Manor Hotel

Convenient location near transport, amenities, and attractions. Spacious, clean, well-equipped rooms with friendly, attentive staff. Varied, delicious breakfast. Some mention firm high beds.

The fact that this hotel is right next to a very active building site should NOT put off potential guests, and it's an unusual hotel review that opens with that line. The Manor Hotel is flanked by a building site where work goes on beyond midnight. The sound of work is audible from outside the hotel but, from my room which overlooked the men (and they were all men) at work, I didn't hear anything from inside the hotel. Any traveller considering this hotel should be aware of the work going on outside, but I'm a light sleeper and it didn't effect me at all. Manor Hotel is a very conveniently situated hotel, being only 20 minutes by taxi from the airport and a ten-minute stroll to the main railway station for connections to Samarqand and Bukhara. It is also on the rather lovely Shevchenko boulevard which is wide, tree-lined, and full of restaurants, cafés, and bars. From the front door of the hotel, you can see down Shevchenko to the station so you can work out how long you will need to take to walk there. The hotel has been refurbished recently and it is done to a relatively high spec. The rooms and shared areas are very clean, freshly painted, and well lit. This looks like a new-ish hotel. The lobby is a few steps from the front door and our arrival processing was swift and easy. The corridors are wide. There is WiFi available throughout the hotel. My room was large and had an en-suite with a very good shower (although water leaked under the partition between the shower and the toilet, leaving a large puddle on the floor. There is not anything you would want for more in the bathroom. There is ample space in the bedroom, although no tea/coffee-making facilities. The window is quite small and in the corner of the room, with a view directly onto the building site so you wouldn't choose to spend time gazing out of the window onto the Tashkent skyline. It was noticeable how high off the floor the bed is - it is comfy and the air conditioning worked fine, but it was striking that on the bed, I felt a long way off the ground. Breakfast is served in a large and rather grand room. If there were a shortcoming to the hotel, it was the breakfast. To be fair, we arrived at the very moment that service began, and the one waiter was rushed off his feet. The selection of food was strange - from warm pizza through dozens of cakes, biscuits, sweets, and pastries, this breadth of offering lacked simple things such as toast or butter. Even if toast isn't a Central Asian delicacy, if you put pizza and chocolate gateau on the breakfast menu, you can serve toast. Hot drinks took a while to reach us. That said, this was a very reasonably priced, centrally located, clean and comfy hotel whose neighbours did not disturb my sleep at all. I would definitely stay here again if visiting Tashkent - that's the endorsement.