Aydar Lake Tours and Activities

Basic hotel, clean, fine if you're not spending much time in it. Bath towels only, no smaller face/hand towels. Breakfast wasn't to my taste. If you book this hotel and will be using Yandex taxi app, be warned that I twice got dropped off in a random location and the driver insisted this was the correct place, also happened to someone else staying at the same time as me. Best to use the place across the road/facing the hotel as your destination to be sure you get to the right place.

Service can be a little inconsistent, but most staff are very polite. We booked an apartment. It was clean, but the unit itself has a little age to it, and could do with some refreshment. No ironing board in the room. No cleaning cloth or washing detergent so you can't really cook anyway. The outdoor pool needed maintenance. The gym is very basic if you are used to big commercial gyms. They made us pay for two cups we "broke", but it was the vibration of the kettle that broke the cups. So be a little mindful if you are boiling the kettle. If the cups are stacked onto each other like a pyramid, take note to place them away from the kettle, even though the cups and kettles are already in position in a pre-cut wooden holder. They will still break. It's just 50,000 uzs but it just feels odd to charge us for something we didn't purposely break, and it was already stacked like this by the housekeeper. The hotel is away from the city centre and our travel plans were a little derailed when we tried to take a taxi on one of the days where the Samarkand Challenge was going on. The roads were blocked and we couldn't get to the city at all. Otherwise, it's still not too shabby or expensive to take a taxi back and forth.