Looking for hotels in Istanbul and Tbilisi for our July-Aug trip.
Both offer a lot of really nice choices for less than a grand USD for a week and good resturants are also quite cheap by US standards.
I'm going by distance from sights we know from our previous trip in selecting a location.
Also considering flights from Istanbul to Tbilisi (the Turks call it Tiflis, the old Persian name).
Pegasus looks like the pick for value, although for the same coin we could fly Azerbaijan via GYD, with the leg IST to GYD being on a 787-8. This is reputed to be a very nice airline to fly and GYD is also regarded as a very nice airport, but the time in transit ends up more than 3X and I can't find a good answer on whether we'd actually need a visa to merely connect the through the country, so probably either Turkish or Pegasus, their low-cost subsidiary that flies out of SAW rather than IST.
Anyway, travel planning is always fun and it's so easily done sitting at your screen these days.