Secrets of Upper Silesia

Upper Silesia is known in Poland mostly as a industrial region with long history of coal mining and metallurgy. Nowadays you can see this region and its capital – Katowice as a land with much modern face, stronger and stronger economic development after some years crisis. Moreover Upper Silesia attracts also more and more tourists every year – some old coal, silver and iron ore mines, iron works, old narrow gauge trains have been turned into local museums and attractions. Additionally this region has also an unique natural beauty of forests and lakes with located among them palaces and castles.


Tour program

Day 1st
Your arrival to Katowice or Krakow airport where you are welcomed by our local guide-driver. Transfer to your hotel to check-in. Optional visit at Silesian Opera in Bytom for opera performance. Dinner and overnight at your hotel.

Day 2nd
Breakfast at your hotel. Departure to “Luiza” - the open-air & underground museum in Zabrze, located in one of the oldest Polish coal mines. You will get an unique opportunity to visit a mine with a 200-year-old tradition with our English speaking guide service. After your visit our guide will invite you for a lunch in one of beautiful, romantic palaces in Pławniowice or Promnice. Later this afternoon you will visit one of the Polish famous brewery in Tychy. Your visit there will be accomplished with a local, best beer sampling in the brewery. Later this evening you will be driven back to your hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 3rd
Breakfast. Morning visit in the first in Poland “Bread Museum”, where you will be able to get know more about a bread production secrets and you will get an occasion to prepare and bake your own bread or roll according to the Polish old rules. Alternatively departure to Tarnowskie Góry for visit in old silver ore mine, where you will take an underground cruise along the flooded old mine corridors with a local miner, listening also his interesting stories and legends. Lunch and next a short journey by narrow gauge train leaving from the mine in high season. Afternoon transfer to the airport for your departure flight or additional day with more attractions.  

Services included into a package:
- all transfers with English or German speaking local guide-driver,
- accommodation at hotel (standard of the hotel and rooms type on individual request),
- full-board: breakfasts, lunches and dinner as mentioned in the program above,
- all attractions and entrance tickets reservations with local museum guide services.
- VAT (tax)

Additional information:
- tour program may be changed or enriched with additional attractions like visit in Pszczyna castle, Częstochowa – Black Madonna - Jasna Góra monastery or “Sport valley” – sport centre as you wish.

Date and price:
dates - any on request,
tour prices - contact us for the best price for you: info@excitingpoland.com  

Museum of Brewery in Tychy belogns to the top famous in Poland. You can visit it all your round with a special pacages of visiting brewery, museum and beer sampling.

Some history at the beginning…
The Shooting Lodge at Promnice is one of the most valuable monuments of Silesian artistic culture of the 19th century. It is situated in a beautiful place, at the Lake Paprocany, in the formerly immense primeval Pszczyna forest. Due to its location and attractive architecture it is a unique forest residence on a European scale.  The history of the place is long and very diversified. Many historical events and numerous legends related to the history of the family of Dukes of Pszczyna add to the atmosphere of this place. It all goes back to the 16th century when the State of Pszczyna was bought by the bishop of Wroclaw Baltazar Promnic.

Nowadays…
Shooting Lodge in Promnice is one of very few places in Silesia where you can spend your free time nicely, far from the city turmoil. The hotel has 26 accommodation places in comfortable rooms and suites. All of them are arranged in the hunter's style. In the past they were assigned for Prince's family and guests invited for a big hunting. The rooms & suites, despite their adaptation to modern living standards (phone, TV SAT, radio, internet, mini-bar) still maintain their unique beauty and artistic values.
The restaurant and hotel rooms are arranged and still decorated by artists. You will be served in Promnice with greatest honors, and if you will go upstairs stepping on winding stairs decorated with hunter's trophies and if you will take the Prince's Apartment located in the octagonal tower, then you will feel the spirit of those epoch.

I. Exclusive Prince's Weekend

"I loved this place..." - wrote Princess Daisy about Promnice, in her diary.
We invite you to spend your weekend in the most beautiful Prince's apartments previously occupied by Princess Daisy and her family. Sojourn in Promnice is an excellent occasion to visit other places connected with the Hochberg family: the old Prince's Brewery in Tychy & and the Castle in Pszczyna.

The price includes:
• 2 hotel days in the Apartment (Prince's or Daisy's one) for 2 people,
• visiting the Castle in Pszczyna & old Prince's Brewery (where nowadays the Tyskie & Pilsner Urquel beers are produced) including a tasting,
• prolonged hotel day up to 4:00 p.m. in Sundays,
• parking guarded on day and night,
• Discount Chart authorizing for discounts in the Polish Prestige Hotels group hotels
• and the nature beauty (leaves rustle, birds sing).

Price: 280 Euro / couple

Additional attractions and fees:
• meals served in restaurant
• sauna with Jacuzzi and hydromassage bathtub (5 Euro/person/h)
• horse cart / sledge (free of charge)
• sailing boats (12 Euro/h with instructor)
• bicycles (free of charge)
• billiard (free of charge)
• Outdoors Fire-place
• Hearth
• Wine-vault

II. Business & Weekend – special offer “after hours…”

Feel tired ? Need relax ? Come for a “long weekend” to the Shooting Lodge. Take you friends or just come alone and rebuilt your life force for next week at work.

The price includes:
• Three overnight stay (Thursday – Sunday) in a single or double room (Standard)
• 15 % discount card for your meals in restaurant
• Sauna
• Jaccuzi
• Bikes
• Billiard table
• Horse cart
• visiting the Castle in Pszczyna & old Prince's Brewery (where nowadays the Tyskie & Pilsner Urquel beers are produced) including a tasting

Price: 299 Euro / person