Orient Star Khiva Hotel- Madrasah Muhammad Aminkhan 1855

Lovely boutique hotel conveniently located within the city walls. Bedrooms are in old student rooms of the old madrasa overlooking a central courtyard. Breakfast was usual buffet table and located across the road in separate building. A great town to visit.

The hotel is located right next to the Kalta minaret. We loved the view from our 1st floor room. The staff was friendly and helpful. Breakfast was served in the adjoining madrasa building. The steps are narrow and steep - caution for travellers with medical conditions to choose ground floor rooms. Overall, great location and hotel.

A superbly converted madrassa, used to be a school so you're staying in a student room with original features. Full of character, beds are hard ! Overlooking a magical courtyard. Breakfast selection in a huge restaurant will knock your brains out.

I loved this hotel for the architecture and atmosphere. The courtyard is lovely and a great place for a restoring drink after a day being a tourist in Khiva. The rooms are nice but most of them are narrow with two narrow single beds. This is after all what the Madrassah students would have had and the rooms are converted Madrassah cells. Service OK. Breakfast (in a smaller converted Madrassah just around the corner) perfectly adequate.

Spent couple of nights here on our journey across Uzbekistan. We had room on first floor, it was up a very narrow staircase with low headroom in parts, fortunately our luggage was taken up for us, save us from struggling with it. The rooms are fairly basic, but we found it comfortable enough, and enjoyed experience of staying in an historic former Madrassa, and it was very quiet. There is no window as such, just one above door. We found wi-fi ok in our room, but people on ground floor rooms couldn’t get signal. They had a bar, didn’t use it though and breakfast/dinner was in building across from hotel. Had dinner one night, it was good and fairly good selection at breakfast. Hotel is a tourist attraction, and saw a couple of groups being escorted through reception into courtyard. Best part was location, within the walls of the ancient city, all the main attractions a short walk away.