Tbilisi

By Minibus

The main mini-bus station can be found at Metro stationDidube. Buses 21 and 46 lead there from the city center. It's rather large, and you'll find minibuses to almost anywhere. Once at the metro platforms, take the train on the right going forwards. This direction takes you to the main station and centre. There are no signs in English.

For minibuses to some destinations e.g. Sighnaghi, you must go to Samgori, at Samgori metro station.

Minibuses from Yerevan will drop you off at Ortachala bus station.

By bus

Luks Karadeniz operates a daily bus from Turkey, costing 70 YTL. Bus services from Russia have been suspended.

Regular buses or marshrutkas run between Tbilisi and Batumi or Kazbegi as well as Azerbaijan and locations in Armenia.

Neo-Turs bus company offers bus transfers Tbilsi - Thessaloniki - Athens and back, starting from Didube bus station price: 100 US-$.

By plane

Tbilisi International Airport IATA: TBS ICAO: UGTB, (http://www.tbilisiairport.com/) is 17km southeast of the city centre. A new, modern terminal was inaugurated on February 7, 2007. George W. Bush Avenue leads from the airport to downtown Tbilisi.

The following airlines operate service to/from Tbilisi:

Air Astana Almaty,Aerosvit Airlines Kiev-Boryspil, Odessa,airBaltic Riga,Alitalia Roma,Arkia Israel Airlines Tel Aviv,Austrian Airlines Vienna,Azerbaijan Airlines Baku,Belavia Minsk,bmi London-Heathrow,Czech Airlines Prague,Donbassaero Donetsk,Dniproavia Dnipropetrovsk,Estonian Air Tallinn,Euroline Almaty, Donetsk, Dubai, Kharkiv, Odessa, VilniusGeorgian Airways Amsterdam, Athens, Dubai, Kiev-Boryspil, Minsk, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv, Vienna,LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw,Lufthansa Munich,Pegasus Airlines Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen,Qatar Airways Doha,Baku,SCAT Aktau,Sky Georgia Batumi, Antalya,TAM Air Donetsk, Kharkiv,Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk, andUkraine International Airlines Kiev-Boryspil

Bus #37 leaves from the right corner of the arrival area every 15-30 minutes, between 8:00 and 20:00 and then every hour until 23:00 to the city center. It travels via Avlabari, Freedom Square, Rustaveli, Republic Square and Tamar Bridge, to the main train station Vagzal. The trip can take over 50 minutes. The fare is 0.50 GEL.

Taxis between the airport and the city cost 20-30 Lari. Standard rates are listed on a board by the taxi rank as you exit the airport, on the right hand side.

Trains from the airport to the main train station cost 2 GEL and are fast. The train runs only 6 or 7 times a day but the trips are synchronized with flight arrivals so it's worth checking the schedule. Schedules change from time to time, currently the trains run in betwee 3.15 AM and 18.05 from the central train station.

If you are traveling to/from Mestia, there are flights available 5 days per week for 75 lari. You can reserve tickets in the Courtyard Mariott on Freedom Square from 9am-1pm in the Pegasus airlines office. Note that flights to and from Mestia are cancelled at least 50% of the time due to weather in the mountains; as a result, it's not recommendable to fly to Mestia soon before an international departure.