@birminghampost that is a well reasoned argument by @johnmorrishello Time for London Birmingham Airport? http://t.co/KQPMoQym
All direct flights to Krakow from the UK & Ireland
Flight Summary
Kraków is one of the few cities in Poland to have direct competition between the budget behemoths Easyjet and Ryanair, with the former operating flights to Krakow from Gatwick, and the latter from Stansted.
These airlines also fight head to head on flights to Krakow from Edinburgh - whereas numerous other routes are available from many different parts of the British Isles.
Destination Summary
The pundits have run out of superlatives to describe historic Krakow, surely one of the most beautiful, unspoilt cities in Europe.Quick Facts
- Airport Code: KRK
- Miles From City Centre: 10
- Miles From London: 1404
James Says
For a while, Krakow used to be the one Polish airport outside Warwsaw that Ryanair avoided, preferring insteas to offer flights to nearby Katowice.
Now, you can get cheap flights to Krakow with Ryanair, Easyjet, or even with Jet2 if you live near Newcastle - and most corners of the UK are covered, together with Dublin too.
Krakow flights tend to only operate a few times each week - you may get a better route or timing into Katowice, so I would always check both.
However, if the city of Krakow is your destination, then Krakow Airport is certainly the best option - there is a temporary station just a couple of hundred yards away from the terminal building, and trains to the city take less than 20 minutes. Allow a good 2 hours to get a bus from Katowice airport to the city centre, and then to take a train to Krakow.
Mark Says
Situated on the Vistula river, Krakow forms one of the oldest and largest cities in latter-day Poland - indeed, it formerly served as the nation's capital - and retains vast appeal as a site of academic and cultural interest. An estimated seven million visitors head every year to what the official Krakow PR describes as 'a city wrapped in legend, where time flows differently', although many come here for more sombre historical reasons: as the capital of the General Government, Krakow and its surrounds felt the iron fist of Nazi Germany harder than most. Plaszow and Auschwitz, the sites of two of the largest concentration camps, sit close by, and Kazimierz, the city's Jewish district, bears the scars of the ghetto it became under Nazi rule.
Unsurprisingly, elsewhere the emphasis is on what's still standing, defiant. Krakow boasts a wide range of eye-catching architecture, from the Gothic St. Mary's Basilica, in the vast, breathtaking Main Market Square (Rynek Glowny), to the industrial suburb of Nowa Huta, whose concrete shows of socialism constitute post-War urban planners' idea of a response to fascism. Youngsters love running around the Wawel Royal Castle (Zamek Krolewski): with its torture chambers and bell towers, this former seat of kings is a history book come to life. Krakow still conjures up an image of decadent Old Europe, with its horse-drawn carriages clip-clopping between the city's cafes, bars and nightclubs.
There are also a host of attractions devoted to Pope John Paul II - a trail of houses and churches the former Pontiff at one time inhabited - which, collectively, offer a vivid, first-hand portrait of an extraordinary life.
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