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Wieliczka Salt Mine: Descend 140m Underground on this Guided Tour
4.3
159 Ratings
Kraków
Descend 140m underground on a guided tour of the Wieliczka Salt Mine, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Explore fascinating chambers and tunnels made of salt, learn about the history of salt mining, and see authentic mining machines.
Descend 140m underground on a guided tour of the Wieliczka Salt Mine, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Explore fascinating chambers and tunnels made of salt, learn about the history of salt mining, and see authentic mining machines.
Duration:
4 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Krakow - Pickup will be arranged from the specified address.
- Wieliczka Salt Mine - An English-speaking guide will lead a 2.5-hour tour along a nearly 3-kilometer route. Participants will explore the salt corridors and visit several salt chapels. The Salt Mine maintains a constant temperature of 14 degrees Celsius throughout the year. Located…
- Krakow - Pickup will be arranged from the specified address.
- Wieliczka Salt Mine - An English-speaking guide will lead a 2.5-hour tour along a nearly 3-kilometer route. Participants will explore the salt corridors and visit several salt chapels. The Salt Mine maintains a constant temperature of 14 degrees Celsius throughout the year. Located 140 meters underground, visitors will ascend to the top via a lift.
What's Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Professional guide
- Round-trip shared transfer
- Guaranteed to skip the long lines
- Transport by air-conditioned minivan
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Professional guide
- Round-trip shared transfer
- Guaranteed to skip the long lines
- Transport by air-conditioned minivan
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
Additional Information
Experience an incredible location - the first on the globe to be included in the UNESCO Heritage inventory. On this journey, you will delve 140 metres beneath the earth’s surface to investigate captivating salt-made chambers and passageways. Get informed about the origins of salt extraction and observe genuine mining machinery. Your guide, who is fluent…
Experience an incredible location - the first on the globe to be included in the UNESCO Heritage inventory. On this journey, you will delve 140 metres beneath the earth’s surface to investigate captivating salt-made chambers and passageways. Get informed about the origins of salt extraction and observe genuine mining machinery. Your guide, who is fluent in English, will lead you on a nearly three-kilometre-long tour that lasts 2.5 hours.
- You will be picked up from your selected location between 9:00am to 2:00pm depending on Salt Mine’s availability to start the tour.
- Each traveler is allowed a maximum size of any baggage allowed Wieliczka Salt Mine is 30x20x10 cm
- Temperatures underground ranges between 14 and 16 degrees Celsius so please bring warm clothing.
- There are 800 steps to climb so please wear comfortable shoes.
- Taking photographs for private purposes only
- Roundtrip transportation is available from most centrally located Krakow hotels. Please arrange pickup from your hotel or a nearby location when you call to confirm your reservation. You are required to wait at the reception 5 minutes before your scheduled pickup time.
- Students must bring valid Student ID to receive a youth discount and keep it for the whole tour
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
Location
Floriana Straszewskiego 14
Floriana Straszewskiego
Please contact us if you want to be picked up from your hotel. Otherwise, we will pick you up from your hotel or from Meeting point located on Straszewskiego 14 Street.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.3
(159 Ratings)
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209trinityl
Apr 8, 2026
Salt Mines - Oleh our driver was amazing! So helpful and kind , made it so easy to figure out what we needed to do. The entire day was fantastic, lots of walking but so worth it.
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M6322vajuliaa
Mar 19, 2026
Magical salt mine - We really enjoyed our trip to the salt mine. Our driver, Peter, picked us up directly from our hotel - communication was great and we soon arrived at our destination. We had plenty of time on the tour to explore the mine with our guide and she was also friendly and knowledgeable. I can highly recommend this experience - the salt sculptures are stunning and it was a fascinating place to visit.
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Niall
Feb 13, 2026
Trip to the salt mines travelling by taxi with 2 other small groups. MAX SZKATULA was our driver and he was excellent - We were driven by MAX SZKATULA and he was great fun and friendly. The mine was really interesting. It’s very deep. Must see!
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Shailyh2021
Jan 5, 2026
our Trip to the Salt Mines - Thank you, MAX SZKATULA, our driver to the salt mines. Max is polite, fluent in English and made sure to communicate with us on WhatsApp all the time.
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David
Nov 10, 2025
Excellent city so much to do 4 days was not enough will return - Fabulous but not enough time to do it justice need to come again salt mine experience was very interesting and educational also as an older person very tiresome
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Matt_t
May 31, 2025
Salt mine - I would highly recommend this tour. However, you will walk down approximately 800 stairs to begin the tour and the total walk is approximately 3km. Just Something to be aware of before you begin. The tour itself was fascinating and our tour guide was very knowledgeable and amusing. It was amazing to learn how the mine was dug over 800 years and how that “treasure” influenced the history of the country. There were beautiful chapels carved throughout the mine, with sculptures and chandeliers carved/made from the salt. Overall, a very interesting and dare I say, educational tour.
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Lisahensh
Jan 1, 2026
Waste of money book yourself and get a taxi - Driver was nice on way there but don’t really need to waste money for what is basically a taxi I could have bought tickets my self and get a bolt taxi all he does is drop you off and tell you to queue up so was a waste of off over a hundred pounds . Not so much as a Thankyou and goodbye when dropped off
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Joanne_w
Jun 17, 2025
Lot of walking and stair go on forever - Pick up was late but guide was very polite would not recommend this to someone who can't walk far .it was OK but wouldn't go again, not much to see
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V8385zzdavida
Feb 20, 2026
GR8way tour review only - Awful experience and dreadful customer skills , with poor communication.
Booked salt mine tour (which was great) however that was probably because GR8way had not input with the actual tour.
Was not explained to us how long or indeed what time the driver was going to wait until, was not explained to us that there are in fact two separate exits from the mine which are 200 yards away from each other , was told driver contacted us and waited for 20 minutes.
I’m not sure if any part of GR8way have taken part in the salt mine tour, if they had they might realise that phone signal isn’t the best 135 metres below the ground. Regardless of this we were at the meeting point 8 minutes after we were informed that the driver would call us, which he never did, and when I called the driver he never answered .
GR8 ways response was just “get your own transport” which we did.
We paid 700 zloty, take my advice
BOOK SALT MINE TICKETS VIA SALT MINE WEBSITE.
GET UBER THERE AND BACK.
From the old town this will cost you approximately 350 zloty , and this is for 2 people .
DO NOT USE GR8way which is the travel tour shop near ST MARYS BASILICA
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Jksussex
Jun 12, 2025
They changed our pick up... - They changed our pick up time from 12.40 until 15.40 which ruined it for us as we did not get back to Hotel until 19.20 ! We are70
Yrs old which is why we booked morning trip . Were advised of time change at 17.00 night before!! Not impressed
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