Khorezm Palace — Hotel in Urgench

We decided to stay one night in Urgench since we took the 6am flight back to Tashkent. The Khorezm Palace is outrageously overpriced for what it is (it costs 140 usd a night versus 70 usd for a great Bukhara B&B): rooms are still kind of new and spacious, but aircondition was not designed to cool the space, bedsheets are so small that when moving around in your sleep you find yourself on the bare matrasse, all TV channels were only in Russian or Uzbek, to get water we were sent to the supermarket opposite, no water available in the hotel, wifi worked very slowly and not in the room, to check out early in the morning, we had to find the receptionist who slept somewhere and did not answer the phone (otherwise he was a nice guy and spoke very well English), no early breakfast or even coffee available at all, this is at best a still new two -star hotel, to put four stars on the roof it is not enough to charge high prices. Khiva is only 30min from Urgench and next time I would stay in Khiva and take a cab in the morning. Also, if Khiva does not have good dinner options, Urgench is 20 times worse and there literally is...

Stayed here because it was literally the only hotel in Urgench that was open. Was traveling West to East during the 2015 Mongolia Charity Rally. Needed a place to sleep and decided to stop in Urgench. One room cost us nearly $180. We were a group of four, but they would not let us sleep four in a room, even though there was a triple/suite available. Instead, we had to purchase two rooms. Neither room had WIFI. We were told the WIFI worked in the lobby, but it was too slow to check email, download maps, or upload photos/blog posts from our travels. The restaurant in the hotel was closed as well, so no food or drink was available. ||||We were here in early July, during the heatwave that rocked Central Asia. Despite having the A/C on at full blast, we woke up sweating to 32 degree temperatures in our room. ||||I suppose the one nice part about the hotel is that we found free parking. And the rooms were cleaned. But other than that, this was the worst value for our money that we found in all of...

This has to be one of the worst hotels I have ever had this misfortune of staying in. Myself and colleagues were in rooms on the ground floor and they stank of stale cigarette smoke. |The following day we asked to change rooms and were shown another that was equally as bad. |We were eventually shown to ones that were marginally better later that afternoon....or so we thought.|My room had less of the smell however the carpet was filthy and very badly stained and the bed was very uncomfortable. ... for a few nights however it was marginally tolerable. My colleague however was not so lucky and there were bugs in hers which then involved us finding her a different hotel.||It is a run down, shabby hotel that needs complete renovation if it is ever to meet the usual standards of international tourists and...