Wieliczka Salt Mine Tour: Explore Historic Sculptures

Explore the fascinating Wieliczka Salt Mine on a half-day guided tour from Krakow. Marvel at the stunning salt sculptures and learn about the history of mining techniques. Optional transport available.

Duration: 4 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Krakow - Our meeting points for options with transportation are at Pawia 18b St. or Wielopole 2
    Here our driver will meet you for the transfer to Wieliczka.
    The transfer will take approximately 45 minutes.
  • Wieliczka Salt Mine - Wieliczka Salt Mine is one of the most precious and fascinating Polish monuments. The first tourist trail in…
What's Included
  • Local guide
  • Pickup from centrally located meeting point or hotel (if relevant option selected)
  • All fees and/or taxes
  • Admission to Wieliczka Salt Mine
Additional Information

Explore the renowned Wieliczka Salt Mine, featuring Salt Tunnels and Chapels, located near Krakow, on a half-day guided tour. Marvel at the exquisite salt sculptures crafted from “white gold.”
The Wieliczka Salt Mine is the largest mining heritage museum globally, showcasing a collection of unique mining equipment that illustrates the evolution of mining…

Location
Pawia 18b
Pawia
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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A7573cucharliea
Oct 22, 2024
Good tour its worth it - Our tour guide Isabella was very nice and helpful. The tour itself was very informative and had lots of interesting facts about mining and funny enough, salt
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Anne
Oct 20, 2024
Interesting visit to the salt mines, Krakow - Ilona was a great hostess. She was friendly and informative. She treated us with respect and patience. When we were late back to the bus she told us not to worry, we were her VIPs and that made us feel happier. We had been to the salt mines where our guide walked fast and, in the beginning, didn’t leave enough time for us to take photos. We missed some of the oral presentation. Other than that we had a good time, the mines are so interesting.
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Dylansz4063bv
Oct 10, 2024
Helena Salt Mine Tour - Helena was very good helper for our group. She was helpful and made the trip positive and interesting. She made our day very happy She was the best Host.
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Sionm740
Oct 8, 2024
Great visit with excellent host! - Elona was a fantastic host for our trip to the salt mines. Very informative, great communication and really happy! Thank you
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945knuts
Oct 2, 2024
Great trip to Salt Mine. - It was a fine trip. Helena took good care of us. The information is god, and the guide inside had a lot of information. It is an amazing cave.
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Venture07720224351
Oct 2, 2024
Awesome experience - I had an amazing time visiting the mine, everything was really impressive, even more than I was expecting. Thank you, Ilena for the great support!
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G1618hpalexj
Oct 2, 2024
Great value for money - Would definitely recommend booking this trip, our tour organiser Helena was brilliant - very pleasant and helpful. We were given plenty of time in the mines it was a super interesting experience. There were a lot of steps (800 in total) but not all in one go they were broken up and they weren’t too steep either.
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Mircoa500
Jul 19, 2024
Beautiful - Beautiful experience. Our tour went up to the third level or about 135 meters underground. It is amazing what they have built down there: over 240 km of tunnels, ventilation shafts, rooms dozens of meters high and even a huge church where they celebrate weddings. An imposing work that gives a good idea of what the miners lived.
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Simon_c
May 31, 2024
Excellent experience. Great guide. - Excellent experience. Caroline was a very good guide. She brought a lot of knowledge to her commentary. And went at a good pace for everyone. It's a long walk, many steps...but really worth it.
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David_b
Jul 13, 2024
Don’t discover Crakow with Discover Cracow! - The mine: An interesting, if long, guided walk through part of a vast salt mine. Safety information (e.g. what do if separated from the group) was inadequate and advance notice of the hundreds of steps down into the mine, the lengthy walking and the small, old-fashioned, unlit and claustrophobic lifts to exit the tour would have been helpful. The tour seemed rushed – perhaps because of the delayed start, see below. With neither amplification nor headsets the part-time guide provided by the mine was difficult to hear at times and though careful to keep the party together most of the time, left us to make our own way through the final complex of rooms – crowded, with cafe, gift shop etc- and predictably lost two of the group, leading to a lengthy delay. The operator: Tour arrangements by Discover Cracow were shambolic. No English speaking guide at the pickup point or on the tour coach. Coach waited more than 20 minutes for one late passenger who said that his taxi arranged by Discover Cracow had been half an hour late. This meant arrival at the mine just in time to meet our anxious young Discover Cracow “host” who said that our tour was to begin in just four minutes: too little time to use the ladies’ lavatories. Once we entered there was another lengthy delay because the group had somehow acquired two extra people in excess of the limit. Out of one area we came, until two guests volunteered to leave for a different tour, then back again into the stairwell area. No meeting time for the end of the tour was provided and having told us “parking lot in five minutes” the host promptly disappeared, leaving guests to make their own way. Some took a wrong turning and emerged after a long walk on to the public road to walk back up to to the entrance: several became completely lost, hence another 20 minute delay locating them via GPS and the host trying to message them. So from a tour expected to last perhaps 4.5 hours we were dropped back in town after over five and a half, with no apology, no ‘thank you for coming’. Overall: visit the salt mine if you’re reasonably fit and don’t mind tiny dark lifts, but choose another operator and avoid Discover Cracow.
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