Yung_Beatkilla
Traveller
2 comments
Posted 10 years ago
Hey guys, I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience of travelling from northern Germany/North western Poland down to Kraków. We are planning on travelling this way in one day, starting early in the morning. This is what the railplanner app has planned for us (it says it did an offline search, not sure what that means):
09:07 Sassnitz - Stralsund
10:02 Stralsund - Neustrelitz
12:01 Neustrelitz - Berlin
13:37 Berlin - Warsaw
19:19 Warsaw - Krakow 22:52
All in all the journey takes almost 14 hours.
I have older experiences of finding intricate routes in that app and then finding out in reality that some of those trains are full or not able to get on for whatever reason.
So does anyone have any experience of travelling that part of Poland?
Cheers :)
nltrainer
Traveller
1391 comments
1. IMportant: do you intend to come into Sasnn by FERRY fran Sverige? THEN you should know this ferryport is some 6-7 kms away from Sassnitz town and NO bus. In fact pretty soon Stena will move the ferries to Warnemuende, also fran trelleborg.
2. you MUST reserve the seats for both BE-WAW (where I was last week) and for WAW-Krkw-do the last in PL and hope for the best.
BUT there are also BUSes, run by DB=German railways, direct Berlin-Wroclaw-Katowice, check times, may work out a lot better. With IR from out of DE/PL only pay RES-fee, about 5-6 eur. OR check train times for B-Dresden-Wroclaw-Krakow. However, the last stretch into Krakow from the west is extremely slow, as there are many sunken coalmines under the tracks.
There are also direct buses by Polskibus.com BERlin-Krakow-Zakopane, by day and night, with some luck and booked before can be very, very cheap, from 1 Zloty.
Use brains: most trains are never ever full-trains are not planes and I assume you have used them before. What MAY-sometimes, very rarely, happen is that SOME trains that you MUST reserve are fully booked part of the way. Even then there will be no check in, nor safety control or any check on who boards.
Yung_Beatkilla
Traveller
2 comments
Yes I was planning on taking the ferry from Sweden. Thanks for the info! I will look for other options now.
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi!
I usually use the schedule planner of [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] for general queries. However, for Poland you might use [u]http://www.rozklad-pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/pn[/u]? to get the best results, considering the ever-changing schedules due to construction works as well as information about the train's operator.
Depending on your (new) route to Germany you might also think about skipping Berlin and getting a (night) train from Swinoujscie or Szczecin directly to Krakow.
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Flo 8)
Yung_Beatkilla
Traveller
2 comments
[quote]Hi!
I usually use the schedule planner of [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] for general queries. However, for Poland you might use [u]http://www.rozklad-pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/pn[/u]? to get the best results, considering the ever-changing schedules due to construction works as well as information about the train's operator.
Depending on your (new) route to Germany you might also think about skipping Berlin and getting a (night) train from Swinoujscie or Szczecin directly to Krakow.
To support the free information and the forum on railcc, please be fair and buy your official Interrail pass via our railcc partner link: [ux]https://rail.shop/interrail[/ux]
Thank you! :)
Flo 8) [/quote]
Seems like there's a pretty cheap ferry from Ystad to Swinoujscie, might grab that one instead. Thanks!