Relax

Azerbaijan


Almost a whole village in its own right, Relax provides holidaying Bakuvian families with suitably plush rooms and a vast waterpark (mid-June to mid-September, nonguest adult/child AZN20/10) in what was once an idyllic rural valley.

For some tastes the place is too big and brash, with electric buggies shuttling guests around the site, but most cottages are tastefully built with local materials and traditional tiled roofs. Some English is spoken.


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