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Auschwitz & Birkenau: 7-Hour Guided Tour from Krakow with Pickup

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Duration7h

GroupUp to 30

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

Two camps, one day: what the Auschwitz-Birkenau tour covers in seven hours

You're picked up from your Krakow hotel and driven to Auschwitz, where a licensed guide takes you through the barracks, watchtowers, and gas chambers. After lunch, you travel 5 kilometers to Birkenau, the larger second camp, and tour its grounds before returning to your hotel. The full day is seven hours, including transport and a meal.

Step-by-step itinerary

Hotel pickup in Krakow
Drive to Auschwitz (70 km)
Guided tour of Auschwitz camp
Lunch break and drive to Birkenau (5 km)
Visit Birkenau camp
Drive back to Krakow

The Experience

The minivan picks you up at your Krakow hotel and drives 70 kilometers south to Auschwitz. By the time you arrive, the camp's perimeter is already visible — barbed wire, watchtowers, the brick buildings that still stand. Your licensed English-speaking guide from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum meets you at the entrance and walks you through the barracks, the gallows, and the gas chambers. Founded in April 1940, Auschwitz became the site of systematic extermination through starvation, disease, and murder. The guide is trained to handle this sensitively, moving through the evidence at a pace that lets you absorb what you're seeing.

Around midday you break for lunch — a sandwich, water, an apple, a chocolate bar — before the 5-kilometer drive to Birkenau, the second camp. Birkenau is ten times larger than Auschwitz and was built later as a killing center. The scale of it hits differently. The barracks stretch across the grounds, and the remnants of the crematoria sit in the open. Your guide continues the narrative here, grounding the numbers and the history in the physical space you're standing in. The tour of Birkenau takes up the second half of the day.

The whole thing — pickup, both camps, lunch, the drive back to your hotel — runs seven hours. If your booking is made last-minute and English guides are fully booked, the operator will substitute a guide in another available language and provide you with an English guide book and lunchbox as compensation. The minivan is air-conditioned. Children under 14 are not recommended for this tour, though there's no official age restriction; the museum leaves that judgment to families. Dietary restrictions for the lunch box are accommodated — vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free options are available.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and drop-off in Krakow, round-trip transport by air-conditioned minivan, licensed English-speaking guide from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, entry to both Auschwitz and Birkenau camps, lunch (sandwich, water, apple, chocolate bar with dietary accommodations available), and professional guidance through the barracks, watchtowers, gas chambers, and grounds of both sites.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePublic transport nearby

Operated by ComFort Tours Cracow

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to visit both camps in one structured day without arranging transport, entry, or timing yourself — the seven-hour format fits both sites and the 70-kilometer distance into a single departure from your hotel.