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However, if you intend travelling around and do not speak Polish you will not find it easy to purchase tickets at the railway station. I found the booking office staff singularly unhelpful and when I did eventually manage to obtain a ticket for my journey to Auschwitz it turned out to be invalid for the train I had specified. And there are strict on-the-spot financial penalties for those found in possession of an invalid ticket - 75 zlotys (15GBP).

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Żegluga Krakowska offers a round trip Wawel-Tyniec Abbey-Wawel on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. (Tickets 20 PLN; concessions 15 PLN) and one hour river trips every day through Krakow (Tickets 12 PLN; concessions 10 PLN).

Piotruś Pan and Sobieski Boats have cruises to Bielany (2 hours) and to Tyniec (3 hours), every day from 10 a.m. until dusk.

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It provides clean simple en-suite rooms and flats arranged around an attractive courtyard off one of the roads leading to the main square. Breakfast is available in bars in the same road, or at the impressive Metropolitan which adjoins the Hotel Saski and ul slawkowska 3, a few minutes walk away.

Reviews of Globetrotter and other Krakow hotels can be found at www.cracow-life.com/krakow/hotel_directory.php which is where I found details of it. I would certainly stay there again.

Globetrotter can arrange lifts to and from the airport if needed. It can be reached easily by the airport bus which stops only five minutes walk away, but the bus can be very crowded on the way back to the airport.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6336 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6303 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6303 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6264 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6264 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6130
You can buy the card at the airport, tourist information centres, travel agencies and hotels.

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