Georgia trip planner

How the planner builds a route

It starts from the airport you pick: Tbilisi, where most flights land and every transport line meets, or Kutaisi, where Wizz Air and the other low-cost airlines land. Each region scores points for the interests you tick: Kakheti for wine, Kazbegi and Svaneti for mountains, Kutaisi and the monasteries for history, Batumi for the sea. The best-scoring regions go in while they still fit, with their minimum nights for your pace and a night back in Tbilisi to close each trip out of the capital. Spare nights go to the regions you care about most, then to day trips from Tbilisi.

The west is one loop: Kutaisi, then Svaneti, then the coast, then the train home to Tbilisi. Svaneti always comes with a night in Kutaisi, because Mestia is too far to reach from Tbilisi and still enjoy the first day. Pick a summer month with mountains ticked and enough days, and the Mestia nights turn into the four-day walk to Ushguli.

A Kutaisi flight always puts Kutaisi on the route. Landing there, the west comes first and the night that would have closed it in Tbilisi becomes your first night in the capital. Flying home from there, the west comes last and that night moves nearer the airport: to Batumi, where the airport coaches run round the clock, or to Kutaisi, because the road down from Mestia is too long for a flight day. With Kutaisi at both ends the east comes last and the final day is the coach or the train from Tbilisi to the airport.

The legs and where the numbers come from

Marshrutka fares and yards come from our marshrutka guide, trains and the Kutaisi Airport coaches from our transport fares index (tkt.ge and Metro Georgia, read 12 October 2026), the vans up to Mestia from wander-lush's Mestia transport guide updated 17 August 2026, the vans down from our Mestia guide, and the airport shuttle from the airport's own timetable read 15 October 2026. Driver prices are per car, the cheapest on each gotrip.ge route on 15 October 2026, with GoTrip's route length and time, which we also use as the driving time for a rental car. Two legs out of Mestia, to Kutaisi and to Batumi, have no van fare we could confirm, and the table says so.

If a driver makes more sense

Switch the planner to hired driver and the legs change to per-car prices. They are fixed before you leave, waiting and photo stops are included, and you pay the driver in cash at the end. These are the four legs people ask us about most, at the cheapest car on each route this week.