Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial: Independent Tour from Cracow with Guidebook

Embark on an independent tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial from Cracow. Explore the camps at your own pace with guidebooks available in 19 languages. Experience the comfort of an independent tour and have time for reflection and exploration.

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau - The excursion commences from the heart of Cracow. Journey in a climate-controlled vehicle for an estimated 90 minutes to the quaint town of Oświęcim. Upon reaching, collect guidebooks in your chosen language and receive all essential information from our English-speaking chauffeur. Traverse the historic German Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II- Birkenau. Allocate 2 hours at the Museum to independently visit the various exhibits located within Auschwitz I. Subsequently, proceed with our informed driver to the second camp: Auschwitz II Birkenau. Witness the remains of the prisoner barracks, both wooden and brick, as well as the notorious gas chambers and crematoria. Dedicate no less than one and a half hours there. Conclude your journey and return to Cracow to your original departure point, passing by several significant sights en route.
What's Included
  • guidebooks in requested language
  • Admission Ticket for the museum
  • round-trip transfer from Cracow
  • English speaking host
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
What's Not Included
  • Dinner
  • live guide
Additional Information

Embark on an 8-hour independent tour from Cracow to Auschwitz-Birkenau, crucial memorials of the atrocities committed by the Nazis against Jews and other European communities. Navigate both camps independently, your journey aided by handbooks available in 19 languages, inclusive of all key information about must-visit spots. Allocate around two hours for Auschwitz and a minimum of one and a half hours for Birkenau Memorial.

Enjoy the tranquility of a self-guided tour, allowing you to take photos and absorb detailed descriptions at your leisure, unlike those on group tours.

• Handbooks accessible in these languages: Spanish, French, Portugues, Italian, German, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, English, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Hungarian, Ukrainian;
• Return transfer from Cracow;
• Support from our tour leader;
• Freedom of a self-guided tour, without the confines of group tours;
• The luxury of exploring at your preferred speed.

Location
Pawia 18a
Pawia
The starting point is located in the center of Cracow outside Mercury Hotel at Kiss and Ride bus stop.
Cancellation Policy

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

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Claudia_d
Jun 6, 2024
It is what it promises. - Very good with Pavel Tours. Perfectly on time. The tour and Trip is exactly what it promises and describes. This trip is difficult because of the story for a short impression is this time and tour perfect.
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Graham_w
Apr 24, 2024
Excellent but poignant day. A must do. - A great tour. Easy transport there and back. Very good guide provided and never felt rushed. A definite recommendation.
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Christina_r
Apr 23, 2024
Worth the visit - There was lots I thought I knew through history but was shocked from what I learnt from an excellent tour guide.
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Huubj98
Apr 21, 2024
Very well organized tour operator - A super beautiful experience (impressive) and very well guided by Darius and Martin from Pavel Travel. Would definitely recommend them.
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Alease_s
Jun 3, 2024
Good Option for Independent Visit - The transportation was provided as described. The driver/representative was not friendly at all. He was very curt and brusque.
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Kdemello95
May 26, 2024
Transport instead of tour - Just provided transport...no guidebook given. Also had no clue who to meet at the meeting point. What chaotic and the tour company didn't even have the decency to email me back after sending a question to them on timing a few days before the tour started. Recommend taking a better organized group.
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Crystal_c
Jul 16, 2024
Use someone else - The tour started an hour and 20 minutes late and the driver/guide was rude and rushed. My daughter and I had to walk to the train station from the museum so we didn't miss an overnight train we were taking.
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Kevin_m
Apr 25, 2024
Amazing when we got there but very poorly organised - The trip was organised chaos - driver didn’t know what was happening and I didn’t receive a guide book at all whilst others received old torn guide books. The driver did not communicate what was happening- you need to sort this out - amateur show
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Pablolb2831nv
Mar 31, 2024
Disastrous management and organization. They canceled our trip just half an hour before departure time. - We made the reservation a month in advance through Booking and when there was only half an hour left before departure, they canceled our trip to Auschwitz because they did not have the tickets available. Very bad management, if we reserve a month in advance it seems surreal to me that half an hour before they inform us that we will not be able to carry out the activity, they should have some foresight. Of course they do not have a contact telephone number nor do they give you any solution. Finally, we are going to leave Krakow without being able to visit Auschwitz, which was the main reason why we came from Spain.
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Tour23929059402
Mar 30, 2024
THEY RUINED THE TRIP FOR US - Awful. Terrible experience. We booked the activity a month in advance and they canceled the activity half an hour before. We come to Poland just to do this activity of seeing the concentration camps and on a date with so many influxes they don't give us compensation, or ANYTHING. We lost the activity and the trip was already ruined. I will NEVER trust this company again. They didn't even call us to apologize, it was booking that did it and on top of that it is clear that they didn't have the tickets purchased and would think about buying them the same day... They only gave us a refund and no compensation, especially on the dates we were on.
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