Travel to Kraków

How to reach Kraków?

We advise you to take direct flights to Krakow, possible from many European airports like Munich, Frankfurt, Prague, Vienna, Brussels, Helsinki, Athens and others.

  • Balice-Kraków International Airport is very close and well connected to the City Centre by public transportation (train/bus services) and by taxi. For details, please visit the website: www.krakowairport.pl
  • Pyrzowice-Katowice International Airport is located about 100 km away from Kraków. A number of low-cost airlines fly to this airport. A bus connection to Kraków takes about 1h30min. For details please see: www.katowice-airport.com
  • Okecie International Airport (Warsaw) – for details, please visit the website: www.lotnisko-chopina.pl. InterCity train connection from Warsaw Central Station (Warszawa Centralna) to Krakow Main Station (Kraków Główny) takes about 2h45min. For details see: www.pkp.pl.

How to get to your hotel after arriving to Krakow?

  • Take a taxi from the airport to your hotel (about 50 PLN to the city centre, please confirm the price with the driver before the trip!) You can call: Icar ( + 48 12 653 5555), MegaTaxi( +48 124 124 124) or Eko  taxi: +48 12 644 22 22 , they are usually cheaper than taxi you can find directly at the airport .
  • Take a train from the airport (from the T1 international terminal) to the ‘Kraków Główny’ railway station – travel time approx. 16 min. Then take a taxi or use public transport, bus or tram.
  • Take bus 208 (it goes rarely: timetable) directly to Krakowiak (bus stop: ‘Przybyszewskiego’) or 902 (night bus: timetable) to the City Centre then continue with another bus, tram, or taxi. The bus 208 goes directly to the venue (bus stop: ‘Czarnowiejska’) and to the City Centre. It takes about 45 min to reach AGH UST from the airport by bus.
  • The ‘ Krakow Airport ’ stop is located outside City Zone. The Agglomeration Zone ticket (regular fare 4.00 PLN – 1 Euro) is required for trip to and from the airport.

    • We recommend you to use this site which will show you all of the bus connections and guide you directly to place you want.

How to reach the workshop venue?

The workshop venue – main building of AGH UST at Mickiewicza Ave. 30 is situated just outside the Old City and can be very easily reached on foot or by public transport. See the map. The bus stop ‘AGH’ is in front of the AGH main building, across the Mickiewicza Avenue, whereas stop ‘Czarnowiejska’ is from its north side.

The regular fare is 3.80 PLN for 40 minutes trip with unlimited number of changes or direct trip (without changes) with no time limits. Ticket offer is much wider, including 20, 60 and 90 minutes trip tickets (with unlimited number of changes), 24, 48 and 72 hour tickets, (unlimited number of trips and changes), 7 days ticket, and a group ticket (up to 20 persons) for direct trip. The complete ticket tarrif can be found in Ticket Tariff of Municipal Transport Services in Krakow.

The tickets can be purchased in:

  • local kiosks
  • ticket machines at bus or tram stops (in the City Centre they can be found at almost all the bus stops; the machines take both banknotes and most coins. Most of the machines at stops accepts also credit cards),
  • on buses and trams in ticket machines (available in the new tram or bus models; they take coins only) or with a driver (you must be sure to hand in the correct change and additional charge is added onto the regular price of the ticket).
  • it might happen that only coins are accepted – it is very practical to have a couple of 1,2 and 5 PLN coins. For example the luggage lockers at the Main Station require coins only.

Ticket must be validated after boarding the bus or tram. The time tickets should be validated only once, at the beginning of the trip.

The fare inside City Zone is the same for all lines (tram, bus, city and agglomeration lines, normal and rapid lines, daily and night lines). The ticket prices for this Zone are marked as I City Krakow in Ticket Tariff.

The agglomeration bus lines extend beyond the City Zone. The border between zones is marked on line stop list as ‘GRANICA TARYF’. If your trip reaches the stop located outside City Zone (or is completely outside the City Zone), you have to buy the Agglomeration Zone ticket (marked as I+II Agglomeration in Ticket Tariff).