Data for Tbilisi, Batumi, Kazbegi and the wine country of Kakheti, installed before you fly. Georgia is on the Asia plan and the Europe plan, so the rest of the route picks the package: Armenia and Azerbaijan on the Asia plan, Türkiye on the Europe plan. Dinner may take longer than the drive.
The Georgia plan covers Georgia only.
The same 10 GB in a package that keeps working past Georgia.
38 other countries share the package with Georgia. A few of them:
What's included, when it starts, and how to get connected.
Georgia has two front doors: Tbilisi airport, 17 km from the city centre, and Kutaisi, where the budget airlines land, more than 200 km to the west. Plan the transfer for the one on your ticket.
Install your onesim eSIM over Wi-Fi and keep the line switched off until you land. Many passports, the British among them, get up to a year without a visa; check what applies to yours. Every visitor needs health and accident insurance for the whole stay, arrival and departure days included, with at least 30,000 lari of cover, and airlines may ask to see it at check-in.
When the plane reaches the gate, open Settings → Mobile Data, choose the onesim line for mobile data and turn on data roaming for that line alone. That first connection starts the package. Your home SIM stays in the phone with its own data roaming off, so calls and texts to your number still arrive, and so do the codes Bolt or your bank sends.
By day, city bus 337 runs from the arrivals hall through the centre to the main railway station. At any hour, Bolt serves the airport: book the ride in the app rather than taking an offer in the hall, where touts have a name for inflated fares.
Kutaisi’s airport sits 14 km west of the city, and a long way from the capital. Georgian Bus and other operators run coaches from the terminal to Tbilisi and Batumi, and trains leave from Kopitnari station nearby; allow about four hours to Tbilisi. Save your hotel’s address in Georgian script as well: a driver reads it at a glance.
Hold the dumpling by its twisted top, bite a small hole, drink the broth, then eat the rest. A fork would pierce it and send the juice across the table, which is why using one is considered bad form, even childish. The knot is too tough to eat, so leave it on the plate, where it keeps count. They began as shepherds’ food in the mountains of Pshavi and Khevsureti.
Economists at ISET, the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University, publish a Khachapuri Index inspired by The Economist’s Big Mac Index: the cost of the flour, cheese, yeast, milk, eggs, butter, gas and electricity for one Imeretian khachapuri. In February 2026 it came to 8.05 lari, up 14.3% in a year. For eating rather than economics, order the boat-shaped Adjarian one, with butter and an egg yolk in the middle.
Jars from Neolithic villages in Georgia hold some of the earliest chemical evidence of grape wine ever found, from around 6000 BC. The qvevri method, on UNESCO’s list since 2013, ferments the juice with its skins, stalks and pips for five or six months, in clay jars buried in the ground. White grapes made that way come out amber, which is what natural-wine bars sell as orange wine.
A supra, the Georgian feast, is led by a tamada, who proposes each toast and speaks at length on it while the table raises its glasses and waits its turn. Georgian polyphonic singing was recognised by UNESCO in 2001, and one song, Chakrulo from Kakheti, flies on the Voyager probes’ Golden Record, launched in 1977. Voyager 1 reaches a light-day from Earth in November 2026.
The road into Tusheti crosses the Abano Pass at 2,826 metres, one of the highest drivable passes in the Caucasus, on a surface that only 4x4s can manage. Snow closes it from around mid-October to mid-June, depending on the winter. Drive it early in the day, in a 4x4 with a driver who knows it, and do not count on a signal once the climb begins.
Answers about data, coverage and setup for Georgia.
Either one covers Georgia, so let the rest of the route decide. Adding Armenia or Azerbaijan means the Asia plan, which lists both. Arriving from Türkiye or flying on to Istanbul, Athens or Berlin means the Europe plan. A trip that needs both can carry both packages on the same eSIM; each one starts the first time the phone connects in a country on its own list.
No. Roam-like-at-home covers the EU and the EEA, plus Moldova and Ukraine, and Georgia is not among them, so an EU SIM pays whatever its operator charges outside that zone, and data is where the bills grow. Check your tariff before you fly, keep the home SIM’s data roaming off, and let the package carry the maps, Bolt and the photos.
Coverage follows the local network, Silknet: usually fine in the towns — Stepantsminda below Mount Kazbek, Mestia in Svaneti — and along the main roads, patchy on high trails, in side valleys and over the passes, as it is for everyone. Tusheti is the remote one: the road in crosses the Abano Pass, open roughly mid-June to mid-October. Download maps before you leave Tbilisi.
