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Rather than cruising
the streets
Krakow
taxies wait in long
lines for their cargo to find them at numerous cab-stands
scattered throughout the city. But you may hail one if it
happens to pass by you. |
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Watch the taximeter.
Also fares per one kilometer that should be
displayed in the window of the right-hand rear door. It's
free market and some taxi corporations and many independent
cabbies prefer fleecing customers to undercutting competitors. |
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One-way bus or streetcar ticket is
2.8 zloties. You
can buy it at every newsstand and from ticket machines at
some stops and in some buses/tram cars. Immediately after boarding
put your ticket through the stamping machine and keep till
you get out. |
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Beware of pickpockets in buses and streetcars more than
anywhere else. |
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If possible, leave your
vehicle at your hotel's car park and
take bus or taxi instead. On the one hand, it is difficult to
find a place in downtown Krakow to park; on the other,
driving after drinking as little as one beer is an offense
in Poland. |
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You need special
tickets to park your car in the street in the very city center
(so-called Zone
C)
between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. on weekdays. One may
buy it from slender steely ticket machines installed at every
street in the area. They accept the Polish coins and don't
give the change. You should pay
one zloty to park twenty minutes, three zloties for one hour,
6.5
zloty for two hours, and 10.6 zloty for
three hours. Leave your ticket visible behind the windshield. |
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Horse-drawn
carriages practically throughout year, while electric
carts and cycle rickshaws from springtime through autumn
wait for you on Krakow's central Rynek Glowny grand square
and elsewhere in the Old Town. |
