Grand Orzu Hotel

Tashkent


This modest but comfortable place within a green residential neighbourhood boasts a pool and pleasant restaurant out the back. Rooms are forgettable but decent value, and the wooden ceilings add a vaguely Alpine chalet air. The lux rooms are much better for only US$5 more.


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1. Museum of Applied Arts

1.18 MILES

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2. Assumption Cathedral

1.23 MILES

It's impossible to miss the handsome gold onion domes, pastel blue walls and 50m bell tower of the impressive Assumption Cathedral. Built in 1958 and…

3. Alisher Navoi Monument

1.6 MILES

Near the Oliy Majlis in Navoi Park is a vast promenade and this post-Soviet Monument to Alisher Navoi, 15th-century Turkic poet and Uzbekistan's newly…

4. Wedding Palace

1.65 MILES

Southeast of the Friendship Palace is the Soviet-era Wedding Palace – a vulgar, crooked chunk of Khrushchev-era concrete.

5. State Fine Arts Museum

1.69 MILES

The four floors of this excellent museum walk you through 1500 years of art in Uzbekistan, from 7th-century Buddhist relics from Kuva and the Greek…

6. Navoi Park

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7. Oliy Majlis

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8. Railway Museum

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