🏨 Wieliczka Salt Mine and Auschwitz-Birkenau Full-Day Guided Tour Activity

Wieliczka Salt Mine and Auschwitz-Birkenau Full-Day Guided Tour

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 10 hours

Departs: Krakow, Krakow

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Combine two completely different worlds into one tour. Recommended for both busy and on-the-go tourists. During this full-day excursion see two of the most visited museums in the Krakow area.

The Wieliczka Salt Mine - one of the most amazing monuments in Polish cultural history listed on the first UNESCO Cultural and Natural World Heritage List.

Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum - UNESCO World Heritage Site, a former Nazi concentration camp, where more than a million Jews and other prisoners were oppressed or killed during World War II.

- Live-guided tour (up to 30 visitors)
- Travel from your address in Krakow (hotel pickup included)
- See carvings, statues, and mining equipment all made of salt
- Learn the history of World War II, Nazi Holocaust and the liberation
- Avoid crowds skipping the long line for individual visitors

What's Included

Entry fees (Wieliczka Salt Mine, Auschwitz I & Auschwitz II Birkenau), insurance and taxes

Headsets to hear the guide clearly

Highly qualified, helpful and friendly customer service

Licensed, English speaking local guides

Professional assistance in case of any issue

Round-trip transportation from and to Krakow by air-conditioned vehicle (van or mini-bus)

What's Not Included

Food and drinks

Toilete

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 0 - 3
CHILD: Age: 4 - 17
YOUTH: Age: 18 - 26
ADULT: Age: 27 - 69
SENIOR: Age: 70 - 99

Additional Info

CHILDREN: Children must be accompanied by an adult. Infant seats are available. A visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum can be traumatic, therefore we recommend that visitors should be at least 13 years old.
DOCUMENTS: As it is mandatory in Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum to confirm your personal details, you are required to put in the reservation full names of all participants and to take with you passport or ID which might be checked at the entrance to the museum
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
PICTURES: In the Salt Mine the photography permission fee costs 10 PLN. Can be purchased on site. In Auschwitz visitors are generally allowed to take pictures with a few, clearly indicated exceptions. Taking photos in the buildings with the use of flash i
SECURITY: Be prepared to go through a security check (similar to the airport's one) in order to enter Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
VISIT: Both museum are visited by hundreds of people every day. Keeping your own pace of sightseeing is not possible. While in the camps, visitors are required to behave appropriately and respectfully. Dress code is smart casual, to respect the place. Eat

CHILDREN: Children must be accompanied by an adult. Infant seats are available. A visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum can be traumatic, therefore we recommend that visitors should be at least 13 years old.
DOCUMENTS: As it is mandatory in Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum to confirm your personal details, you are required to put in the reservation full names of all participants and to take with you passport or ID which might be checked at the entrance to the museum
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
PICTURES: In the Salt Mine the photography permission fee costs 10 PLN. Can be purchased on site. In Auschwitz visitors are generally allowed to take pictures with a few, clearly indicated exceptions. Taking photos in the buildings with the use of flash i
SECURITY: Be prepared to go through a security check (similar to the airport's one) in order to enter Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
VISIT: Both museum are visited by hundreds of people every day. Keeping your own pace of sightseeing is not possible. While in the camps, visitors are required to behave appropriately and respectfully. Dress code is smart casual, to respect the place. Eat

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Krakow

Your tour begins with transportation from Krakow (the hotel you specified). It takes around 30 minutes to drive from the centre of Krakow to Wieliczka. It also happens that we start our trip with a visit to Auschwitz. Then the morning transfer takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes. An English speaking and friendly leader of the group will assist you at any time you need. After arriving on the spot, have a short break to grab a coffee or to use a toilet. Then be kindly introduced to your local and professional guide who is licensed by the museum.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

The tour starts with a descent of 64 meters by stairs. You are then led through a number of chambers and shown underground lakes, shrines and salt monuments. The trip finishes at the level of 135 meters below the surface and the return to the surface is by lift. A standard guided tour through the Salt Mine lasts 2-3 hours and visitors walk through a 3.5 kilometres long tourist route.

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau

Start your tour by walking through the gate to the first camp - Auschwitz I - originally conceived as a concentration camp, to be used as a detention centre for the many Polish citizens arrested after Germany annexed the country in 1939, with the most recognizable sign Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes You Free).This part usually takes 2 hours and you will be using a headset to hear your guide clearly. The group according to the Museum’s rule counts up to 30 people making the visit comfortable and accessible for every participant. Visit the original wooden buildings, fortified walls, barbed wires, gas chambers and crematoria - all of those leave a shocking impression allowing to imagine the scale of Holocaust.

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Brzezinka

After the 1st camp short break up to 15 minutes is planned. You will be taken by us to visit the second part of the tour - Birkenau (Auschwitz II), only 3 minutes away, which is the largest camp built and operated for the specific purpose of making Europe ''Judenrein'' (free of Jews). The same guide continues a poignant lecture about the camp in the village Brzezinka (Birkenau) which was constructed in 1941 on the order of Heinrich Himmler (SS commander) and could hold some 90 000 prisoners.You will be told about terrible stories of unimaginable living conditions as well as cruel selection and pseudo-scientific medical experiments made by prominent Nazi doctors including Josef Mengele. A history about soldiers of the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front opened the gates of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, which meant the final liberation, ends your tour with a feeling, both this genocide should never have happened and it can not happen again.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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