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Home to a beguiling centuries-old medieval center, terrific museums, award-winning boutique hotels and many of the country鈥檚 best restaurants, the most popular city in Poland can be hard on your wallet if you really live it up. Yet getting the most out of your visit to 碍谤补办贸飞 needn鈥檛 have you drifting into insolvency, Poland overall is not a massively expensive destination.

Picking less pricey days to visit the most popular attractions, making the best use of public transport, staying in inexpensive accommodations and eating and drinking local can all help you make the most of your stay while simultaneously immersing you in Polish culture. Here is how to visit 碍谤补办贸飞 on a budget.

Evening in Krakow's Old Town with people heading to restaurants
The train from the airport gets you into 碍谤补办贸飞 Old Town in less than 30 minutes 漏 Mark and Anna Photography / Shutterstock

Take public transport to/from the airport

Unless your evening flight to 碍谤补办贸飞 gets delayed 鈥 or you have to be at the airport between midnight and 4am 鈥 save the taxi fare by taking a bus or to/from the airport. The easiest way to travel is by train between 碍谤补办贸飞 Glowny (main train station) and 碍谤补办贸飞 Lotnisko (John Paul II International Airport). These run twice-hourly (first/last departures are 3:48am and 11:40pm from the train station and 4:17am and 11:08pm from the airport). A one-way ticket costs 9锄艂 and the journey takes 20-30 minutes.

The airport is also served by bus lines 208 and 209 from 碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 main bus station between 4:30am and 10:30pm (5zl, 45 minutes), and night bus 902 that runs hourly at five minutes past the hour from 11:05pm to 4:05am. If you have no choice but to go by taxi, note that Uber and Bolt rides cost less than official taxi rides (from 45锄艂 as opposed to from 75锄艂), but are less reliable.

Distances in the Old Town are perfectly walkable

If you enjoy keeping fit while on the road, exploring 碍谤补办贸飞 on foot should help you towards your fitness goals. Old Town is wonderfully walkable, as is Kazimierz, and strolling between the two takes around 20 minutes. Morning runners will appreciate the ring of parkland surrounding Old Town.

Visit 碍谤补办贸飞 during the shoulder months

Accommodation prices shoot up by at least 25% during the summer high season, so consider traveling off-season. By far the cheapest time to come to 碍谤补办贸飞 is in the winter (with the exception of the Christmas/New Year period), but it can be bitterly cold. Shoulder seasons (mid-March to May and September to mid-October) are a good compromise, allowing you to combine moderate room rates with mild weather and relatively few visitors.

Get to know 碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 trams and buses

Public buses in 碍谤补办贸飞 are not hugely useful unless you want to visit a few attractions in far-flung corners of the city, but trams are inexpensive and really handy for reaching sights in Nova Huta, 笔辞诲驳贸谤锄别 and Kazimierz neighborhoods if you鈥檙e based centrally.

Single tickets (2.80鈥6z艂) can be purchased either directly from the driver or from ticket machines at most tram stops; prices vary, depending on the zone and on whether the ticket is valid for 20, 40, 60 or 90 minutes. If you have a blitzkrieg approach to sightseeing, you may wish to buy a 24/48/72-hour travel card for 15/24/36z艂; seven-day travel cards also available (48z艂).

A new bike-share scheme is coming

While Old Town is wonderfully walkable, if you want to combine some daily exercise with getting to attractions further out (sights in Kazimierz, Nova Huta and 笔辞诲驳贸谤锄别), you may wish to make use of 碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 bicycle rental schemes. Following the demise of Wavelo 鈥 Poland鈥檚 first city bicycle rental scheme 鈥 during the pandemic, the City of 碍谤补办贸飞 is due to launch a new bicycle rental scheme in late 2022, which will include regular bikes and electric bicycles, with a subscription service and docking stations all over the city.

Two people cook sausages at a street-food stall in Krakow
碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 street food might not be healthy but it is delicious 漏 Liya_Blumesser / Shutterstock

Dine out on 碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 street food

If daily fruit and veg are not a deal breaker for you, it鈥檚 possible to happily subsist for days on some of 碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 best street food. Grab an obwarzanek or two (碍谤补办贸飞 bagel topped with poppy seeds or sesame seeds) from a stall pretty much on every street corner in Old Town for 2.50z艂, chow down on superlative kielbasa (signature Polish sausage; 10z艂) from the van in front of the market on ul. Grzegorzecka, and try the zapiekanka (10z艂) 鈥 Poland鈥檚 answer to pizza 鈥 a half-baguette topped with cheese, mushrooms and ketchup at Plac Nowy in Kazimierz.

Stay in hostels

If you鈥檙e looking to stay centrally 鈥 in Old Town, or in Kazimierz 鈥 then hostels are a terrific budget option. Some offer dorms only; others may have inexpensive singles or doubles as well as cooking facilities and communal hangout spaces; others are for women travelers only. Best of all, most offer free breakfast and have knowledgeable staff who organize inexpensive tours and nights out and can recommend the best cheap places to eat and bars.

碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 top hostels include Mundo, and Greg and Tom鈥檚 Party Hostel. Check in advance whether you鈥檙e booking yourself into a crush-a-beer-can-against-your-forehead party hostel or a sociable, laid-back spot to meet fellow travelers (sometimes the clue鈥檚 in the name!).

Or find room shares and short-term lets

If privacy and having a space of your own takes precedence over saving money by sleeping in a hostel dorm, look into online room-share options and short-term self-catering apartments for rent (they are especially plentiful in Old Town and Kazimierz and are even cheaper outside those two popular neighborhoods), the latter particularly good value if you鈥檙e traveling with several friends.

In summer, student dorms are typically rented out as cheap hotel rooms, though they鈥檙e located outside of Old Town. Other budget digs to look out for include private rooms for rent (look out for "noclegi" signs in the window).

Take advantage of museum passes and discounted entry

Even if you don鈥檛 take advantage of free admission offered by different museums on different days, if you鈥檙e planning on doing some intensive sightseeing, it鈥檚 well worth purchasing multi-venue tickets for and branches online.

The main chamber in a vast salt mine, with chandeliers hanging down and people moving around
Public transportation is way cheaper than a tour to Wieliczka 漏 Jaroslav Moravcik / Shutterstock

Take public transportation to Auschwitz and Wieliczka Salt Mine

While the most notorious Nazi death camp and an underground cathedral carved out of salt are not in 碍谤补办贸飞 proper, visits to these two sights are the most popular day trips from the city. Virtually every hotel and hostel offers long day tours to both for around 300z艂, which may be worth considering if you鈥檙e really short on time.

But if time is not a factor and you wish to absorb your experiences in peace rather than share them with a busload of other visitors, set aside a day for each (it鈥檚 more than worth it) and use public transport.

To get to Auschwitz, 66km (41 miles) west of 碍谤补办贸飞, take a bus (8鈥9 times daily, 1.5鈥2 hours) from 碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 central bus station for 20z艂, or one of several daily trains to Oswiecim (13锄艂, approx 2 hours), then walk for 25 minutes, rather than pay 170z艂 for a day tour. Getting to Wieliczka, 16km (10 miles) southeast of the city, is even easier: hop on one of the half-hourly trains from 碍谤补办贸飞 Glowny train station (6z艂, 20鈥30 minutes), then walk for 10 minutes.

Skip the expensive city tours in favor of wallet-friendly ones

As befitting a city of its stature, 碍谤补办贸飞 offers countless themed tours that cater to all budgets. Boning up on the city鈥檚 history and culture ahead of your trip and skipping the standard tours is an obvious money saver. However, a number of tours are extremely worthwhile and offer cultural immersion and the opportunity to see 碍谤补办贸飞 from an unusual angle.

offers excellent daily walking tours of 碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 Old Town, as well as the themed Macabre 碍谤补办贸飞, Jewish 碍谤补办贸飞, Street Art, WWII 碍谤补办贸飞 and Nova Huta 碍谤补办贸飞 that are nearly gratis. While there is no official fee for the tour, it鈥檚 customary to tip the guide at the end. We recommended a tip of around 20z艂 (US$5), though more generosity is always appreciated.

Drink the tap water

碍谤补办贸飞 tap water is potable and doesn鈥檛 taste as if you鈥檙e sipping from a swimming pool. So keep your reusable flask refilled and that way you鈥檒l be hydrated and do your bit for the environment.

Eat at a dirt-cheap bar mleczny (cafeteria)

If you鈥檙e afflicted with nostalgia for the Communist era, you鈥檒l be thrilled to disover that you can combine your passion with a quest for some of 碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 cheapest eats. Throwbacks to the pre-Iron Curtain era, 碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 historic 鈥bar mleczny鈥 are dirt-cheap cafeteria, popular with locals, where you can fill up on soup, pierogi and juice without crossing the 10z艂 threshold. There鈥檚 a branch at Grodzka 43 in Old Town and another at Starowi艣lna 29, at the northern end of the Kazimierz neighbourhood.

Shop at produce markets and best-value supermarkets

If you鈥檙e staying in self-catering accommodations or a hostel with a guest kitchen, you can save your pennies for more memorable dining or cultural experiences by cooking for yourself at least part of the time. Some of 碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 cheapest fresh produce is found at local markets, such as Stary Kleparz.

Additionally, look out for 碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 (and Poland鈥檚) least expensive supermarket chain, , with one handy branch in the Old Town and another in the shopping center adjoining 碍谤补办贸飞鈥檚 main train station.

Save your partying for happy hour

In 碍谤补办贸飞, keep an eye out for happy hour in most bars, when you can take advantage of discounted tipples and two-for-one deals. Even better, head for a branch of 鈥 a popular local chain of old-school bars dotted around Old Town, with another branch in Kazimierz.

The decor is identical (and probably won鈥檛 make many of your Instagram photos) but they serve up uniformly cheap beer (from 8.50z艂 per pint), vodka (7.50z艂 per shot), wine, cocktails (16z艂), coffee (5锄艂), soft drinks and shots (5锄艂 individual; 12z艂 for a 鈥渒amikaze鈥 flight of four), along with bar snacks (sandwiches, steak tartare, and zurek 鈥 sourdough soup) and a healthy dose of 1960s nostalgia.

Daily costs in 碍谤补办贸飞

Hostel dorm: 25鈥35锄艂
Basic room for two: 90鈥150锄艂
Tram ticket: 3锄艂
Dinner for two in a local restaurant: 30鈥40锄艂
Beer: 9锄艂
Coffee: 5锄艂

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