jomagpie

Hello all,

I'm going on a trip in the Fall to the following cities Budapest (1 week), Krakow (4 days), and Warsaw (2 days). What would be a good daily budget for each of these cities? Would roughly €120/day suffice? (this is minus accommodation)

Thanks!

jomagpie

€120/day will have to include: food, drinks, sightseeing, local transportation, souvenir shopping, etc.

Sher

You will really have to try hard to spend E120 daily in Krakow.
Even in Budapest I found things to be reasonable but not as reasonable as Krakow.
Didn't visit Warsaw so I cannot comment.

Of course souvenirs are in a different category as I expect you might find some hand crafted things that might run your tab up a little. I didnt' buy many souvenirs.

Sher

p.s For example the Schlinger Factory museum in Krakow, which I highly recommend, costs about $5.
Try also to go to Underground Rynek. The excavations under the Cloth Hall. Very neat.

adrienne

I wish I had your budget!!! I guess you're going to do a lot of shopping.

I'm not sure why you're quoting Euros when you live in Canada and are going to 2 countries that do not use the Euro. E120 is 166 CAD.

Here are some examples of prices for Krakow (in PLN).
Cathedral ticket 12
Basilica ticket 11
Salt Mine tour 100
Glass of wine in square 12
Lunch in square 23
Lunch/Dinner 23 to 62
Wawel (incl reservation fee) 57

Hope this helps.

jomagpie

Thanks for the info!!

@adrienne: quoting in Euro bc a lot of prices are listed in Euro rather than CDN when looking up stuff

jomagpie

@adrienne: did you do the Wawel 'tour'?? Are you able to reserve tickets ahead of time, instead of waiting in line on the morning of?

Thanks very much!

adrienne

I saw the State Rooms and Royal Apartments at Wawel. If you've seen castles and palaces you might want to skip this one. Nothing special. If you are new to castles and palaces then see it. The State Rooms are self paced and the Royal Apts are docent led.

You can reserve tickets ahead for about 16PLN. Read my trip report about Wawel (it's a long report so you might want to search on Wawel). It will give you a lot of information about this area of Krakow and you're gonna need that information. The Polish TIs are not very forthcoming.

BTW it's pronounced VA-vel, not wa-well as a friend of mine keeps calling it.

I'll be back to Krakow this fall too. When are you going? If you're not comfortable putting dates on the internet just send me an email (see my profile for my email).

http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...-report.cfm?95

BigRuss

A dinner budget of 62 PLN for two would feed you quite well, even near Rynek Glowny.

Christina

I never spend that much money in those places, but I rarely do anywhere, even more expensive cities (for the things you name). But the big quesiton no one can answer is that you want to include souvenirs in your budget and no one knows what that means to you and how much you spend on them. For the other things, you can easily get by for 100 euro a day, I'd say (or less).

jomagpie

@Adrienne: read your report, very detailed! Thank you, def provides good-to-know info

I'll be there in October, staying in the Kazimierz part of town. So much to see in 4 days, I have to start making a must-see list.

@Christina & Big Russ: thanks for the info!