Sanli in Mestia

The hotel is in a beautiful location in the old part of Mestia and the restaurant offers excellent Georgian dishes: these are the positive things. Our room was quite spacious but spartan; not particularly clean and above all it was never made up in the three days we were there (waste bins not emptied and towels not changed!). We had asked for a room with a balcony, but the terrace was unusable. Breakfast was a bit poor. They only accept cash payments. When asked for some advice on how to get around to go trekking in the surrounding area, the staff was unable to give any answer, as if they too had only arrived in Mestia a day ago. The feeling is that there is great confusion. The height of confusion was in fact reached on our departure: we had warned several times that we would have to leave early in the morning (at 7, well after dawn!) to take our transfer. We found ourselves with the hotel doors barred, locked inside!, we had to leave by climbing over the veranda and lowering ourselves into the street. There must be better places in Mestia.