Hotel Monopoli Kutaisi

Free upgrade upon arrival. Friendly and welcoming staff. Big room, comfortable bed and fast wifi, but a bit noisy from the road outside. The breakfast was nothing special. Close to some good restaurants, e.g. Toma's wine cellar.

Very bad experience

I liked the upgrade from a standard to a deluxe room, and the room size was excellent. However it was a bit noisy with all the traffic outside. The carpet under the lounge table had some hairs in it, of a length I have never achieved... I was told breakfast would be from 9 to 11 a.m., but when I came down around 1015-1030 in the adjacent café, the staff had cleared almost everything away. They put a lot of stuff back, but apart from a good tasting yoghurt nothing really stood out. I always interpret a lot out of how a hotel's coffee tastes like. This morning I found out too late that the three spoons of sugar I put into my coffee weren't sugar at all. The blame falls on me for not spotting the shade difference between salt and sugar, but the salt stood in a small, open bowl right next to the coffee mug. Except from this minor annoyances, I slept very well, and found it to be worth the money.

The location is the only downside for this hotel - it is away from the central city, on the road to Tbilisi. Quite a few locals were staying - maybe they were driving. I was caught in the rain: I turned up looking like a drowned rat and the fellow on reception couldn't have been kinder. He wanted to carry my backpack but it was easier for me to do so: he took me to my room, got the heater working, found a hairdryer and showed me where everything was. The room had a sofa, a rather large fridge, a single chair but no table apart from the coffee table. It was clean (and very soon, warm), the bed was fine, the wifi was fine and the free breakfast was in the onsite cafe. All in all, the room was great. Nearby, there are a couple of markets (and a huge electronics store), with town a 2-3 km walk and the railway station a bit closer.