az kaz c etait 50 dollars il ya quelques annees amis en 2008 je sais aps.
le ferry est irregulier, y a pas vraiment d horaires.
tiens, ce st en anglais (ca date d il y a 3 ou 4 ans), mais il ya tout ce dont tu as besoin, et cam evite de le reecrire
Regarding the ferry from
Azerbaijan, it is definitely irregular, but irregular in the sense that it should come every few days (if not once a week) but no one will really know until the day it gets there. I would suggest checking often (like twice a day) since in my case, I went in the morning and they said it wasn't coming, and then by chance I tried again in the afternoon, and they told me it was leaving in an hour. If you really want to get more info on it, try hanging out at the William
Shakespeare pub
or one of the English/Irish bars around Fountain Square - most of the Western oil workers drink there, and they can hook you up with people at the shipping companies who can give you 24 hours advance notice of when the ferry is coming.
The ferry ticket office location:
from the west side of the Parliament house, walk north along the main street 1 km until you cross the large bridge over the railroad tracks (just in case you're not sure, the sea is roughly east). Once you cross the bridge, take a hard right like you are going to walk under the bridge, but take the first left down a non-descript road. You should cross some railroad tracks and pass by the Parom Restaurant on your left until you get to a guard roadblock. Ask the guys
there
where the ticket office is (it's through a non-labeled white metal door diagonally across the street from the Lenin mosaic).
I was told specifically to pay $60, but the ticket explicitly said $50. Then the little ladies thanked me. The ferry is supposed to take 18 hours, but in my case it took 2 days because we had to anchor for 30 hours in the Bay of Aktau while an oil tanker did... something. I'm not sure. What I am sure of is that the ferry ran out of food and by the final hours the 20 or so passengers were subsisting off eggs and vodka. So BRING EXTRA FOOD just in case. They will take your passport so don't fight it.
The
rooms lock from within, and if you're
nice to the ladies at the ticket office, you'll be alone.
