Auschwitz Birkenau: Comprehensive Guided Tour with Hotel Pickup and Transport

Experience a comprehensive guided tour of Auschwitz Birkenau, the largest former Nazi concentration camp. Learn about the Nazi program and World War II genocide on this 7-hour tour from Krakow.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Krakow - Hotel pick-up and drive to Auschwitz, approximately 70 km away.
  • Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau - Established on April 27, 1940, Auschwitz became a site of extermination through inhumane conditions and the physical destruction of prisoners. It was the largest death camp of the Nazi regime. During your tour, a licensed guide will sensitively show you the barbed wire fences, watchtowers, barracks, gallows, and gas chambers, which illustrate the circumstances of the Nazi genocide.
  • Oświęcim - Break for lunch and drive from Auschwitz to Birkenau, about 5 km.
  • Brzezinka - Birkenau - established as a second camp after Auschwitz. It is 10 times larger, and the Nazis killed up to 40,000 people here in a single day!
  • Krakow - Drive back to your address in Kraków.
What's Included
  • Lunch
  • Local guide
  • Professional art historian guide
  • Transport by air-conditioned minivan
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off
Additional Information

Take a 7-hour tour from Krakow to visit the largest former Nazi concentration camp. Gain insights into the Nazi “Arbeit Macht Frei” program and the atrocities of World War II. Discover the gas chambers and barracks with a licensed English-speaking guide from the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum.

The live guide speaks English. Other languages are available through the guidebook.

  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Dress code is smart casual
  • We can accommodate dietary Lunchbox restrictions such as vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free
  • Please note! The tour is guided in English. In French, Italian, German and Spanish there are optional paper book guides.
  • On certain days there is a possibility of a delay in entering the Museum, please take this into consideration when booking.
Location
Krakow
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Neville_k
Sep 30, 2024
Life changing event - The tour guide was very knowledgeable. The lunch was very nice. Recommend good walking shoes. A very good tour
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Debbie_g
Sep 28, 2024
Auschwitz Birkenau tour - Superb trip with an excellent driver. An emotional day but so worth a visit. Lunch was provided which was stunning. Be prepared to walk a lot make sure you wear comfy shoes 😢😂😢
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Coletah845
Sep 24, 2024
Top tour - Top organized tour. Very impressive. The organizer was clear in communication beforehand. Very nice day had with our driver Daniel. Also the gifs was very friendly and clear in her explanation. All compliments we had an impressive day trip. Highly recommended.
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X398qrloisd
Sep 22, 2024
Thank you Olek! - Olek made us very comfortable. Would 100% recommend booking with this company! Booking times was sent the day before and everything was very clear.
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Albert_u
Sep 18, 2024
Highly recommend - Excellent service cannot fault this company well organised no problems at all . Prompt pick up and collection . No issues at all
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John_m
Sep 28, 2024
Great tour but was a little disorganised - Prompt pick up and friendly driver. Auschwitz tour was great with informative guide. Very disappointed however that no guide was available at Birkenau 'guided tour' so left to look around by ourselves. Also requested one vegetarian lunch, but it came with ham.
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Yvoall38
Sep 22, 2024
Not a good experience with the tour company - Was picked up at 7.30am and not 8am which was fine and got there 9am. When we got to Aushwitz we were told we would be going with a Polish guide at 9.45am as the first english would 12pm and just to try and tune in to English on the headset. We discovered it was a live tour so we could not tune into English. Contacted the driver by phone and he said there was nothing he could do and try to get our money back. One of the guys who was with us was having none of it and demanded he came back. After lots of heated conversations he said he would get us on 2pm tour but without transport back. After another heated conversation we got on a 2.30pm tour with transport back, by this time it was approximately 11 am. He the advised us to go to Birkenau ourselves first then to go on Aushwitz tour with a guide then we would get back earlier to our hotels. We did Birkenau without guide trying to find out as much we could by reading information signs. Got back to reception about 1.30pm and had a hour wait for Aushwitz tour. The tour round Aushwitz was really good and we had a great guide. We got back to Krakow at 7pm but not dropped at hotel but at the square. A 6 and half hour day turned into almost 12 hours by time we got to hotel. The driver could have sorted it all sooner than he did and his company should have booked us on a English tour before we got there. Our day was ruined by incompetence.
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Bvdvvr
Sep 30, 2024
Scam. - We booked an English tour and in the bus to Auschwitz the driver told us that there are no guides available. You can’t trust this company so don’t book anything here.
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Martin_k
Sep 26, 2024
Tour time change made us cancel. - I booked this pretty expensive tour for a 9.00am pick up but the night before received a message changing pick up to 6.20am. We were not prepared to accept this change so cancelled.
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Bjrn_m
Sep 23, 2024
The lunch was good. The rest was bad. - The tour was moved one and a half hour earlier than booked and confirmed. In Auschwitz they did not have English guids. We had do have a Polish guide. Wery difficult to come in contact with the customer "service".
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