• 3 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: Share a first dinner with your small group in a local restaurant, 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.
• Warsaw: Come together for a final dinner in Warsaw, sharing regional dishes in a local restaurant. It’s a straightforward moment to reflect on the journey and spend time with your small group before departing Poland.

Sit down to a regional feast in the Tatra foothills, where performers strike up Góralski music and dance on fiddle and shepherd’s flute. Sample mountain dishes as rhythms quicken and boots stamp to the sharp, syncopated patterns of the Highlands.

Between courses, learn how melodies, costumes and call-and-response songs preserve a living culture shaped by herding routes and misty mountain passes. It’s a warm, convivial evening that connects plate, place and tradition.

Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum with a Memorial Guide Educator, walking through preserved barracks, guard towers and the perimeter fences. This is a solemn encounter with the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.

Engage with careful interpretation that foregrounds personal testimonies and archival evidence. The experience emphasizes remembrance and reflection, offering historical context while preserving the dignity of those whose lives were taken here.

Visit Gniezno Cathedral, cradle of Polish Christianity, to study the monumental Gniezno Doors cast c.1175. Their finely worked bronze panels narrate episodes from the life of St. Adalbert, set within Romanesque frames.

Inside, chapels and crypts trace the cathedral’s ties to Poland’s earliest rulers and archbishops. Your Local Specialist reveals how dynastic rituals and medieval artistry intersect in this enduring spiritual landmark.

Walk with a Local Specialist through the brick ramparts of Malbork Castle, among Europe’s largest medieval fortresses. Trace the cloisters of the High Castle, the chapter house and the Middle Castle’s Great Refectory, reading the defensive logic of walls and moats.

Learn how the Teutonic Order’s 13th- and 14th-century building program forged a power base on the Nogat River. Restorations reveal monastic precision and Gothic detail at a scale rarely seen.

Explore Warsaw with a Local Specialist, beginning at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Muranów before continuing to Castle Square and the Old Town. Reconstructed after WWII, its colorful facades and alleys embody a remarkable urban revival.

Hear how shifting borders, wartime destruction and post-war debates shaped today’s capital. From the Royal Route to market courtyards, the narrative spans resilience, memory and a forward-looking cityscape.

Visit the Neon Muzeum with a museum specialist for a vivid look at Cold War-era visual culture. Restored signs from shops, cinemas and streets glow once again, their typography and color telling a playful counter-story to austere times.

Housed in a post-industrial setting in the Praga district, the collection reveals how designers smuggled optimism into daily life through light. It’s a fresh lens on Warsaw’s 20th-century history and design ingenuity.

Gather with your small group for a relaxed first evening over regional cuisine—perhaps pierogi, zurek or slow-braised bigos. Share introductions and travel hopes as Kraków’s Old Town hums beyond the doorways of vaulted cellars and townhouse dining rooms.

Your Travel Director sets the scene for the journey ahead, highlighting culinary traditions and neighborhood character. It’s a convivial start that pairs local flavors with warm conversation.

Come together on your final evening for a shared meal featuring seasonal Polish dishes and contemporary twists on classics. Raise a toast as you reflect on the journey, from medieval squares to Baltic shipyards and revitalized city districts.

Stories, favorite moments and future travel ideas flow easily at the table. The mood is celebratory yet unhurried—a fitting close to days woven with history, culture and convivial company.

Descend into the UNESCO-listed Wieliczka Salt Mine to wander tunnels and chambers carved from rock salt since the Middle Ages. Marvel at chapels, including the subterranean St. Kinga’s Chapel, where chandeliers and reliefs gleam with crystalline detail.

A specialist guide explains mining techniques, saline lakes and the legends that salt inspired. This is an optional excursion at additional cost, bookable on tour, and a spectacular counterpoint to Kraków’s streets above.

Travel to the elegant Baltic resort of Sopot to walk the wooden pier (Molo), breathe sea air and browse seaside cafés along Monte Cassino Street. Photograph the Grand Hotel’s facade and the curve of the sandy shoreline.

Hear stories of interwar spa culture and today’s coastal leisure scene while enjoying time to linger by the water. This is an optional excursion at additional cost, bookable on tour.

Settle into an intimate salon for a live Chopin piano recital, performed by a Polish artist. Nocturnes, mazurkas and polonaises unfold in close quarters, drawing out the lyrical phrasing and poetic rubato that define the composer’s voice.

Your host shares context on Warsaw’s ties to Chopin and the salon culture that nurtured his early career. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.

Explore Kraków with a Local Specialist, moving from the lanes of Kazimierz—rich with synagogues and Jewish heritage—to the cobbles of the Old Town. Ascend Wawel Hill to step inside Wawel Cathedral, burial place of Polish kings, poets and statesmen beneath a soaring dome and chapels from successive dynasties.

Trace stories of royal coronations, Europe’s oldest universities, and the life of Karol Wojtyla—later Pope John Paul II—who served here as Archbishop. Conclude amid guild halls and facades that reveal Kraków’s layered architectural past.

Walk Zakopane’s lively Krupówki Street with your Travel Director, where timber-fronted shops display Highlander woodcarving, woollens and smoked oscypek cheese. Spot facades in the distinctive Zakopane Style, a 19th-century interpretation of local carpentry infused with national-romantic motifs.

Feel the mountain-town rhythm as you pass market stalls and cafés set against Tatra peaks. Hear how seasonal festivals, shepherd traditions and alpine architecture continue to shape daily life in Poland’s highland capital.

Insight Vacations

Stroll with your Travel Director on an introduction to Kraków’s medieval heart, centring on the vast Rynek Glówny. Take in the arcaded Sukiennice Cloth Hall and listen for the hejnal bugle call from St. Mary’s Church while noting the townhouses and lanes that radiate from the square.

Hear practical tips and local insights as you get your bearings amid café-lined streets and horse-drawn carriages. This concise overview sets the tone for deeper exploration of a city once at the crossroads of royal patronage and mercantile trade.

Join a Local Specialist to traverse Wroclaw’s Rynek, one of Central Europe’s most atmospheric squares, ringed by pastel facades and the Gothic Town Hall. Continue to Plac Solny, where florists sell blooms day and night, and keep an eye out for the city’s whimsical bronze gnomes.

Hear how frontier trade, a renowned university and post-war rebuilding have shaped the city’s identity. The dwarfs, born from 1980s street protest, now map a playful trail through layers of history.

Walk Poznan with a Local Resident, pausing in the market square to admire the Renaissance Town Hall, rebuilt in the 16th century by Giovanni Battista di Quadro. Explore restored facades and the tight-knit lanes that connect to the university quarter.

Unpack the city’s mercantile roots and early role in Polish statehood. If you pass near noon, look up for the town hall’s mechanical goats—an endearing nod to local lore and timekeeping traditions.

Explore Torun’s UNESCO-listed core with a Local Specialist, where Hanseatic brickwork, gabled warehouses and the Leaning Tower line streets planned in the Middle Ages. Pause in the market square to read the facades shaped by merchant pride.

Hear of Teutonic Knights, river trade on the Vistula and the city’s association with Nicolaus Copernicus. The scent of gingerbread often lingers here—an artisanal craft that has flavored Torun’s story for centuries.

Discover Gdansk with a Local Specialist along the Motlawa waterfront to the medieval Crane (Zuraw), then into the Long Market (Dlugi Targ), Neptune Fountain and the Green and Golden Gates. From the harborfront, a viewpoint opens towards Westerplatte, where WWII’s first shots were fired.

Learn how Hanseatic wealth shaped merchant houses and guildhalls, later meticulously restored after wartime damage. The city’s layered identity—Germanic, Polish, maritime—animates every arch and cobblestone.

Encounter modern history where it happened, meeting a former worker to explore the Gdansk Shipyards and European Solidarity Centre. Walk through original areas like the BHP Hall and Gate No. 2 while hearing first-hand accounts of the 1980 strikes linked to Lech Walesa.

Engaging exhibits illuminate the Solidarity movement’s role in reshaping Europe. Your visit supports educational outreach aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education, ensuring these stories continue to inform future generations.