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From Krakow: Auschwitz-Birkenau Guided Tour & Pickup Options

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Activity provider:SuperCracow.com
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Activity provider:SuperCracow.com
4.6  / 517254 reviews

Visit Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps with a professional educator who will tell you about its history. Spend 3.5 hours learning about the millions of victims of the Holocaust.

About this activity

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Duration 7 - 7.5 hours
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Skip the ticket line
Live tour guide
Italian, German, Polish, English, French, Dutch, Spanish
Pickup optional
Please wait at your chosen meeting point where the guide will collect you.
Private group available

Experience

Itinerary

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    Starting/pickup location

    Depends on the selected option

  • Bus / coach

    (1.5 hours)

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    Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau

  • Auschwitz I

    Guided tour (2 hours)

  • Break time (10 minutes)

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    Auschwitz II-Birkenau

    Guided tour (1.5 hours)

  • Bus / coach

    (1.5 hours)

  • 7 drop-off locations:

    PC Projekt Kraków, Wielopole 2, Kraków, Wielopole 2, Przystanek Turystyczny, Starowiślna 65, Kiss&Ride

Main stop
Other stop

For reference only. Itineraries are subject to change.

Highlights

  • Visit the largest concentration camp of the Nazi Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau
  • Learn more about the dark history from a professional guide
  • Go to the original barracks and see where the prisoners were held
  • See the main gate to Auschwitz

Full description

Visit Auschwitz on a day trip from Krakow. Learn about the history of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps during a guided tour with a certified historian and guide. Auschwitz-Birkenau was founded in 1940 by Nazi Germany and was the largest concentration camp operated by the Nazis. It became the final resting place for millions of people, mostly Jews and Poles, who were murdered in gas chambers. Pass through the gate with the inscription "Arbeit macht frei" to enter Auschwitz I, where your guide will show you around the preserved area and explain the history of the site.  Then, visit the second camp at Birkenau, where mass killings took place as part of the Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish Question."

Includes

  • Round-trip transportation by air-conditioned bus
  • Pickup and drop-off from your hotel (if option selected)
  • Skip-the-line entry ticket to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum
  • Licensed guide
  • Toilets (fee is in local currency - pln)

Not suitable for

  • Wheelchair users

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Participants

Date

Meeting point

Please wait at the Kiss & Ride stop, address Wielopole 2, 31-072 Kraków, Poland

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Important information

What to bring

  • Passport or ID card
  • Comfortable shoes

Not allowed

  • Pets
  • Smoking
  • Luggage or large bags

Know before you go

  • The pickup time may change (possible start of the tour between 5:30 AM and 1:30 PM), so please consider this in your plans. You choose a preferred time which is not guaranteed. The exact start time will be communicated the day before the tour via email from the activity provider
  • As per the requirements of Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, all participants must provide their full name and contact details as part of the booking
  • You are not permitted to enter the museum with large bags or backpacks (the maximum size permitted is 20 x 30 centimeters)
  • It is recommended to bring lunch and drinks with you. You can also order a lunch box during the tour's booking process
  • The pace and duration of the tours are determined by the memorial's visitor service. Unfortunately, GetYourGuide and your guide have no influence on the duration of the break time
  • For reasons beyond the operator's control, the tour may be canceled. In this case, the customer will always receive a full refund

Customer reviews

Overall rating

4.6 /5

based on 17254 reviews

Review summary

  • Guide
    4.6/5
  • Transportation
    4.6/5
  • Service
    4.5/5
  • Organization
    4.5/5

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GetYourGuide traveler – SwedenOctober 5, 2021 – Verified booking
Bus could fit 24 people including driver and the tour "guide", but we was only 10 people in the bus (1.5h ride) to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Got 15min break, toilets (free) and restaurant with food, snacks, drinks and ice-cream at the entrance, no need to order food from the tour company. They say no bags bigger than a A4-paper, but I had my school backpack and they let us in with it, same with many other tourists that had it. No locking storage for bags there. They splitted us up by language of the tour with other groups of the tour company. The tour in Auschwitz is 1h 50min with a guide (not same person from the bus), I recommend not to walk alone as its not interested without a guide. Then 10min break before a 2min bus ride to Birkenau. 1h 30min tour with the same guide in Birkenau. And then 1.5h ride back to Krakow. We could survive with bank cards through the whole Krakow trip, no cash is needed. Mask is required inside.
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Renske – BelgiumSeptember 26, 2021 – Verified booking
Deze uitstap was goed georganiseerd. We werden aan de deur opgehaald en ook weer afgezet. Alles ging vlot om binnen te raken en de gids heeft zeer goed de wereld binnen Auschwitz voorgesteld. Het is zeker een aanrader om een eerste bezoek aan Auschwitz met gids te doen. Ik zou zeker nog een tweede keer komen, zonder gids, om bepaalde stukken van dichter te bekijken. We hadden lunch en ontbijtboxen besteld bij de organisatie. De ontbijtbox vond ik totaal niet nuttig. Je stapt direct op de bus, daar mag je niet eten (wat ik begreep) maar je hebt ook geen tijd om te eten voor je Auschwitz binnen gaat. Je moet dus zeker op voorhand al eten. Voor de lunch kreeg je 10 min, wat wel voldoende was maar het was niet zo lekker. Buiten het eten vond ik het dus wel een geslaagde activiteit. We hadden 1.5 u in beide delen van het kamp wat wel echt een minimum is. Van mij mocht het nog langer duren.
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Alfredo August 15, 2021 – Verified booking
The guides were all very informative and well prepared. They could get through the terrible message of the lager very effectively. I appreciated the organization and the pickups by shuttle bus, although our tour was as anticipated by 1 hour, it didn’t affect us much and actually left us more afternoon time.
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