During the visit with a local guide, you will be able to see the most important parts of the museum such as:

Auschwitz I – the main camp (approx 2 hours of visiting):

• camp infrastructure barracks (storage, workshops),
• SS guardhouse and camp director’s office,
• The Arbeit Macht Frei gate, thousands of prisoners walked through this gate on their way to long hours of hard labour,
• numerous exhibitions showing personal belongings of the prisoners,
• courtyard of the Block 11 with so-called Death Wall – place where people were executed,
• Block 11- the camp jail – had several functions; prisoners were held in the basement; the first test of mass murder with Zyklon B was arranged here,
• the site of the execution of the camp commandant Rudolf Hoss
• the gas chamber and crematorium I.

Auschwitz II – Birkenau, the largest center of extermination (up to 1,5 hours of visiting)

• the infamous railway entrance gate for trains transporting prisoners to the camp,
• the ramp, destination for trains carrying people deported to Auschwitz,
• the ruins of gas chambers and crematoria I and II,
• the monuments to the victims, located at the end of the railroad platform, between the ruins of the gas chambers,
• the main camp bathhouse – the Sauna,
• Kanada, the storehouses for loot,
• the ruins of gas chambers and crematoria IV and V,
• the barracks.

Our Itinerary

• Pick up at 8:30 or 10:30 am* (in December & January – 9:30 am) from one of the meeting points in Krakow close to the Main Market (Pawia street or Wielopole street)
• A drive of approx. 1,5 hours in a shared air-conditioned vehicle to Auschwitz Concentration Camp Museum
• Up to 3,5 hours of a guided group tour in English with a local guide
• Free time for lunch or having rest by the entrance to the Museum (before or after sightseeing )
• Drive back to Krakow in the same vehicle
• Drop off in Krakow
(*exact pickup time is confirmed on the day before the tour)

What is included

• transportation in a high quality air-conditioned vehicle
• English speaking drivers’ or tour-leader’s assistance
• skip-the-line entrance
• entrance tickets to Auschwitz I (Main Camp) and Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Camps
• up to 3,5 hours of a guided sightseeing tour inside the camps in chosen language*
• free time for rest or lunch in the restaurant by the entrance to the Museum

[*The local guided tour is available in the following languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Polish]