Street
Telavi
2200
Georgia

Communal Hotel Telavi is set in its namesake city, northeast of Tbilisi in the rolling vineyards of Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region.

Planes

The hotel’s closest airport is Tbilisi International Airport, which is just under two hours’ away by car and served by most European hubs. Private transfers can be arranged for around GEL280 each way.

Automobiles

A car might come in handy if you’re planning on exploring more of Georgia, but if you’re sticking to Telavi it won’t be essential.

Worth getting out of bed for

Wine-making has been a cornerstone of Georgia’s culture for millennia, and Communal Hotel Telavi rests in its vineyard-rich region, Kakheti. So take your pick of Telavi’s surrounding wineries, where you can learn how local growers age their blends in traditional clay pots. 

Culture-seekers can find a wealth of traditional monasteries (the Old and New Shuamta Monasteries are particularly impressive) and heritage homes with a guided history tour of the city – the Telavi Fortress also sits in its centre, and is worth a visit. Roam around the Nadikvari Park, filled with natural wonders, views of the surrounding Alazani Valley and Caucasus Mountains, and an open-air theatre that stars in summer. If you’re looking to dip into Georgia’s craftsmanship, head to Kera, just across the street from the hotel, where colourful ceramics line shelves.

Local restaurants

Sip and sample traditional Georgian plates at Kapiloni, a 10-minute walk from the hotel and graced with sweeping views of the Caucasus Mountains. Vineyards are aplenty round Kakheti, but we’d suggest stopping by the Sesikeli Winery for fine tastings and friendly tours.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this moody-hued city stay in Kakheti and unpacked their tandoors and bottles of red, a full account of their Georgian break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Communal Hotel Telavi…

Georgia’s capital gets most of the country’s clout when it comes to creatives, but two hours northeast of Tbilisi, in the wine-making region of Kakheti, Communal Hotel Telavi is showing that artistic up-and-comers aren’t exclusively found in big cities. Contemporary interiors are emboldened with a Moorish touch, while rooms are dressed in dark, seductive hues and rustic furnishings – some even have their own terraces that admire the abutting Caucasus Mountains. There’s no shortage of sights at the hotel’s restaurant either, where ingredients fired in traditional tandoors and simmered into soups offer a refined, local take on comfort food. But it’s not just the visionaries and gourmands that are set to fit right in round here – self-declared sommeliers will have their pick of the vineyards, where virtuosos are trained in wine making methods that date back millennia. Back at base, a rooftop orangerie invites lazy afternoons and if you’re visiting once the snow has melted, the lounger-lined pool comes into its own on summer days.

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