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Rather than cruising 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. Fares per one kilometer should be
displayed in the window of the right-hand rear door. Local
government set the maximum ones (the highest amounts to
about $1 for every kilometer in the outskirts on holidays
or between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.) but most taxi owners go to
any lengths to undercut competitors. |
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One-way bus or streetcar ticket is about $0.50 and you
can buy it at every newsstand. Immediately after boarding
put it yourself through the ticket puncher 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 car at the hotel parking lot and
take bus or taxi instead–on 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 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on weekdays. Purchase them from the
maintenance staff (the men wear garments emblazoned with the 'OBSLUGA
STREFY' caption) or in the nearest newsstand, mark with
pen the current date and time, and leave one for every hour of
parking behind the windshield. Note that parking is restricted
to two hours in one place. |
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Horse cabs practically throughout year, while electric
carts and cycle rickshaws from springtime through autumn
wait for you in the central Grand Square. |
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