Hotel Lia

Finding the place and checking in were difficult. We couldn't find any staff at first; someone appeared after ten minutes. We tried three rooms because the first had no working AC and the next had other problems. The rooms are mostly nicely decorated, but there's a lot of maintenance needed: sockets were hanging out of walls, the fridge worked but was loud, and the AC initially had no power. That was fixed with an electrical cord running across the room to another socket. It's a large facility with many rooms, but just one person was handling things while the owner and manager was in the hospital. One person isn't enough to run a place that needs this much work. Breakfast was plentiful but only moderate in quality. Every pillow in our room smelled like petrol or something, and I had a headache the next morning, which I definitely blame on those pillows.

A good place if you're travelling solo.

The hostess was really nice, and the breakfast was incredibly generous, with fries, fruit, vegetables, yogurt and desserts. The rooms have a beautiful castle-like style, and the air conditioning is free. They say this was Kutaisi's first hotel, dating back to 1905. The bathroom was the letdown: the toilet was broken, and the glass doors on both the toilet and shower meant there was no privacy. I'd recommend switching the lights off. 😊