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is served and few services are offered but
prices are very fair for rooms of this quality.
Hotel¨Evropa¨
HOTEL $$$
(Map p234;
%
97 90 70; www.hotelevropa.kg; Prav-
da (Sultan Ibraimov) 70 ; s/d US$100/130;
aiW
)
This small, new business-boutique hotel
with glass elevator uses classic floral-heral-
dic motifs to add interest to the rooms' styl-
ishly minimal design. Breakfast (included)
is served downstairs at Ratatouille, arguably
Bishkek's best French restaurant.
Bishkek¨Boutique¨Hotel¨
HOTEL $$$
(Map p240;
%
59 33 12; www.bishkek-hotel.com;
Kulatov; s/d/lux US$80/120/130;
aW
)
Smart if
compact, chocolate-and-cream rooms aimed
at business clients on a (relative) budget. Vi-
brant location.
For budget travellers a rash of new hostels is
emerging with several more options likely in
the coming years. Until then, at a pinch, you
might consider these bleak, longer-running
options:
Bishkek¨Guesthouse¨1
(Map p234;
%
34
05 24; Umetaliev 165, cnr Jibek Jolu; dm/s/d/tr
390/890/980/1320som)
Cluttered and un-
lovely with one toilet and shower shared
between all guests. Backpacker transport
services available.
Bishkek¨Guesthouse¨2
(Map p234;
%
055-
215 2207, 64 23 66; www.bishkekhouse.ucoz.
com; apt 26, Molodaya gvardia 72; dm/s/d/tr
390/890/980/1320som;
i
)
Co-owned and
every bit as ragged as the original, high in
a truly dismal apartment block.
Sabyrbek's¨B&B
(Map p234;
%
055-071
5153, 300710; alymkan@yandex.ru; Razzakov 21;
per person dm 400-500som, r 600som;
W
)
An
intriguing history and great location but
utterly dishevelled.
There are many central business hotels in
the city centre:
Hyatt¨Regency
(Map p234;
%
66 12 34;
www.bishkek.regency.hyatt.com; Soviet (Abdura-
khmanov) 191; s/d incl tax US$311/359;
ais
)
Smart but overpriced.
Park¨Hotel
(Map p234;
%
66 55 18;
www.parkhotel.kg; Orozbekov 87; s/d/lux
US$147/167/227-317;
ais
)
More character-
ful than the Hyatt.
Holiday¨Hotel
(Map p234;
%
90 29 00; www.
holiday.kg; Soviet (Abdurakhmanov) 204A; r
standard/deluxe/ste US$140/180/225;
aWs
)
Friendly but functional.
Silk¨Road¨Lodge
(Map p234;
%
324889; www.
silkroadlodge.kg; Abdumomunov 229; s/tw/lux/ste
US$130/150/160/170;
aWs
)
Partly British-
owned.
Hotel¨Grand
(Map p234;
%
340000; www.
grandhotel.kg/en/; Frunze 428; d US$85-120, ste
US$150-200;
aW
)
Sparkly nouveau-riche.
Urmat¨Ordo
(Map p234;
%
311883; urmatordo.
kg; Isanova 85; d/tw/ste US$100/110/130;
aW
)
Super central, if less professional; it's well
worth paying $20 extra for the suite.
4
East of the Centre
Nomad¨Home¨
HOSTEL $
(
%
077-044 0800, 48 21 38; http:nomadshome.
googlepages.com; Drevesnaya 10; tent/dm/s/d/
yurt 250/350/600/800/900som)
This cheap
backpacker pad has a small garden but
only one toilet and bathroom to service a
twin room plus a dim, rather scruffy, dorm
packed with 12 bunks. There's a summer
kitchen, but no breakfast. It's the fourth
house on the left as you walk north of the
eastern bus station using the steps oppo-
site the Kassa.
OSH¨BAZAAR¨AREA¨CRASH¨PADS
If saving money is all that counts you can ind a sleeping space for 150 to 200som at
half a dozen traders' doss houses across Chuy from Osh Bazaar. Several are on Kuliev
with a couple more on Beyshanaliyeva. Don't expect to enjoy the shared squat toilets,
low ceilings, prison-tyle windows and - in many - grubby walls and lights that turn on
by connecting live electrical wires. Showers aren't generally available but some places
do have a
banya
(Russian-tyle bathing facility; around 60som extra). Compared to
mot,
Zamira's
(Map p234;
%
070-063 2000; Kuliev 31; d/tr 500/600som) is relatively
clean albeit with no real washing facilities. Scraggy, unadorned box-rooms set around a
rough courtyard at the
Jalal-Abad¨Hotel
(Map p234;
%
077-835 7903; Beyshenaliyeva 50;
dm/tr 100/300som) ofer about the cheapet 'hotel' beds you'll ind in Bishkek, though
in fact they're not beds so much as sleeping platforms with mats. The
banya
(50som
extra) is reasonably well maintained.
