Hotel Tsiskari

Welcome from owners into oasis of a lovely garden with trout pond, adjacent to a scruffy working farm area. Amazing home prepared food & wine.

If you're heading to Vardzia, staying at Guest House Tsiskari feels just like visiting close friends. The hosts are incredibly warm, welcoming, and go out of their way to make sure you have the best stay possible. The rooms are spotless, cozy, and super comfortable after a long day of exploring.

They have beautiful garden, amazing breakfast with local or homemade stuff - chacapuri, vegetable, marmelade, cheese and other things. The rooms are cool.

The young lady who worked at the reception was friendly.

I suppose its cultural, but when I arrived I was met with intimidating faces from the male staff. Two of them came out to me when I parked. They looked me up and down but didn't smile or say anything. Just watched me as I walked past them to the reception. The same happened the next day when I saw them. Not welcoming. Then there are two friendly dogs who hang out at the entrance. Only problem is that they smell awful. I lived on a farm with dogs and have been in the Caucuses for a month. These dogs smelt worse than I have experienced. And you have to walk past them every time you go in and out of the hotel. If this place wants to compete as an upscale vineyard/hotel, then they need to improve their service and appearance. Also, I attempted a wine tasting but was told I could not because the person who gives the tasting was not there. I said I would just pay for a flight of 3 wines. This ended up being 50 GEL which is basically the price of three full glasses of wine at a nice restaurant in Tbilisi. The wine itself was ok.