Krakow's
Tourist Offices and Their Services
Visitors
to Krakow can pick and choose the city’s various tourist
offices, sometimes situated a stone’s throw away from one
another. They are run either by the Krakow
municipality’s official Festival Bureau or by
private businesses or by tourist organizations. Their staff
speak at least English and offer general tourist information
about Krakow, usually reliable and up-to-date.
Most
of Krakow’s ‘tourist information centers’ also sell guidebooks
and other publications as well as distribute free printed
matter. The vast bulk of maps, leaflets, and brochures
available free of charge consist in adverts but some also
include useful if rudimentary contents (unfortunately, with
editorial prowess not a priority, the complimentary stuff may
often mislead too). At the same time quality maps and guides
cost a few euro. As a rule, private tourist offices offer a
better choice of publications than the municipal network of
information centers whose stocks are restricted to its own
products and little else.
The
Krakow tourist offices usually provide a range of services,
including such as room finding and ticket booking and sale.
Plus they often act as vendors of sightseeing guided
city tours and day trips.
City
Information Network of the Krakow municipality
City
Information Network’s hotline phone 0124320060 every day
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Tourist
information is also available by email at it@infokrakow.pl
The
Old Town’s
information centers
Town
Hall Tower (Wieza Ratuszowa) on the Rynku
Glowny central square. Phone (+48) 124337310. Email simratusz@infokrakow.pl
Open every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wyspianski
Pavillon (Pawilon Wyspianskiego), 2 Plac
Wszystkich Swietych square at Grodzka street. Phone (+48)
126161886. Email simwyspianski@infokrakow.pl Open every day
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tourist
Information Center at 2 Sw. Jana street. Phone (+48)
124217787.
Email simjan@infokrakow.pl Open everyday from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tourist
Information Center at 25 Szpitalna street (a kiosk by a
Planty garden next to Teatr Slowackiego theater). Phone (+48)
124320110. Email simszpitalna@infokrakow.pl Open every day
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Kazimierz
district
Tourist
Information Center at 7 Jozefa street. Phone (+48)
124220471.
Email simjozef@infokrakow.pl Open every day from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Nowa
Huta district
Tourist
Information Center at 16 os. Sloneczne. Phone (+48)
126430303.
Email simhuta@infokrakow.pl Open on weekdays except Mondays
and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Krakow
Airport in Balice
Tourist
Information Center in the John Paul II International
Airport is situated in the International Terminal T1. Phone
(+48) 122855341. Email simbalice@infokrakow.pl Open weekdays from
8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Weekends 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Selected
other tourist offices
The
Old Town central district
Cloth
Hall (Sukiennice, 1/3 Rynek Glowny central square) -
Malopolskie Centrum Informacji Turystycznej. Email info@mcit.pl,
phone (+48) 124217706. Open from 9
a.m. to 9 p.m.
Cracow
City Tours at 44 Florianska street and 2 Plac Matejki
square. Email info@cracowcitytours.pl, phone/fax (+48)
124211333. Open from 7:30
a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Krakow
Travel Service at 3 Plac Mariacki square (opposite the
Virgin Mary’s church). Phone (+48) 124311678. Open from 9
a.m. to 7p.m. except Sundays 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Diocesan
Information Center (Diecezjalne Centrum Informacji) at 12a
Wislna street. Phone (+48) 124302010. Open on weekdays from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
Near
Krakow Glowny central train station – Centrum Informacji
Turystycznej i Zakwaterowania at 8 Pawia street. Phone (+48)
124226091. Open on weekdays 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
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