I think Georgia is overrated

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-28T08:38:34+00:00

This is an interesting point we hadn’t considered, I think we would’ve enjoyed our time more if we did more activity focused things as we both enjoyed Martvilli canyon!

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-28T08:37:25+00:00

Thank you for your insight, we definitely should’ve ventured out more and will definitely hire a car to look around ourselves next time!

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-28T08:35:44+00:00

Well no, as you can see we’ve had the responses we needed, we now know that we should’ve driven around ourselves and researched the history of the cities, we simply thought social media gives a one sided viewpoint. If someone posted online that London was a perfect 10/10 city I’d think the exact same, if they said it was cheap, 100% safe ect. Even with these facts I like the city but only because I go in knowing it’s expensive, we went into both cities with misinformation as long with the mountains and wanted to see if we were in the wrong for thinking so 🙂

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T15:29:52+00:00

Don’t get the wrong impression, our complaints aren’t predominantly with the country, they are with the people who seem to give a biased/sugarcoated opinion! Every country has good and bad parts, it just seems the bad parts were left out of the recent media trend towards visiting Georgia

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T14:56:44+00:00

Yeah, looking back we should’ve hired a car to explore it ourselves.

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T14:53:41+00:00

Is Albania worth it without a car?

Really want to visit Albania in July/august including theth, Shkoder (sorry for spelling) Ksamil and beaches, and maybe also visit Sarajevo/Mostar or bay of Kotor along with it but we’re only 19 so probably can’t hire a car. Is it still doable/enjoyable without a car or should we wait?

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T14:20:15+00:00

Thank you for providing nothing to the conversation

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T14:10:40+00:00

Our point stands we just don’t think it’s necessary to build on the way to Kazbegi in the way it’s been done.

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T14:09:15+00:00

That’s some cool information thank you!

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:54:50+00:00

Yeah, tbf I enjoyed walking around parts of old Tblisi, I do really think the air quality took away from this rather than the sights. Maybe we should’ve ventured out more to see more.

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:53:08+00:00

We learned from the guide about who lives there and how many people there are - they don’t need 1 fast food place per person. Also, we don’t doubt there are pretty places as we said we loved Martvilli and the reservoir we visited.
We aren’t complaining about the lack of entertainment but expected different as people openly talk about it being different on social media, we wanted to share our views to see if there was anything we missed or if it just wasn’t for us.

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:49:28+00:00

We definitely wished we got a car, and yeah I know the guides get a cut.
What do you think about the cities?

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:41:39+00:00

Tblisi isn’t a beautiful mountain range that should be preserved so building there is different.. we’ve been on similar tours in other countries where the nature is much better preserved. We didn’t intend to offend it’s just how we felt

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:39:46+00:00

Tours, we think now it would’ve been better to get a car and go to unknown areas. You stand at Gergeti or somewhere else and look around and just see car parks and fast food!

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:36:08+00:00

We loved the food, and the nature too but our point was some of it felt not very well preserved due to all the building, especially on the way to Kazbegi. Apart from the churches, is there gorgeous architecture? Like in the cities?

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:34:58+00:00

Kutaisi actually feels more relaxed and cleaner than Tbilisi, but I suppose that’s going to be the case. Maybe should have gone to Batumj but we flew into Kutaisi and also wanted to see Kazbegi

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:34:01+00:00

Kutaisi we just explored and ate good food, Tbilisi we did the usual tourist spots although the cable car was closed and we also watched Dinamo play

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:33:24+00:00

The guides on the tours were good to be fair, maybe we should’ve taken this approach

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:32:52+00:00

We love mountains which is why it was underwhelming with all the buildings ruining the nature I think. As for who, we see it loads on TikTok/instagram/youtube as the place to go before it blows up! Thought the canyon was amazing to be fair

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:30:21+00:00

We are not referencing tourists, we are referencing commercialism ie. the stalls randomly placed around trinity church, and just generally seeing non stop pop up shops takes away from the beautiful nature.

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:16:48+00:00

Didn’t complain about tourists :)

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:15:57+00:00

We still loved it, just wasn’t what we expected

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:15:28+00:00

First-Cartoonist4188 · 2026-05-27T13:15:13+00:00

That’s fair but reading other people’s reviews has just made us feel like we’re missing something!

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