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1 Day Trip Auschwitz Birkenau and Salt Mines with Hotel Transfer

By Krakow Tours by KrakowDirect
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Price is €109 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 10h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup

Overview

Visit former Nazi concentration Camp in Auschwitz which was the largest camp of Nazi Germany. See one of the oldest Salt Mine in the world. Discover both of these places on our full day trip from Krakow. In Auschwitz you will join licensed guide who will bring you closer to the history of this place. The memorial tour in Auschwitz begin at the entrance gate by the ironic slogan - “Arbeit macht frei” Next you will see prisoners’ barracks and railway track that transported people to gas chambers. Auschwitz tour takes around 2 hours and Birkenau tour around 1-1.5 hour. After that our driver will drive you to Salt Mine. Tour in Salt Mine takes around 2.5h and during the tour you will see St Kinga’s Chapel - 54 m long and 12 m high chapel resembles interiors of medieval wooden churches and is a real underground wonder with breathtaking chandeliers made of salt crystals, underground corridors and landscapes thatcannot be seen on the surface saline lakes and beautiful underground chambers.

Activity location

  • Krakow
    • Krakow, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Floriana Straszewskiego 17
    • 17 Floriana Straszewskiego
    • 31-101, Kraków, Województwo małopolskie, Poland

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Auschwitz & Salt Mine MP

  • Activity duration is 10 hours and 30 minutes10h 30m
    10h 30m
  • English

From meeting point
Duration: 11 hours: Full day tour to Auschwitz Birkenau Museum and Wieliczka Salt Mine
Option description: Choose this option for a ticket for a one day guided tour to Salt Mine and Auschwitz Museum from meeting point.

Language options: English
Price details
€109.00 x 1 Adult€109.00
Total
Price is €109.00

Auschwitz & Salt Mine HP

  • Activity duration is 10 hours and 30 minutes10h 30m
    10h 30m
  • English

With hotel pick up
Duration: 11 hours: Full day tour to Auschwitz Birkenau Museum and Wieliczka Salt Mine
Option description: Choose this option for a ticket for a one day guided tour to Salt Mine and Auschwitz Museum with hotel Pick Up.
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
€119.00 x 1 Adult€119.00
Total
Price is €119.00

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Headsets to hear the guide clearly
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Documentary film "Liberation of Auschwitz" (for the option with Auschwitz)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Transport by air-conditioned vehicle
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Transport to Auschwitz and Wieliczka from Krakow and back (for the option with Auschwitz)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Guaranteed skip-the-line entrance tickets
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Professional and licenced guide
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Insurance
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Transport to Wieliczka from Krakow and back (for the Wieliczka only option)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Entry/Admission - Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (only for the Auschwitz option)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Food and drinks

Know before you book

  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • IMPORTANT: Option Guided Tour to Salt Mine Only includes: entrance only to Wieliczka Salt Mine, round transport to Wieliczka, professional and licenced guide in Salt Mine, Headsets to hear the guide clearly, guaranteed skip-the-line entrance tickets only to Salt Mine.
  • VISIT: While in the camps, visitors are required to behave appropriately and respectfully.
  • VISIT: There are no restrictions regarding the age of children in Wieliczka Salt Mine and Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum, but they should be either capable of walking unassisted or carried in baby slings or baby carriers. Baby pushchairs are not allowed underground (salt mine)
  • VISIT: Visitors are generally allowed to take pictures with a few, clearly indicated exceptions.
  • LUGGAGE: The maximum size of your carry-on can not exceed the following dimensions: 30 x 20 x 10 cm. You can leave your larger luggage in the car.
  • CLOTHING: Temperatures in Wieliczka Salt Mine are around 59ºF (15ºC). Also, it should be taken into account that narrow paths may seem claustrophobic, and once underground there is no possibility to shorten your visit and turn back. At the entrance, visitors descent 400 steps down and the whole tourist route features over 800 stairs
  • ENTRANCE: As it is mandatory in Auschwitz Birkenau museum to confirm your personal details, you are required to take with you passport or ID to be presented at the entrance to museum. Please do not forget it, otherwise you may be not allowed to enter museum.
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Krakow

  • 1h 15m
Your tour begins with transport from Krakow, either from the hotel you specified or a designated meeting point of your choice. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum is located in Oswiecim, approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes away (65 km). All drivers we work with have the necessary EU certifications for passenger transport. You will be accompanied by a friendly, English-speaking group leader who will assist you whenever needed. Upon arrival in Oswiecim, you'll have a brief break to grab a coffee or explore the outdoor exhibitions. Afterwards, you’ll be introduced to your local, professional guide, who is officially licensed by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.

Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau

  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
Begin your tour by walking through the gate of Auschwitz I, the first camp, initially established as a concentration camp for Polish citizens arrested after Germany annexed the country in 1939. You'll pass under the infamous sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Makes You Free). This portion of the tour typically lasts two hours, during which you'll use a headset to hear your guide clearly. The group size is limited to 30 people, as per the Museum's regulations, ensuring a comfortable and accessible experience for all participants. Explore the original wooden barracks, fortified walls, barbed wire fences, gas chambers, and crematoria, which together leave a haunting impression and allow visitors to grasp the immense scale of the Holocaust.

Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau

  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
After visiting the first camp, you'll have a short break of up to 15 minutes. Following this, we will take you to the second part of the tour—Birkenau (Auschwitz II), located just 3 minutes away. Birkenau, the largest camp, was built and operated with the sole purpose of making Europe "Judenrein" (free of Jews). Your guide will continue the powerful narrative at Birkenau, located in the village of Brzezinka. Constructed in 1941 under the orders of SS commander Heinrich Himmler, the camp could hold around 90,000 prisoners. You’ll hear harrowing accounts of the brutal living conditions, the cruel selection process, and the pseudo-scientific medical experiments carried out by Nazi doctors, including Josef Mengele. The tour concludes with a storey of liberation when soldiers from the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front opened the gates of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, leaving you with a profound understanding that such genocide should never have occurred—and must never happen again.

Wieliczka

  • 2h
In a second part of the day, you will be transferred to Wieliczka Salt Mine, which happens to be one of the oldest working salt mines in the World. Before Salt Mine Expirence you will have about 1 hour break for a coffe, grocery or just rest.

Wieliczka Salt Mine

  • 2h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
Wieliczka Salt Mine is one of the oldest working salt mines in the World: it has been producing salt for over 700 years. You will be attending an English guided tour at 4pm or 5pm (depending on road conditions). Your guide will take you up to 140 metres underground for a 2.5-hours journey through over 2.5-km tourist route full of chambers with amazing salt carvings and statues

Krakow

  • 40m
At the end of the tour you well have about After another 40 minutes of travel, you will be taken to Krakow.

Location

Activity location

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    Krakow
    • Krakow, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Floriana Straszewskiego 17
    • 17 Floriana Straszewskiego
    • 31-101, Kraków, Województwo małopolskie, Poland
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Floriana Straszewskiego 17
    • 17 Floriana Straszewskiego
    • 31-101, Kraków, Województwo małopolskie, Poland

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