Forget about train station dorm/hotel Komnata Otdikha in Tashkent...

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feralartist
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...this morning I was there trying to get a room or at least a bed in the dorm.

The entire place is closed to all foreigners. No exceptions.

There is no indication if/when it will ever accept foreigners again. I wouldn't bet on it happening ever. They have lost their license to accommodate foreigners, with no idea if they will ever get it back.

My suspicion is that the powers that be realized this was too good a deal, and yanked their license in order to force the foreigners into taking expensive hotels and spending more money....

I despise Tashkent. Everything is too far apart, and all the hotels suck and cost way too much money.

I spent last night sleeping rough outside the train station, and I wouldn't recommend that either. (drunks, getting harassed by police)

Get out of Tashkent as soon as you can, and stay out unless you have to catch a plane from here...in which case return at the last freaking minute possible so you don't have to spend the night. Don't waste your money on its lousy hotels.

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fluffy_bunny
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Perhaps they just didn´t want to serve someone with such a cheery disposition.

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feralartist
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Your disposition wouldn't be so cheery either if you had to sleep outside the train station in Tashkent.

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gbloom4
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This is terrible news if true. Has anybody else been denied? Did you try both train station hotels (ie the one to the right when you exit the station, and the newer, slightly pricier one through the courtyard to the right when you enter the station)?

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lebouvreuil
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well, i suppose there's still the beloved khadra...
i remember having a good time in tashkent in spring 2009.

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eulenspiegel
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We and other travellers had the same experience two weeks ago. They expect their license back, but don´t know when.
For the Khadra hotel I can say, that it should immediately get removed from the guide book. It´s not just dark, it was the dirtiest accomodation I ever had. We just stayed there for one night, as we were to tired to walk to the Gulnara.

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gbloom4
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Just called both editions of the train station hotel and it sure is true. Both have indefinitely lost their licenses to accept foreigners. They might get them back someday. Nobody knows. What a bummer. Tashkent's only true budget accommodation (besides the Hadra) gone out the window. Poof.

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bigballoon
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It's really bad news. We are arriving in Tashkent on 17 June and we will depart for Samarkand the next monring. Does anybody know if there is any clean budget hotel (clean washroom) near the rail station?

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