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Train Krakow
62 Reviews While in Poland we travelled between Warsaw and Krakow by train. Before traveling, I searched the Polish Rail website for info about timetable and prices. There are several trains a day between Warsaw...
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Trains Warsaw
30 Reviews I had some extra time and wanted to save some money, so I took the train into Warsaw. Starting from Frankfurt, Germany, I took the ICE train and changed trains in Berlin. Overall, it took about 10...
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By bus Krakow
42 Reviews Wieliczka Salt Mine, few kilometers outside Krakow are visited by millions of visitors every year! If you are in the city, the cheaper and easy way to get them is to take the n. 304 bus from from...
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Buses Warsaw
37 Reviews Date of incident 25th Sept. 2011: I took Bus 175 from Warsaw Airport to city centre. Upon arrival in the main central square, 3 men attacked me on the bus, one pulling my hand luggage off my hand the...
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By tram Krakow
36 Reviews Krakow is well served by trams. I only used them a couple of times; just to go from the train station to my accomodation and vice versa. You can get your tickets from vending machines, from kiosks,...
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Trams Warsaw
19 Reviews Our hotel was not very central, so we moved primarily by tram but also used the Metro and buses. The ticket is for any of the three transports The tram is very comfortable and has good service....
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Taxi, taxi Krakow
27 Reviews 1° Transfer from airport. Already in 2010 I had used City Taxi as recommended by the organizers of the VT meet and ordered by internet the transfers Airport - Hotel in Krakow centre and vice...
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Taxis Warsaw
21 Reviews Any taxi, and: 1. You should NOT reply to all those "mafia taxi" hunters, in the arrivals hall, offering their services. 2. You exit the hall to the lane outsied and take any taxi with name of the...
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Airplane Krakow
50 Reviews The airport is small. The advantage is that on arrival you have not to wait a long time to get your luggage and no formalities for Schengen passengers. The disadvantage is at the departure of the T1...
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Underground Warsaw
20 Reviews This is an entry to the underground. There is only one line of underground in Warsaw, about 23 km length, but they just started to prepare to build the second line. It's a very good way of getting...
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By car Krakow
11 Reviews Hi, Im writing to share our opinion about visiting Polska and Krakow. We decided to rent a car in polish company NFM Rent A Car. We didn’t have too much time to see all this lovely places. We took the...
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Planes Warsaw
32 Reviews Although low-cost flights from Warsaw have declined after the Etiuda-terminal was pulled down, Wizzair established a sizeable base at Warsaw with more than a dozen of destinations. Unfortunately, not...
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Tickets Warsaw
10 Reviews My recommendation for a visitor is to walk on foot (the Old Town and the Royal Way) and use either city transportation (bus, tram, metro - 1 line only) or taxis (door to door transportation, more...
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All in one Warsaw
27 Reviews I don't know why would any tourist want to rent a car in Warsaw, unless it is the base and starting point for driving outside the city. The parking issue in the center or the old town area is a real...
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Horse carriage Warsaw
6 Reviews Horsecarriage, well not exactly, it says "OMNIBUS" on it (isn't an omnibus a collection of stories?)...but it does have a horse and it does have a carriage of sorts. Now I think this is a totally cool...
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Roads Warsaw
5 Reviews Warsaw is the only city in Poland where I recommend to use guarded parking lots. Why? Well, maybe I am wrong now. I've seen motorcycles from the Netherlands with luggage outside parked on a street by...
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Poland is working hard to improve and extend their highways; the Polish government hopes to construct over 2,500km of motorway by 2015. There is a strange mix of highways in the country. Old ones, without shoulders, newer ones built with EU-money and private toll highways.The speed limit is 130 km/hr, but often limited to 110.
The A4 highway between Katowice and Krakow, known as the Małopolska Motorway, is a 61 km long toll road; the first in Poland. At entering and leaving the highway you pay PLN 8.00.In 1997 Autostrada Wielkopolska S.A. of Poznañ, on the basis of the decision issued by the Minister of Transport and Maritime Economy of Poland was granted the Concession for the development, upgrading and operation of the A2 Toll Highway.
There are plenty gas stations and rest stops at the Polish highways. Major credit cards are accepted and many businesses operate 24/7 (especial for truckers).The newest highways have the latest facilities and have a spacious design.
I'm not a specialist in the train travel but I do (or did) it from time to time. I believe couchets carriages are mixed, but sleeping ones are always one sex only (or family).The number of beds depends on the price.BTW. I'm not sure if you like Gypsy style of travelling (hahahaha) but...Mind you that if you heading to Praha you can stop in Wroclaw (as you once considered it in the forum).Probably no overnight train from there to Praha but Klodzko and Hradec Kralove are on the way.If you go by direct train from Krakow you will pass some interesting places like Olomounc, Pardubice, Kolin (obviously rather not for the night train).
It depends.My view is.The most comfortable, but probably the longest (for some) the night train.The cheapest: the night (can be day one) domestic train-by local transport to Medyka- pedestrian check point- marshrutka.The quickest by bus (probably).
Trains seem to have troubles in Poland - not sure why exactly but just to warn you, if you are trying to plan your schedule, give yourself an entire day to get out of Poland because, if you have a connection you probably won't make the connecting train.I was trying to go from Krakow to Bratislava. There was either an overnight train or a day train connecting in Breclav, Czech Republic. The lady at the Krakow train station said there was no problem making a 5 minute connection between trains. Well, there was. Just over the border into the Czech Republic we stopped as the train split and half of it went to Vienna and half went to Prague. It took a very long time to do this but I wasn't worried. I assumed they considered the time it took to do this into the train's scheduled arrivals. Nope.We were 20 minutes late into every station after that switch and so, of course, we were 20 minutes...
Hallo Evaanna,Thank you for your nice advices in the forum.I will be travelling around the 19th of January in Poland first from Berlin or Szzecin (north Berlin) to Augustow, what route do you reccomend, how many hours is going to tak, it is better to take a northern road instead to go through Warszawa due to traffic.Better to drive on Saturday and Sunday?Happy 2009Simon
The first time I ever hitchiked in my life was in Poland. My car broke down near the Lithuanian border and I had to get to Slovenia. I ended up hitching all the way across Poland and into Berlin, and learned a lot about hitching along the way.1) Thumbing at the side of the road is pretty useless. Hardly anyone ever stops. Instead, aim to hitch from service station to service station.2) Thumbing at service sations is pretty useless. Hardly anyone ever stops. You have to approach people while they're out of their cars. Ask them if they're going in your direction. EVERY SINGLE DRIVER who was going in my direction gave me a lift when I hitched this way. Have a list of the main towns on your route on a piece of paper - most drivers will get the point that any of the towns is good enough.3) Pay attention to car registration numbers. The first few letters denote the city where the car is...
What I find difficult to understand is why people tend to look for info about trains in Poland on otehr then official time table of Polish Rail Company.In English: http://rozklad-pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/en?Make sure you have the date correct, might be changes between weekend/holiday and weekdays.For direct (non stop) trains on Krakow-Warsaw route:Krakow main station is: Krakow Glowny (you'll be asked to choose, if not typed properly).Warsaw Central station is: Warszawa CentralnaThe conditions:Take only EX or IC trains, duration of journey is 2 hours 55 min. make sure you have the tickets with seat reservation card. First class in IC trains is the best, no really needed unless you have legs long as basketball player's and wish to stretch them out comfortably. only 6 passengers in a compartment (3 each side, facing each other). You can have free complementary dry biscuit, useful only if you...
I wanted to share my experiences as an alternative to all you have read. We rented a car in Warsaw and my husband drove south to Czestochowa and eventually Krakow. We had no problems. I drove from Krakow w/ Gosia (who has never driven but could read the Polish signs) and we were all over the back roads up to Kolbuszowa, then to Kazimierz Dolny and eventually Warsaw. On another trip I drove Gosia and I from Warsaw south to Sandomierz then Kolbuszowa and back north again to Warsaw. I frequently drive the entire northeast corridor of U.S. and believe me, if you can drive in Boston...Poland is a piece of cake. Their roads are smaller, but lots of construction and conditions improving with each trip. Also far more petro stations than on earlier trips. Their idea of heavy traffic doesn't compare to Boston, NYC, or Rome. I loved all my experiences along the way...saw some very charming...
Sheraton Krakow Hotel Krakow
7 Reviews and 517 Opinions I had a very pleasant stay at this hotel. I was part of a tour group, but would recommend it to the...
Intercontinental Warszawa Warsaw
4 Reviews and 653 Opinions Intercontinental Warswawa is one of the 5***** hotel in warsaw but it is different from the others...
Mercure Hevelius Gdansk
7 Reviews and 221 Opinions Great view from my 9th floor room. [ half way up ]. The room is just what you expect for 450 zloty...
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Q: Hello everyone, My name is Gloria from Rome and I'm coming to Poland soon for a pilgrimage following the history of your...
A: Hi Gloria! From Krakow, I'd recommend that you pay a visit to Wadowice, the home town of Pope John Paul 11 - visit the cathedral where he served - then the house where he...
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