Inspira-S Tashkent

Hotel Inspira-S Tashkent is a 140-room hotel built around Japanese technology and a design brief heavy on glass, steel and clean lines. At the entrance stands a concierge robot, the first of its kind in the city, briefing arrivals on the hotel and on Tashkent's landmarks. It is an odd, memorable handshake. Rooms run from a compact twin or double through deluxe, junior suite and corner suite categories to a two-room suite apartment, each fitted with a flat-screen television, Wi-Fi, mini-fridge, safe and a bath or shower. The restaurant, Inspira, seats up to 120 and serves Uzbek, European and Japanese dishes with its own street entrance, while the lobby's Lounge Bar runs around the clock for coffee, tea and drinks. Downstairs, the spa zone called Inspiration nods to the Silk Road routes that once carried Asian wellness traditions west, with a Turkish hammam, a wood-burning Finnish sauna, an indoor pool and a phyto-bar for herbal tea. A gym stays fitted for full workouts, and a conference room seats up to 40 for meetings or presentations. The hotel sits in the Almazar district, near the Abdullah Kadiri culture and recreation park, within reach of Chorsu Bazaar and the city's exhibition centres. The airport lies about 8 km away, roughly a 15-minute taxi ride.