Poland’s Best
8 days / 7 nights – Air & Land
7 days / 6 nights – Land only
Rates do not include airfares which can be booked at the time of booking. Call us for very special rates.
TOUR FEATURES:
- Accommodation in rooms with private baths or showers
- Meals as per itinerary:
8 breakfasts (B), 2 lunches (L),
6 dinners (D) (incl. 2 dinners with folklore show) - Private motor coach/minibus/car (depending on the size of the group)
- Service of an English-speaking escort guide for the whole tour
- 6 sightseeing tours:
Warsaw (half day)
Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa (2 hrs)
Auschwitz (3 hrs)
Zakopane (half day)
Krakow (half day) including St. Mary’s Basilica
Wieliczka Salt Mine (2,5 hrs) - Special discovery events:
- folklore show in Warsaw during the dinner
- folklore show in Krakow during the dinner
- cable car to Gubalowka Hill in Zakopane
- raft trip down the lovely Dunajec River (half day)
- Baggage handling (2 pieces per participant)
- Hotel charges and taxes
- Roundtrip airport/hotel transfers
USA - WARSAW [OVERNIGHT]
This is the day you’ve been waiting for, as you come aboard a swift, smooth, trans-Atlantic jet bound for Poland.
2ND DAY, SATURDAY
WARSAW [D]
On arrival, you are met and transferred to your hotel. The afternoon is free. Meet your ORBIS guide in the hotel lobby at 6:00 PM and then enjoy a welcome dinner with folklore entertainment at a local restaurant.
3RD DAY, SUNDAY
WARSAW [B,L]
This morning, we introduce you to the highlights of Warsaw. Your sightseeing tour includes a drive along the famous Royal Route from magnificent Castle Square to Lazienki Park. Here, we will enter the park near the Chopin’s monument, surrounded by benches and rose bushes. Then, we pass by the Palace of Science and Culture, the Saxon gardens, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, monument of the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Barbican. Continue with a walking tour of Old Town, Market Square and St. John’s Cathedral. Lunch at a local restaurant. The afternoon is free to explore more of Warsaw on your own.
4TH DAY, MONDAY
WARSAW - CZESTOCHOWA - AUSCHWITZ - ZAKOPANE [B,L]
After breakfast, we set out for Zakopane. On the way, we stop at Czestochowa to visit the shrine of the Black Madonna in Jasna Gora monastery. Before we reach Zakopane, we drive to Auschwitz, site of the infamous concentration camp, a name that has become synonymous with all the horrors of the infamous Holocaust. In the afternoon, we drive to Zakopane.
5TH DAY, TUESDAY
ZAKOPANE - KRAKOW [B,D]
In the morning, after a brief sightseeing tour of Zakopane, take a cable car to a nearby mountain-top for a thrilling panorama. Before driving to Krakow, we go rafting on the Dunajec River.
6TH DAY, WEDNESDAY
KRAKOW - WIELICZKA - KRAKOW [B,D]
Get acquainted today with this medieval jewel, as you explore Market Square, where you hear the silver trumpet of the bugler from St. Mary’s church tower and go inside to admire the awesome Wit Stwosz altar. You also visit Wawel Hill and the Gothic Cathedral. In the afternoon, visit Wieliczka Salt Mine, a splendid 3-mile-long underground complex of chambers, chapels and statues sculpted from salt. In the evening, we have a dinner with a folklore entertainment at a local restaurant.
7TH DAY, THURSDAY
KRAKOW - WARSAW [B,L]
After breakfast, we return to Warsaw. Lunch. The rest of the day is free for last-minute souvenir shopping.
8TH DAY, FRIDAY
WARSAW - USA [B]
Filled with sublime memories, you are transferred to the airport this morning, where your home-bound jet carries you swiftly back to the USA.
| Poland’s Best (K-9) PRICES ARE PER PERSON IN DOUBLE ROOM | ||||
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| Starting dates in Warsaw WEDNESDAY | Ending dates in WARSAW TUESDAY | LAND ONLY | ||
| May 29 | June 04 | $1199 | ||
| June 12 | June 18 | $1199 | ||
| June 26 | July 02 | $1199 | ||
| July10 | July 16 | $1199 | ||
| July 24 | July 30 | $1199 | ||
| August 07 | August 13 | $1199 | ||
| August 28 | September 03 | $1199 | ||
| September 11 | September 17 | $1199 | ||
| September 25 | October 01 | $1199 | ||
| October 09 | October 15 | $1199 | ||
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| Rates do not include airfares which can be booked at the time of bookings. Call us for very special rates. | ||||
| DEPARTURES For Air & Land package departures from USA are on Tuesdays | ||||
YOUR HOTELS:
WARSAW – 2 nights at Novotel Centrum****
ZAKOPANE – 1 night at Mercure Kasprowy***
KRAKOW – 2 nights at Novotel Bronowice****
WARSAW – 1 night at Novotel Centrum****
