The Experience

Curation, and freedom.

This is not a schedule that moves guests from attraction to attraction. Each journey combines carefully selected experiences with enough freedom to enjoy Baku at your own pace.

Engraved commemorative stamp portrait of Kamila Verdiyeva, founder of Merci Baku
Kamila Verdiyeva · Founder

How it is built

Eight things that shape the week

  • Personal hosting

    You are met in the city by the people who designed the journey.

  • Intimate gastronomy

    Small tables at places locals actually return to.

  • Historic and modern Baku

    From the cobbled Old City to the contemporary Caspian waterfront.

  • Restaurants chosen for atmosphere

    Selected for feeling and quality, not for rankings.

  • Local wine and food traditions

    Azerbaijani wine and recipes carried through families.

  • Central, walkable location

    Everything close by. No days lost to transfers.

  • Selected guided experiences

    Curated days in central Baku, deliberately balanced with free time.

  • Meaningful free time

    Space to find your own Baku, with help whenever you want it.

The city

What sits between the tables

Six included experiences that bring Baku to life between dinners.

The Baku skyline at midday, with the Flame Towers rising above the boulevards of the historic centre

01

A private walk through the Old City

Icherisheher

Stone lanes. Hidden courtyards. Centuries underfoot.

Included experience

We take you inside the walled city after the day-trippers have gone, so you can feel the silence of the stone lanes and the stories behind the caravanserais.

The white curving façade of the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku under a clear sky

02

A guided visit to the Heydar Aliyev Center

Heydar Aliyev Center

Architecture without a straight line.

Included experience

You will stand beneath Zaha Hadid’s flowing white forms and understand why this building redefined Baku’s place on the world stage.

Ornate historic interior of the Taghiyev Mansion in Baku, with painted ceiling and chandeliers

03

Private access to the Taghiyev Mansion

Taghiyev Mansion

The private world of Baku's first great fortune.

Included experience

We arrange an intimate visit to the mansion built by Azerbaijan’s oil baron, where painted ceilings and gilded rooms reveal the city at its most ambitious.

Antique hand-woven Azerbaijani carpets and a traditional embroidered costume on display at the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum in Baku

04

A curator-led visit to the Carpet Museum

Azerbaijan Carpet Museum

Patterns carrying generations of craft and memory.

Included experience

You will explore one of the world’s great carpet collections with the kind of guided attention that turns pattern and colour into living family history.

The marble boutique gallery at Port Baku Mall, with the Tiffany & Co. storefront lit at the end of the walkway

05

Shopping time at Port Baku

Port Baku

International fashion on the Caspian.

Included experience

We build in time for you to browse the Caspian’s most elegant retail gallery — luxury houses, local ateliers, and a quiet coffee when you need it.

The German Art Hall at the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan, paintings hung symmetrically in a quiet gallery

06

A private tour of the National Museum of Art

National Museum of Art

Centuries of beauty, collected in one place.

Included experience

You will move through Azerbaijan’s finest art collection at your own pace, with the doors opened for a small group and the stories kept intimate.

The Baku skyline and the Caspian shoreline lit after dark
The year-round terrace and mirrored salon at Chayki
Chayki, Baku

Group size

A place at the table

Merci Baku is intentionally intimate. Each departure welcomes a thoughtfully limited number of guests, preserving the personal attention, ease and sense of discovery that make the journey so special.

Places are limited, and reservations close once each departure is complete.

We invite you to arrange your place early.

Families are warmly welcome.

From US$6,500 per guest

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