Sightseeing Tours

Special tours have been arranged exclusively for the Delegates and Accompanying persons. Tours will leave from the Park Inn Hotel Krakow. Booking in advance is recommended, on-site availability cannot be guaranteed.

The deadline for application is September 1, 2012. Meeting Secretariat reserves the right to cancel the tour for which a minimum number of participants have not registered. In this case another tour will be offered or a refund will be paid after the meeting.

How to Register for the Tours

To book the tour, please contact the meeting secretariat at e-mail address: esvomeeting2012@guarant.cz

Please do not forget to mention:

1) Your name
2) Tour number
3) Date and time
4) Number of tickets required

List of Tours

01/ AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MUSEUM

Date: Thursday September 27, 2012
Time: 9:00 - 19:00
Price: 40 EUR/person
Price includes: transport service, licensed guide in Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, assistant on the way, headphones set and documentary film
Minimal number of participants: 10 pax

Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest concentration and extermination camp built by the Nazis during World War II, became the world known symbol of the Holocaust and Nazi crime. In Auschwitz we see the exhibition about the extermination, the evidence of crime, the gas chamber and the crematorium. In Birkenau we see the Gate of Death, unloading ramp, the wooden barracks. Duration: approx. 7 h.

02 / OLD TOWN (PARTLY WALKING TOUR)

Date: Friday September 28, 2012
Time: 14:00 - 17:30
Price: 25 EUR/person
Price includes: transport from the hotel, licensed guide's service, entrance fees to St. Mary's Chruch & Royal Cathedral
Minimal number of participants: 10 pax

During this tour we discover Krakow – the royal city and the cultural capital of Poland. Highlights of the Old Town: Main Market Square (the largest medieval square in Europe), splendid St. Mary's Basilica, the Cloth Hall and the Wawel Hill with its magnificent Royal Castle and the Cathedral. Duration: appox 3,5 h.

03 / COMMUNISM TOUR OF NOWA HUTA DISTRICT

Date: Saturday September 29, 2012
Time: 13:00 - 17:00
Price: 41 EUR/person
Price includes: Transport in the oldschool fleet of communist cars, licensed guide's service, walk around Nowa Huta, Trabant driving lesson, old photos presentation, visit into the authentic communist apartment (with shot of vodka and pickle)
Minimal number of participants: 2 pax

The Berlin Wall may have fallen, the Iron Curtain cracked, but many of Communism's most famous legacies are alive and well in Krakow. Visit the district of Nowa Huta, "Stalin's gift to Krakow", and discover a centrally-planned Socialist city, complete with steel works and tenement houses built in the Renaissance style of the Soviets. This unique district was meant to be a model communist city, but later came to be one of the centers of revolution and resistance within Poland, leading to the eventual overthrow of the Communist government. During our in-depth guided tour, you will travel back in time in a genuine Trabant, to experience the wonders of this one-of-a-kind city. Not only will discover how the average Pole lived, worked and played under Communism, but stories and anecdotes from your guide will bring the "good ol' days" back to life! Duration: approx. 4 h.

 

04 / AROUND JEWISH QUARTER

Date: Sunday September 30, 2012
Time: 9:00 - 12:30
Price: 25 EUR/person
Price includes: transport from the hotel, licensed guide's service, entrance fee to Remuh Synagogue and Galicja Jewish Museum
Minimal number of participants: 10 pax

Kazimierz, the former Jewish town in Krakow, became world famous thanks to The Schindler's List film made here by Steven Spielberg. Following the Schindler's Route, we retrace the history of Krakow's Jews and see the remains of their splendid culture that was flourishing here in the past. Duration: appox 3,5 h.

Cancellation, Changes and Refunds

Cancellations received before and on September 6 - no cancellation fee
Cancellations received after September 6 - 100% cancellation fee