Day Trip Auschwitz-Birkenau and Wieliczka Salt Mine from Krakow
Description
100% guaranteed entry tickets booked in advance! We do not cancel the tours, and secure tickets and guides in advance. Not enough time to visit all of Krakow’s must-see places? On this tour, you'll visit two of Poland's most important UNESCO World Heritage sites, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Wieliczka Salt Mine, in one day. Your day will start early, but this way you will manage to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi concentration camp, explore the Mine, and be back in Krakow by dinner time.
Tour Options
Itinerary
The pickups are provided between 5:300 and 7:30, depending on the entry time, your accommodation, and our schedules. The pickup time is always confirmed by text and email the day before the tour. The tour is operated in a group of a maximum of 30 people. During the trip, you will watch a documentary movie about the history of the Nazi concentration camps.
Guaranteed entrance tickets! We do not cancel the tours. Firstly, You will be taken to Auschwitz I, where you will join an English tour – provided by the museum’s guide – for about 2 hours. After that, we will transfer you to Auschwitz II-Birkenau, about 2 km away. You will spend there about one hour with the same guide. After Camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau, you will have time to eat our freshly prepared lunchboxes (which include chicken pasta salad, sandwich, sweet bar, fruit, and water). We also provide vegetarian, vegan, gluten, and dairy-free options. Please add a remark in your booking if you have any special requirements. Please note that the tickets are titular. Make sure the information in the booking is correct. Change of this data is possible for an additional fee paid to the supplier.
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: 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 meters underground for a 2.5-hours journey through over 2.5-km tourist route full of chambers with amazing salt carvings and statues.
After the tour, you will be dropped off at your accommodation or in the Krakow city center. If your hotel is located within the Old Town or Jewish Quarter, we will drop you off at the closest meeting point.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
The pickups are provided between 5:30 and 7:30, depending on your accommodation and our schedules. The pickup time is always confirmed by text and email the day before the tour. If your hotel is not listed, please add a remark, and we will pick you up from any accommodation (also Airbnb) located within Krakow City limits. You can also choose one of our pickup points. Failing to provide the pickup location 24 hours prior to the service will result in assigning the meeting point, which might not be close to the customer's accommodation. Please note that if your hotel is located in the city center or Jewish Quarter, the pickup will be directly from the accommodation, but after the tour, you might be dropped off at the closest dropoff point. If your accommodation is located outside Krakow city limits, it is possible to be picked up at an additional charge. For example pickup from Krakow airport is 33€. The price always depends on the distance from Krakow and a number of people.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- The entry tickets are booked in advance. The entry to Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum is guaranteed. We do not cancel the bookings!
- Please note that the maximum size of bags and backpacks allowed to carry on the Museum grounds is 30 x 20 x 10 cm. You can always leave your belongings inside the bus which will be parked nearby.
- Please note that this tour is not available on: 25th of December, 1st of January, Easter Sunday and March of the Living Day.
- Please note that to reach the first level of the mine (64 meters underground), You have to descent a wooden stairway which has 378 stairs. There are around 800 steps on the whole route in the Salt mine. After the tour, You will be taken up to the surface with a lift.
- Temperature in the Salt Mine is approximately 14 degrees C (57 degrees F), please wear warm clothes and comfortable shoes.
- Student and child tickets available.
- Please note that admission tickets to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum are personalized. Each participant is required to provide their full name as it appears on their official ID during the booking process. Any errors in names or failure to provide this information at least 24 hours before the tour may result in denied entry to the museum.
- If you are travelling with other passengers but have made separate bookings, please inform us in your booking and provide the full name of the lead passenger so we can try to assign you to the same group. Please note that we cannot guarantee that passengers with separate bookings will travel together.
- The Museum is not recommended for visitors under the age of 14. The final decision depends on parents or legal guardians.
- Not recommended for travelers on wheelchairs
- Not recommended for travelers who cannot walk long distances
Reviews(4,417)
I don’t normally write reviews but I thought this company deserved one from start to finish everything was excellent. We were kept informed of our pickup time which was from our hotel and was bang on time. The driver tomasz was great and kept us informed all the way and everything ran well and on time. The tours themselves were good and informative and the guide at auschwitz was great and put all the information across to us very well. Salt mines were also good to look around Overall I would recommend using this company for the tours to anyone that would be looking to book this experience
A fantastic day, early start but that is needed to fit everything in. Driver and guide were really informative and polite.
It was an amazing and educational tour. The driver was very friendly and extremely helpful. In case you are travelling with kids be prepared to walk a lot!
This trip was amazing! I learned so much about each aspect of the tour and really appreciated the assistance and expertise of our driver and guides.
Tour guides and drivers are amazing, helpful, knowledgeable, and professional. We were able to skip the lines to go into the attractions
Run all 5 stars. Messages, emails and even through the app, received confirmations from the location and pick-up time. Punctuality. Comfortable vehicle. The person was very friendly and helpful. The food was very tasty. The visits with the guides very well explained and the guides were always available for clarifications. We love it.
A must-do while in Krakow. You will learn things about the concentration camps you didn’t know during the tour and also through the 20-minute documentary shown on route, the Liberation of Auschwitz. A completely eye-opening experience. While Auschwitz was more personal with more visual artefacts and appeal, the scale of Birkenau – the enormity of the atrocities committed there – was unfathomable. And through control of the populace through fear, human beings did this to other humans, or stood by and let it happen. It's a reminder that we cannot let similar forces, operating all around the world today, to succeed. After booking, I had many questions about the order of sites (I definitely wanted to visit the camps first and the salt mine second), the timing, the lunch, and particularly whether a gluten-free option could be provided. Mr. Shuttle staff, Gosia, Aleksandra, and especially Zuzanna, were friendly, positive, and took initiative in all their responses. Great pre-excursion customer service. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5 was that our guide in the camps, Teresa, while phenomenally knowledgeable, authentic, and deeply empathetic, had a lot of Information to impart so spoke very quickly, and with her accent, was at times hard to understand, especially through the earpieces provided for all group tours. I was not the only participant to have this experience. I managed to hear and assimilate about 2/3 of what she said, which was a shame, because her knowledge was encyclopedic and I know I missed details that I would like to have heard. The salt mine was simply incredible and our guide, Samantha, was easy to hear and easy to understand. She used humour where appropriate and was very organized with respect to logistics. While I am glad I took the mine tour, it was in a league far below the concentration camps in terms of impact. Our driver – born and raised in Krakow, but went by Mike for the sake of his English speaking guests, was excellent. He communicated all the arrangements – from bathroom and snack breaks to exact time at sites and exact meeting spots – very clearly. Ample breaks were provided, which was welcome as the day was long (but only 14,000 steps) with a fair bit of waiting to enter the sites by group. For example, 10,000 visitors tour the salt mine daily! He also was aware of my tendency to get carsick and installed me in the front seat, checked in with me throughout the drive, and also provided me lots of interesting tourist info on the side. However, I was less thrilled about the drop-off, which was to be at the pick-up point in front of my hotel. Mike instead dropped me 2-3 “blocks” from the hotel with unclear directions how to get there navigating through paths in Planty Park on the basis that my hotel – Amber Design Residence – was in a restricted zone in the old town, which was not the case. Also much appreciated was the gluten-free meal Mr. Shuttle was able to provide for my husband who has coeliac disease. A highly recommended tour.
Great experience. Must see for historical purposes. Unfortunately, the museum is terrible! Yad Vashem (Israel), Washington DC Holocaust Museum and others tell a much better telling story for the record.
We were very lucky to have Luca as our guide around Auschwitz, he was very knowledgeable and made the day very thought provoking
The tour was seamlessly run and we felt in great hands the whole time. Our van picked us up at 5:40am and transferred us to a larger bus and we arrived at Aushwitz at 7:20a for a 7:40a tour ticket time. The bus held about 20 passengers and was tight. My husband and I are average American size and were fine, but caution if very tall or on the bigger side. Tour for Aushwitz was about 2 hours, then about a 15 min break and drive to Birkenau which was 45 min. Afterwards we had a 40 min break where you could purchase food or some people had it included in price (we did not). Then a 1.5 hour drive to the Salt mines where I think everyone napped! You get to drive most of the time through suburbs which is cool to see. We arrived at the Salt Mines at 1:10p, but tour time wasn’t until 2p. They also have lots of food, ice cream and places to sit, albeit very hot. Salt mine tour was excellent and cool to see. The main tour took about 2 hours, but then there was an optional museum tour which was 45 more min. Everyone but 2 people in our tour decided against it, but we had to wait for them on the bus which was not ideal. Got back to Krakow at about 5:30p and had to walk about 15 min back to our hotel. Overall it felt so good to be in the care of the Mr. Shuttle driver. He knew where to go, what to do, where the bathrooms were.
