Azerbaijan Hotels & Hostels (51)

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Tour companies use this revamped, relatively central, ex-Soviet monster hotel because of its size and ease of coach access. Views of the Caspian and Government House are sweeping but if travellin…

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This is the biggest, plushest hotel on North Abseron's comparatively clean sand-shell beaches. It's over an hour's drive from the city but attracts plenty of summer business thanks to a major com…

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One of the longest established private hotels in central Baku, the Azcot has a more homely family feel than most other options in this price range. Its location on the edge of Fountain Sq is quie…

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Acceptable pricing and a great location next to Sahil metro station makes this a very good budget base. The building is potentially impressive if un-loved and most rooms are reasonably large with…

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The Excelsior is Baku's most self-indulgently luxurious hotel. It appeals to Azerbaijan's nouveau super-riche with its Las Vegas sense of no-expense-spared pseudo-classical grandeur. Rooms are im…

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Many international flights depart at antisocial hours. Rather than face the 40-minute taxi ride from downtown Baku at 02:00, this splendid new hotel offers a stress-free alternative. It's also a …

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This acceptable, no frills place is neither central nor glamorous, but it's about the cheapest option in town. Beware that the basic rooms are not ideal for female travellers as the communal show…

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This unique place sets out to be Baku's most idiosyncratic hotel. In many ways it succeeds, though its boast of 'five-star plus' standards is highly exaggerated. The hotel clings like a limpet to…

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Of all the mini-hotels within the walls of the Unesco-listed Old City, Kiçik Gala 98 is probably the most spacious. It has more personality than many other hotels in its price range, and touches …

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This stylish 15-room mini-hotel has a restrained grandeur, and comfortable, understated rooms. The location, behind a neo-antique stone façade at the entrance to the Old City and just five minute…

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In the days of the USSR, this 11-storey tower was the official guesthouse for visiting dignitaries. There's still no sign whatsoever to alert potential customers that it's now open to the general…

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Entirely unmarked as a hotel, this impressive 27-room stone building looks like a classic oil-boom mansion, though, in fact, it was only built in 2006. Standards are high and décor is very refine…

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Despite some peeling paint, this 1990s suburban building offers by far the best budget deal in Naxçivan. The twelve rooms are large and bright, sporting passable air-conditioning. En suite bathro…

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The two sister Hyatt hotels are side-by-side, a short drive from the city centre. Both are professionally managed, international standard business hotels in an area that's not quite central, but …

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This delightful place is a converted 18th-century caravanserai, forming a twin-level arcade of sturdy arches around a pretty central courtyard. It's not just a hotel but also one of the most intr…

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Converted from a former artist's studio back in 1999, this was the first boutique to open within the Old City walls. It's staffed by students and graduates of the Western University's Hotel Manag…

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The Sahil has simple but perfectly survivable rooms with private bathrooms in an unexotic but presentable mustard-yellow building set behind the bazaar. The administrator, Elbruz Cabbarov, speaks…

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The Radisson occupies the 14th to 16th floors of a glass-and-marble tower that's set just one block back from Baku's vibrant green heart (Fountain Sq). Standards are genuinely luxurious, though t…

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Far and away the most comfortable hotel in S?ki, the Saray combines a faultless sense of stylish modernism with elements of local design. These include a s?b?k?-style stained glass strip across t…

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This luxurious 11-room boutique hotel hits a fine balance between opulent elegance, cosy comfort and trendy modernism. Its perfectly central Old City location is a great plus, with unparalleled v…

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Brand new, this modern beach-front hotel is an arc of titanium-grey flashed with blue mirror-glass windows. The building curls seductively around an outdoor infinity pool. South-facing rooms have…

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The unique feature of this new blue-glass arc hotel is that it's built on stilts above the Caspian Sea. No other hotel in central Baku lets you hear the sound of waves, yet here you're also just …

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The plushest hotel in town, open since 2007, is right on the main square, near the Presidential Palace and Parliament. Amenities include fitness centre, sauna, cable TV (with BBC news) but there …

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The lobby of the run-down Soviet-era Balak?n Hotel, opposite the mosque, might be attractively renovated but the stomach-churning en suite bathrooms belong in a horror film.

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Five comfortably modern rooms with good air-con are ranged above the courtyard dining chambers of this comparatively upper-market restaurant. All have decent bathrooms with toothpaste and toiletr…

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New, thoroughly modern hotel at the northern edge of town. It has ten rooms, some with air-con, plus an attached art gallery and one of the better restaurants in town.

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The nearest Lahic comes to a real hotel, this overgrown new house has a façade of frilly metalwork that doesn't entirely beautify the otherwise quaint Aracit Square. Unfussy twin rooms lead off l…

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Rather functional but handy for the nightlife district.

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At the southernmost edge of town, this modern, no-nonsense four-storey box has surprisingly attractive new rooms with great showers. The location, 5km from Saat Yani, isn't especially handy, thou…

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Built in 2002, the Grand does indeed look pretty grand from the outside. The tidy modern rooms are pretty stylish; bigger and brighter than those at the Tabriz. However, hot water can be temperam…

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Has 12 rooms in two buildings, which can be combined into apartments. It's quite cosy and comfortable with decent beds and big couches, and all the rooms have a balcony. The caretakers speak only…

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Presentable if fairly bland modern rooms with cheap ugly curtains and decent bathrooms. Entrance is hidden at the rear. Handy for the Yevlax bus station.

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This fine establishment has shared bathrooms for the single rooms and en suite bathrooms in its double rooms. The Armenian-Australian owner aims to make Antipodeans feel at home and has painted k…

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A block north of the mosque, the town's central hotel has been thoroughly renovated and is clean and comfortable. However, rooms lack the panache of Hotel Gilan and the en suite showers don't nec…

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There's no real reception or sign for this outwardly plush option just behind Dosa Park. Rooms appear well tended and modern, but clocks have stopped and sheets arrive in Nescafe bags for you to …

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You wouldn't guess there would be a boutique hotel here, but the extremely comfortable Hotel Shoushi stands across from the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral. It has 12 very tasteful, spacious rooms, lots…

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Like an Iranian mosaferkhaneh, waterless box-rooms are crammed around a very narrow courtyard sharing passably clean squat toilets. Rooms in the rear are windowless but slightly neater, and some …

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