Badamdar Hillside Villa

Rented as one house, not by the room. Five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a kitchen built for cooking for ten, and a terrace with a private pool looking back down over Baku and the bay.

There is a covered outdoor kitchen with a proper mangal, which is what most groups end up using every evening. Firewood and skewers are in the store room; the host will bring charcoal if you ask the day before.

This is a car-required address — about twenty minutes down to the Old City. Parking for three cars inside the gate. Good for a family group or two or three couples travelling together; overpriced for two people.