Jazz Bars in Krakow

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Jazz Clubs & Bars in Krakow

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  • Maciej Ł
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    A must see when you are in town. Great service, you will definitely feel cared for. What struck me was how easy was it to engage in conversations, even with the speakers above my head. I do not know if the lighting was set up with a specific intent too, but it separates the space giving you your own space. But we are here for drinks, and they are really good, with seasonal menu. If you need some customs, worry not, you will have the occasion at the bar, the selection is really wide and the staff constantly experiments with stuff.

    And of course the classic bar enterance ;) Reserving in advance recommended.
    Written July 21, 2023
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  • Kerryblue
    Dublin85 contributions
    Nice bar great music venue. This place was recommended to us by a local.
    It didn't disappoint. The music was great and the beer very nice indeed.
    The steps on the way in are steep and a bit awkward. So be careful.

    There is a cover charge for the music which is fair. It's a good place to finish off a night, but do mind those steps.
    Written April 1, 2023
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  • Neil K
    Liverpool, UK616,525 contributions
    My twin brother Stephen and I dropped into Piec Art Acoustic Jazz Club,a bar we always look forward to visiting on any trip to Krakow we take.
    I love the look of this bar ,interior is superb,a long solid wood serving bar dominates the main room,great decor and furnishings and cool wall art ,there's also plenty of seating options spread throughout this bar both inside and outside looking out onto the busy and bustling Ulica Szewska ,this is were we chose to sit as it was a roasting hot afternoon.
    We ordered Ksiazece lager from Tyskie Brewery,served in perfect condition,we chilled out in the sunshine enjoying our beers.
    My beer was really good,a lager style beer ,hoppy,bursting with taste and very easy to drink ,on a hot afternoon a totally refreshing beer indeed,it was just so good being in such a great bar enjoying a quality brew sat with my twin brother Ste best beer companion in the world .
    We really enjoyed our beers in here before we moved on and as on every other visit to here we had a great time.
    Piec Art Acoustic Jazz Club is easy to locate along Ulica Szewska ,a street and area teeming with pubs,bars and restaurants.
    Opening hours are;
    Monday to Sunday,6pm till 2am.
    Well worth checking out if you're in the area.
    Written August 4, 2022
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  • Redsionnach
    Cork, Ireland871 contributions
    I stopped here for coffee while out and about. The coffee was great. The service efficient from an English speaking staff member.
    Written June 13, 2022
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Has anyone done both tours before?
Do you think the former is worth doing?

I have done the tour with a guide - so i guess techncially i have gone on the "General tour 3.5h" or something similar, but i am only at Auschwitz 1 for 1.5h, and then we rushed to Auschwitz 2-Birkenau for 1h. i recently went on a organized tour from Krakow bc i couldnt secure guided tour ticket at the last minute from the website. but i think my guide may a person in training (?) cos he was guiding us with an Auschwitz educator standing beside him all the time. I still couldnt figure out whether he is a new guide in training within Auschwitz, or he needs to be chaperoned bc he is a guide hired from the 'outside' (ie not someone hired by the Aushcwitz site). I am inclined to believe it is the latter, but not sure, so would appreciate anyone with better insights. So this means there could be 2 diff guides - one is a tour agency guide from the outside, and another is a Auschwitz educator guide?
Answer: for future readers - I did the 6 hour tour and it is a better pace,smaller group and you visit a few more places in the camps. Our guide was very good. Worthwhile if you have more than a passing interest in the history. We were at Auschwitz for 3 hours and birkenau for 2.25 hours. Crowds were smaller that day so we didn’t have to stop to wait for other groups. I then returned to Auschwitz around 4pm to walk through on my own and to visit some of the country specific exhibits - Hungary’s exhibit is especially good. In order to return to camp 1, I purchased free tickets ahead of time since you have to renter the queue.

Tour vs self guided - 100% go on a tour. The guides paint a more complete picture than you will get from a guidebook. You can arrive early if you want to see birkenau before it gets crowded and walk on your own. No ticket is required to visit birkenau.

Auschwitz vs birkenau - you want to see both. Auschwitz is more intact and has almost all of the exhibits. The exhibits of luggage,eyeglasses, shoes, and human hair is overwhelming. Birkenau is 25x the size of Auschwitz camp 1. Many buildings were destroyed but you can get a better feel for the scale of the genocide. Even with most buildings destroyed you get a chill realizing how people were sorted and put to death. Many times within hours of arrival.

Krakow ghetto - to round out your experience walk through the ghetto and Jewish quarter. Visit the synagogues. Realize the size of the Jewish community that thrived in this area and then 90% of them were killed.

Last - learn about the history that led up to the holocaust. Hitler did not rise up in a vacuum. There were 20 years of anti-semitism that occurred before the death camps. The nazis were very good at isolating Jews, cutting them off from day to day community and business involvement and then eventually shipped them off to forced labor and death. Awareness of that history will help prevent this from ever happening again.
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