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From Krakow: Wieliczka Salt Mine Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Tickets

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What our guests say

Francesca Mazzari

Francesca

Feb, 2025Verified booking

5/5
Convenient and perfect transfer. Courteous and helpful driver explained everything to us perfectly. Impeccable guide in Italian. A little tiring with a 3-year-old but wonderful.
David steele

David

Apr, 2025Verified booking

5/5
After being let down by other supplier we booked for trip through heading out and cannot praise enough the service supplied to allow us not to miss out. Picked up and taken to mines in no time arrived and had a short break before we were off and down we went tour was very informal and taken at a leisurely pace for all in party even the additional time going through the museum well worth the time and cost. Back out we were taken back to krakov and the shuttled back out to apartments in no time thank you again for stepping in and making a memorable day for us not to forget.
Isabelle Dumazert

Isabelle

Apr, 2025Verified booking

3/5
The tour is interesting, but it's too commercial and too fast-paced. We barely have time to see. The guide takes little time to answer questions. It's an assembly line.
Rousseau Alain

Rousseau

Apr, 2025Verified booking

4/5
Fascinating, magnificent salt mine, perfect English-speaking guide. Negative point: at the end of the tour, we were dropped at several exits, and found ourselves alone more than 500 m from the RV point. The end of the tour needs to be better organized.
MARTA COMALAT

Marta

Apr, 2025Verified booking

5/5
The place of course was lovely and awasome but our guide Ola was outstanding. The best. She made the tour a great experience and made the difference.
Brendan Miller

Brendan

Apr, 2025Verified booking

3/5
Tour booked for 10am. Received a text the day prior to say pickup is now 9am. No problem- we thought we would simply start and finish earlier. To begin with the driver was late picking us up. We were his first pick up and had been waiting in the cold for 15 minutes. No apology offered. We then ended up at the airport to collect the final 2 pax before heading to salt mines. This took us 1hr in total for a 20min trip. Upon parking the driver walked us up to the meeting area telling us we had to wait another 30mins for the other mini cabs to arrive before we could enter. Our minivan was left unlocked and the back door wide open with people's luggage & belongings left in it- they were clearly distressed and when they asked him about going back & locking the van he said 'don't worry, no one steals from my van'. Hardly reassuring. We FINALLY begin the tour. Our guide Peter/Poitr? was heavily accented and was quietly spoken. With a group of 30+ often following behind in single formation it was quite impossible to hear him for most of the tour. When he would finally wait until we were grouped together he would start talking and then turn around away from us so we could not hear him once again. He would also repeat himself three times at most door ways which was very annoying. When groups are pushed through so close together you hear the tour guide speaking from the groups in front & behind you, making it hard to hear a guide who doesn't face you and won't speak up. People were clearly agitated toward the end but he didn't care. Just kept the stupid smile on his face and continued with his silly remarks that no one found amusing. This guy is an idiot. The other guides could be overheard telling their groups interesting information about the horses that used to work in the mines etc and our idiot was more interested in pronouncing the name correctly of one of the statues. Boring.... The mine itself is very impressive. How it was ever built and is still accessible is truly amazing. Unfortunately our guide wrecked the experience for most of us and we were so happy to get in the elevator and leave. Oh, and he tells us at the finish that we leave from an exit in a different location to where we entered. Without waiting for all of us to be at the exit where we can hear him properly he says to walk through the park and then walks off toward a church yard by himself. No one could see a park and everyone wandered off in a different direction. Needless to say it took approx another 25 mins for our 8 pax to find the minivan and finally head back to Krakow. Not organised well at all. To top it off the driver dropped us at the BOTTOM of Old Town and when I told him we were a long way from our accommodation (TOP of Old Town) he argued with us that we said it was okay. He actually dropped an English couple off way too early and thought we were staying where they were. As he had pulled over and was making no effort to take us any further we got out and walked the 20-25minutes back to our room. Not what our legs wanted after doing all the stairs at the salt mine and half the town trying to find the van. Hard to recommend.
Iain Scott

Iain

Apr, 2025Verified booking

5/5
This trip was most interesting and the guide,a young lady called,Yolanta,was absolutely spot on. She certainly knew the history of the Salt Mines and made the whole experience a brilliant day out
Morna Rutherford

Morna

Apr, 2025Verified booking

4/5
Great organisation via Headout. Experience in salt mine was very interesting but tour group size was very large. That said, the tour guide was excellent. A great many steps down to lower level and a lot of walking. We were warned about this but a good level of fitness required. Main problem was that it was very claustrophobic in the tiny crammed elevator to exit level. Would not be good for some people and no prior warning was given of the elevator. The souvenir shop on exit was very good. The toilets are mainly outside. Not sure I would go again but so glad I didn't miss it.
Seema Neeral Patel

Seema

Apr, 2025Verified booking

5/5
Our tour guide in English was absolutely brilliant! She took so much time to explain the history of the mine in so much detail and made it all so interesting. Be prepared for lots of walking as it's a long trip!
Jeana Lenehan

Jeana

Apr, 2025Verified booking

5/5
Roman was our guide who was amazing. He was super knowledgeable, helpful, kind and patient! He made the experience more special. It's a tour I would recommend, everything was easy and effortless. The statues and everything in the mines were mind blowing! Our driver Gregorz was amazing too! On time. Kept in touch and always smiled!!
Helen Johnson

Helen

Mar, 2025Verified booking

4/5
Salt mines great. Pick up from hotel not so good. Bus was 150m away around a corner and Whatsap message came through late.
Robert Waddington

Robert

Mar, 2025Verified booking

4/5
Ticketing experience good. Tour itself was lengthy which much walking! Guide was knowledgeable but sometimes difficult to hear as the group was so large. Would recommend to others.
Jason Howarth

Jason

Mar, 2025Verified booking

4/5
Great no problem at all, we booked on the site the day before so we're pleased when we got tickets and the transfer was brilliant too.
David Christopher Taylor

David

Mar, 2025Verified booking

5/5
Fabulous tour, with wonder guidance from Daria! Would highly recommend to others visiting the city. Short 30 min drive from the hotel pickup. Good minibus transfer. Great visit and experience.
Katy Eley

Katy

Mar, 2025Verified booking

4/5
Transport arrangements very good and nice driver. Knowledgeable English speaking guide who was friendly and approachable. Some lovely statues and liked the large room with chandeliers best.
Maria Blomli-Edvardsen

Maria

Mar, 2025Verified booking

3/5
Very cool place to have visited, and the guide was pleasant with a lot of knowledge. However the place was very crowded, and we had to rush through the entire thing because there were groups coming behind us and in front of us. The breaks for visiting the toilet or buying a snack was very short - only five minutes, so there was no time to both use the toilet and stand in line to buy anything to eat. Other than that a very interesting visit!
Laurie Otto

Laurie

Mar, 2025Verified booking

5/5
Very well organized tour, at a good pace. No issues with transfer pick up from our hotel. Amazing how far down we descended. Definitely not for anyone with mobility issues or claustrophobia. Thoroughly enjoyed this excursion!
David Hoskins

David

Mar, 2025Verified booking

4/5
Travel and ticketing was great. Experience was brilliant but felt we were rushed through the mine. We are advised the tour would be better about three hours when we arrived. We were at the exit within 2 hours.
Barbara Szántósi

Barbara

Mar, 2025Verified booking

5/5
Door to door service with a comfortable minibus. The salt mine itself is a wonder! It's not nature's forces but human hands formed those spaces we walked in, amazing! Human creativity is endless. Our guide in the mine was Victoria, a young lady. For a big group like that (30+ people) it was sometimes difficult to hear her. She was very quick in speaking, in moving as well, so she was not always waiting the end of the group.
Darrell Russell

Darrell

Mar, 2025Verified booking

5/5
It was all easy, but you might mark the van just a little more clearly. You have to be on top of it to see the number. Everything else was great. Terrific tour guide, and very interesting information given. I would definitely recommend the tour and company.
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