Krakow/Auschwitz

[Zeberdee]

Im trying to organise my friends stag doo to krakow in sept including a day trip to the the camp.

Anyone recommend and hotels for a group of about 14 ppl and what company to use for the tour of auschwitz? Theres so many to choose from and i know absolutley nothing about the place.

cheers.

[Winston Ingram]

I can't recall the name of the hotel I stayed in but you can get a bus from the Barbican (a few minutes from the main square)to Aushwitcz . It's about an hour away and they show you a video about it on the bus as well. There is a guide when you get there and you only pay for the bus(about £12) as it doesn't cost anything. You also get a guide.

Pretty harrowing experience but I'm glad I went

[Loobrush]

A stag do at Auschwitz! It's different, I'll give you that.

[hibee_boy]

Im off to Krakow/auschwitz in april. heard from a polish guy at the weekend that krakow is stunning and beer is under £1!

auschwitz will be interesting if not harrowing

[Big Frank]

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A stag do at Auschwitz! It's different, I'll give you that.

[MJU1875]

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Im trying to organise my friends stag doo to krakow in sept including a day trip to the the camp.

Anyone recommend and hotels for a group of about 14 ppl and what company to use for the tour of auschwitz? Theres so many to choose from and i know absolutley nothing about the place.

cheers.

I stayed in Krakow for a couple of nights 3 years ago - cracking place.

If you want to do the Auschwitz trip you can go by local train - costs about £2-£3 and about an hour away. Entrance plus a guided tour of both Birkenau and Birkenau 2 Camps cost around £4 then - takes around 4 hours. Well worth the visit - you can feel the death around the place.

[Haymaker]

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Im off to Krakow/auschwitz in april. heard from a polish guy at the weekend that krakow is stunning and beer is under £1!

auschwitz will be interesting if not harrowing

when i was there it was near british prices for beer but it all depends on what part of the city you are in, go to the old jewish part of town thats where the cheap beer was for me.

[Zeberdee]

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A stag do at Auschwitz! It's different, I'll give you that.

Lol yeh i see your point. Well we decided on krakow as its meant to be the new prague but a bit safer and less sleaze! ( the guys bird was not happy about him going to prague) so whilst we're there we thought it a good idea to go during one of the days to the camp.

Easy jet fly from edin and ryan air are a little cheaper flying from prestwick.

[Inverness-Hibee]

Try the Cracovia hotel-its big and modern and only 5 mins from the Old Town.
The bars in central Krakow are now full of stag do's and unfortunatly they are also pricey for beer (by Polish standards). Go to Kazimierz (Jewish bit) there are good bars there-but avoind the dodgy gay club.

Ill be there at the end of the month and will be getting a tour of the good local bars from a local lassie,ill put up some recommendations when i get back.

[Zeberdee]

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Try the Cracovia hotel-its big and modern and only 5 mins from the Old Town.
The bars in central Krakow are now full of stag do's and unfortunatly they are also pricey for beer (by Polish standards). Go to Kazimierz (Jewish bit) there are good bars there-but avoind the dodgy gay club.

Ill be there at the end of the month and will be getting a tour of the good local bars from a local lassie,ill put up some recommendations when i get back.

cheers! thanks for ur help

[Borders Hibby]

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cheers! thanks for ur help

great city with great people, history is amazing. the co owner of the polish Deli on leith Walk is from Krakow, he likes to chat about his city. We should sign a couple of poles, imagine the increases in attendance!!

[Inverness-Hibee]

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great city with great people, history is amazing. the co owner of the polish Deli on leith Walk is from Krakow, he likes to chat about his city. We should sign a couple of poles, imagine the increases in attendance!!

We tried that-he was called Malkowski-it failed.

Krakow is twinned with Edinburgh.Enough said.

[Wing Half]

If you have time before you go I'd watch a film called Shoa by Claude Landesmann. It's a harrowing document but it puts the war-time history of that area into perspective.

[Sunny Leith]

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Im off to Krakow/auschwitz in april. heard from a polish guy at the weekend that krakow is stunning and beer is under £1!

auschwitz will be interesting if not harrowing

I was there last month, best 3 days ive had in yonks! So many good bars clubs etc and the food is extremely cheap. Id say the drink is more likely to be about 1.50 a beer but thats still good! The market square is quite incredible.

Also did the tour of Auschwitz, as someone said earlier, you can feel the death around the place.

[Zeberdee]

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I was there last month, best 3 days ive had in yonks! So many good bars clubs etc and the food is extremely cheap. Id say the drink is more likely to be about 1.50 a beer but thats still good! The market square is quite incredible.

Also did the tour of Auschwitz, as someone said earlier, you can feel the death around the place.

can you recommend anywhere to stay?

[GreenPJ]

Auschwitz/Birkenau is certainly worth a visit. Very thought provoking and a lesson to be learned by all the world. The salt mines are also very good.

In terms of Krakow last time I was there we hired appartments that were great and very cheap and 10 mins walk into the old square, sorry can't remember the name but certainly worth thinking about as opposed to a hotel. It gives you more freedom and they also picked us up from the airport.

Make sure you go to Roosters. Great views

[Sunny Leith]

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can you recommend anywhere to stay?

We stayed at Hotel Atrium, only 5 mins walk to market centre which was really good. 57 quid for 3 nights, 3 star hotel, staff very friendly. Id definately stay there again

[Full Time Supporter]

We're going over on Easter Monday for 4 days with friends who have already been and loved it. Got a good deal on Superbreaks.com 4 nts in Hotel Chopin with Breakfast for 95 pppn. Been advised to leave Auswich tour to the end of the trip as seemingly it is quite harrowing and leaves you feeling a bit down.

[grammyb111]

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Auschwitz/Birkenau is certainly worth a visit. Very thought provoking and a lesson to be learned by all the world. The salt mines are also very good.

In terms of Krakow last time I was there we hired appartments that were great and very cheap and 10 mins walk into the old square, sorry can't remember the name but certainly worth thinking about as opposed to a hotel. It gives you more freedom and they also picked us up from the airport.

Make sure you go to Roosters. Great views

For a stag do I wouldn't recommend it. It's a worthy cause and everything but go there and you'll be on a downer for ages. It's really so harrowing that even a bunch of guys on a stag do would not be able to keep their emotions in check. I went with my folks when I was proper young and I still ended up a state when I left. It's a bad thing to say, but I really think you should go somewhere more cheery

[Zeberdee]

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For a stag do I wouldn't recommend it. It's a worthy cause and everything but go there and you'll be on a downer for ages. It's really so harrowing that even a bunch of guys on a stag do would not be able to keep their emotions in check. I went with my folks when I was proper young and I still ended up a state when I left. It's a bad thing to say, but I really think you should go somewhere more cheery

After discussing it with the rest think you're probably right. Gonna give that trip a miss. Still considering krakow though so gonna see what sort of deal we can get for 14 of us.

[hibsdaft]

i went over to Krakow a few years ago with and we went to Auschwitz.

my feeling leaving the place was that it was interesting and made me think and made me very sad, but that it hadn't been essential to visit the place. put it this way if the simple fact that there was a mass murder of six million people (not just Jews, Gypsies, resistors to Hitler and Union activists etc too, often forgotten) can't make you think in itself, then you have a problem.

you don't need to go there to make you think about it. to be honest i came away wondering whether it was right to visit the place. i don't need to go to the home of Fred West to understand what that ******* did after all?

my advice then may be to put aside a few hours reading up on the rise of Hitler and the events of the Holocaust before you go and just enjoy Krakow when you're there knowing in yourself that you're not giving it a miss out of ignorance or a lack or respect but as a personal choice.