Hotel Ideal

Tashkent


This offbeat choice is a little out of the way, but offers clean, cosy and pleasant rooms and has friendly English-speaking staff. The cheapest standards are warm attic rooms with sloping ceilings (not great for tall people), while the pricier ones are more spacious. The attached Korean restaurant is excellent and there's a small bazaar nearby. There's room for negotiation here.


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Nearby Tashkent attractions

1. Assumption Cathedral

0.85 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…

2. Museum of Applied Arts

1.32 MILES

The Museum of Applied Arts occupies an exquisite house full of bright ghanch (carved and painted plaster) and carved wood. It was built in the 1930s, at…

3. Railway Museum

1.43 MILES

The magnificent collection of 1930s to 1950s Soviet locomotives at the open-air Railway Museum will thrill train buffs, though it's worth visiting even if…

4. State Fine Arts Museum

1.51 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…

5. House of Photography

1.91 MILES

The House of Photography hosts rotating exhibits of Uzbekistan’s top contemporary photographers as well as shows by international names in the field. It's…

6. Alisher Navoi Monument

1.98 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…

7. Wedding Palace

2 MILES

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