ClaudiaH H
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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 nothing to do...