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Polish Splendors

Tour Itinerary

Arrival in Krakow, optional transfer to Hotel Golden Tulip Krakow City Center**** or similar, check-in, welcome meeting.

  • Hotel Golden Tulip Krakow City Center
  • Transfers

For half a millennium Krakow was the royal capital of Poland and for centuries the city walls have guarded its traditions and secrets. The morning sightseeing tour takes us to the Old Town with the St. Mary’s Church, the Jagiellonian University, the Cloth Halls and Wawel with the Wawel Castle and the Wawel Cathedral. The afternoon offers an optional excursion to the famous Wieliczka Salt Mine, an amazing labyrinth of tunnels going down as far as 327 meters.

  • Breakfast
  • Hotel Golden Tulip Krakow City Center
  • Wieliczka Salt Mine, Polish dinner at Restaurant Hawelka

The morning offers optional visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum or free morning to explore further city on your own. In early after transfer to Krakow railway station and departure by train to Warsaw. Arrival to Warsaw railway station and transfer to Hotel Radisson Blu Sobieski**** or similar for check in.

  • Breakfast
  • Hotel Radisson Blu Sobieski
  • Transfers
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum

Warsaw is essentially a post-war city with a meticulously reconstructed Old Town. The morning sightseeing tour includes the Royal Route and the Old Town with the Royal Castle, St John’s Cathedral, the Old Town Market Square and the Barbican. In the afternoon is offered an optional excursion to the Royal Lazienki Park with the Palace on the Water. The evening offers an optional Polish dinner at Restaurant Gospoda Kwiaty Polskie.

  • Breakfast, dinner
  • Hotel Radisson Blu Sobieski
  • Royal Lazienki Park with the Palace on the Water, Polish dinner.

Leaving Warsaw, we depart by train bound for Gdansk. Like a mini-state all to itself, Gdansk has a unique feel, cultured, wealthy and cosmopolitan, that sets it apart from all other cities in Poland. Upon arrival to Gdansk, check in at Hotel Mercure Gdansk**** or similar. During the afternoon old town walking tour we see Dlugi Targ, or Long Market, St. Mary’s Church, St. Bridget’s Church, Artus Court and Gdansk Town Hall.

  • Breakfast
  • Hotel Mercure Gdansk
  • Transfers

In the morning is offered an optional tour of the so-called Tri-City – a conurbation uniting Gdansk with the lively coastal towns of Sopot and Gdynia. The tour along the 35 km gulf of Gdansk includes a visit to the famous pier in Sopot and a lovely organ concert at the Oliwa Church. Afternoon is free to explore Gdansk further at your own.

  • Breakfast, dinner
  • Hotel Mercure Gdansk
  • Excursion to the Tri-city area with a concert at Oliwa Church, tour to Malbork Castle, farewell dinner

Optional transfer to the airport.

  • Breakfast
  • Hotel Mercure Gdansk
  • Transfers
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