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Krakow, Poland recommendations?
DH and I are trying to plan a trip to Krakow in December. I know it'll be cold (blissfully so!), which doesn't bother me in the least. Any recommendations for places to stay and things to see? I know one day we'll be going to the concentration camp, but otherwise, we have an open slate!
Thanks!
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Re: Krakow, Poland recommendations?
The salt mines are pretty cool and worth a trip. I found Cherry Coke in a snackbar down there. Cherry Coke!
Eat all the perogies you can. Mmmmmmmmmm, perogies.
We were there in December... last year? The year before? Anyway, it was cold but not horribly so. And we spent an awful lot of time at the Christmas market drinking mulled wine anyway :-)
I would recommend going to Auschwitz but not on your first day. We did and I spent the rest of my visit in a state of shock. It's pretty overwhelming. We actually had a totally surreal day - we went to Auschwitz and then came back to the city, had a fantastic meals (of pierogies of course!) and went to the ice hockey match. It was super, super fun and just what we needed after a hard day. The tickets were practically free and we had so much fun. (amusing fun fact... the tickets were 10 kroner for DH and 1 kroner for me, i found that hilarious)
Dress warm for the trip to Auschwitz, the train is FREEZING. We went to the salt mines on the local bus (kind of a fun experience in itself), it's pretty amazing. I learned that I'm still a bit claustrophobic and DH had a fantastic time taking pictures.
Just looked up my pictures (went in 2009 apparently) and we appear to have pretty much gone to the salt mines, Auschwitz and the Christmas market! I got a couple pretty pieces of amber jewelry, there's a lot of the same stuff but if you look carefully you can find some lovely things.
We were actually there the first week in December and they have a day of Christmas cribs competition which was really fascinating and fun to see. All the locals make these huge elaborate cribs and walk through the main square displaying them before having them judged somewhere.
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We took a private tour ("maxi taxi" we call them here) in a 10-ish person van to both Auschwitz and the salt mines.
The Auschwitz tour took us to both sites (there's 2 - who knew?) and was around $100 for 2 of us. The salt mines tour was way less.
Our hotel arranged it and they picked us up/dropped us off right there. The convenience, for me, was worth it. If you're not as adventurous as Pitt apparently is!
Also, we were there in late February. Bring long underwear and dress warm, but I don't think it's crazy cold.
I don't know how cold it will be in April as I went there in April and October. It was coldish, but I dressed warmly.
I stayed at Angel House 2 and I was quite happy with it. The price was right and it was in a good location. It wasn't four star, but I liked it. The stairs are a bit scary...
We did a tour of Auschwitz which was organised with Angel House. I think it was about 20 Euro, and we got transportation to and from, included Auschwitz 1 and 2, and a tour guide at the site. The first time I went I didn't get a tour guide; the second time was much better. I also did a salt mine tour, which I enjoyed. The castle and old town square is nice as well. I wanted to do a tour of the Jewish Quarter, but I never got around to it.
U Stasi has great pierogies. They have lunch hours and it's closed on the weekends, however. I really liked Restauracja Pod Gruszka. It's on ul Szczpanska 1 and right off the old town square. You have to go upstairs (I was confused when I went there, lol). I went to another place, but I forgot the name of it. Foun it on Trip Advisor. Try those bagel things on the street. Oh and some bison grass vodka. It tastes great alone or with apple juice funnily enough.
Have fun!