Must-see hotels in Azerbaijan

Near the entrance to Laza there's a small shop. The houses facing and behind it are homestays of the Azizov family, who also own self-contained bungalows…

One of Şəki's very first hostels, Canal is a sprawling courtyard house in an obscure yet relatively central location down a highly improbable back lane…

Friendly and good value, simple little Hotel Qax' rooms mostly share clean squat toilets, with showers costing AZN2 extra. En suite rooms come with air…

The pillars of the front facade, lobby and high-ceilinged restaurant exude an imposing sense of late-Stalinist grandeur that is worth admiring, even if…

There are a handful of cheap, basic, high-ceilinged rooms, above the wedding hall that stands beside Lerik's tiny history museum. There's not much soul…

If you'd prefer a simple homestay to a hostel, contact pious, English-speaking İlqar Ağayev, whose family place has a great location in a quiet corner of…

Better than most of Astara's ultrabudget options, the Xəzər has eight functional but reasonably fresh, fan-cooled rooms that share a clean squat toilet…

In a fabulously central 1885 mansion, period settees, large Chinese vases and tasteful landscape paintings give character to the corridors, but don’t…

The eight rooms at this family guesthouse in the heart of Kiş village share modern bathrooms and a kitchen. It's run by English-speaking İlhamə Hüseynova,…

Despite the name, the Səda isn't so much a hotel as two collections of high-ceilinged if rather characterless rooms. The better, newer ones plus a…

Good-value, basic-but-clean rooms mostly come with air-conditioning, functioning bathrooms and toiletries; simpler rooms share a seatless sit-down toilet…

Tiffany glass panels and Modigliani-style paintings by a Georgian artist enliven indigo corridor walls and lead to rooms which are mostly the size of…

This cheap, simple eight-room guesthouse in a quiet corner of the Old City has creaky floors and wobbly shower curtains, but guests can use the hob and…

This traders' guesthouse is basic and male-orientated. There are obvious signs of wear but maintenance standards are no worse than you'd expect given the…

The Kəpəz is a monstrous Soviet-era hulk of decomposing concrete, whose unreconstructed sense of dilapidation is its source of perverse interest to a few…

Aimed at market traders, Sahil has clean, simple but perfectly survivable rooms with private if sometimes musty bathrooms and some wear to the floors.

Oskar has just three compact rooms above the entrance to a small, tree-shaded yard-cafe. It's very basic, road noise can be disturbing and there is no…

The location is unbeatable, there's a hangout yard with tyre-seats and chess sets, and the eight curtained bunks are comfy enough. However, they share a…

This simple but clean motel is located at the filling station at the east end of Balakən, 600m east of the bus station. Across the concourse there's a…