We Think We Know Around How Much the Beach Might Cost
I am amused that one the top stories on Zakon.kz is about the prices of the beaches at Khan Shatyr. Even though the young woman guarding the beach last week told us how much it would cost to go there, it turns out that the decision hasn’t yet been made and is going to take them a long time.
Zakon.kz cites the administrator of Khan Shatyr as saying that the beaches will open in 2 weeks, maybe a month. It appears that the decision on the prices of going to the beach is the major obstacle to it being open to the public. However, it seems like the prices I was given are more or less in the ballpark: around 7,000 tenge on weekdays and 9,000 tenge on weekends. Meaning probably more than your average citizen of Kazakhstan will want or be able to pay. So why is this making such big news?
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Its just par for the course. Lets build a gigantic admittedly cool looking structure and fill it with stores and boutiques that only 3-4% of the population can actually afford.
And yet the people get so excited about it. Someone was telling me about some great new building and how wonderful it was and I said I’d love to go check it out. “Oh no, it’s the office of the railway company. You can’t just go in there.”