What's interesting about Poland's travel, transportation and accommodation strategies?

Compared with several European countries mentioned by Bian Xiao, Poland may be better than those cities. Because there are more scenery to see here, and it is better than Bian Xiao's idea, if you choose these cities, Bian Xiao may choose Poland.

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The bus arrived at five in the morning, and it was already dawn in Warsaw. But on the way, I saw that many buses were already crowded. I used to be Polish and worked hard until I went to the first hotel.

Arrived at the dormitory at 5: 30 in the morning, and then knocked on the dormitory door. As a result, before I could speak, a punk man with big ears and tattoos began to complain about my rudeness. When I said that I could put down my heavy backpack and go out to check in at noon or later, he actually said that there was no room for my backpack.

Finally, I was asked out of the dormitory. I still paid part of the advance payment, but the information on hostelworld is 24-hour check-in.

Be sure to expose this hotel here to prevent more people from booking. The name is: hostel travel plus.

Never make a reservation!

Fortunately, my second hotel is surprisingly good. It was 6: 30 in the morning when I arrived. I dare not bother you any more. Book the information room above and check in at 9: 00. So I waited at the door for two hours, then went upstairs to see that my master was still sleeping, so I put my backpack next to me, left a note and left.

Check in at noon, Sonis.

Under the recommendation here, the name is global traveler. Affordable, located in the city center, near the subway and bus station. The host is very good, and the facilities are very good and clean.

Although Poland is a member of the European Union, it uses its own currency: zloty. The exchange rate is about 1 zloty: 1.8 RMB.

However, there is also a positive side. At present, Citibank and euronet Bank in Poland both support UnionPay card withdrawal, and unilaterally charge no handling fee. (Again, this unilateral no handling fee means that there is no handling fee in Polish banks, but there may be a certain handling fee for overseas UnionPay inquiries or your bank card issuer to withdraw cash. I use Nanjing Bank and Bank of Ningbo for free inquiry and cash withdrawal. ) 。

But if some ATMs choose to print vouchers when you withdraw cash, the transaction will fail. I don't know why. So if you choose to print the voucher and the transaction fails, try not to print it again.

The overall price in Poland is similar to that in China. I think Warsaw is particularly like Beijing in Europe. I wonder if anyone has the same idea as me.

Currency and unionpay cash withdrawal

Polish, the official language, is not as popular as English in Baltic countries. Transport (Vilnius-Warsaw)

Vilnius Railway Station is opposite Vilnius Railway Station. I have already introduced this in Lithuania, so I won't go into details here.

It is worth mentioning that there are many buses from Vilnius to Warsaw, and the time is similar. If you buy tickets online, please remember to confirm the platform of your bus before getting on the bus. I saw two black buddies get on the wrong bus first, and then both got to kaunas before they changed buses.

Language and transportation (Vilnius-Warsaw)

All public transport systems in Warsaw (trams, buses, subways, urban railways, etc.). ).) All belong to the traffic management department of Warsaw City (ZTM), but they are managed by several companies, but all public transportation information can be found through ZTM official website.

Generally, there are ticket vending machines in or near the station, with English options; Many buses and trams also have ticket vending machines.

If there is no ticket vending machine, you can buy tickets at Klosk, a grocery store nearby that sells magazines and snacks, and the post office will also sell them. In addition, railway stations, subway stations and other passenger service centers also sell complete tickets.

The difference is that ticket vending machines can use cash and credit cards to buy tickets, while machines on buses can only use credit cards to buy tickets. Credit cards support VISA or MasterCard.

The bus charges in Warsaw are as follows:

1. Divide the whole city into 1 zone and zone 2. Most of the general urban areas, including the airport, belong to 1 zone, and the border areas belong to Zone 2.

2. According to the riding time (available on ZTM official website or Google Maps), it is divided into three grades: 20 minutes, 75 minutes and 90 minutes.

3, divided into reduced and standard. Reduce the number of students, children, disabled people, etc. ;

4. The standard 20-minute one-way ticket for general 1 zone and zone 2 is 4.4zl, and the student ticket is 2.2zl.

You can buy a one-day pass, a seven-day pass or a January pass. One day pass 15zl.

6. Note: The public transport system in Poland adopts punch card system. If you buy a one-way ticket, you must punch in the punch machine when you get on the bus or at the subway entrance, and the time will be printed on the ticket. If you buy a pass, for example, one day, when you take the bus or subway for the first time, you must punch in the punch card machine, and then the time will start, and it will be valid until this time tomorrow. During the ride, you don't need to punch in or swipe your card.

7. If the pass is printed and valid, you can think that you can get on and off the bus as free as long as you remember to bring your ticket. The Warsaw system will randomly check the tickets. If it is found that the tickets are evaded, it is necessary to make up the tickets and pay a high fine.

8. The public transportation system in Warsaw is very developed, so it is convenient to go anywhere directly.

6. Recommended urban attractions in Warsaw

Personally, I feel that the quality of Poles is not as good as that of Baltic countries, and the cleanliness of cities is also poor. The street is full of cigarette butts and used wine bottles. Basically, most people will come out at 9: 10 in the morning, but life at night will go on very late. Personally, I think Warsaw is very similar to Beijing in Europe from people to cities.

Warsaw urban traffic

For Warsaw, I personally strongly recommend the following places:

1. Panorama of Saint Anne Church

Next to the Castle Museum in the old city, there is a church, which is Saint Anne Church. The tower next to it is now open, overlooking the whole Warsaw new city and the old city. And the tickets are very cheap, as long as 5zl. Starting at eleven o'clock in the morning, the little brother who sells tickets will also stamp the medal of Saint Anne Church on your ticket.

2. Warsaw Museum of Socialist Life

Yes, you heard me right. This is such an unwelcome place. There are only two socialist museums in the world, one in Warsaw and the other in Prague. Warsaw was biased towards the life of Poles during the Soviet rule in Poland.

At the same time, the younger brother who manages the museum also organizes Stalin-themed city tours part-time. You can try it if you are interested. When I arrived at the museum that day, I was very excited and happy to see my brother delivering vodka and coke to a tour group.

Venue: Ancient Tea 3A 03-807 Warszawa. This is the intersection of Minska Street and Grucha Street.

This is a true portrayal of socialist life in Poland. If you have been to the Socialist Museum in Braque, you will feel the completely different styles and painting styles of the two museums, as well as the feelings of socialist life.

In short, if you have time, you might as well come here and have a look. Highly recommended.

Personal recommendation

(Gdansk/Sobot/Gdynia)

Triple city, Poland refers to the metropolitan area composed of three cities along the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, namely Gdansk, Sobot and Gdynis. These three cities have different histories and characteristics, forming a unified urban complex.

The three styles of the three cities are full of tranquility and serenity. This reminds me of Manchester by the sea.

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Buses from Warsaw usually leave from Poland's West Bus Station. The address is aleje jerozolomski144,00-001warszawa.

But if you book polskibus, then the place where you take the bus is not the West Railway Station, but next to Mlociny Station or Wilanowska Station in the subway. Just take the M 1 subway. When you get out of the subway, you will see a bunch of platforms, and the 1 (1 peso) platform is right there.

There are buses from Bath and Polschi to Krakow, Gdansk, Wroclaw and Berlin. The station facilities are very simple. The facilities inside are also very general, and the wifi is unstable. Fortunately, there is a toilet.

Traffic between three cities

The most convenient mode of transportation in these three cities is the train named SKM, which arrives at 1 hour from 5 am to 6 pm every day. The frequencies are 50 1 and 502 respectively. 50 1 in the direction of Dansk-Sobot-Gdynia, 502 in the direction of Gdynia-Sobot-Dansk.

The fare between the two cities is 3.8 zlotys. You can buy tickets at the manual window or the ticket vending machine. After buying the ticket, remember to stamp the card reader at the station before getting on the bus.

SKM is very similar to the subway, and the ride experience is also very similar.

It takes 20 minutes from Gdansk to Sopote, and 15 minutes from Sopote to Gdynia.

Pay attention to many stops between these three cities. Don't be confused about the purpose of these stops, you can determine the three city stops you are going to, namely:

Gdansk-Gdansk region

Sobot。 -Sobot

Gdyniagoni

Other stations don't take buses.

Classic recommendation of Sanlian city

Gdansk recommended the viewing platform of the history museum of the main city hall. The observation deck is in the museum, and the fare is 5 PLN. You can see the whole city.

However, climbing the observation deck of Santa Maria Church is not recommended. The ticket price is PLN 8, but the observation deck is too high, and you can only see a little bit, and the viewing experience is very poor.

Sophot naturally recommends trestle. Soft owns the longest trestle in Europe. However, the fare is 5 zlotys. And there are usually many people. Finally, there will be a restaurant, which has a good evaluation.

And, of course, Soford's crooked house. Costa coffee at present. You can have a cup of coffee in costa and watch Haha House in the long afternoon.

Gdynia is a very new city with beautiful scenery around it. The rest of the museums depend on personal interests.

Sanlian city

Krakow, located on the Vistula River in southern Poland, is the second largest city in Poland. As a former royal capital, Krakow was a brilliant economic, academic, cultural and political center in medieval Europe. Krakow is one of the most attractive cities in Poland.

Krakow has a very antique old street, and the famous wieliczka salt mine concentration camp and Auschwitz concentration camp are around it. I won't go into details about Krakow Old Street. Let me first introduce the situation in wieliczka salt mine and Auschwitz around it.

* wielizka Salt Mine

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Bus or train is another way to get from Krakow to wieliczka salt mine, and so is the return trip. Very convenient and quick. The price is the same, both are 3.5 Polish zlotys.

I travel by bus and return by train.

Krakow takes a bus on the path next to the shopping center directly opposite Krakow Railway Station. Ul .Kuniki can take bus no.304. Get on the bus and let the driver buy tickets.

You can take a bus at the railway station next to the salt mine on the return trip. You can also get on the bus and ask the conductor to buy tickets. The train is very comfortable and spacious, similar to the city railway.

When you arrive at the door, buy a ticket first, and then queue up at the door of the nearest language group you choose to follow the guide. You can only follow the guide. I'll give you a walkie-talkie when I go in. You can tune in to $ number frequency band with the tour guide and listen to his explanation. Only Polish, English, Russian, Spanish, French, German and Italian can be selected.

The fare is 84 zlotys. If you want to take photos, you need to spend 10 zloty to buy a photo sticker alone. Of course, you can be as brazen as me without buying photos. Tour guides are generally very good and won't argue with you. If you are strict, you can ask for a high fine.

After going in, it was a claustrophobic nightmare.

Krakow

Tips:

: 0 10 You can choose to enter an underground museum at the exit, and the ticket is included in your ticket. If you ask the guide museum at the door, they will always advise you not to go, saying the same as above, but this is totally nonsense! ! ! Because if they want to go, they need a guide, and they actually don't want to take people to that museum anymore.

Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp is located 60 kilometers southwest of Krakow and was established by Nazi Germany on April 27th, 1940. About 165438+ ten thousand people were slaughtered again, and 90% of the victims were Jews. When the Soviet Red Army 1945 arrived, there were only 7,650 survivors, and only a few survivors managed to escape. Nazi Germany established three concentration camps here-Auschwitz, Birkenau and Monovitz. Used to imprison Jews, Polish intellectuals, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals, criminals, etc. Forced them to engage in high-intensity labor, biochemical experiments and mass killings, as well as inhuman ethnic cleansing.

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From Krakow bus station, you can take a bus to Auschwitz and get off. You can also take the train at the railway station, but it takes 20 minutes to walk.

It takes about 2 hours. Because of the traffic jam, the number of buses has increased or decreased.

The one-way bus fare is 14 PLN, and the round-trip bus fare is 28 PLN. You can get on the bus and let the driver buy it, or you can buy it at the bus ticket office.

Here, it is highly recommended to take a bus to Auschwitz concentration camp, once every hour, and you can get off.

Address of Cracow Bus Terminal: 3 1-505 Cracow, Bosaka 18.

The address of Krakow bus station.

After arriving in Auschwitz, individuals who have not made an appointment or signed up for a visit can buy tickets and choose a language at the White House. Then, he can deposit his bag, check the security, take the walkie-talkie and wait for the arrival of the guide.

During this period, you can go to a small cinema to watch a 15-minute documentary about Auschwitz concentration camp. After visiting the museum of Auschwitz concentration camp for two hours, you can take the free bus between Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp to Birkenau. If you have finished your visit to Birkenau, take a bus back to Auschwitz, pick up your bag and wait for the bus at the opposite bus stop to return to Krakow. Buses run every half an hour to an hour.

I finally insisted on going, and then several French and German university teachers said they would go together, so guide had to lead us to the museum. The whole attitude is completely different from the previous salt mine, but it is really interesting and feels more interesting than the salt mine itself.

To tell you the truth, I really have no feeling for Polish food. I still want to eat Chinese food there.

A Vietnamese Chinese restaurant recommended by Warsaw is called. The taste is acceptable.

There are two good China restaurants in Gdansk. One is Xiao Zhonghua next to the railway station, and the other is Li Zhonghua behind the old city. The price is reasonable. A dish is about 25 zlotys, including rice or noodles.

Of course, it is best to do it yourself in the guest house. After a day's walk outside, you won't be happier if you go back to the hotel and cook a bowl of white rice and stir-fry a dish comfortably.

Warsaw homemade rice and fried cabbage

Warsaw private shredded potatoes scrambled eggs

Warsaw breakfast, porridge, fried eggs, sausage.

Warsaw breakfast, porridge, fried eggs, sausage.

Cracow breakfast