Classic Poland: Warsaw to Krakow
Welcome to Poland—where history and modern charm collide on this unforgettable eight-day adventure. Start in Warsaw, the nation’s dynamic capital, before making your way to the colourful port city of Gdansk, where maritime history meets stunning architecture. Wander the many bridges of Wroclaw, famously dubbed the “Venice of Poland,” and soak up the energy of Kraków’s lively streets. Along the way, dive into the country’s rich past, savour local flavours, and uncover hidden gems that will make your journey truly one for the books.
Highlights
Discover the medieval old town of Gdansk with a local guide, Stroll the promenade of Sopot, Marvel at Wroclaw’s astronomical clock, Be immersed into Krakow's old town with a local guide, Learn how to prepare a traditional local delicacy called obwarzanki
Accomodation
On this trip you can expect to stay in small family-run hotels or pensions (with the exception of the start and finish hotels, which are often larger city hotels), which will vary a little in standard and facilities: some may not have elevators, air-conditioning or English-speaking staff, but most importantly all are locally-run, with some traditional character, and in excellent central locations to give you maximum time for exploring the sights. You can expect to find clean, safe, simple accommodation in convenient locations.
Note that most accommodation in Europe does not have air conditioning units in rooms. Air conditioning is not routinely installed in European homes and workplaces. However, nearly all hotels will provide a standing or desk fan for your room on hot nights. If you do not already have one in your room, please ask your CEO to organize one for you with reception.
Our accommodation in Krakow is a comfortable and modern hostel with double, twin or triple rooms, bathroom facilities may be shared. Rooms may be triple-share and are not all ensuite. However, the location and the homely welcome are unbeatable!
Group Leader
This G Adventures group trip is accompanied by one of our CEOs (Chief Experience Officer). The aim of the CEO is to take the hassle out of your travels and to help you have the best trip possible. They will provide information on the places you are travelling through, offer suggestions for things to do and see, recommend great local eating venues and introduce you to our local friends. While not being guides in the traditional sense you can expect them to have a broad general knowledge of the countries visited on the trip, including historical, cultural, religious and social aspects.
We also use local guides where we think more specific knowledge will add to the enjoyment of the places we are visiting - we think it's the best of both worlds.
It is important to note that in Europe, all guiding is based around local guides all of whom are licensed to work only in a particular city. As such, our leaders are able to provide orientation walks which will show you the layout of each town and city as well as the location of local services such as post offices and laundromats, but are unable to legally share historical facts and figures in public places. If you wish to take a guided city tour in any location our CEO will do their best to help you arrange this and pay locally.
Group Size Notes
Max 16, avg 12
Meals Included
7 breakfasts
What's Included
Your Welcome Moment: Meet Your CEO and Group
Your Foodie Moment: Obwarzanki Cooking Class, Krakow.
Warsaw orientation walk. 48-hour public transport card in Gdansk. Gdansk Walking Tour with a local guide. Excursion to Sopot. Orientation walk in Wroclaw. Krakow Walking Tour with a local guide. All transport between destinations and to/from included activities.
7 nights from $1,444 per person
Itinerary
G Adventures: Classic Poland: Warsaw to Krakow
Day 1: Warsaw
Arrive at anytime. After settling into your hotel, attend a welcome meeting in the evening with your CEO before heading out for an optional dinner with the group.
Warsaw is a vibrant city rich in history and full of stories, having been nearly destroyed in World War II. If you have time, we recommend taking some extra time to fully explore this incredible city.
Day 2: Warsaw/Gdansk
Wave goodbye to Warsaw and board a train bound for Gdansk, travelling through the picturesque Polish countryside. Enjoy some free time on arrival to the hotel before setting off with a local guide on a walking tour of the city's highlights.
Day 3: Gdansk
Set off in the morning with your CEO on an excursion to the nearby city of Sopot, on the Baltic Sea. Stroll along the promenade and see the sights before returning to Gdansk to enjoy the rest of the day free to continue exploring or to relax.
Day 4: Gdansk/Wroclaw
Set off again by train heading south to the city of Wroclaw. In the afternoon, head out on foot with your CEO to see the city's main sights and see why it is sometimes referred to as the "Venice of Poland." Take the rest of the day at leisure to relax or explore on your own, perhaps making a stop in the evening at one of the oldest beer cellars in Europe.
Day 5: Wroclaw
Today is a free day in Wroclaw. Choose to wander the city and explore its historical monuments and beautiful architecture, or perhaps take an excursion through the Silesian heartland to the wooden churches of peace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for a private organ concert.
Day 6: Wroclaw/Krakow
Depart by train and travel through the countryside toward Krakow. Upon arrival, enjoy some time on your own for lunch before joining a local guide on a walking tour of the city's highlights. Finish off with an 'obwarzanki' cooking class where you'll learn the ins and outs of this bagel-like, traditional speciality. Enjoy your creation, then spend the remainder of the evening at leisure.
Day 7: Krakow
Explore Krakow on your own with a full free day today. You may wish to explore the tragic history of this region with an excursion to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest German Nazi concentration and extermination camp; a highly impactful experience
Day 8: Krakow
Depart at any time.
Featured Destinations
Krakow
Top attraction and the premier tourist destination in Poland, Krakow (dated English spelling ‘Cracow’) is a vibrant city, proud of its long and glorious history, rich heritage, and architectural beauties. For centuries Krakow was the capital of the Polish kingdom. Today it remains the southern Poland’s metropolis and the seat of the Malopolska provincial government. Important as a crucial center of business, culture, and education, Krakow is also famous for its restaurants and clubs. Krakow is Poland’s capital of culture and was named a European City of Culture in 2000. The city boasts the best museums in the country and some best theaters. It counts two Nobel Prize winners in literature among its residents. It is also home to one of the world’s oldest and most distinguished universities.
Wroclaw
After capital Warsaw - Wroclaw is the second largest financial center of Poland.
The city is traditionally believed to be named after a person called Wrocis?aw/Vratislaw, often believed to be Duke Vratislav I of Bohemia. It is also possible that the city was named after the tribal duke of the Silesians, or after an early owner of the city called Vratislav. There is also another story which holds that the city was named after a Polish duke named Wrócis?aw, whose name means "he will return famous" in the old Polish language.
The name of the city today may be an issue among German and Polish nationalists, although the city's municipal website uses Breslau for the German-language version of the site.
Gdansk (Gdynia)
Historic Gdansk represents one of the richest, most lavish complexes of architectonic relics in Poland. The entrances to historic quarters are huge stone gateways guarding the main thoroughfare; the well-proportioned tower of town hall makes a powerful impact. The main square is filled with fine mansions. St. Mary’s Church is the world's largest brick church, with a capacity of 25,000. Dominating the waterside is seven-story Great Mill. Gdynia is the modern port for Gdansk. Near Gdansk is Sopot, one of the most fashionable seaside resorts in northern Europe during the 19th century and the country’s most popular health spa with its beach and flair for entertainment. Sopot is known as an important music center, featuring an annual Opera and International Song Festival. Gdansk Historical Museum has lavish decorations and fascinating exhibits. Maritime Museum features a model of every ship produced in local shipyards since 1945 and is housed in the massive 15th-century Gdansk Crane. National Art Museum, one of Gdansk’s highlights, boasts a collection of Gothic art and sculpture.
Excursions
Gdansk - Window to Freedom - Half Day Tour
Gdansk - Window to Freedom - Half Day Tour
In the Footsteps of Solidarity in Gdansk
Half day tour
In the late 1970s the city’s Lenin Shipyard saw the birth of the SOLIDARITY, the first independent trade union in the Eastern Block countries, which made Lech Walesa a household name and began the process of transformation across the entire region.
We will visit the St Bridget’s Church, a record of the Solidarity period with the tombstone of the murdered priest Jerzy Popieuszko, a collection of crosses from the 1980-88 strikes and a door with bas-reliefs of scenes from Solidarity’s history.
Then will have a photo stop by the Monument to the Shipyard Workers, erected in memory of the workers killed in the riots of 1970 and will continue to the „Roads to freedom” exhibition, a moving tribute to the Solidarity movement. The exhibition is a real highlight. Its vestibule is a replica of primitive shop of the seventies, with not too many products to sell. The key place is the hall where the delegates of the strike committee and the representatives of Polish authorities signed first the post Second War history of Poland agreement between the representatives of the people of Poland and the communist authorities.
Everything is original here, just to mention: the table, chairs, boards with demands, historic ballpoint that Lech Walesa signed the agreement with etc. In one of the halls , the visitors can watch moving documentary film, too.
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You will be picked up at your port by our guide and driver.
A Pulsating Harbour - Gdansk/Gdynia/Sopot - Full Day Tour
A Pulsating Harbour - Gdansk/Gdynia/Sopot - Full Day Tour
A Pulsating Harbour - Tri-City Complex: Gdanks/Gdynia/Sopot
Gdansk, as fascinating and special city as one could hope to find anywhere, was once known as Danzig - name etched deep in European history. It is a major harbour, first German, then Hanseatic, Polish, Prussian, Free City and finally Polish. Desired by many, the city was often fought over. Indeed, it was the nearby Westerplatte that the first shots of history’s greatest war were fired in 1939. Later in the late 1970s the city’s Lenin Shipyard saw the birth of the Solidarity Trade Union, which made Lech Walesa a household name and began the process of transformation across the entire region. Gdansk has not forgotten its history. The lovingly restored buildings of the Old Town and waterfront provide picturesque and interesting surroundings, in which one may take a stroll, dine or shop for the city’s famous amber jewelry. In turn, the impressive Monument to Murdered Shipyard Workers gives the visitor a pause for thought about all that has happened since the 1970s.But further surprises await, for Gdansk is just the largest component of the Tri-City of Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot. North-south development along the coast left beautiful and unspoiled woods and forests on hills just inland, and allows the visitor to travel smoothly from place to place by road or by local railway. Required stops for all include Gdynia, the lively naval, fishing and commercial port with its historical ships, beaches and the Oceanographic Museum; Sopot, an elegant beach resort of villas and hotels famous for its musical and cultural festivals; and Gdansk-Oliwa, a suburb boasting beautiful parks and a cathedral, whose world-famous organ Poland-largest entertains and entrances all who hear it. Lively, attractive, cultured, historical: the Gdansk area is as varied and eternally fascinating as the sea, which brought its fame and fortune.
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You will be picked up at the port by your guide and driver.
Gdansk & Stutthof - Full Day Tour
Gdansk & Stutthof - Full Day Tour
Gdansk & Stutthof
Full Day Tour
We start the tour from the Upland Gate - a fragment of the city's fortifications and one of its main gates. Just behind it, we pass by a baked-brick construction consisting of the Prison Tower and the Torture House - relics of the Gothic defence walls from the 15th century. The Golden Gate, situated next to the Prison Tower, opens onto the Long Market - a magnificent street, with Patrician mansions decorated with late Renaissance and Baroque facades - a real feast for the eyes!!! It is here that the richest burghers of Gdansk used to live. Next, we can see the Main Town Hall, with a life-sized figure of king Sigismund Augustus on the top. Beyond the Main Town Hall, we admire the Artus Court - a building used for Hanseatic League meetings, the most beautiful court in all the Hanseatic cities. Just behind it rises the tower of St. Mary's Basilica, a part of the most precious and largest red-brick Gothic church. On our way back we pass by Mariacka Street, with its gabled terraced houses and elegant boutiques, leading to the Long Wharf on the Motlawa River. At the river's edge stands the characteristic Gdansk Crane, where the tour ends.
Afterwards, drive to see the former Nazi Concentration Stutthof Camp established at the beginning of September 1939 is the oldest camp of mass-extermination in Poland. The first prisoners of camp thought for "desirable Polish elements" were representatives of Polish associations in Free City of Danzig. Within the 5 years of camp existance 110.000 mens, women and children were kept and almost 65.000 prisoners died as result of murdering in gas chambers, beating, hanging, torturing and making medical tests by Nazi mad scientists. Stutthof was freed at the beginning of May 1944 by troops of the Soviet Army.
Nowadays there is the National Museum of Stutthof established in 1962 including post-camp buildings, prisoners' barracks, gas chambers, crematory, gallows. There is also permament exhibition dedicated to prisoners of Stutthof inside post-camp buildings.
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You will be picked up at your port by our guide and driver.
Gdansk: Gdansk & Sopot – 5 hours
Gdansk: Gdansk & Sopot – 5 hours
Travel with your guide from the ship to the beautifully-restored city centre of Gdansk. Take in the highlights of this historic city during a two-hour walking tour through the town. While walking along the so-called ‘royal route’, see Long Street and the Long Market, where the richest residents of Gdansk once lived.
The fourteen-century Gothic Town Hall, with its lavish decorations, also houses the Historical Museum of the City of Gdansk. Continue to Oliwa, the most northern part of Gdansk where the cathedral, one of the best-known buildings in the city, lies. A special attraction of the church is the splendid Rococo organ which was constructed by Jan Wulf of Orneta between 1763 and 1788. Privately transfer back to your ship after the tour.
Highlights:
- Walk along the 'Royal Route' where the richest residents of Gdansk once lived
Tour Duration: 5 Hours
Tour Can Operate: Morning/ Afternoon
Wheelchair Accessible: Please enquire for more information
Physical Activity Level: Light
Inclusions:
- Private transport by luxury car or minivan
- An expert local guide for 5 hours
- Entrance fees to all sights and museums
- All taxes
Exclusions:
- All cruise travel, personal items, meals and associated costs
- Gratuities
Warsaw
Warsaw is not the cold and dead city it used to be under communism rule. Today with bustling Polish economy and freedom from communist rule - the city has undergone a huge transformation process. Many old communist buildings gave way to modern sky scrapers, dilapidating old town was restored, entertainment and services transformed to match that of other western capitals. Crime rate is lower than that of big cities in the United States. Today Warsaw boasts GDP per capita more than 75% of European Union average.
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