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Auschwitz Tour: Holocaust Remembrance Journey
4.3
334 Ratings
Oświęcim
Embark on a self-guided tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau from Krakow and explore the memorial and museum at your own pace. Reflect on history, discover hidden gems, and gain deeper insights.
Embark on a self-guided tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau from Krakow and explore the memorial and museum at your own pace. Reflect on history, discover hidden gems, and gain deeper insights.
Duration:
7 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Krakow - Start your tour with a pickup from Pawia 18b, bus stop Kiss and Ride (K+R). Then relax in 1.5-hour minivan drive to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau - After 1.5 hour of drive you will get to Birkenau near the town of Auschwitz. Upon arrival have a short break. Before you start your tour collect informational…
- Krakow - Start your tour with a pickup from Pawia 18b, bus stop Kiss and Ride (K+R). Then relax in 1.5-hour minivan drive to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau - After 1.5 hour of drive you will get to Birkenau near the town of Auschwitz. Upon arrival have a short break. Before you start your tour collect informational booklets in your own language and receive from the driver all important information regarding what you must see. Explore the biggest Nazi extermination camp on your own. Spend at least one and a half hour seeing the remnants of living barracks for prisoners and the notorious gas chambers. From the Birkenau Memorial make your way to the Auschwitz Museum.
- Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau - Before you enter to Auschwitz I, receive guidelines from the driver and spend up to 2 hours in the Museum visiting numerous permanent exhibitions intended to provide an account of the horror of the camp.
- Krakow - Finish your tour and go back to Kraków to the starting point, seeing various landmarks on the way. Travel back to central Krakow and finish with a drop-off in town.
What's Included
- Professional, certified guide
- Return transportation on the same bus you arrived on (if relevant option is selected)
- Expert support in the event of any problem
- Entry ticket to Auschwitz I and Birkenau
- Transport by air-conditioned vehicle from Cracow city centre (if relevant option is selected)
- Professional, certified guide
- Return transportation on the same bus you arrived on (if relevant option is selected)
- Expert support in the event of any problem
- Entry ticket to Auschwitz I and Birkenau
- Transport by air-conditioned vehicle from Cracow city centre (if relevant option is selected)
What's Not Included
- Gratuities (optional)
- Gratuities (optional)
Additional Information
With way over two millions unique visitors each year, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is one of the most frequently visited museums in Europe.
-Experience the solemn atmosphere as you visit memorials dedicated to the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust.
-Explore the barracks, watchtowers, and remnants of gas chambers, delving deeply into…
With way over two millions unique visitors each year, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is one of the most frequently visited museums in Europe.
-Experience the solemn atmosphere as you visit memorials dedicated to the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust.
-Explore the barracks, watchtowers, and remnants of gas chambers, delving deeply into the grim reality of the Nazi regime’s atrocities.
-Listen to compelling accounts of survival and resilience from survivors or their descendants, providing a personal touch to the historical narrative.
-Take a moment for introspection at the site, pondering the lessons of the past and reaffirming the importance of remembrance and tolerance.
- Have a moment of reflection and hear the stories told by qualified guide of those who died during the Holocaust.
- VISIT️️: During the tour, we kindly ask for solemnity and respect due to the tragic nature of this place. Smoking, eating, and loud behavior are prohibited in the Museum.Not recommended for children aged 14 and under
- PICKUP : Some hotels in Krakow are located in a restricted traffic zone. In such cases, your pickup will be arranged from the nearest available location. You will be informed about this one day before the tour.
- BREAKS ⌛️: Breaks during the tour are no longer than 10 minutes. We encourage you to wear comfortable footwear as there will be a lot of walking during the tour .
- DEPARTURE TIME ️: The start time of the tour may change due to the limited number of guides available at the Auschwitz Museum. Please contact the supplier to confirm your exact departure time the day before the tour. If you not specify your hotel adress we will be waiting for you on our pick-up place: Pawia 18b, kiss and ride stop, next to Mercure hotel.
- DOCUMENTS : Please make sure to bring with you ID or passoprt. Because before the entrance seciurity will ask about it.
- LUNCH : We encourage you to bring food and drinks as we do not plan a lunch break during the excursion
- WEATHER CONDITIONS⛅: Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately. The tour mostly takes place outdoors, so we encourage you to bring an umbrella or a raincoat in case of bad weather.
- REFUND: You’ll receive a FULL REFUND, if for any reason, the guide or transportation is not provided.
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 30 travelers Operated by Discover Cracow
Location
Więźniów Oświęcimia 55
Więźniów Oświęcimia
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
(334 Ratings)
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Kathleen_v
Jun 12, 2024
Viator makes Auschwitz Birkenau tour so easy. - Transfer by bus was an excellent choice for us. Our driver was on time and we had a smooth trip to and from our destination. Our guide was absolutely fantastic. Her knowledge and delivery of it was outstanding. This is a tour that must be taken. Be prepared for a roller coaster of emotions. This history must never be forgotten.
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Aga_w
May 16, 2024
Best tour guide - Great organisation of the trip. Our guide Mirosław was outstanding, his knowledge was really impressive. The way he passed all the information was not just dry facts but you could really feel how emotionally invested he was in the history of Auschwitz. He was one of the best tour guides I have met during my travels.
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Nmaidwell123
May 14, 2024
Very educational yet so very sad - We were originally told we would be picked up at 6.30 and fortunately the night before we were told it would be 9.30am. Our personal transfer driver was really good and delivered us at the door and handed us over to a rep. The queues to get in were large and fortunately we were told by our driver that we would need photo identification to enter. The toilet queue was very long and we were slightly late for our tour start time due to this. Our tour guide was excellent and explained the history and suffering that occurred and many were reduced to tears. The exhibition is something I am grateful to have seen however it is also so very sad and a day I won’t forget.
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Paul_d
May 5, 2024
Discover Cracow company - recommend only as last resort - Discover Cracow tour was booked with 5.30am departure. This was changed to 4am the previous day. We queued out in the cold for 3 hours with no information other than as you asked. Eventually passengers returned themselves to bus to wait out of cold. We were only thankful that we did get into see Auschwitz as they obviously had no pre arranged tickets. We paid £450 for 8 of us.
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Jasmine_f
Jul 6, 2024
No show - They did not turn up. Luckily, I got my money back. They also did not contact me regarding whether the trip was cancelled and this was after several calls to their number
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Jamie_j
May 19, 2024
Unprofessional - Bus had no aircon and was booking for the entire journey there and back. Your guide kept walking off at his own pace not waiting for people to catch up before talking. The guy on the bus phoned 5 minutes before we needed to be there saying he would wait 5 minutes longer. Then slept the entire journey to auschwitz couldn’t be bothered to talk about what would happen so put on a pointless video with subtitles and no sound that you could not read absolutely useless guide poorly managed trip rushed round the trip because they wanted to get back home.
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Vagabond305
May 9, 2024
Discover Cracow Only cares about their money and not the customer experience. They are not even hiring the tour guilds. - Do not use this company. I am warning you now. They do not care about the customer experience and when you figure out what’s going on with them, they will tell you we’re just a third-party. We do not hire the Tour guides don’t even let me get started on the tour guides as they show no passion and do not care about the experience. They only cared that you paid for the tour. This is a horrible set up. They’re hiring tour guides with no experience that do not care about what the customer experiences And only cares about their money. I try to tell Viator the same thing, but they literally told me the same answer that they’re only a third-party and that that’s not their problem. I’m just letting you know to try to help you this is the worst company I’ve ever been on and they will literally change your whole appointment a day before the due date of your appointment. Do not use this company and use another company. I was looking forward to this tour for months, but due to their unprofessionalism, it ruined my whole experience on this trip and it really ruined my trip. This was supposed to be a special tour with a lot of history, but because of this company, my whole experience was ruined and now I would never Truly feel what I should’ve felt on this tour, which is supposed to be an emotional tour, but thanks to the tour guide. We were just running through everything and she really didn’t explain anything to us. I’m warning you before your trip gets ruined like mine did, Any other company but Do not use discover Cracow, They will tell you that they don’t care about the customer experience and that they’re only a third-party. Who even does the hiring for the tour guide…. It seems like they’re picking people that are not passionate about the subject right from the streets. This left a bad taste in my mouth for my whole Poland trip.
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Escape38196217388
May 7, 2024
Dodgy Company that's can wreck your whole experience - We left the whole day open to see Auschwitz, and they cancelled the tour on us. They are just a bus operator and a bad one at that.
After talking to a guide that is employed by the Auschwitz Camp and has live in the area his whole life, is how it works with all tour companies to Auschwitz. They don't buy the tickets until the bus is full, and leave it as late as possiable to buy them. This is because to stop ticket reselling they put a name to each ticket and check it with goverment ID. So only the person who they book for can use that ticket. This means sometimes they don't have tickets for anyone and just risk waiting at the gate, hence why there are some many reviews of leaving at 4am to be the first there when it opens. All the good reviews must of been when it was super busy.
So my story. I booked through headout but got put with their local guide discover krakow. Always book direct with a company not a middle man like headout, they made it seam like they were the company not the middle man. The morning of I get to the metring place at 6.15am for my 6.30am tour. It's gets to 6.45am and a full bus come and picks up about 12 German speaking tourist, she tells us the English one will be here soon. It gets to 7am and another guy calls, they tell us that our trip was moved to 4am but hangout didn't inform us. This guy apperanlty also got a call at 3.40am that morning telling him to be there at 4am.
The only reason we came to Poland was to go to Auschwitz, so we decide to get a train there to see if we can get in. We get there at about 10am wait for tickets was about 1hr, we get a tour for 12.30pm, tour took 3.5 hrs. Get back to train station for a train at about 5.30pm.
HOW TO AVOID
Booked tickets here visit.auschwitz.org
it's the place that's does the tours. 10,000 people come through everyday and they have 300 guides, that speak 20 languages. It's a well oiled machine.
Catch the train
Its an hour train trip from Krakow main station to Oświęcim (polish spelling of auschwitz), and a flat walk of about 20min to the museum where tour startes or there is a bus.
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Emily_t
May 6, 2024
Needs a lot of improvement. Official tour was good (not this company) - I should have listened to the poor reviews. The tour ‘company’ don’t buy the tickets in advance, so they just pick you up in a coach and take you to Auschwitz, where you join a queue for general public, in the hope of securing a ticket.
They always change the booking time the day before, by text message. Our original pickup time was 5:30am, but was changed to 4am! They pick you up early to try and get to the front of the queue. You’ll spend 2 hours waiting in the freezing cold and the person that takes you on the coach won’t give any explanation- quite a stressful experience. Once you’re in, it’s only the official tour guides from the museum that take you around the sites, luckily.
I would highly recommend going, but book directly on the website, as this is basically just bad transport. Get yourself a taxi there and buy the tickets directly
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Mark_t
May 6, 2024
Con - After we had paid for the trip we were informed that we would be picked up at 5.30 a.m on the Sunday morning. Whilst this was very early, especially considering we travelled at 3.00 a.m on the Friday morning, we agreed. The trip was free cancellation up to 24 hours before pick up so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that we weren't notified of the pick up time being changed until 8.45 on Saturday morning. They expected us to be collected at 4.00 a.m as they had failed to secure tickets for the agreed time. We were not willing to get up at 3.00 a.m again and so refused to accept the change of time. Had we been notified earlier we could obviously have cancelled f.o.c or of course they could have done their job properly and secured the correct tickets. When I replied to their message saying we would not accept the time change I requested our money be returned or that we should at least receive a credit for a later date. I have had no response to my message which just undelines for me how pre-meditated this has all been. There are plenty of sites offering this trip and I would suggest looking closely at them all but under no circumstances use this company.
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