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red lips 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.
red lips 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.
red lips 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.
red lips Beware of pickpockets in buses and streetcars more than anywhere else.
red lips 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.
red lips 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. 
red lips 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.

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