Dear co-tourist,
I suggest staying somewhere else. In this hotel you may experience the soviet times.
I was staying 3 nights with my mother. She was staying for business meeting.
at check-in they smiled at us, an said you have a very nice room, but when we came up we saw smth similar to a dog kennel. It was a smoking room, though we have requested a non-smoking, it was cold, dirty, dark, tiny beds, no space at all...
We phoned directly the reception and said that we requested a non-smoking room, and they have told us no empty rooms... so after a couple of minutes of arguing and my mother (she is an influential person) saying she is living hotel immediately, they gave us an upgrade to a very small suite, but it was at least a possible place to stay...
The next day when they saw my mother with the present minister of health, they appologised several times, send us fruits, general manager called herself and ......
but even the slightest possibility of staying in the first room is scary...
So I suggest staying in Radisson or Intercontinental, from what i have heard from other members of our groups, they are much better.
The location is ok, since they took us everywhere by car, but anyway as i understood it's rather central.
I haven't been at breakfast, cuz i arrived 5 am first day, so i overslept it, and the second and third day we were leaving to Samarkand so we left at 6 am before it has started...
Anyway choose more pro-western hotels than this one!!\
and by the way the sleep quality was awful! the blanket was synthetic and thick, and it was too warm in the room even with the heating off... and due to winter period their condition was only programmed for heating, even in the acc position...