De Villa Hotel Samarkand — Hotel in Samarkand City

On the first morning, I walked into the dining hall and was horrified – the place was empty of people, but every single table was covered with dirty dishes. No one was clearing them away. What was even more surprising, the buffet table – where food was supposed to be – was completely empty. Only empty plates were left standing there.

At first, I thought it was just a one-time incident, so I didn’t go to reception to complain that the only food I found was boiled eggs and tomatoes.

The next day I came back, and it was exactly the same picture: all the tables piled high with dirty dishes, and not a single free spot to sit. The buffet table, of course, was empty again. To have a table cleared, I had to call the chef and go to reception. Ten minutes later, they at least cleaned a table for me. As for the food – nothing was brought, so once again I had to make do with just eggs and tomatoes.

So keep this in mind when staying at this hotel: you will likely need to have breakfast somewhere else. And the payment for the breakfast you never actually get – well, that’s just a nice little bonus for the...

The hotel is small, but well maintained.

Pros: -Excellent service: big shout out to Shokrukh and Shahkhboz!

The yandex we had booked to the train station, did arrive but the driver angrily drove away, when he realised our luggage could not fit in (despite requesting for a big car). We were worried, we would be late to catch our train to Tashkent. However, Shokrukh stepped in to help us, by arranging for his colleague Shahkhboz to drive us.

During our stay if we had any queries, Shokrukh and Bakhor patiently answered them for us.

-Decent breakfast

Cons:

-No live entertainment

-Compact room if more than 2 guests...

This is the only bad hotel experience we had during the 8 days long visit to Uzbekistan. The people are too greedy, they tried to trick us into paying extra money during check in by saying that it is for registration fees. Later they tried to misguide us from going to bank for currency exchange and tried to get dollar exchanged at their hotel, we had specifically asked for check out time, we did check out well before the time but again tried to make us pay extra amount by saying that it's late check out. I understand that Samarkand is touristy but this much greed will scare...