2014
Accommodation
& Travel Services
Manual
8th Turkmenistan International
Telecommunications & IT Conference
17th -18th September 2014
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Travel Department
Contact person: Yuliya Shelepova
Tel: + [44] (0) 1753 886050
Fax: + [44] (0) 207 624 9030
E-mail: [email protected]
2014
Page Details
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Important visa information
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Hotel Accommodation
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Transfer Information
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Important Visa Information
Everyone travelling to Turkmenistan needs a visa. This is a 2 stage process. Firstly you must
obtain a visa invitation letter which can take 4 weeks and then you need to obtain a visa stamped
in your passport which can take further 3-7 working days. You cannot obtain a visa without a visa
invitation letter.
APPLYING FOR VISA INVITATION LETTER
The organising committee is providing visa invitation letters for all registered congress participants. The
visa invitation letter fee and visa to Turkmenistan is free of charge.
Documents required:
1. Visa application form duly filled-in in WORD FORMAT by each person requiring a visa
2. Clear scanned COLOUR copy of the passport. Passport must be valid at least 6 (six) months prior to
travel.
3. Scanned colour passport format photograph (3x4) with a white background.
4. All Pakistan citizens required to provide a medical certificate against poliomyelitis (polio) in order to
apply for visa invitation letter.
On receipt of your completed form and documents we will submit your application to the Turkmenistan
Authorities. Once your travel is approved by the Turkmenistan Authorities, we will contact you with further
instructions and email you the Visa Invitation Letter.
OBTAINING TURKMEN VISA
Your Passport must be valid until at least 3 months after your exit date from Turkmenistan and must have
at least one blank visa page.
Once you have your visa invitation letter you can either:
• Visit your local Turkmenistan Embassy with a copy of your visa invitation letter to get a visa stamped
in your passport. This can take up to 3-7 working days.
• Obtain your visa on arrival. You can travel to Turkmenistan with your visa invitation letter and obtain a
visa on arrival at the airport.*
*All Chinese citizens required to obtain their Turkmenistan Visa (stamp in the passport) in Beijing before they
travel to Turkmenistan. It takes up to 3 working days to obtain a visa.
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Important Visa Information
IMMIGRATION FEE
Upon arrival at the border every visitor will be required to pay an Immigration fee, currently 12 USD, for
each entry. Please make sure you have this amount in cash as there is no cash point or exchange
office available at the Immigration Desk.
REGISTRATION WITH OVIR SERVICE
If you stay in Turkmenistan for over 72 hours you must also register with the local authorities WITHIN 72
hours. Please note the date of the arrival and the weekends (Saturday and Sunday) do not count in the
time restriction of 72 hours for registration.
The Organising Committee will register only those delegates who applied for visa invitation letters through
Ministry of Communications of Turkmenistan. The registration will be organized by Ministry and delegates
are not required to provide any documents.
NB: If you do not register your passport & your stay is over 72 hours, you will experience problems when
trying to leave Turkmenistan.
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List Of Accommodation
Oguzkent Hotel
Avenue Bitarap 231, 744000
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Located in the city centre, facing Neutrality Park, this elegant hotel
has 299 rooms and suites, 69 residence apartments, spa, convention
centre, shopping mall, and offices.
Guest will discover amazing flavours of Asian and International cuisines
in a sophisticated; French styled all day dining room of the panoramic
restaurant.
10 minutes walking distance from the exhibition centre
Check-in time: 15:00 / Check-out time: 12:00
Superior room including breakfast
£150.00 per night
* These price is including buffet breakfast, free Wi-Fi access in the whole hotel,
the free entrance to the night club (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) and the use of
the fitness room, the swimming pools, the tennis courts, the sauna and the steam
room.
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List Of Accommodation
Nusay Hotel
70 Galkynysh street
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Nusay Hotel is located in the centre of the city not far from the
Independence Monument, President Residence and Congress Palace.
Hotel disposes of 138 rooms. Rooms are equipped with all necessary
facilities, such as air conditioning, TV, telephone, in-room safe box,
Internet access, mini bar, bathrooms with shower cubicle and/or
bathtub, heated floor, set of towels, toiletry accessories and hair-dryer.
Hotel also offers to its guests several restaurants and bars with the
beautiful cuisine.
Other Nusay Hotel facilities and services: indoor and outdoor swimming
pools, sauna, massage, gym, secured parking, safety deposit box at
front desk, currency exchange, ATM, laundry and dry-cleaning service,
taxi call, and many more.
Wi-Fi internet connection available.
5 -10 minute to the exhibition centre
Check-in time: 15.00 / Check-out time: 12:00
Standart room including breakfast
£140.00
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List Of Accommodation
Yyldiz Hotel
Chandybyl District
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
The five-star hotel “Yyldyz is a super-modern unique-in-the-kind
hospitality complex, which offers a high-class and diversified range of
services for the representative visitors, having thereby highlighted the
international status of Ashgabat as a large center of political, diplomatic,
economic, business activity.
The guests will be presented with a restaurant and bar with panoramic
view of the city and Kopetdag mountains, restaurant with a terrace,
outside restaurant, main bar, tea room, disco bar, business center,
wi-fi internet, reading salon, boutique, gym, 1 children playground, 1
volleyball pitch, 2 tennis courts, exchange office, underground and
outdoor parking.
Hotel has a Spa-centre, with an area of 2500 m2, equipped with the best
modern technologies, offers a wide choice of services for face and body
care: Hammam, Sauna, Steam bath Laconium, Snow Shower, Treatment
rooms, Recreation rooms, Gym, Swimming pools, Beauty salon.
Hotel “Yyldyz” offers 155 comfortable rooms of different categories.
Wi-Fi internet connection available.
15 minute drive from the exhibition centre
Check-in time: 12:00 / Check-out time: 12:00
Deluxe Room/Superior Room
including breakfast
£140.00
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List Of Accommodation
Grand Turkmen Hotel
7 Gorogly, 744000
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
The hotel features 120 comfortable rooms; featuring air-conditioning,
direct-line telephones, private baths, hair dryers, shaver outlets and
adapters, colour TV, international television broad-casting, and minibars. Guest services include translators, secretarial services, an inhouse doctor, a drug store, a beauty parlor, and laundry services.
The recreational facilities include - casino, disco, health club, sauna,
outdoor swimming pool and tennis courts. Restaurants offer international
cuisine as well as outside catering.
15 minutes walking distance from the exhibition centre
Check-in time: 15.00 / Check-out time: 12:00
Single room including breakfast
£95.00
Deluxe room including breakfast
£135.00
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Transfers
If you would like to book a transfer or a driver during your stay in Ashgabat please contact our partner
in Turkmenistan Ayan Travel:
“AYAN TRAVEL”
Contact person: Albert Osipyan
Tel: +99312 220503; Fax/Tel: +99312 221614
Email: [email protected]
Address: Office 5, Floor 5, TUIE Business Centre
81 Turkmenbashi avenue, Ashgabat, 744000
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