Where your group sleeps, meets and eats

• 232 rooms
• 5 meeting rooms
• 439 m² of event space

The flagship of the complex, and the one closest to the halls. The short walk matters more than it sounds when a session overruns and forty people need coffee.

• 241 rooms
• 50 suites
• 20 storeys
• 4 meeting rooms
• 1 banquet hall

The largest room count on site, with meeting floors of its own — a mid-sized group can sleep, meet and eat without leaving the building.

• 175 rooms
• 27 suites
• 1 meeting room

Named after the collector Igor Savitsky and hung with contemporary work. Ask for the canal-view rooms; they are the ones people remember.

• 170 rooms
• 13 suites
• 2 meeting rooms

Built around Ulugbek the astronomer. Two meeting rooms of its own, which is what you want on the day the main halls are full.

Up to 500 people

• At Hilton Samarkand Regency

LayoutsTheatre · Classroom · Boardroom · U-shape · Banquet · Hollow square · Cocktail · Cabaret

Five hundred at a banquet, four hundred and thirty facing a stage, and all eight layouts in between. It is in the Hilton, so the group sleeps upstairs.

Up to 530 people

• At Silk Road by Minyoun

LayoutsTheatre · Classroom · Boardroom · U-shape · Banquet · Hollow square · Cocktail · Cabaret

The largest floor of the four and the most seats facing a stage. Inside the hotel, so nobody leaves the building between sessions.

36–110 people

• At Silk Road by Minyoun

LayoutsTheatre · Classroom · Boardroom · U-shape · Banquet · Hollow square · Cocktail

A working room rather than a hall: 110 facing a screen, 36 around a table. What a breakout session actually needs.

10–40 people

• At Lia! by Minyoun Stars of Ulugbek

LayoutsTheatre · Classroom · Boardroom · U-shape · Hollow square · Cocktail

Ten around a table or forty facing a screen. The room for a board meeting rather than a conference.

Meat off the coals and a wine list to match. The straightforward choice for a first-night dinner.

• At Silk Road by Minyoun

Panoramic lounge high above the complex. The place for a welcome drink before anyone sits down to dinner.

• At Lia! by Minyoun

Local cooking presented for guests who have not met it before — the safer way to introduce plov to a board.

• At The Eternal City

An open-air hall in the reconstructed old town. This is where a closing dinner belongs if the weather holds.

Seventeen hectares of Samarkand as it was, with working artisan shops. Walkable, and it takes a group of any size.

Water, light and music after dark. Twenty minutes, no logistics, and everyone films it.

Boats on the canal that runs through the complex. Good as an hour between sessions rather than a whole excursion.

Two wellness centres with Valmont and Thalgo treatments. What to offer the half of the group that does not want another tour.