Essential Poland

Poland for fast…

Day 1st
Your arrival at Warsaw airport or train station, where you are welcomed by our driver. Transfer to a centrally located hotel. Time to relax or your private walks in the Warsaw centre.  An overnight stay at your hotel.

Day 2nd
Breakfast. Next, half-day guided tour of Warsaw including all of the most important places in Polish capital: the Old Town with the Royal Castle, The Royal Route and “Łazienki” – the Royal Park. You will see also places like the former Jewish ghetto, the Monument to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Later that afternoon transfer to the Warsaw station with our driver. Departure by express train to Cracow. During your three hour journey, you will be able to see a lot of different Polish landscapes. Your arrival in Cracow, where you will be welcomed by our driver, and transferred to a centrally located hotel. Time to relax. An overnight stay at a hotel.

Day 3th
Breakfast, guided tour of Cracow: the Main Market Square with famous St. Mary’s Basilica and historical trade pavilions of the Cloth Hall, the Royal Route, Wawel Hill with its impressive Royal Castle and Cathedral. Afternoon time for a gift shopping or another tour on your request:
- Wieliczka Royal Salt Mine - a visit to the famous Royal Salt Mine with a numerous underground chambers, chapels and salt sculptures (60 USD / person);
or
- Auschwitz – Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim - the biggest German Nazi concentration camp from the II World War. (60 USD / person).  Optional dinner with live music at a regional restaurant in centre of Cracow (48 USD / person).
Next, an overnight stay at a hotel.

Day 4th
Breakfast, and departure for one of two alternative, whole day tours to choose from the list:
- Częstochowa – the Black Madonna monastery – Poland’s spiritual heart and one of the most important pilgrimage centre in Europe,
or
- Zakopane – “the winter capital of Poland” and the Tatra mountains with breathtaking views, unique folk culture and dishes. Return drive to Cracow at evening time for an overnight stay at your hotel.

Day 5th
Breakfast and transfer to the Cracow airport or train station.
Optional return ride by express train to Warsaw + transfer in Warsaw to the airport, with extra fee 90 USD / person. 

Tour dates: guaranted departures on every Saturday in 2023 (March-October).


Prices  / per person /

- USD 880 pp - USD 750 pp now !
with accommodation at 3* hotels: Metropol*** in Warsaw and Wyspianski*** in Krakow

- USD 930 pp - USD 830 pp now !
with accommodation at 4* hotels: Polonia Palace**** in Warsaw and Novotel Centrum**** in Krakow

Book your tour by e-mail: grzegorz.b@excitingpoland.com


Other tour dates: on your private request. Tours on request in 2023 available with a price from USD 890 per person at 3* hotel.

Price includes:
- all necessary airport / hotel / train station transfers upon arrivals and departures,
- accommodation at 3* - 4* centrally located hotels in Warsaw and Cracow, in a double or twin bed room,
- breakfasts at the hotels,
- guided in English tours mentioned in the tour program above, with transfers and entrance tickets,
- train ticket for Warsaw – Cracow journey at 1st class express train compartment,
- VAT (tax).

Additional information:
- single room supplementary fee on request,
- dinner with music in Cracow – 48 $ / person,
- any tour extension and return train journey to Warsaw available on request,
- upgrade standard for that tour (private guide-driver for whole tour with half or full board) on request.

Welcome to Warsaw interesting and happening city in Europe!
Today the city has undergone a huge transformation process. Many old buildings gave way to modern sky scrapers and dilapidating old town was restored. Worth seeing subsection includes sample walks around Warsaw and has suggestions on trips outside of Warsaw.

Warsaw – a charming capital
Warsaw is a city with many faces where tradition intermingles with modernity. From the terrace on Zamkowy Square, where the Royal Castle and St. Anne's Church are located, is a view of the new Świętokrzyski Bridge. The dominating silhouette of the city centre belongs to the Palace of Culture and Science, which today shares the city skyline with numerous office towers. You can feel the breath of history in the Old Town, on Nowy Świat Street and everywhere where the city's roots have been preserved.

We hope you enjoy your stay in one of the most interesting and happening places in Europe!
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Cracow- an ancient magic city.
Cracow offers a wide spectrum of museums, art galleries full of exhibitions, theatres, historic cellars, clubs, cafes & restaurants with live music, is an exciting destination for the travelers on the world map!
The city’s cultural heritage is mirrored in its intellectual achievements – the Jagiellonian University is the oldest in Poland. The student population of the city numbers almost 100,000 and this large student population fires a lively nightlife scene that burns brightly in the atmospheric cellar bars away from the tourists above. Cracow has sharply contrasting seasons with cold, snowy winters and fresh springs and autumns. Visitors should beware of the locals’ use of the word fresh – an optimistic reference to blatantly cold weather. The labyrinthine cellars of the Old Town are an ideal place to escape the winter chill. However, come summer, the quintessential Cracow experience is relaxing in a pavement café on the main square enjoying one of the long and balmy nights.

Cracow (Krakow) is now well established as a major tourist destination. At the height of summer, Poland’s fourth largest city throngs with tour groups, all manner of tourist tack and countless pavement cafés that seem to occupy every cobble of the main square. Out of season, late at night or even in the first slivers of morning light, it is clear why so many people flock to visit. This magical city, situated in the southeast of the country, between the Jura uplands and the Tatra Mountains, on the banks of the Wisla (Vistula) River, has one of the best-preserved medieval city centres in Europe. Dozens of churches cover almost every architectural period and are surrounded by monasteries and abbeys – walking through the Old Town streets is like drifting back through the musty pages of a historical novel.

Cracow – a tourist horn of plenty
Cracow, Poland's former royal capital, is one of the most attractive spots on the tourist map of Europe. This is a place where legends, history and modernity intertwine. The city, which lies on the banks of the Vistula River, is famous for its priceless historical monuments of culture and art.

general info:
spa: lowland spa
climate: lowland climate, moderately stimulating
height: 250 m above sea level
postal code: 32-020 Wieliczka
telephone area code: +48-12

Main treatment areas:
respiratory system diseases, particularly bronchial asthma, and rheumatic disorders.

Natural therapeutic features:
therapeutic microclimate in a salt excavation site with salt particles in the air, in the salt mine at a depth of 200 m.

Location:
Wieliczka lies on the border between Sandomierska Valley and Wielickie Upland, 15 km from Cracow. The town centre is in a hollow surrounded by hills. The development of the spa, famous for its historical salt mine, began in 1964, when the world's first underground anti-allergy sanatorium was established in the mine's chambers.

Treatment facilities:
spa hospitals with 153 beds.

Attractions and cultural events:
It is worth visiting the historical Salt Mine, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After 700 years of exploitation, the mine forms an extensive subterranean town. Sights include wonderful salt lakes, unique chapels with salt sculptures, and mining machinery and equipment. Banquets, concerts and seminars are held in the mine's underground rooms. In the town above ground, interesting sights include historical military stables with characteristic arcades similar to Cracow's Cloth Hall, and the architecture of Wieliczka's town centre.

Tourism and sports:
indoor swimming pool, 3 tennis courts, numerous hiking and biking routes in the area. It is not far to Ojcowski National Park, which has a lot of unusual rock formations and old trees.
Wieliczka is famous for one of the world's oldest salt mines, which is open to sightseers. The valley of the Pradnik River, part of the Ojcowski National Park, is a unique nature reserve with a fairy-tale landscape carved from limestone. The ruined Gothic castle in Ojców and the beautifully preserved Renaissance castle in Pieskowa Skała are two more reasons to visit the park. Just 35 km south of Cracow is the Beskidy mountain range and 100 km away in the Tatra Mountains lies Zakopane the winter capital of Poland.

Auschwitz-Birkenau
(inscribed according to criteria (vi))

The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century.

Information copied from UNESCO web site - http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/pl/  

our first choice! the capital of Polish Tatras.
From here, you can reach virtually every single mountain nook in Tatras. Starting your day with a thrilling climb, continuing emotions in a great theatre, ending in one of Zakopane's numerous bars and pubs, your stay here will certainly be remembered. Tourists will find many attractions in Zakopane, starting with walks through the picturesque mountain valleys, wild terrain bicycle rides and horse rides and line railway rides to Kasprowy Wierch, Gubałówka and Butorowy Wierch. In winter the enthusiasts of white madness come to Zakopane to ski down the professionally prepared routes. On the lighted, evened-out with ratracks slopes of Nosal, Gubałówka and Polana Szymoszkowa you can see people skiing till late evening, sometimes even night hours. Krupówki, the cult walking place of Zakopane, is crowded all day and evening long. You can rest from the bustle of everyday life and regain your vigour here.