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Day Trips from Krakow

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11–12 hours
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6–7 hours
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6–7 hours
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Bus Tours
9–11 hours
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6+ hours
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Bus Tours
6–8 hours
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  • Carol S
    1 contribution
    Margaret was a fantastic host, she was very friendly and kept everyone informed throughout the day 😁 particularly enjoyed the vodka aswell as all aspects of the trip. Thank you to Margaret and the driver for an excellent day xxx
    Review of: Zakopane Tour and Thermal Hot Bath Pool with Krakow Hotel Pickup
    Written August 14, 2023
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  • Michelle B
    North Wales, UK7 contributions
    Went with my brother for his 30th birthday. It was my brother first visit and my second visit. I was still impressed second time around.
    Review of: Wieliczka Salt Mine Guided Tour from Krakow with pick-up from Selected Hotels
    Written July 9, 2023
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  • Arti
    Kata Beach, Thailand2 contributions
    I booked a private tour with Adam. Everything was great. He is a knowledgeable and patient tour guide/driver. Also Zakopane is a great place to visit.
    Review of: Zakopane Day Trip with Hot Springs & Hotel Pickup
    Written July 30, 2023
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  • Chris_Orleans
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia239 contributions
    Extremely interesting and moving mostly for those found of history.
    Organization was fine, good driver, good guide but no time to have lunch when the tour is from 8h30 to 15h and only 2 break if 10nminutes for toilets or what ever ...no restaurant on site anyway no time it s why I give 4 instead of 5
    Review of: Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial Tour from Krakow
    Written December 20, 2022
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  • Esther
    8 contributions
    The history here was amazing it was very sad to see 1st hand wat happened. The entire day was great we d a great tour guide
    Review of: Auschwitz Birkenau Self - Guided Tour with Guidebook (20 languages available)
    Written February 18, 2020
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  • Ian S
    16 contributions
    Everything went as planned.

    Maciej is very knowledgeable about the areas and is very good natured across the tour.

    If you're looking to get out of Krakow and see some different bits of this part of Poland, I'd highly recommend this tour.
    Review of: Krakow: Zakopane Tour with Optional Hot Bath Pools
    Written August 6, 2023
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  • Gary S
    Inverurie, UK2 contributions
    An extraordinary and thought provoking experience. Excellent tour guide highly recommended. A very hard look at the very real experiences people endured.
    Review of: Auschwitz - Birkenau Best Value Shared Tour from Krakow with Tickets
    Written August 11, 2023
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  • Paul W
    Liverpool, UK72 contributions
    Weather let this trip down but the tour guide more than made up for this. He was a wealth of information and was very interesting to listen to. We could not see the mountains as the mist was thick and it was raining which was a shame but the place itself was lovely.
    Review of: Zakopane and Tatras Mountains Day Tour from Krakow
    Written June 3, 2019
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  • petemutch63
    Derbyshire, UK24 contributions
    You must do the salt mine a brilliant morning/day out and value for money and the staff very excellent at explaining everything
    Review of: Wieliczka Salt Mine Tour from Krakow
    Written August 13, 2023
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  • OlgaM
    Surbiton, UK2 contributions
    went to see Ogrodzieniec Castle for my birthday, had a good time and a really interesting conversation throughout the day on our drive to and around the Castle. Wojtek was friendly, knowledgeable and a really good guide. to top it off he gave us some really good advice on where to get our dinner.
    Review of: From Krakow: "The Witcher" Ogrodzieniec Castle Day Trip
    Written October 11, 2020
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  • Dawn C
    Weymouth, UK319 contributions
    We were picked up on time by Wojciech. He was a fantastic guide. From start to finish we were looked after perfectly.
    It is quite a long drive but absolutely worth it.
    The scenery is outstanding.
    We enjoyed seeing traditional wooden houses and 15th century Church of St Michael the Archangel.
    Rafting in Dunajec was pleasant. The rafts hold 12 people and it was quite busy.
    I recommend if you visit Krakow allow yourself 6 days as there is so much to see and do.
    Review of: Rafting the Dunajec River Gorge in Southern Poland, private tour from Krakow
    Written September 16, 2020
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  • SergioR2013
    Miami, FL76 contributions
    We took this tour because we could not go to the Salt Mines tour due to our mobility limitations for the many steps that you need to go down in order to visit the mines. We were so glad that we were able to take this tour instead. I booked through tours by locals, and our guide, Malgorzata L. was excellent. We went to the Divine Mercy Chapel, St. Sister Faustina tomb, Wudowice (birthplace of Pope JPII) church and home of JPII and a convent close by that is UNESCO site where JPII used to visit. I highly recommend this tour
    Review of: Saint John Paul II Private Day Tour from Krakow
    Written December 2, 2019
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  • Isolina W
    3 contributions
    Knowledgeable guide
    Organised day
    Professional throughout the day
    Allowed time for questioning
    Not rushed and very informative
    Review of: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum Guided Tour from Krakow
    Written January 24, 2023
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  • daz
    West Midlands, UK3 contributions
    Fantastic
    Michael gave us great tours first at Zacopane & thermal pools were victor the driver was very helpful
    Then Auschwitz & birkenau words can’t describe this your in small group private mini bus all first class
    We even used them for our taxi back to the airport

    Great service all round
    Review of: Auschwitz and Birkenau Best Value Guided Tour with Tickets
    Written June 4, 2023
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  • Julianne
    North Port, FL19 contributions
    The highlight of our trip. Seeing the Black Madonna almost had me in tears. Very overwhelming. I wish I could have stayed longer.
    Review of: Czestochowa Black Madonna Private Day Tour from Krakow
    Written August 11, 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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