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 0124337310. Email simratusz@infokrakow.pl
Open every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wyspianski
2000 Pavillon (Pawilon Wyspiański 2000), 2 Plac
Wszystkich Swietych square at Grodzka street. Phone
0126161886. Email simwyspianski@infokrakow.pl Open every day
from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Tourist
Information Center at 2 Sw. Jana street. Phone 0124217787.
Email simjan@infokrakow.pl Open on weekdays and Saturdays 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
0124320110. 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 0124220471.
Email simjozef@infokrakow.pl Open on weekdays from 11 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Nowa
Huta district
Tourist
Information Center at 16 os. Sloneczne. Phone 0126430303.
Email simhuta@infokrakow.pl Open on weekdays except Mondays
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
0122855341. Email simbalice@infokrakow.pl Open every day from
10 a.m. to 6 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,
web site www.mcit.pl, tel. 0124217706. Open on weekdays from 9
a.m. to 6 p.m. and on weekends from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Krakow
Travel Service at 3 Plac Mariacki square (opposite the
Virgin Mary’s church).
Diocesan
Information Center (Diecezjalne Centrum Informacji) at 12a
Wislna street. Phone 0124302010. Open on weekdays from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
In
the building of the Main Post Office (Poczta Glowna), 2
Wielopole street at Westerplatte street – Info Centrum,
phone 0124280305 and 0124228305, fax 0124228220, email
info.centrum@neostrada.pl
Near
Krakow Glowny central train station – Centrum Informacji
Turystycznej i Zakwaterowania at 8 Pawia street. Phone
0124226091.
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