ObodHotel

From the outside, this place does not look like much - it's in a well used, run down commercial building on a backstreet. It doesn't even have the right name outside - the sign says Sakho Hostel ("we use a different name for the internet"). You go up in the lift a couple of floors to the reception area and back the way you came for the rooms - still not looking top great - but open the door to find a clean, spacious, well presented room with a comfortable bed and small table. Wifi worked fine. All I needed. Breakfast was on a single communal table, with sausages, freshly fried eggs, tea, watermelon, cakes etc. They did a load of laundry for me for 50 somoni - it has never smelt so nice. Just a short distance away is a narrow street that you can walk up to Ayni street - one of the main streets of Dushanbe, from where you can catch buses all round town. A couple of buses actually stop at the door - I caught one to the main bus station.