HOWZ Hotel

Set just outside the western gate of Ichan Kala, Khiva's walled inner city and a UNESCO World Heritage site, HOWZ Hotel is a small, family-run house built around a single shaded courtyard. Eighteen rooms open onto it, and breakfast is served there slowly each morning.

A four-minute walk brings you to the Kalta Minor Minaret and the rest of the old city's monuments, close enough that a car is rarely needed. Every member of staff was raised in Khiva and knows it well past what the guidebooks cover.