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Auschwitz and Birkenau Tour: Experience and Educate Yourself about its History
3.3
57 Ratings
Kraków
Visit Auschwitz, a location not for enjoyment but for respect. It bears significant historical value in itself and it is crucial for individuals to comprehend the events that transpired and seize the chance to enhance their knowledge.
Visit Auschwitz, a location not for enjoyment but for respect. It bears significant historical value in itself and it is crucial for individuals to comprehend the events that transpired and seize the chance to enhance their knowledge.
Duration:
7 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau - Visit KL Auschwitz 1. Walk through the iron gate bearing the notorious slogan Arbeit Macht Frei, which means Work Sets You Free. See 22 brick barracks, which were prison for hundreds of thousands of victims of the Holocaust. The most chilling is block number 11, the so-called prison within the prison. Block 11…
- Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau - Visit KL Auschwitz 1. Walk through the iron gate bearing the notorious slogan Arbeit Macht Frei, which means Work Sets You Free. See 22 brick barracks, which were prison for hundreds of thousands of victims of the Holocaust. The most chilling is block number 11, the so-called prison within the prison. Block 11 contained special torture chambers including dark chambers or standing cells where various punishments were inflicted on prisoners. The first attempts to kill people with Zyklon B took place in this block. The only preserved crematorium and gas chamber is located at the end of the camp. After the visit to KL Auschwitz 1, travel in the minivan to KL Auschwitz 2 Birkenau. This part of the camp is 25 times larger than Auschwitz 1 and it was the largest of the death camps. Over 1,100,000 people were murdered here. Between 62 wooden barrack are the ruins of 4 crematoriums and gas chambers, which were destroyed by the Nazis in an effort to hide the evidence of their crimes.
What's Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Pickup and drop-off from designated meeting points
- Transport by air-conditioned minivan
- Professional driver/guide
- Headsets to hear the guide clearly
- TripAdvisor Experiences brokerage fee
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Pickup and drop-off from designated meeting points
- Transport by air-conditioned minivan
- Professional driver/guide
- Headsets to hear the guide clearly
- TripAdvisor Experiences brokerage fee
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
Additional Information
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Not recommended for child aged 14 and under
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Not recommended for child aged 14 and under
Location
Wielopole 2
Wielopole
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.3
(57 Ratings)
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Arthur31butler
Oct 18, 2024
Amazing tour and service! - Really amazing tour, the guide were full of knowledge and explained very well
I had some issue and the customer service was really good too.
Looking forward to seeing you again.
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M4624zztorstenk
Oct 7, 2024
Very good team - We had a tour in Ausschwitz today with Royal tours
We were at a Wrong Meeting and the staff took very good care of us by phone so we could find the right place
The leadership ran without problems
Staff are very helpful
We can only recommend the team
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Adrianoh2861vr
Sep 20, 2024
Auschwitz and Birkenau Tour - Review - Very good tour. Very well translated and great knowledge about the camps. Very thorough and passionate about the topic.
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Emma_h
Jun 16, 2024
Wow. - Wow, from start to finish. After a computer glitch let me book the tour and pay the company reached out and apologized and asked to switch the day, which unfortunately due to scheduling would not work. They figured out a way to make it work and I'm so thankful they did. Very communicative through the whole process. The tour of Auschwitz itself was extremely moving. Tour was well organized, transportation was great, group was perfect size.
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Alanblackford08
Jun 16, 2024
Good, glad I visited, but maybe more detail needed to stop this happening again ? - I so wish that I had written a list of questions to ask as I feel that this tour was sugar-coated. I cannot blame the tour guide as they are taught how to conduct the tour and the tours for each country are formatted differently, so there is not just the language difference. I only found this out as I had someone translate in Polish for me.
There is a lot to see in your time there but there is a lot of things that you do not see like all of the false teeth, children's toys, and many other things that may spring to mind.
The dogs were mentioned and that they killed some people, but no details like babies were thrown to them, their teeth brushed with a poison, prisoners told to run and then the dogs were sent off after them and their wounds examined after, and sometimes just used to kill.
Also the experiments done, injecting chloroform directly into the heart of twins to see which would die first and see how long the second would live for. Many many more procedures were carried out and no mention of anesthetic being used.
Yes, some of it was horrifying, but the world should never forget the level of suffering that was caused to the people that died and the ones that survived and suffered afterwards.
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Ofelia_z
Jul 30, 2024
Changed the tour time last minute - Very knowledgeable tour guide. We really liked her, and unlike some other tours, you get headphones and she speaks into a microphone so you could hear everything. Unfortunately, the tour company reserve the right to change the time of the tour, which they did with us. It started 2 hours later than we had originally booked for, and we had something work-related later in the day that couldn’t be rescheduled, so we had to leave the tour early, missing all of the Birkenau part.
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Johnhs4561fg
Dec 3, 2024
Bad service - They cancelled on us within 15 hours of our tour starting. Would never use or recommend them. Had to cancel our trip to Auswitz. Just bad experience!
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St-georges-grez
Nov 1, 2024
Very bad organisation - - change of visit schedule the day before without proper communication. No changes on our booking schedule in the app. We nearly missed the tour.
- no support on site. Wrong info. We finally got a contact via a colleague from another tour operator to get the info, otherwise we would have missed the tour.
- because of the undue delay of the tour, we ended up the tour at Birkenau in the dark without seeing anything
- because of the rush, some less valid persons in the group could not follow the pace and missed some explanations from the guide
- the only positive point is for the guide who was good.
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Ygghhhfdzfxhjur23cgf
Oct 23, 2024
Fuyez - Tour staggered during the day, with a guide who does not know her subject and who has fallen behind with an arrival in birkenau 30 minutes from the closing. I strongly advise against it. This was my second visit to the site the previous one a few years before was captivating. This one null and unfinished...not even seeing the ovens destroyed...tells us the menus of the prisoners as if we were in an all inclusive...really to flee.
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Ralf_d
Jul 29, 2024
Beware of fraud! - Attention! Don't book a tour at Royal Tours. The company changes the visiting hours at short notice and after the cancellation period has expired on Viator. Unfortunately, our visit to the historical monument was cancelled as a result, because this is 1.) too short-term and the journey is not possible 2.) you search for the company on Google Maps quickly find out that there is a system behind it and 3.) none of the statements made on Viator coincide with that of the company. Simply put, it's fraud.
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