This is my city! I was born here! The lake is beautiful! There is a place where you can fish! There are many recreation areas! To choose from! There is Bektau Ata! It's an old volcano! Mountains in general! The beauty is there! Among the steppe...the tract....
I am pleasantly surprised by this train station. Although small, it is very cozy. It has two floors, a waiting room, kiosks for buying water and snacks.
I was pleased with the cleanliness, coziness, and the coffee machine.
Clean, warm in winter, there is a coffee machine, two kiosks where you can take the most necessary things on the road, a bus stop 2 steps away, where routes 11,12,15 run.
The station itself is standard for small towns such as Balkhash. Over time, something is being repaired, and thank God. The only thing is that in summer it feels especially, there are too few direct flights from Karaganda - Astana, and there are no flights from Almaty at all!!
And of course it is wildly annoying that it is possible to buy a ticket at the ticket office only for CASH!!! What a madhouse in the 21st century! At the very least, I had to beg the cashier to throw money into my personal account! Therefore, I always take tickets only online, even if it is 200-300 tenge more expensive, but without this hemorrhoid!
It's very dirty there, sorry for the truth, to be honest, everything has remained there since the time of the CSR, many establishments require modern repairs, there are not many cafes along the Astana Shymkent route, all are dirty and there is no food there
My favorite city is Balkhash, I don't know of all the cities of Kazakhstan so far, I love it, a simple warm town with a beautiful lake, it's just a pity how shallow it is, it's just a nightmare, but everything is cool there, I love you Balkhash
The people there work well, but the conditions are good... The toilet is shared, it does not close. The benches are uncomfortable. It's cold in winter. It is very inconvenient to wait for the train, and the train is constantly late, it is difficult to wait for it for an hour, two or more
Balkhash railway station
Our station needs to be rebuilt.
We have only two ways. I would like it to look modern, with a new design.
The stairs on the street look shabby, shabby.Inside the station, too, it has long been necessary to change: install an electronic scoreboard.Previously, he was considered good for his time, but now he is lagging behind in all indicators.
The train station is not bad and a storage room was made. Only there is no rest room, which is not very convenient for visitors, there is also a shared toilet, there is no separate "M" "W", and of course the prices in the shops bite painfully on the wallet.
It's just a horror, it's closed at night.The morning train is to sit waiting on the street on benches like a homeless man...and it looks so promising.disgusting.They don't even deserve one star for this.and if the waiting person gets sick????not to reach those inside.dear mayor, take the strictest possible measures against those involved, and I think that then it will be better.I hope that I will never be in this place again.and if fate suddenly turns out, then I would like to be sure that everything will get better after this review.
For the coffee machine. You can pay with your phone for a cup of coffee. Railway station... A building with benches and that's it. The luggage room is open from 8:00 in the morning...Everything is Feng Shui.
I have known Balkhash station for more than 35 years, during this time almost nothing has changed, the same building, the same platform, the forecourt has changed a little.
A cozy provincial railway station. What kills is the lack of storage rooms. There are so many vacationers, carpenters, and there is no place to leave things. How is that?
The good old railway station)) I always confuse when I buy a ticket, through the KTZ website (online) I want to specify Balkhash-1, but keep in mind that there is a Balkhash-2 station in the city (bus 12 goes here and I don't remember any more) There are few destinations from Balkhash-2 station, there is no flight to and from Almaty, which is often annoying sometimes
It is necessary to reconstruct the building. The building is old and it is clear that it has not been repaired for a long time. Stalls and shops are closed. It is not very convenient when you want to buy something, you need to wait for the train and the next station or shop in the city.
Usually a deserted train station. About 3 passenger trains per day. The activity is only during the arrival and departure of trains. You can only buy drinks and minor things.
It is practically not well-maintained, the only thing that is good is a high platform, it is convenient to sit down and get off the car
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Lion Bazarov
Level 18 Local Expert
April 24, 2022
Nothing special. An ordinary railway station in a provincial town. One of the disadvantages is an eternally non-working public toilet. The toilet is working, but shared. To enter, you need to make sure who is there.
One direction can be said to be a dead end, but in Soviet times there were more than 40 directions from this station and the local airport also worked, and as a result, the 21st century and silence, development stood up, the trains are Soviet, the clock is standing, the trains arrive 40 minutes late, and that's all and not the city.
The train arrives late , it used to happen that they waited 1 hour or more . And now ugh ugh, we are waiting for a maximum of half an hour. Balkash->Sayak