After your plane lands in Tabriz International Airport you have to take a taxi to your hotel. Taxi prices are very cheap compared to western world and don't look for metro or public buses in Iran. We payed 3 USD to taxi to our hotel for half an hour voyage for four passengers. If you are going to Iran from the West even from Turkey you have a suspicion about life in Iran. We spent 2 days in October. There is no security problem in Tabriz. The two restrictions are If you are a female you have to obey to use trousers, scarf and a long jacket in your thighs and no alcohol for everybody. The streets are crowded by families and women alone and men as everywhere up to 23:00. The shops are usually open until this hour.

The hotel is in the city center and below average in contradiction to 4 stars at the entrance. Blue Mosque, bazaar, constitution museum and elgoli parks are in the near vicinity of hotel. It is clean but must be renovated. The guys in front office are polite and very helpful. The breakfast is poor according to the 4 star hotels in west. You have to pay everything in cash, credit cards DON'T WORK. You have to visit cave houses in Kandovan village (cappadocia of Iran), a mountainous area at 50 kms south of Tabriz and on the slopes of Sahand Mountains with the beautiful panoramic view surrounded with wall-nut trees. Our guide Mr Emr Gaffari (mobile 0914 4102416) took us to this untouched area with his nice car and stayed there 2 hrs with us and took us back to Tabriz. This trip costed us only $25.