Place to visit to visit if you are OK with public sauna and bath. Historic place in the city. Used to be the biggest in Central Asia. 3 types of sauna, Russian, Finnish and Eastern Hamman, swimming pool to relax, massage. Beer pub to pass glass or two... good place to enjoy time with friends, who loves sauna
I love to check out a good local spa/sauna when traveling. So when I came for visit to Kazakhstan and saw how loved this place was, I decided to give it a go.
Yes there are a lot of different types of steam rooms and dry saunas, all sorts of treatments you can get, from massages to scrubs, and a Restaurant as well. The facilities are great.
However, what shocked me was that they charge you for every minute you exit late beyond the hours booked.
Nobody even told me this when I bought my ticket. If someone informed, I wouldn’t have been a mere four minutes late…
After all, it’s only four minutes! If I knew a fee I could be avoided if I would’ve hurried up more, it would be easy.
I’ve been to spas in many different countries and never experienced a fee.
The other thing is that the clock at the exit is different from the clock in the changing room. It was also different from the world clock on my iPhone. So even though I was “four minutes late “by their clock, I was seven minutes late.
This is charged 80 Tenge per minute.
And staff needs to ensure the clocks are matching up/ have the correct time, or else they are just scamming people 😉