Tbilisi Getting There & Away

Getting There & Away

By plane Tbilisi International Airport (IATA: TBS) (ICAO: UGTB), openned in November 2006 and is about 20 km from the city centre. Airlines include: Aeroflot (all flights suspended) airBaltic Airzena Georgian Airways Austrian Azerbaijan Airlines British Airways Georgian National Airways Lufthansa Turkish Airlines Old terminal services of local flights to Batumi, Kutaisi, and Mestia. By train Trains from Yerevan, Baku to Tbilisi; There are no trains to Moscow unless you go to Baku. Highly unrecommended. 3 days on train to Baku then overnight to Tbilisi. The train from Baku to Tbilisi is awful. Smelly, hot, hours at each border crossing, and don't forget the harassment from the Azerbaijani border guards. The Georgian railway workers are much nicer, perhaps making up for their 4 hour wait at the border compared with Azerbaijan's 1 hour.The Georgian customs officers do not know their duties properly. I have not seen anywere such incompetence.I had taken my own digital camera to take pictures. The Georgian customs officer told me I must pay customs duty.If Georgian diplomat did not intervene I would have to pay duty. Honestly, bring USD for getting out of Azerbaijan. Just in case. Local ones. Batumi, Gori, Kutaisi, Satskhe Javakheti, marneuli, Poti, Zugdidi. Fast Express Trains To Batumi During high season in Summer, every second day, Servise by Hight class and economy carrige. Buy as far in advance as possible, might be sold out. Overnight A class service is also available daily. Yerevan - Batumi is in service during High Season. By car from Turkey via sarpi border From Black Sea to rest europe using ferry. From Russia Via Kazbegy, other borders are closed by Georgia, only ilegally opened By russian side, to couse the problems and transfer weaposn from Russia to dangerous brakeaway regins of Georgia. Azerbayjan and Armenia borders are open, for cars. By bus There is a daily bus from Turkey, costing about 40 euro. Bus services from Russia have been suspended. There are also buses criss crossing the country and going into Armenia and Azerbaijan, where you can probably connect to Iran. The main marshutka station you find at Didube. Ceratinly busses 21 and 46 lead there from the city center. It's rather large, and you'll find minibusses to almost anywhere. By boat Black sea ports in Poti, Batumi, Boat service and cruise available.