Gondola cruises in Krakow

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  • joanne-morfitt
    Beverley, UK127 contributions
    Good value little cruise that lasts around an hour. Commentary in English is informative if a little staid. Would have been a 5 star but the boat was difficult to find. Nothing on the riverbank or boat to say it’s Aqua River Cruises. Only found it when the crew member turned up some 20 minutes before we were due to set off.
    Written September 20, 2020
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  • Joeblow99
    Belfast, UK5 contributions
    My wife and I arrived on a lovely sunny morning and after a stroll around to the castle we took a 30 minute boat tour. Not particularly informative but a lovely way to see the city from a different perspective. I believe that the hour long cruise is just the 30 minute cruise done twice.
    Written September 21, 2019
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  • anezreltub
    Ramsey, UK107 contributions
    We saw the boat trips when looking over Wawel Castle walls.. Walk down the steps and you are greeted by the 'sellers'... No hard sale and for a lovely 30 minute trip along the Wisla River was 25 zloty.. About £5. Small boat of maximum 12 passengers, no commentary, but sometimes it is nice to just enjoy the view. Would definitely recommend. A short walk from the boat is the fire breathing dragon statue.
    Written July 31, 2019
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  • Jeff C
    Merthyr Tydfil, UK135 contributions
    Our third visit to Krakow and still so much to see and do.

    The bar's in the old Jewish quarter are so quaint and full of character.
    Definitely the area to stay in.

    The main square is about a 20min walk but well worth it. Bars and restaurants are more modern and more expensive. But still alot cheaper than the UK.

    If you visit the Krakow the Salt Mines, Auschwitz, Schindlers Factory and the city tour in the golf buggies are all well worth the price.

    Lots of very good restaurants and bar's. We've not been to the castle yet though.

    We stayed at the Spatz hotel in the centre of the Kasmierez area (Jewish qtr). Lovely hotel offering reasonable B&B. They also have a very nice restaurant. Although friends of ours used Airbandb for a cracking apartment and again very cheap.
    Written September 13, 2019
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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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