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 Ksaiz Castle by Paul2001
If you are still game on visiting, the castle is near the interesting town of Swidnica which is in turn another 22 kilometres southwest of Wroclaw. I visited both destinations on a daytrip by bus from Wroclaw.
Spend the night in the hotel which looks like it might be romantic. Also think about taking a hike in the lovely valleys that surround the castle. Leave a Comment
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 Interesting Option by gale.blog.pl
First - there are too few of them. Fortunately there a couple of 'toilet operators', firms who rent mobile toilets, so called toi-toi (from the name of one of those 'operators').
Second - in most cases they are dirty and stinky. But I must admit that things are becomig better and better. It used to be worse a couple of years ago.
Third - usually you'll have to pay for your visit to a public toilet. Nowhere in the world have I seen a lady employed as a 'toilet cashier', this is unique for Poland. In many public toilets the price 'per pee or poo' is 1 zl (about EUR 0.25) and you need to pay in advance. The toilet cashier is a very important person as it is her who holds the toilet paper and (sometimes) paper towels.
McDonalds restaurants are very popular in Poland because they offer toilets free of charge (but still very stinky).
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Carry a pack of single use tissues with you. Never sit on a toilet seat in a public toilet.
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Hmmm... Stop peing? ;-) Leave a Comment
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In many public toilets in Poland the doors are marked with a triangle for men and a circle for ladies. If you mistake them, you will meet with raised eyebrows, a 'witty' comment or even angry word. The signs seem so obvious to everybody that nobody would even think that they can be confusing for people from other countries.
The use of a toilet can be free, e.g. in restaurants for the patrons, otherwise it shouldn't cost more than 1 - 2 zloties. Toilet tissue is usually there, although I have known some exceptions. The most expensive toilet I have come across was in the restaurant on the Puck pier - 5 zl, a real rip-off.
Although the number of public toilets has grown in recent years, there are still places where tourists can look for one in panic, the Bialowieza bison reserve being one of them. Leave a Comment
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I don't mind paying more if I think it will make me have a better time. I'm not a backpacker type and I'm not inclined to suffer to save some money. But, there's no good reason to agree to let a cabbie take you the 1.75 minute drive to Auschwitz. They will ask. They will offer. They will try to make you think it's worth it. It's not.
The only hard thing about taking the bus is getting someone, anyone -- a concierge, a travel agent, a cop -- to tell you how to get to the bus station. No one can tell you. God forbid someone gets mugged at the bus station, the cops won't help because they don't know where it is. It's not a language thing, either.
The frustration from this alone may lead you to accept a taxi driver's offer (as it did me), but they will want between 200 and 350 zlotys. The bus is about 28, and it takes you right there.
All you have to do is find the elusive bus station. It's "behind the train station. Go there and ask someone." That's the advice I was consistently given. In fact it's true, it is behind the train station, if you are facing the train station with the old town behind you. But you have to go thru some underground passageways to find it. Leave a Comment
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 Soltys Croft at Jurgow - part
of the Tatra Museum by evaanna
1 January - New Year's Day
Easter Sunday and Monday - sometime in March-April
1 - 3 May - Labour Day, Flag Day and the 3rd May Constitution Day
Corpus Christi - a Thursday in late May or early June (11 June in 2009) - in the ninth week after Easter
15 August - Assumption Day
1 November - All Saints' Day
11 November - Independence Day
25, 26 December - Christmas
On these days most shops, museums and various places of interest are closed, although some may stay open for the May holiday as it is the beginning of the summer season. Some ethnographic museums I know are open on Easter Monday.
Many museums stay open on Sundays but remain closed on Mondays. Leave a Comment
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 Polish text by Landad
Before you go to buy a ticket, ask somebody who knows Polish to write all the ticket details for you on a sheet of paper. With this paper go to the ticket office. The price is shown on the cash screen. So don't worry.
If you need to buy a ticket for an international trip at the station in Gdansk Glowny, go to the main hall of the station and go up-stairs on the 1st floor to KASA MIEDZYNARODOWA (INTERNATIONAL TICKET OFFICE). As far as I remember there is no sign in English :-(.
You can always print the text I have attached to this tip and use it, when buying a ticket.
Believe me, I have seen many times desperated tourist who couldn't find the way at the station because of the language barrier... Leave a Comment
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We were advised by Polish friends that you must be very vigilant when your car is parked in certain places. They had been told of wheels being removed. Leave a Comment
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 by Sjalen
Go to the shipping wharf memorial and realise that this is where Poland's new modern times started.
Stay on the beaches along the coast. Leave a Comment
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 Rapa pyramide by cynki
There are a wonderful fields, a lot of lakes and near a Banie Mazurskie village stand a pyramide. That pyramide have window and we can see all inside. What we can see in that darkness? If you want to know you should see it yourself.
first step is a go to Poland of course, next step is travel to Olsztyn, night in hotel (I prefer Novotel - is not most expensive and near a lake). Next step is trip to Gizycko (north-east) and go ahead to Banie Mazurskie. In Banie we should trip on Rapa village and after 8 kilometers in big forest on right we see that pyramide.
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 by matcrazy1
Will my mobile phone work in Poland?
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It should. We have three different mobile networks and all of them have roaming agreements all over the world, so there is a great chance that they have one also with you operator.
The only problem can be with some American mobile phones as in Poland we have only networks operating in the European standards: GSM 900, DCS 1800 and old analog NMT 450. So if you have a phone working only with an American DCS 1900 standard it won't work in Poland for sure.
Buy/rent a multiband (in Europe 3 band) mobile phone operating in DCS 900/1800/1900 before your trip to Poland.
Buy the above phone in Poland (used one can cost 25-50 $). Leave a Comment
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