Coming to Poland may seem a complicated undertaking. Poland is a thriving country where young people speak English. All airports, train stations, bus stops and metro stations have signs in English. Poles are extremely friendly and helpful. Nature is breathtaking, architecture is amazing and history very rich.

If you want to visit Poland and experience all its charms, plan your trip and let Poland delight you  🙂

You wonder if you should visit Poland? Is it Worth it? We say „YES” and tell you how to plan trip to Poland.

Let’s answer a few question!

The best time to come to Poland is between May and September because of the weather. It is warm outside and all the touristy places are open. High season is from June to September. It is summer time and you can enjoy sun. All museums, restaurants and tourist attractions are open. Restaurants usually have tables outside so you can enjoy your meal sitting outside and relaxing on the sun.

Do not be afraid coming to Poland during the winter time. There is a lot of snow everywhere. You can enjoy your time in the city strolling around, drinking muled wine, visiting christmas markets and soaking atmosphere. In the mountains you can go skiing, hiking or even try dog sledging. If you like atmosphere of Christmas you can find great tour packages in reasonable prices here.

First! Book your flight to Poland.  Try to find a flight in a good price. Planning your travel to Poland start searching a few months before your estimated time of travel. You will have a chance to find a cheap flight to Poland when you will be flexible with dates. First find your flight and then plan a days off at work.

The biggest airport in Poland is in capital city – Warsaw. So try to find flight to Warsaw. However Poland has 12 international airports in smaller cities. National carrier flying to and from US and in Europe in a qiet good prices is LOT Polish Airlines. You can find flights for instance from:

• Atlanta
• Chicago
• Dallas
• Denver
• Detroit
• Houston
• Las Vegas
• Los Angeles
• Minneapolis
• New York
• Orlando
• Phoenix
• San Francisco
• Seattle
• Washington DC

Poland offers wide range of places to stay. You will find accommodation in Poland in genius 4 and 5 star hotels, guest houses and also hostels or apartments to rent. Good choice you will also find on popular websites like booking.com or AirBnB. When staying in rented apartment you can experience being as Poles. We recommend to stay in eco-friendly farms or houses in remote places in the middle of nowhere. Those kind of places usually offers food from their own farms made in a traditional way. Hosts speaks english or use a body language 🙂  They are very hospitable, you will feel as a family member. Try to use this website to book your very unique place to stay.

All those places you can book online in advance. However you have to remember that only hotels and some hostels are open 24 hours. Apartments and some hostels can have a check-in on request or the host will send you a codes to open the door.

Nowadays it is easy to travel around Poland. You can:

• travel by bus
• travel by train in Poland
• rent a car

Poland Railways are very efficient. Prices are affordable, connections fast and country is well-covered by train networks. You can buy ticket on the train station but we recommend to do it online before departure (you will get the ticket by e-mail). We reccommend to travel by train in Poland because it is the most efficent mean of transport. You can relax and admire Poland landscape.

If you want to be very mobile and independent you can rent a car at the airport. You do not need international driver license. But you have to be aware that it is different to drive in Poland then in US. Driving in Poland is a great topic for next blog article so stay tuned 🙂

Remember that roads in Poland are differrent and the average speed is 60km/h (around 40mph) so be aware that  time of driving can be longer than you expect. You have to be patient while driving  but you will have amazing views and time to enjoy your time in the car.

Poland is in European Union but you will  not pay Euro here. So the currency is Polish Złoty (PLN). The Exchange rate is around 3 to 4 złoty to one US dollar. You can find Exchange boureau (in Polish „kantor”) in cities. Avoid to exchanging money at the airports, train stations and banks.They charge big commission. You can easily withdraw money in ATM or simply pay by credit card al most everywhere (even in a small grocery stores in countryside). It is worth to have some change to pay for example for using restrooms which usually has to be paid cash. Single use of toilet cost around 3pln which is 1USD.

Poland is an affordable country where you can find accommodation in a reasonable price. It is easy to find a restaurant with traditional food and had a dinner for around 10USD with something to drink 😉 See below a few examples of prices:

• ticket to cinema theater – 6USD
• double room in 4* hotel – 80USD
• gas – 1USD/liter (4USD/gal)
• Happy Meal in McDonald’s – 3USD
• two hours tour with guide – 60USD

If you take trip to Poland, you will have to choose how to organize your stay: taking care by yourself or ask for help the local tourist agency? Programming a trip on your own, remember to choose the dates and define the route first, then to take care of transportation and accommodation.

If it sounds too complicated we can handle it! Just let us know what you are thinking of and we will tailor-made an itinerary for you. Feel uncomfortable with a dedicated, tailor-made propositions? Do you prefer to be a part of the group with the same travel enthusiasts as you? We have a plenty of tours that you can sign up for. It’s a perfect option for everyone looking for a relaxed atmosphere in small groups and assistance of professional English-speaking guides and tour leaders. We guarantee that you’ll have a chance to see all the most interesting places in Poland even if you haven’t heard much about our country before and simply don’t know what is worth visiting.

What is #must see in Poland? (click to see offers)

• Kraków
• Warsaw
• Toruń
• Bydgoszcz
• Gdańsk
• Food tour

I hope that you are already convinced to visit Poland and you know what to do to have a unforgetable trip to Poland!

Contact us and discover Poland 🙂

List two places that you think of when you think about travel to Poland… Warsaw and Krakow? These are two beautiful cities, which also offer a lot of attractions in their area.

And what if you’ve been to both places? A lot of fantastic, accessible and not very popular places await you all over Poland .. Discover unexplored! Travel to Poland and discover it’s true flavors with us ☺

If you are looking for uncrowded places, close to nature, with the best food and interesting history, you should come to Bydgoszcz and experience Kujavian-Pomeranian region. If you want to fallow motto “Poland undiscovered – go off the beaten path” go with us! In the area you will find beautiful cities with rich history, new flavors, traditional food and surprising dishes. You can sleep in the middle of nowhere in magical places. You can also visit the smallest Vineyard ever!

Below you will find a list of 8 unknown places that you would dream of after reading this! Those are our favorite places and recommendations (we put them in random order because we love all of them the same ☺)

City of legends and legendary city at the same time. City that has the most beautiful and the best preserved medieval downtown in whole Europe! Thats why it is listed on Unesco Heritage list. This is a must see in the region. In Toruń you can literally travel in time and find yourself as a medieval townsfolk.

Torun – must see

During your stay in Toruń you can taste and make yourself a famous Torun gingerbraed. There is a Living Museum of Gingerbread which offers a workshop with making your own gingerbread with great stories about this tasty cookie.

Climb the Torun Town Hall Tower to admire the view of the whole city from different perspective.

All Torun tours you will find here ☺

The town is stretching on the nine hills with view on Vistula river. Chełmno, which is one of the cities of the European Route of Brick Gothic features an old Cistercian-Benedictine monastery and as many as six gothic churches. Chełmno, thanks to the medieval walls and historic sites, is called the “Polish Carcassonne” or the “Little Krakow”.

Chelmno – city of lovers

Usually called “city of lovers”. On the Valentines day tere is a big celebration and festivities. You cannot leave Chełmno without a symbolic kiss on the Bench of Lovers, which is supposed to bring happiness in love. The bench is located in the Nowe Planty city park, next to the city walls, not far from the promenade. It is worth going for a walk around Planty and admire the view and atmosphere.

You can also combine visiting Chełmno with other places. We offer Chełmno and Torun tour. If you prefer natural sites and polish local wine you better choose Chelmno and vineyard tour.

It is absolutely a magical place with stunning view for Lower Vistula Valley.Vistula is a queen of Polish rivers as we Poles call it. This is the longest river in Poland.

Vineyard is only 33 km North from Bydgoszcz so it is a fantastic option for one day tour. You can admire the view while sipping a wine and warm your face in the sun strolling between grapevines.

The polish vineyard Przy Talerzyku refers to the history of Kuyavian-Pomeranian wine growing and monastery tradition of wine making dating back to the beginning of the 13th century.

Wine production from hand-picked and selected fruit. This boutique wine production, in which everything has its own rhythm and the sequence of events is the result of a lifetime passion for creation.

Do you want to see the view from Vineyard? Simply click here.

Kujavian and Pomeranian region has an amazing places to stay overnight. You can choose an agritourism spots. They offer accommodation in a beautiful surroundig but also a very homey atmosphere. Very often those places have some animals like chickens, goats, cows, horses. Usually owners have fruit trees or grow some vegetables. Then hosts offers meals made of their own products. Kids have fun feeding the animals and ta king care about plants. Adults can just relax in the atmosphere of slow life in the harmony with nature.

Frymark is a famous farmers marketwith regional products. Frymark takes place in Bydgoszcz every Sunday in the city center. At the market you can find regional products, both food and handicrafts. Regional and eco-friendly farmers and craftsmen come to the city and sell their products. These include meats, cheeses, cakes, fruit, juice, honey, preserves as well as clothes, jewelry, small home furnishings. Frymark is an absolutely unique place where you can get to know regional food, taste it, take it home with you. Remember the taste and smell of Poland.

Our guides will take you there!

What to do in Inowrocław? Another city in our list of favorite places in the region. Extraordinary city with interesting history and … very salty!

What to do in Inowrocław? Inowrocław has rich deposits of rock salt, which have been mined here since ancient times, hence the term “city on salt”. However, since the closure and flooding of the “Solino” mine, salt has not been mined in the traditional way. The city is a military garrison. In the city, the highly mineralized water “Inowrocławianka”, which is reportedly the most salty drinking water sold in Poland, is being poured. There are also graduation towers in the brine park.

You can visit region in a few days participating the tour ☺

Every year we have two food festivals in Poland which take placenear Bydgoszcz. The Local Food Festival in Gruczno takes place in August and the Plum Festival at the beginning of September. Both festivals are a great opportunity to try Polish food, visit stands with products from organic farms and also to admire the handicrafts.

Are you interested in other food festivals in Poland? Let us know! It’s not the coincidence that our name is Tasty Tours!

Local Food Festival takes place in Gruczno. Just 40 km north from Bydgoszcz. Every year in August over 150 stalls with food and craft is open for two day (always on the Weekend). You can find tere whatever you need and whatever you want to taste. Farmers offer meat, fish, bread, sweets, cakes, preserves, product from milk like cheese, yoghurt and so on. You can find tere also fruits, juices or even whole dishes. Local folk artists offer they art. They sell clothes, jewelry, decorations, tools, pots, home furnishings and many more.

Plum Festival sounds weird but it is two days full of plums ☺ Everything is about plums. Strzelce Dolne is 20 km from Bydgoszcz nearby the Vistula river. This is a real capital of plum for about 200 years. And the unique taste of the jam is due to the growing in the climate of the Lower Vistula Valley “Hungarian plum”, processed by housewives in a variety of ways. All participants of the event can see how frying jam in traditional boilers looks like and taste the old country cuisine. Each participant will be able to experience how much of love the housewives put in pots with real plum jam. You can also find other regional delicacies at the stands, including tinctures – such as the creamer known in Krajna and Pałuki, among others, cold meats are also popular – healthy, because without preservatives. It is worth appearing at the Plum Festival. It is a unique opportunity to look at the process of frying jam, but also to taste honey, cured meat and bread with lard.

Are you curious? See what we offer.

Kujawsko – pomorskie province is totally unknown place on the map of Poland but it doesn’t mean it is not interesting. There are a lot of things to do and to see. The huge advantage is calm atmosphere and real locality! See the website of Kujawsko-Pomorskie region and inspire to discover Poland undiscovered!

Do you plan trip to Poland and wondering what to see here? We have many ideas that you may like!  We know many more places and events with unique character.

Are you interested in travel to Poland? Let us know!

Daria and Aneta