Borjomi Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Marshrutkas to Borjomi (7 GEL, 2½ hours) leave Tbilisi’s Didube bus station about hourly from 8am to 7pm, with a similar return schedule from Borjomi’s bus station (22534; Meskheti 8). Other marshrutkas from Borjomi bus station go to Akhaltsikhe (3 GEL, 1½ hours, about hourly), Gori (4 GEL, 1½ hours, at 7.30am, 10am and 1pm), Kutaisi (7 GEL, three hours, 11.30am and 2.15pm) and Batumi (14 GEL, six hours, 9am). Frequent buses and marshrutkas run between Borjomi and Khashuri (1.50 GEL, 30 minutes), on the main Tbilisi–Kutaisi road, 32km northwest of Borjomi, until early evening.

For those with plenty of time, elektrichky from Tbilisi’s Borjomi station leave at 7.15am and 4.55pm, taking 4¼ hours to Borjomi Park station. Trains back to Tbilisi leave at 7am and 4.20pm.

A taxi from Borjomi to Tbilisi costs around 80 GEL, while one to Akhaltsikhe costs 30 GEL.