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Bazaar and cross the big water pipe using the
small footbridge.
Zebo's¨Homestay¨
HOMESTAY $
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224 57 81, Farzona 888 70 96; Mirzo Tursunzoda
178; per person US$15)
Simple, very friendly,
single-storey private home with three guest
beds in two small, stuffy rooms, one with
giant teddy. There's access to a hot shower,
Western-style loo and modern kitchen with
washing machine. If full, guests might get
the lounge floor. Farzona speaks English.
Vakhsh¨Hotel¨
HOTEl $
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227 81 88; Rudaki 24; dm/d/tr 75/150/225TJS)
This inexpensive yet historic, super-central
hotel has barely one working lamp for every
eight and the ensuite bathrooms have taken
a real battering. However, rooms are surviv-
able and there's a certain melodramatic thrill
coming home to the neglected interior of
Corinthian columns and intricate mouldings.
Some balconies survey the Opera House.
Hotel¨Poytaht¨
HOTEl $
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221 96 55; Rudaki 7; d/tr from 360/390TJS, r
without bathroom per person 98TJS;
a
)
Large,
central and distinctively 1970s Soviet de-
spite some cursory redecoration, rooms are
priced per person but individuals might
have to share with strangers. The simple
(prastoi)
rooms share acceptable bathrooms
but are stiflingly hot in summer. Most en-
suite rooms are air-conditioned mini-suites
but are as lacking in charm as the fearsome
floor ladies who guard the keys.
Hotel¨Farhang¨
CRASH PAD $
(
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223 31 57; Negmat Karaliev 2; s/d from
60/120TJS)
While hardly attractive, rooms
are approximately clean with pairs (single
plus twin) sharing a sometimes-functioning
shower and seatless toilet. Rooms that claim
to have air-conditioning cost extra even
when the AC doesn't work. It's the pink four-
storey building 100m directly south of the
UFO-shaped circus (Tsirk). That's 2km west
of Meydan Ayni, by marshrutka 2, 25, 33, bus
18, or trolleybus 4.
Hotel¨Varzish¨
HOSTEl $
(
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400 77 74; Somoni 43, Football Stadium, south
stand; dm without/with bathroom 50/70TJS, q
280TJS;
g
8, 22)
Tucked beneath the south
stands of the national football stadium (set
back, approximately opposite the Hyatt
Hotel), rooms aimed primarily for sports-
men have dodgy lighting, peeling wallpaper
and are packed with beds. However, for a
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Ohani
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