Malbork Castle regular tour
Description
Malbork Castle is the largest castle in the world built with 12-15 million bricks it is even bigger than Windsor Castle. Malbork Castle is listed on UNESCO World Heritage Site and is visited by over 500,000 tourists each year. It is home to a museum with 40 thousand items including one of Europe’s largest collection of medieval architectural elements, a collection of artistic amber wares – unique all over the world, an impressive set of old weapons and military equipment, or the extensive coin collection, relating to the historic mints in Malbork. Your tour will begin when you are picked up from your hotel by an English speaking driver in a comfortable AC minibus, that will take to Malbork. Accompanied by a guide you will be able to enjoy sightseeing of Malbork Castle. While you explore your guide will tell you all the interesting facts and stories of the castle. After your visit you will be taken back to your hotel.
Tour Options
Itinerary
We provide pickups from all locations within Gdansk city limits. The exact pickup time will be confirmed on the day before the tour, and it may vary from 7:30 to 9:00.
The journey from Gdansk to Malbork takes around 50 minutes.
See the largest castle in the world! You'll be picked you up from your hotel and taken on a guided visiting of Malbork Castle. You will be accompanied by an English speaking driver and English speaking guide.
The journey from Malbork to Gdansk takes around 50 minutes.
Drop off at Gdansk city center or the customer's accommodation located within Gdansk city limits
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Our English-speaking driver will pick you up from any location in Gdansk. Pick-up in Sopot is available at additional cost. If your accommodation is not on a list, please provide us with the address in additional information and we will check if this is approachable for a pickup. There is also an option to be picked up from a meeting point at Shakespeare Theater.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(29)
Worth a visit if you’re in Malbork, Poland to learn about the history of the castle. I done some historical research prior to going and note that not all things I learnt were mentioned in the audio-guide tour! There are lots of steps and cobbled pathways so be warned if you are not fully physically able. On the day of our visit if was not too over-crowded but what spoilt our visit somewhat is the amount of group tours which caused several backlogs as you are waiting for groups to walk through sometimes small doorways or narrow stairs rather than couples or small family groups. Still worth a visit but you just have to be patient. The audio-guide was good and is GPS / WiFi activated so follows your route / speed of walking. However, after a while we found we just wanted to turn it off and just walk at our own pace than be guided by the audio-guide. Having said that we would not have known the relevance of rooms without the audio-guide explaining what we were looking at.
Imposing and certainly characteristic structure. Since it is the largest brick castle, I recommend visiting it with an audio guide in order to understand what the various rooms were used for and, above all, how it was rebuilt after the war.
Beautiful castle with very interesting history. Magda our tour guide was exceptionally good and made the tour very enjoyable
Alicia gave us an amazing guided tour of the castle… Lots of good stories and interesting information, and particular how life was on a daily basis in the castle. Highly recommend.
Beautiful castle of teutonic knights. We enjoyed the self tour. It's the world's largest brick castle and the largest Gothic fortress by land. It does missing some historical collections. Caries the largest amber collection.
I got a text from the tour operator asking me if I could move up the tour a day earlier because I was the only participant and the tour needed at least two. Anyhow, it turned out even a day earlier was still only two people so it was kind of a semi-private tour which was fine by me. The driver Chris was a soon to be retired historian so we had a few chats related to the castle and also the history Gdansk. Our tour guide as a lady name Alicia, she has been a tour guide there for a very long time and witnessed the rebuilding of the castle. We spent about 3 hrs touring the castle. Overall, it was a very enjoyable experience. If you have an extra day in Gdansk, visiting Melbrok Castle is an good option.
The experience was great. The guide was. Very knowledgeable. The only thing that I kinda bummed out about was that we had to meet a timeline and I didn’t have more time at the end to check out the Amber exposition they have there. Overall, I do recommend for transportation facilitation and get the history of castle, which is amazing.
Dear Traveller, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience with us. We’re very glad to hear that you found the tour well organised and appreciated the professionalism of our driver and guides. We understand your point about the pace however, all tours that we provide are the standard ones supplied by the Museum. We do not have any influence on the length. The Museum is visited by many visitors daily, and everyone can spend only a limited time there. Thank you for choosing us and we hop to see you again very soon! All the best, Gabriela from MrShuttle
Over priced for what you get. Felt rushed. 3 hours long so be prepared for lots of walking. Lovely castle though and biggest in the world so worth checking out of castles are your thing.
Everything went smoothly and the experience was well worth it. Driver pickup and tour guide had excellent information to share. We were picked up in Sopot at 730AM and back at 130PM. 3 hours with the guide in the Castle. You could spend much more time but with the guide you see the important stuff. By starting early you miss some of the crowd and it was great to explore and take pictures with our guide.
When I booked this tour, it was said to be 5-6hours duration. We were collected by shuttle, then 50mins drive to the castle. I was excited for the tour - but it was only for 3 hours!! Very disappointed in this. While in Malbork, this was my chance to get the full knowledge & experience of the castle while here... but it fell short! May I suggest your guides speak into a device that projects to our handheld devices? (Like Neuschwansteincastle have - so much better!) - so that we can hear you in the cavernous rooms with other louder voices. We all had to stand closer & closer to the guide to hear above some booming voices, then no chance for photos. There was a delay then, so we could take photos. Some areas were not told us as we walked past, that I had to ask about. I wished for the remaining 2 hours of the tour, or at least a refund for the unused portion..
