Sheraton Batumi Hotel

A White Tower Modeled on Alexandria's Lighthouse

The Sheraton opened on Batumi Boulevard in 2010, its white facade designed as a nod to the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria, and it has held onto the nickname locals gave it almost immediately: the White Pearl of the Black Sea. The tower stands apart from Batumi's newer glass skyline by sticking to a single idea rather than competing on height, and it has become enough of a landmark that visitors use it as a point of reference on the boulevard rather than a hotel name.

Why It Works

We chose this one for a combination rarely found together on this stretch of coast: a genuine architectural idea, a rooftop restaurant worth visiting on its own, and the full business infrastructure a convention city needs. The 12-out-of-13 quality score and nearly six hundred reviews back up a property that has been running at this standard since 2010 rather than opening on hype and coasting. It also happens to be pet-friendly, a rarer trait among Batumi's five-star towers than it should be.

Why This Location

The hotel sits directly on Batumi Boulevard, the seafront promenade that runs the length of the city, putting the beach five minutes away on foot and the old town's narrow streets about ten. Rustaveli Street, despite sharing a name with Tbilisi's main avenue, here means a quieter stretch of the boulevard closer to the newer hotel district than the historic core, which suits guests who want evening walks by the water over a base deep in the old town's alleys.

Fast Facts

• Price: €€€€ (Luxe)

• Vibe: Landmark tower, polished, boulevard-facing

• Rooms: 202, pet-friendly

• Best For: Couples wanting a beachfront landmark; conference groups needing serious meeting space

• Our Favorite Thing About the Hotel: 360 Sky Bar & Restaurant, where the panoramic view does as much work as the Asian-leaning menu

• Dining: 360 Sky Bar & Restaurant (Asian, grill, Georgian wine); Sunflower Restaurant (breakfast buffet, boulevard terrace); Jasmine Lounge Bar (seasonal, poolside); Lobby Bar

• Amenities: Shine Spa, indoor and outdoor pools with whirlpool, casino, Grand Ballroom (9-metre ceiling), over 1,000 m² of meeting space

• Attractions: Black Sea beach (5 min walk), Batumi Boulevard, Batumi old town (10 min walk)

Dinner at 360 Sky Bar

The rooftop restaurant earns its name honestly, a full wraparound view of the city and the Black Sea that makes it worth booking regardless of appetite, and the kitchen backs up the view with Asian dishes, grilled plates and a list built around Georgian wine rather than imported labels. It's the kind of venue that turns a routine hotel dinner into the evening's actual plan, which matters on a stretch of coast where many hotel restaurants exist only to serve breakfast.

Shine Spa's Turkish Hammam

Shine Spa runs the treatments a Black Sea resort hotel is expected to offer, hot stone massage, a Turkish hammam ritual, and a signature treatment built around golden algae, but delivers them at a scale that matches the tower above it rather than a single treatment room bolted onto a gym. Paired with the indoor and outdoor pools and their whirlpool, it gives the hotel a genuine reason to stay on-site on a day the beach is skipped.

A Ballroom Built for Batumi's Conference Trade

Over a thousand square metres of meeting space and a Grand Ballroom with a nine-metre ceiling put the Sheraton among the few Batumi hotels built to host a real conference rather than a boardroom meeting, a sign of the city's own ambitions to become a Black Sea business destination and not only a summer resort. For a leisure guest, the upside is a hotel with the infrastructure, and usually the quieter weekday rates, to match.