Krakow: Auschwitz-Birkenau Guided Tour with Transportation December Guided Tour with Transport from a Meeting Point
ID: GYG17134-927226
Category:
Country: Poland
Duration:
07:00 hours
Description
Take a day trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum with entry tickets and transport from Krakow. Learn about the history from an informative guide, the exhibits, and the documents.
Reflect on the past on a day trip from Krakow to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum. It is one of the most important and tragic places in the world, where you can see proof of the horrors one human being can do to another.
With an English-speaking driver, get picked up from a chosen location and enjoy a comfortable bus to the city of Oświęcim, where the Auschwitz 1 death camp was located.
A greeter will meet you on arrival to introduce you to the place and pass you to the official museum guide. Your tour begins at the legendary gate, Arbeit Mach Frei. The place where murderous and destructive work was performed by prisoners.
The tour route leads through all the most important barracks, which are dedicated to specific topics, such as daily life, work, selection, and extermination. There is an original exhibition in each of the barracks.
Original and stolen belongings of prisoners, such as suitcases, glasses, and children's toys, when combined with your guide's story, invoke a picture of the tragic circumstances and events we must never forget.
Finish your tour at the most dramatic place on the Auschwitz 1 route, the gas chamber, and the cremator where the corpses of prisoners were burnt. After visiting the first part of the camp (Auschwitz 1) there will be a short break.
Board the bus to the second part of the camp called Auschwitz II (Birkenau). The ride takes 10 minutes, and you will join the same guide you already know on site. Visiting the second part of the camp will take about 1 hour.
Auschwitz II Birkenau is an open space that shows the scale of the crimes that happened there. Reflect as you think of the thousands of people murdered here. See the place where the selection was made, the so-called ramp. It was here that the decision about life or death was made.
Highlights
- Visit the infamous concentration camp of Auschwitz
- Learn about the camp's tragic history with an official museum guide
- Step inside memorials and exhibits to help understand the tragedy of past events
- Visit the museum's buildings and the vast open-air concentration camp Birkenau
- See the personal belongings of the camp prisoners
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
• Please be advised that due to the availability of the guides at the Auschwitz memorial, the time of the tour may change. In that case, the activity provider will contact you the day before the tour to confirm the change. The time change does not qualify for a refund.
• As per the requirements of Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, all participants are required to provide their full name and contact details as part of the booking
• Entrance may be refused if the name provided on the booking is not identical to the name on the ID provided when entering
Board your bus at the "Kiss and Ride" bus stop on Pawia 18b, next to Hotel Mercure.
Hotel pick-up and drop-off
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
Cancellation is not possible. If you cancel it anyway or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity and the money you paid will not be refunded.
