A few weeks ago we noticed some cheap flights advertised to the beautiful city of Kraków from an easily accessible airport so without hesitation we snapped them up for a pre Christmas weekend away.
The flight with Ryanair left on time and two and a quarter hours later we were touching down in Kraków, the jewel of Poland. It was my fourth visit there and the second at Christmas. Since our last visit two years ago, a shiny new terminal has opened complete with an integral railway station for easy access into the city centre. For those of you who may have visited Kraków before these improvements it was neccessary to take a 15 minute outdoor walk from the old terminal building to the train stop, it couldn’t be described as a station because it resembled a bus shelter.
Taking the train we sped into the city centre in just over 15 minutes, tickets can be purchased on board and cost 8 Zloty (£1.12) each. We walked along to our hotel, The Best Western Old Town Kraków a fifteen minute stroll overlooking the castle walls. Our room we were told was in the Jazz wing but the only nod to Jazz appeared to be along the corridors which are adorned with large framed prints of jazz musicians. Our room, in a new wing, was both modern and comfortable. We unpacked, freshened up and were soon ready to eat.
Surrounding the old town lies ‘The Planty’ an attractive park which we walked through to ‘Pod Wawelem” a favourite pub where we had dined previously. It was busy but we managed to find a table and enjoyed a hearty meal accompanied by large glasses of the local Tyskie beer. Then it was off to the charming old square where we wandered around the Christmas Market and soaked up the atmosphere before returning to our hotel for the night.
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Enjoyed reading this post about Krakow. My husband was born there and I’ve visited twice. Must admit it helped having someone with the lingo. I was interested to read about your experiences and got me thinking to visit again soon. Thankyou.
Great resource!
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Lovely to hear from you and to find that you found my posts on Krakow interesting. I hope you get an opportunity to return again soon.
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This article brought many lovely memories of when I traveled to Poland. I enjoyed it. thank you ❤
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Thank you for your kind words and for reading my post
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No matter what its real name is ‘Pod Wawelem’ is always called by my US friends ‘The Golonka Place’ which is famous because of its huge Golonka = pig knuckle! 🙂
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I had that, too – delicious!
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Such a lovely town.
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I lived in Warsaw for 4 and a half years and just loved Krakow! Warsaw has more a raw beauty with much of it destroyed in WW2 then rebuilt within socialist remits, this however helps the old stunning architecture to not get lost in the midst of the beauty. Krakow sometimes is too beautiful to every find yourself stopping and going wow – that’s an amazing building. Love Poland, miss Poland.
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I’d like to explore more places outside Kraków, too, I’m sure I’ll enjoy the country. Thanks for reading my post and commenting.
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Anything Poland instantly draws my eye.
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it looks lovely! I’ve been thinking about Krakow for this year!
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Do go, I’m sure you will enjoy it there!
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What a great place to visit. Thanks for sharing. I really would like to visit but unlike your two and a bit hour flight, mine from Australia would be ‘slightly’ longer.
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I do hope you get the opportunity to visit Kraków sometime in the future but you also have interesting places to visit from Australia with Asia not too far away. I’ve visited Australia several times and enjoyed it so much!
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I hope I do too. And so glad you liked Australia.
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how beautiful ! looks like an amazing city to visit. I am actually looking into doing an exchange program there.
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I’m certain you would enjoy it and it’s a very inexpensive country too.
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That would be amazing considering the other places I have looked into. Thank you for sharing, I will keep up to date on your experiences in Poland!
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It looks like a wonderful destination !
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Yes it’s really nice. Would love to visit Iceland too, will read about it on your blog.
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If I can be of any help, don’t hesitate !
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Thank you
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I love Krakow, I went in March once and it was beautiful 🙂 I’d love to go for Christmas. Great pics too 🙂 x
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Thank you, yes it’s beautiful at Christmas
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Lovely! Kraków is on my list, have to be on the lookout for cheap flights 🙂
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Yes do, it’s really lovely and although cheap
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Sorry, didn’t finish my message. It’s really a delightful place and no hen or stag parties to spoil our enjoyment.
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Sounds like the perfect pre Christmas getaway – we’ve eyed up Krakow and thought about availing of the cheap flights, never quite got around to it (yet)!
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Great Post
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