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Phone: +48 794 563 851
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Visit Auschwitz and Birkenau Museum, door to door service,transport by air-conditioned minibus,pickup from selected hotel/apartment, easy and quick booking.
Time: 7 hours
Language: English
Get more out of your time in Krakow by traveling roughly 1.5 hours to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. You’ll avoid language barriers when booking transport, as everything is organized for you. Enjoy hotel pickup and drop-off, and travel in a comfortable minivan. Save time waiting in long visitor lines as admission tickets are provided. A guide will take you on a walking tour around Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, to help you understand the history of this former concentration camp.
Throughout the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of genocide, terror and the Holocaust. The German forces occupying Poland during the Second World War established a concentration camp on the outskirts of the town of Oswiecim in 1940 since; the Germans called the town Auschwitz that is the name by which the camp can to be known. Over the next few years It was expanded into three main camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Auschwitz III-Monowitz and more than forty subcamps. Beginning in 1942; however, Auschwitz became the side of the most massive murder campaign in history, when the Nazis put into operations their plan to destroy the entire Jewish population of Europe. It was the largest of the Nazi concentration camps. The slaughter ended only when the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps Auschwitz-Birkenau camps were liberated by the Soviet army on the 27th of January 1945;. Visiting the museum at Auschwitz and Birkenau will be an unforgettable history lesson and will provide you with a broader understanding of what happened here 70 years ago.
Our company specialize in transfer services. We organize Auschwitz tour from Krakow every day and guarantee high quality in the best prices. Auschwitz tours with our company are available in private or shared option.
Our driver will pick you up directly from your hotel, apartments between
7:15 to 9:20am (pick up time to be confirm) . He will be waiting for you at the reception desk or outside of building (apartments).
To enter the site of the former Nazi death camp groups are led through the main gate with the infamous ARBEIT MACHT FREI sign. The exhibition is located in authentic, mostly pre-war brick buildings.
Part of the exhibition about mass killing is located in blocks 4 and 5. There visitors will see copies of documents and photographs showing reasons why people of various nations were imprisoned in Auschwitz and deportations of European Jews. One of most horrifying part of this exhibition is hair of women murdered in Birkenau. In the next building there are shoes and other personal belongings seized from people brought to death.
There’s also part of exhibition showing everyday camp reality – treatment of people imprisoned in Auschwitz from the moment of arrival. In one of corridors there are enlarged photographs of prisoners taken during the registration procedure.
Block nr 11 was a camp jail. In it’s basement there are 28 cells, some of which were used as starvation cells in a period of time. One of rooms in the first floor is a place where Gestapo summary court sentenced innocent people to death. Gestapo victims were shot by the Death Wall. It’s reconstruction is in the yard between block 10 and 11.
The only gas chamber wasn`t destroyed during the war is in Auschwitz. Walking through a room where people were gassed to death and seeing ovens of crematorium where their bodies were burned makes most of visitors speechless.
The tour continues in Birkenau. There visitors are shown the railway track and the platform where Jews deported to the death camp had to undergo selection. Just at the end of tracks there’s memorial and ruins of gas chambers and crematoria.
Most of buildings in Birkeanu are destroyed but nonetheless it’s possible to enter couple of those still existing. Seeing how dreadful living and sanitary conditions were it’s really hard to believe that anybody could survive a place like this.
After visiting both camps he will takes you back to Krakow or wherever you wish.
Our shared Auschwitz tours start between 7:30 and 9:00a.m. Our English speaking driver will pick up you directly from your hotel or other designated location. It will take us about an hour and ten minutes to get from Krakow to the Auschwitz Museum . Upon arrival to Auschwitz, you will join a tour with professional English speaking guide organised by the museum. Occasionally, headphones are provided for larger groups in order to hear the guide correctly. He will knows the significance of the events that unfolded at these concentration camps . Sightseeing at Auschwitz I will last about two hours. After your visit this first camp, the driver will takes you to second camp, Auschwitz II – Birkenau located about 3 kilometers away, where he will wait in the car park for your return.
When the entire visit is over, the driver will take you back to Krakow or another predetermined location.
The whole trip takes about 6 hours.
What`s included:
Private trips to Auschwitz takes approximately 6 hours. Our English- speaking driver will pick you up directly from your hotel or apartment or the Krakow airport. The distance between Krakow and Auschwitz is about 65 kilometers so it’s a drive of about an hour and fifteen minutes. At the museum we can help you buy the tickets and arrange a licensed guide or we can also book your tickets in advance. Sightseeing at Auschwitz I takes about 2 hours and you will need another hour for Birkenau. After your tour of Auschwitz – Birkenau the driver will take you back to Krakow or wherever you wish to go.
If you wish you can visit Auschwitz on your own (free of charge). The average time for visit Auschwitz is about 2,5 hours and 1,5 hour in Birkenau. You can stay there as long as you wish but we will charge you 40 zl for any extra hour. In this case you would be picked up from the hotel between 08:00 and 08:30 a.m. An English guided tour starts at 10:45 am (picked up from the hotel at 09:00 am). The regular guided tours in any available foreign language cost an additional 79 PLN /21 EUR per person.
Please note that this tour is not available on: 25th of December, 1st of January, Easter Saturday afternoon, Easter Sunday and March of the Living Day.
If you haven`t got enough time to visit both places (Auschwitz & Salt Mine) on separate days, you can actually do both tours in one day. Our driver will pick you up in the morning and first stop will be the Auschwitz camp then Birkenau. After visiting both camps the driver will take you from Auschwitz to the Salt Mine in Wieliczka for an afternoon tour. You will visit the mine with our English speaking guide provided by Salt Mine. Arrival back in Krakow is between 07:30 and 08:00 p.m.
All prices presented in the table above are in Euro/Zloty per person
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All prices presented in the table above are in Euro/Zloty per person. Price includes English guided tour and all admission fees are includes in the price.
Our private Auschwitz tour from Krakow will takes approximately 6,5 hours. An English speaking driver collect you up directly from your apartment, hotel in Krakow. The best time to pick you up from your accommodation is between 7:30 and 9am. The way with English speaking driver from Krakow to Auschwitz will takes about an hour each way. The sightseeing Auschwitz and Birkenau camps should take at least three hours. We recommend two hour visiting the Auschwitz I and an one hour in the Birkenau II, nonetheless if you need more time the driver will be waiting for you as long as you wish (but, more then one hour will be extra charge). After visiting both camps our driver will take you back to Krakow or wherever you wish. If would you like to save your time in Krakow we arrange for you Auschwitz and Salt Mine tour in one day. That combination is high recommend by 70% of our customer. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us and book one of our Auschwitz tours from Krakow!
You can book a package trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau and airport transfer Krakow to your hotel and back. If you are looking best offer please contact with customer service KrakowDiscovery.
Accessible with baby
Museum do not recommend visiting with children under 13 years old moreover some areas will not be accessible with baby stroller.
Document confirming. Camp policy
Warning! Due to a change in policy at the Auschwitz Museum, please bring an identity card, passport or document confirming yourself. People without a document will not be allowe into the camp.
Auschwitz & Salt Mine Tour
Auschwitz Tour
Salt Mine Tour
Company: Sławek Nowak
Contact: +48 794 563 851
E-mail: info.auschwitzsaltminetours@gmail.com