Krakow, Poland!? Anything good there?...clubs, restarurants sites etc?

Answer 1

EVERYTHING is Krakow is amazing!!! Most people tour Wawel castle there. As for clubs and restaurants, you will find any type of food that you want. Take a bus to the Rynek and you can find whatever you want there.

Answer 2

We ate at Cafe Botanica and that was cheap and good for lunch; we stayed at Novotel Centrum hotel, away from the square because my hubby's company paid for it and I did like it---especially loved the food and the pool there---but it was pricey and not a typical Old World Polish experience. More a Western style hotel, it was a bit too nice for us, really.

Wawel Castle is beautiful and interesting; check out Smok the dragon there and then walk over to the river landing and look into taking a boat tour of the Wisla.

Take a tour thru the square and the former Jewish Quarter and thru Old Town via a type of golf cart with a guide or by horse and carriage or--- best and cheapest--- go on foot if you have time (more than one full day).

Go to the cloth hall in the square to see the souvenirs and go to St Mary's, where Pope John Paul II once presided.

Exchange your money at a Kantor office (not at the airport) and use a radio taxi service (we used a company called 919 that had radio cabs) for safest, as well as cheapest, service.

Check out a cheap but good milk bar for Polish food (this is an old style luncheonette or cafeteria-type restaurant---ask a worker/average Pole about this) but do NOT go to the fancy hotel restaurant called Milk Bar at the Radisson Hotel, if you're looking for cheap eats. Food's good there, but pricey and going there, you miss the whole point of eating at a real milk bar. It's too Western/kitschy.

If you want ice cream, ask for lody (load-ee)---all the little snack places on the main roads leading into the square seemed to have it. Just look.

They have great chocolate and coffee there (yes, they do have something over than Nescafe--just ask for brewed or percolated coffee) and generally, all the little sidewalk cafes have terrific food at reasonable prices, so if you walk past a place and something smells or looks good to you---stop and try it!

By the way, we saw Roy Scheider (of Jaws movie fame) by chance a few weeks ago--he's filming there. Maybe you'll catch him checking out Wawel Planty, like we did. Made my hubby's day.

Have fun! Poland is a beautiful country and Poles are great people. Most people I ran into in and near the city center/square spoke English, and even when they didn't, were willing to help--- when asked nicely in my very poor Polish.

Answer 3

The dragon is pretty good.

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