Tatra Mountains
- Admission:Free
Good Views / Viewpoint, Nature & Wildlife, Ski & Snow, Walking/Hiking, Mountain
Tatra Mountains Reviews
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Despite the icy rain, the tour was very good. The guide was excellent; very informative and he did his best for us in poor weather conditions. Cracow Tours were excellent in both collecting us and dropping us off at our accommodation on all our trips and there were no administrative hiccups regarding paperwork.
My sister and I really enjoyed the beauty of Zakopane, a mountain resort town. Unique wooden architecture, an old cemetery with unique grave markers, and funicular to see amazing mountain views were all worthwhile. There is a nice outdoor market. Our guide Andrew was excellent, very knowledgeable indeed. However, restaurants are not uniformly welcoming and pleasant.
I like the view of Zakopane and having wonderful time there.
Although we traveled to Zakopane out of season, we were treated to an individual tour. My Dad and I were very pleased to have the experience and to know that the company stayed committed to our reservation, despite it only being us on the tour.
We were collected from our Hotel in Krakow at 9am, by our driver for the day and tour guide. We made our way by Mercedes in comfort, and our guide was informative throughout. We made a stop in Chocholow to see the traditional Highlander wooden houses, and another to sample some smoked sheep cheese, before reaching Zakopane. After visiting a wooden villa, church and cemetary, we took the funicular railway to have lunch and enjoy the breathtaking views of the still snow capped Tatras mountains including the 'Sleeping Giant'. With the temperature at 30 deg in Zakopane, the cool breeze was most refreshing. After our descent, we had time to visit the ski slopes, and also a beautiful wooden church, set in the forest. On the return to Krakow, our guide also showed us a village where Lenin would take his holidays many years before. I worthwhile trip, and a wonderful day out.
We were picked up at our hotel by our competant driver for the day and our personal guide at 9am, and spent the two or so hours drive from Krakow to Zakopane in Mercedes comfort. On the journey our guide was most informative, pointing out places of interest, birds of prey, stork's nests, and telling us some of the background and history, pertinent to our trip. We stopped at Chocholow to see the traditional wooden houses, and then made another stop at an isolated small holding to sample some Highlander smoked sheep cheese, before continuing on the road to Zakopane. Our guide seemed relieved that we were interested in the local culture, heritage and scenery, and were happy to avoid the tourist masses and associated tat as much as possible. We were shown around a remarkable wooden villa, then on to a wooden church and churchyard, the final resting place of many local heroes. Quickly bypassing the market, we took the funicular railway to have lunch taking in the views of the tatras Mountains, and 'sleeping giant'. Our guide was great company so we decided not to have free time, but invited her to have lunch with us. As the temperature in Zakopane was over 30 deg, the breeze was most welcome as we ate in the sun on the restaurant patio. Following our descent, we visited the ski slopes, and a beautiful wooden church set back from the road in the forest. On our return journey to Krakow, our guide showed us the village where Lenin liked to take his holidays. A wonderful day out.
Excellent day trip, beautiful scenery!
Gave it 4 stars because the tour guide was not organized. He did not point out our meeting spot from the start and merely said upon parting, "ok we will meet back where the bus dropped us off." Nobody remembered where that was because he hadn't told us earlier for us to observe the drop-off point.
ABSOLUTELY not to be missed....good scenery on the way and a delightful few hours visiting the beautiful mountain resort
Fantastic day. Our guide was personable and gave us a great deal of information about the area. The free time available allowed us to explore the gorgeous Zakopane at our leisure. i would greatly recommend this tour to others.
travellers from Australia
This was a good trip and the guide very informative with good English. Has spare time to wander, which was good. Would have liked a little more time at the top of the lookout, and could have, but would have had to stay without the guide as he was moving onto the town. Overall, recommended.
Dragged out completely.
You drive for 2 hours, spend forty minutes up a mountain and then an hour and a half roaming a market (without guide). Followed by a two hour drive home
We did four excursions from Krakow - this was the worst one, by far.
The cable car isn't nice at all - basically they cram people in.
DO NOT GO
Whilst everything was organized smoothly and things ran effectively. i would have liked to have spent more time looking at the historic buildings and significant sites and less time in the over-commercialised market center that had very little historical significance .
DISAPPOINTED IN THIS PLACE
The guide, Andrew, was really nice and nothing against him at all, but this tour was awful. It is also completely misleading in it's description. We did not visit the Tatra Mountains. Instead they were seen from a crowded hilltop for all of 10 minutes. Probably not a bad thing, since that hilltop was overrun with tourists, cheap souvenirs and some malnourished looking horses waiting to give rides to any poor sucker dumb enough to take the owners up on their offer.
The rest of the tour consisted of more than 3 hours to kill, which trapped in the main market or thoroughfare. Absolutely nothing in either place other than more junky stalls of cheap souvenirs (crap, all of it from what I could see) and many restaurants of less than inspiring food. Again, overrun with more or less the same amount of crowds you'd see in Krakow's Old Town.
Add to this the 3 hours it took roundtrip to get there and this was by far the biggest waste of time and disappointment of my entire week in Krakow and perhaps even my 10 years of regular trips to Europe.
If anyone here has been to Niagara Falls, and in particular Lundy's Lane, that's what Zakopane is like. But without and of the beauty of the falls itself. This tour lacked any nature or beauty completely. I'm still seething at the thought of it.
Andrew was an exceptional tour guide, willing to listen and teach us about what we were seeing. He was also a very patient person. Enjoyed it immensely
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