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Wieliczka Salt Mine: Descend 140m Underground on this Guided Tour
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151 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
- Wieliczka Salt Mine - Your English speaking guide will take you for a 2,5 h tourist route almost 3 kilometers long. You will travel through the salt corridors and visit numerous salt chapels. Salt Mine remains temperature of 14 Celsius degrees all year long. It’s 140 meters underground, to the top you go by a lift.
- Wieliczka Salt Mine - Your English speaking guide will take you for a 2,5 h tourist route almost 3 kilometers long. You will travel through the salt corridors and visit numerous salt chapels. Salt Mine remains temperature of 14 Celsius degrees all year long. It’s 140 meters underground, to the top you go by 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
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(151 Ratings)
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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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Bluey121
Feb 7, 2025
Worth a visit! - Was amazing tour and Alexsandra was very informative, just don’t lick the walls too much!
Artyom the bus driver was very good and text when he was on his way.
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Kenneth_m
Dec 30, 2024
Good time - The trip was good from start to finish, well presented and informative, I would recommend this to anyone visiting Krakow
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Sandra_c
Dec 9, 2024
Excellent trip - Amazing place. Many steps to navigate but worth it.
A lift to take you back to the surface.
Amazing things to see well worth the trip
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B3348xrlaurah
Dec 6, 2024
Brilliant tour and the driver was great - The tour was fantastic and Peter our driver was great, very informative, got us there on time and no problems with the transport.
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Adventure24909584941
Dec 6, 2024
Salt mine visit and pick up - Peter was our driver. He was excellent and very knowledgeable. We had a Mercedes minibus which was new and luxurious. Peter helped us book in and we was there when we came out. He was very chatty and dropped us off near to our accommodation
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Simon
Jan 25, 2025
Poor tour guide - Was left very disappointed with the pick up guide. Left us stranded. Told us to me him at 3pm and had already left. Told us we would come out a certain exit and we cane out a totally different one. Now he's trying to harass me over text.
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Georgina
Dec 6, 2024
Poor service - Firstly, we got told we could pay by card, but that wasn't true at all. Then the transport was an hour late. We had to chase the transport up multiple times when they should of contacted me. No apology was given and the tour wasn't what we expected.
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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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Paavo_i
Apr 4, 2025
Hi... - Hi
Referring to my reservations 1226691003/1611131627 Auschwitz & Birkenau and 1229547955/1613955955 Wieliczka Salt Mine I wish to give the following feedback:
We visited Krakova on 23.03.2025 - 27.03.2025. We arrived late in the evening on 23.03.2025 and left early in the morning on 27.03.2025 so we (3 seniors) had three days time to explore the city and environment.
I had reserved the trips mentioned above on 16.02.2025 and 24.02.2025 which you had confirmed. However, I received a notice on the evening of 24.03.2025 that you will not be able to carry out the trip to Auschwitz on 25.03.2025. You offered a new opportunity to go on 26.03.2025, but we already had a reservation to go to Wieliczka on that day. We tried to change the trips with the kind staff at the hotel, so that we would go to Wieliczka on 25.03 and to Auschwitz on 26.03. For a moment it seemed that the change would be able to happen and I got a confirmation to my email about the change. After all, both trips failed to happen as nobody came to pick us up from the hotel at the time agreed.
As a result our trip in Krakova was completely ruined. The trips to these destinations would have been once in a lifetime experiences. The fact that you refunded the payments doesn’t make us feel much better about the situation. We will not be visiting Krakova another time and because of that will never get these experiences again. I expect some kind of compensation from you for the ruined trip to Krakova.
Best Regards
Paavo Iljana
paavo(at)pailtec.fi
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