올드 타슈켄트 호텔&스파

This is a nice hotel in Tashkent. The rooms are adequate & furnished reasonable with a kettle & hot drinks making facility. Breakfast is excellent with lots of variety. If you are in a hurry to check out, they offer a packed breakfast box to take with you. You will have to let the reception desk know the night before. We had a slightly bad experience while checking in. The person at the reception desk, Jamshed, was adamant that we needed to pay for an early check in though we requested this by email. (We were told that they will allow if there were any rooms available by a reply by email). As we were tired to argue, after a long flight to reason out with him, we ended up paying $20 as early check in fee (penalty). Jamshed was the only one who lacked good customer service skills. I have a feeling that I was scammed by him as there were rooms available at the time we checked in. Muzaffar on the other hand was very helpful at the front desk with excellent customer relationship and a pleasant & cheerful demeanour. Abdullah was also helpful. The free WiFI is quite good and fast. They have a Spa but it is not free. You have to pay to use it. They allowed us to keep our suitcases while we checked out after two nights to visit Samarkand and Bukhara and return back for one more night to the same hotel to stay and pick up our left luggage before taking the return flight back home. The hotel is close to the Airport. If you buy an Uzbek tourist SIM card in the airport, you can download & use the Yandex app to get the taxis which are very reasonable to get around. Will cost you approx 30000 to 40000 Som which is about a max of £2.50 for a ride with 4 passengers.