• 4 Dinner (D)
• 9 Breakfast (B)

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• 4 & 5-star stays

• Kraków: Dine in a local restaurant with your Travel Director and fellow travellers, enjoying regional dishes and relaxed conversation that marks the beginning of your travels together.
• Zakopane: Enjoy dinner accompanied by Góral Highlander music and dance, with performers using regional instruments such as the fiddle and shepherd’s flute. You’ll hear the sharp, rhythmic patterns typical of the Tatra Highland.
• Poznan: Take part in a St. Martin’s croissant tasting and learn how the protected regional recipe is prepared, from the layered dough to the poppy-seed filling. You’ll hear how the pastry became tied to Poznan’s 11 November tradition while sampling a croissant made to the certified specification.
• Warsaw: The Polish capital is currently enjoying a culinary renaissance – find out what the buzz is all about during your end-of-tour dinner with wine at a favourite restaurant.

Stroll lively Krupówki Street with your Travel Director, noting steep-roofed chalets in the distinctive Zakopane Style set against the Tatra peaks. Market stalls brim with carved wood, woolens and smoked cheeses while street musicians add an alpine cadence.

Hear how artists and mountaineers shaped the town’s identity, from Stanislaw Witkiewicz’s architecture to Highlander (Góral) traditions kept alive in workshops and taverns. The setting blends mountain air with artisanal heritage in Poland’s most famous resort.

Experience a Highlander folklore dinner where fiddles and the shepherd’s flute drive quick, syncopated rhythms and dancers whirl in embroidered costumes. Hearty regional cooking anchors the evening’s convivial mood in a timber-warm mountain restaurant.

Sample classics such as smoked sheep’s cheese (oscypek) with cranberries and robust stews as performers share stories of life in the Tatras. The blend of regional instruments, song and cuisine offers a spirited window into Góral culture.

Explore Gniezno Cathedral, long associated with Poland’s early monarchs and archbishops, and study the 12th-century Bronze Doors whose intricate panels narrate scenes from the life of St. Adalbert.

Vaulted chapels and echoing crypts outline the rise of the early Polish church and state. In this former first capital of Poland, artistry and politics are cast in metal and stone that have endured for nine centuries.

Walk through Malbork Castle with a Local Specialist, from the cloistered High Castle and chapter house to the Middle Castle’s grand refectory—an immense red-brick stronghold raised by the Teutonic Order on the Nogat River.

Hear how fortress, monastery and state overlapped in the Order’s rule, and admire the scale of the restoration that safeguards the largest brick Gothic castle in the world.

Celebrate your journey with a farewell dinner with wine at a favorite Warsaw restaurant, where chefs reinterpret classics like pierogi, duck and beetroot in a city enjoying a culinary renaissance.

Raise a toast to new friends and the capital’s creative energy as contemporary Polish cuisine and warm service provide a satisfying, memory-rich close to your time in Poland.

Descend into the Wieliczka Salt Mine, a UNESCO World Heritage site of carved chapels, salt-crystal chandeliers and mirror-still saline lakes. Corridors hewn from glittering rock salt open into grand chambers adorned with devotional reliefs.

This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour. Learn about miners’ traditions and the legend of Saint Kinga as you explore one of Europe’s most atmospheric underground complexes.

Travel to elegant Sopot, the Baltic resort famed for its grand spa villas and Europe’s longest wooden pier, stretching into Gdansk Bay. Stroll the seaside promenade and watch yachts tack across glittering water.

The excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour, offering fresh sea air, café time and coastal views that complement Gdansk’s historic core.

Attend an intimate Chopin recital in a historic salon, where mazurkas, waltzes and nocturnes are performed on a grand piano in the city that shaped the composer’s early genius.

The performance is at additional cost and bookable on tour, offering a contemplative evening steeped in Warsaw’s musical heritage.

Insight Vacations

Discover Kraków’s heart as you join a guided orientation walk around the Rynek Glówny, passing the Sukiennice Cloth Hall and hearing the Hejnal bugle call from St. Mary’s Basilica. Lantern-lit facades, carriage wheels and café chatter set the scene in Europe’s largest medieval square.

One evening, gather with fellow travellers for a Welcome Dinner in a local restaurant, tasting pierogi, zurek or seasonal specialties as your Travel Director shares stories that anchor the city’s royal and mercantile past to the lively atmosphere of today.

Explore Wawel Hill with a specialist and step inside Wawel Cathedral, where Poland’s monarchs lie beneath chapels gleaming with Renaissance and Baroque detail. Sense the city’s spiritual thread in the cathedral where Karol Wojtyla—later Pope John Paul II—served as Archbishop.

Walk through the Kazimierz Jewish Quarter to Podgórze’s Ghetto Heroes Square, where empty chairs recall Kraków’s wartime deportations. The route layers medieval prosperity, cultural resilience and 20th-century memory into a compact, deeply human portrait of the city.

Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum with a Memorial Guide Educator, viewing preserved barracks, guard towers and the rail ramp that once delivered transports to the camp complex. The stark landscape and stillness convey the site’s scale more powerfully than words.

Learn about daily conditions, acts of courage and postwar remembrance as you move with care through selected areas. Time is given for quiet reflection at commemorative points to honor the victims and consider the responsibilities of memory.

Join a Local Specialist to explore the Rynek (Market Square), admiring pastel merchant houses and the ornate Town Hall before crossing to Plac Solny, where the flower market spills color day and night. Bridges and islands sketch Wroclaw’s riverside character.

Spot Wroclaw’s gnomes—cheeky bronze figures born of 1980s dissent—tucked at street level and doorways. Their playful presence contrasts with baroque facades and Gothic brickwork, revealing a city that wears history with wit and resilience.

Visit Ostrów Tumski (Cathedral Island), cradle of Poland’s first rulers, and step into a cathedral layered with Romanesque remnants and later chapels. The Warta’s channels frame this quiet district where the Polish state took shape a millennium ago.

Continue to the Old Town to admire the Renaissance Town Hall and hear of the noon “butting goats” clock ritual. Conclude with a St. Martin’s croissant tasting—the EU-protected Rogal Swietomarcinski, rich with poppy-seed filling and buttery layers.

Wander the UNESCO-listed Old Town of Torun, where brick-gothic churches, granaries and guildhalls recall Hanseatic prosperity. Streets tilt toward the Vistula, the leaning tower surprises at a city wall, and merchant houses display carved portals.

Hear of the Teutonic Knights who founded the city and of Copernicus, born here in 1473. Bakeries keep Torun’s gingerbread tradition alive, perfuming lanes that still mirror the medieval plan.

Trace 20th-century history as you view Westerplatte across the harbor and stand before the Gdansk Shipyard and Solidarity Gate No. 2, where Lech Walesa’s movement reshaped Europe’s political map.

Return to the medieval core to walk the Royal Way past the Long Market and Neptune’s Fountain, reading stories in the richly patterned Hanseatic facades that frame this maritime city.

See the skyline-defining Palace of Culture and Science and the lyrical Chopin Monument in Lazienki Park, where manicured avenues frame lakes and pavilions.

Pay respects at the Ghetto Heroes Memorial before strolling the cobbles of the UNESCO-listed Old Town, meticulously rebuilt after World War II—a living testament to Warsaw’s resilience.

Join your Travel Director to visit Piwnica Swidnicka, the historic cellar tavern beneath the Town Hall, and sample regional beers where merchants have gathered since 1273 amid brick vaults and oak benches.

This relaxed experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour, pairing Wroclaw’s brewing heritage with convivial storytelling in a storied setting.