Poland for people who actually want to know it. Most tours rush through Poland. This one gives you 16 days to enjoy it, the space to understand and truly experience what you're seeing, and an extra small group of fellow travelers to share your adventure with.
There's a certain kind of traveler who knows the difference between seeing a city and understanding one. Who doesn't like rushed, box-ticking tours. Polish Delight Tour was designed for that traveler.
During the tour, you'll move through Poland at a pace that allows for more than photographs. You'll sit in a cafe in Gdańsk long enough to watch the city breathe. You'll wander Kraków's backstreets without a schedule pulling you away. You'll spend two nights sleeping in a real castle in Masuria. Not because it's on the itinerary, but because Poland deserves that kind of attention.
The itinerary covers everything: Warsaw, Gdańsk, the Masurian Lakes, Toruń, Poznań, Wrocław, Zakopane, Kraków. The iconic sites, such as Malbork Castle and Wieliczka Salt Mine, alongside lesser-known moments that most tours simply don't have time for. All in a group of 12 to 18 people, led by an English-speaking Tour Leader who knows Poland the way only a local can.
This is not a tour for everyone. It requires 16 days of your life and a genuine curiosity about a country that most of the world still underestimates. If that sounds like you, read on.
IS THIS TOUR FOR YOU?
This tour is for you if...
You want to feel like a traveler, not a toursits, and you know the difference.
Poland means something personal for you: your heritage, your history, your curiosity.
Or if you've already visited many other places in Europe, and want to discover something still very much undiscovered.
You've been burned by rushed group tours and refuse to do another one.
You have 16 days and you're not willing to waste them on a bus-and-dash itinerary.
You travel solo, with a friend or as a couple and want a small group, not a crowd.
You want an expert beside you, but free time to follow your own instincts.
This may not be for you if...
You have less time - then our Ultimate Poland or Basic Poland tour might be a better fit.
You prefer a fully private, custom itinerary - then our tailor-made tours will be the best option.
You need a high-intensity, activity-heavy pace with minimal downtime.
You want someone else to make every single decision - this tour has meaningful free time built in.
BASIC INFORMATION
Arrival and Departure
The tour is land only, flights are not included. The tour begins in Warsaw and ends in Kraków. Both cities have excellent international connections. Plan your flights accordingly.
Accommodation
15 nights in centrally located 4* hotels in Warsaw, Masuria (castle hotel), Gdańsk, Toruń, Wrocław, and Kraków. You'll always be steps from the city center, not marooned in a business district.
Meals
15 breakfasts and 9 dinners are included. On the remaining evenings, you're free to explore, which is part of the point. Poland's restaurant scene is genuinely wonderful, and we'll give you guidance on where to go.
Activity Level
The tour involves a moderate amount of walking a day, often on uneven surfaces. Walking tours typically involve 2-4 hours of walking and standing. Participants should also be able to descend several flights of stairs.
DATES AND PRICES
We only have one date a year for this tour, and the groups are intentionally small. Spaces are limited to 18 people. If you're interested in joining, send us an inquiry, no commitment required.
2026
Sep 18 - Oct 3, 2026 double/twin room: 17900 PLN (approx. 4940 USD) single room: 22500 PLN (approx. 6200 USD)
2027
Aug 27 - Sep 11, 2027 double/twin room: 19100 PLN (approx. 5265 USD) single room: 23700 PLN (approx. 6530 USD)
Prices are calculated in Polish Złoty (PLN). USD amounts are approximate and depend on the exchange rate at the time of payment.
English-speaking Tour Leader throughout all 16 days
Air-conditioned minibus and professional driver
15 nights in centrally located 4* hotels
15 breakfasts and 9 dinners
Guided tours in English in Warsaw, Olsztyn, Wolf's Lair and Święta Lipka, Gdańsk, Malbork Castle, Toruń, Poznań Wrocław, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kraków, Zakopane, Wieliczka Salt Mine
Entrance tickets where applicable
Cultural immersion: Chopin concert in Warsaw, highlander show in Zakopane, traditional Jewish music concert in Kraków
Pierogi cooking lesson
Elbląg Canal Cruise
WHAT'S NOT INCLUDED
Airfare to and from Poland
Airport-hotel transfers
Travel insurance
Optional activities
DAY BY DAY ITINERARY
Day 1: HELLO, POLAND!
Your adventure starts when you arrive in Poland's bustling capital city, Warsaw. Once there, take some time to relax and settle into your hotel.
In the evening, you'll meet your fellow travelers and friendly tour leader for a welcome dinner. It's a great chance to get to know each other, share stories, and talk about the exciting trip ahead. Enjoy a tasty meal and get ready for the fun experiences to come. Welcome to your Polish adventure!
Individual arrivals. Tour begins in Warsaw with welcome dinner.
Warsaw, Polonia Palace ****
dinner
Day 2: WARSAW: THE CITY THAT REFUSED TO DIE
Warsaw's Old Town looks ancient, but it was built less than a century ago. Or rather rebuilt, brick by brick, from rubble and pre-war photographs, after the Nazis systematically destroyed it. That story changes how you see everything here.
Your guide will take you through the Old Town, the Royal Route, and the Royal Baths Park. This evening: a Chopin concert: intimate, live, exactly as Chopin intended, followed by dinner in the city.
Today's sightseeing combines walking and bus ride.
Warsaw, Polonia Palace ****
breakfast, dinner
Day 3: NORTH TO MASURIA: 100 LAKES
We drive north into a part of Poland most visitors never see: Masuria, a landscape of forests and lakes that has barely changed in centuries. On the way, a stop in Olsztyn, where Nicolaus Copernicus once worked in a medieval castle and developed the theory that the Earth moves around the Sun, not the other way around.
Tonight and tomorrow night you'll sleep in a genuine castle hotel on the Masurian Lakes. Yes, an actual castle. With SPA facilities and a pool. A perfect place to relax.
Bus ride: Warsaw - Olsztyn - Giżycko (approx. 330 km)
Giżycko, St. Bruno Castle ****
breakfast, dinner
Day 4: WOLF’S LAIR & ŚWIĘTA LIPKA
Hidden in the Masurian forest: Wolf's Lair, Hitler's military headquarters, a ghost town of crumbling concrete bunkers where thousands people once lived, and where a German officer nearly changed the course of history with a briefcase bomb in 1944.
The next stop brings an extraordinary contrast: Święta Lipka, a Baroque pilgrimage sanctuary, with an organ concert that fills the church with something the bunkers could never have.
Free afternoon in Giżycko, where you can feel the atmosphere of typical Polish holidays, relax by the lake, or explore the nearby Boyen fortress.
Bus ride: Giżycko - Wolf's Lair - Święta Lipka - Giżycko (approx. 115 km)
Today's sightseeing involves walking on uneven surfaces.
Giżycko, St. Bruno Castle ****
breakfast
Day 5: ELBLĄG CANAL CRUISE
The Elbląg Canal is one of those engineering impossibilities that shouldn't work, and does. Boats are lifted up and over hills on a series of land-based slipways, a 19th-century solution to a problem no one else had the imagination to solve. The cruise takes two hours and is genuinely surreal.
Arrive in Gdańsk in the afternoon. Dinner together in the evening at a local restaurant.
Bus ride: Giżycko - Elbląg Canal - Gdańsk (approx. 300 km)
Gdańsk, Hanza Hotel ****
breakfast, dinner
Day 6: SOPOT & GDAŃSK
The morning: Sopot, Poland's seaside playground, with a walk along the longest wooden pier in Europe. The kind of place that makes you understand why Poles consider the Baltic coast a serious vacation destination.
Then Gdańsk proper: the Hanseatic facades, the Neptune Fountain, St. Mary's Church, with a guide who can explain why this city, of all places, is where the Iron Curtain began to fall. The afternoon is yours to enjoy the vibe of the city.
Bus ride: Gdańsk - Sopot - Gdańsk (approx. 25 km)
Optional: European Solidarity Center, highly recommended for anyone interested in 20th century history.
Gdańsk, Hanza Hotel ****
breakfast
Day 7: MALBORK: THE LARGEST BRICK CASTLE IN THE WORLD
Malbork Castle is the largest Gothic fortress ever built. That's not a travel brochure claim, it's a UNESCO designation and a fact that becomes viscerally real when you're standing in front of it.
A local guide takes you through the chambers where the Teutonic Knights lived, plotted, and eventually lost everything.
Return to Gdańsk, afternoon at your own pace.
Bus ride: Gdańsk - Malbork - Gdańsk (approx. 130 km)
Gdańsk, Hanza Hotel ****
breakfast
Day 8: TORUŃ & GINGERBREAD
Toruń is where Copernicus was born, and the Gothic Old Town looks much as it did when he walked through it. The city is UNESCO-listed and inexplicably overlooked by most itineraries.
After the guided tour, you will have a chance to learn more about the city's most famous delicacy, gingerbread.
Free afternoon for your own activities. Cross the bridge and look back at the skyline. Explore the medieval alleys. Wander.
Bus ride: Gdańsk - Toruń (approx. 170 km)
Toruń, Nicolaus Hotel **** / 1231 Hotel ****
breakfast
Day 9: POZNAŃ & WROCŁAW
On the way to Wrocław, stop by Poznań's technicolor market square, one of the most vivid in Europe , where mechanical billy goats emerge from the Town Hall clock every day at noon, a tradition going back to 1551.
Don't forget to try a St. Martin's Croissant, the city's unofficial delicacy.
Afternoon transfer to Wrocław, dinner in a city that switches languages. German, Czech, Polish - depending on which century you're studying.
Bus ride: Toruń - Poznań - Wrocław (approx. 370 km)
Wrocław, Radisson Blu **** / HP Park Plaza ****
breakfast, dinner
Day 10: WROCŁAW
Wrocław has been Polish, Bohemian, Habsburg, and German. Each chapter left architecture behind. A guided walk through the Main Square, the Cathedral Island, and the University shows you all of them layered on top of each other.
The city also has hundreds of miniature bronze dwarves hidden in plain sight across the Old Town, a remnant of an anti-communist art movement in the 1980s. Spotting them is strangely irresistible.
After the sightseeing, you can enjoy some free time in Wrocław, or join our optional excursion to Świdnica to see the Church of Peace, a timber witness to resilience and religious tolerance after the brutal Thirty Years' War.
No bus ride.
Optional: Excursion to Church of Peace in Świdnica - a UNESCO-listed, beautifully decorated wooden church.
Wrocław, Radisson Blu **** / HP Park Plaza
breakfast
Day 11: AUSCHWITZ & ZAKOPANE
This is the most difficult day of the tour.. Auschwitz-Birkenau is not a sight, it's a place of confrontation with history. Over a million people were murdered here. Your local guide ensures you understand what you're seeing, and why it matters.
Afterward, the road turns south into the Tatra Mountains. Arriving in Zakopane in the evening feels like the right kind of contrast — the mountains, the highland architecture, the air. Dinner together.
Bus ride: Wrocław - Oświęcim - Zakopane (approx. 400 km)
IIf you feel that a visit to Auschwitz is too emotionally heavy for you, we understand. Please discuss your options with the tour consultant before booking the tour.
Zakopane, Aquarion ****
breakfast, dinner
Day 12: ZAKOPANE & FOLKLORE SHOW
A funicular ride up Gubałówka Hill gives you the best panoramic view of the Tatra range , the mountains that separate Poland from Slovakia and have always made Poles feel that there's something wilder just beyond reach.
Walk the Krupówki, Poland's most famous shopping street, where you'll find smoked sheep cheese, wool sweaters, and excellent coffee. In the evening: dinner and a highlander folklore show, which is more moving than it sounds.
Today's sightseeing combines walking and bus ride.
Zakopane, Aquarion ****
breakfast, dinner
Day 13: THE SALT MINE & KRAKÓW
Time to leave Zakopane. On our way to Kraków we are going to visit the Wieliczka Salt Mine, one of the main tourist attractions in Poland. will walk through an underground labyrinth of corridors and chambers, we will see the biggest chamber – the Chapel of St. Kinga. No doubt it will be an unforgettable experience. Arrival in Kraków and dinner together.
Bus ride: Zakopane - Wieliczka - Kraków (approx. 115 km)
Today's sightseeing involves descending approx. 800 steps total, including approx. 350 steps at the start to reach the first level. The stairs have railings. There is an elevator for the way back.
Kraków, Hotel Kossak **** or similar
breakfast, dinner
Day 14: KRAKÓW
The morning begins with a pierogi workshop. Hands in dough, flour on the table, the particular satisfaction of making something you've only ever eaten. Then Wawel Castle Hill and Kraków's Old Town with a local guide who knows the city intimately.
Listen for the trumpet call from St. Mary's Church tower, played every hour on the hour, cut short mid-phrase, in memory of a medieval trumpeter struck by a Mongol arrow in the 13th century. Some traditions refuse to end.
The afternoon is entirely yours. Kraków rewards aimless walking.
No bus ride.
Kraków, Hotel Kossak **** or similar
breakfast
Day 15: FREE TIME & FAREWELL DINNER
You can either dedicate this day to exploring Kraków on your own or join an optional tour to Częstochowa. Jasna Góra is the most important pilgrimage site in Poland. Even for those who are not religious, it is an opportunity to admire beautiful sacral architecture and to listen to the interesting history of the place. In the evening, we are going to have dinner together and reflect on our Polish adventure.
Optional activities: Tour to Częstochowa (full day tour)
Kraków, Hotel Kossak **** or similar
breakfast, dinner
Day 16: GOODBYE, POLAND!
Breakfast is included. No group activities today, you leave at your own pace. Kraków's airport and main train station both offer excellent onward connections, wherever you're going next.
If you're not ready to stop, we understand. Ask your Tour Consultant about extending your journey with a custom private itinerary. We can take it from here.
both Kraków-Balice Airport and the main train station offer excellent transport options.
This day can also mark the beginning of a personalized extension tour just for you. If you're interested in extending your journey, speak with your tour consultant to plan a custom itinerary that suits your interests and schedule.
breakfast
CHECK ALSO
Basic Poland Tour
small group tour
Only have a week? Basic Poland covers the essentials: Warsaw, Kraków, Wieliczka, Zakopane, Auschwitz, plus Łódź and Częstochowa, which other group tours don't visit. A focused introduction to the country in eight days.
Want to see the north? Gdańsk, Malbork Castle, Wolf's Lair, Toruń, Wrocław - none of that is in Basic Poland. If you have 12 days and want a fuller picture of the country, this is the natural next step. This tour gives you the essence of Poland.
Same destinations as the Ultimate Poland Tour plus 4 extra days to breathe and some places off the beaten path the other tours don't reach. Smaller groups, more unstructured time. For when Poland stops being a curiosity and starts being something personal.
We are an inbound Poland Tour Operator, located in Poland, specializing in group and private tours. Our aim is to make your stay here an unforgettable experience. We are experts in organizing unique, custom-made Polish holidays, suiting your personal needs. Our team consists of natives, fascinated by their homeland, licensed guides and touring agents with huge knowledge and energy to share. We will do our best to meet your highest expectations.
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