Malopolska Region Travel Guide

For cheap places to stay there are usually people around the train station offering rooms in private houses. You have to go to Wawel (pronounced Vavel) Castle. Some say this is the heart of Poland and it is the past seat of Polish Kings. There is also a Smok (Dragon) that lives in the tunnel underneath the castle. Two day trips you have to make are 1. Oswiencim (Aushwitz). You can take a train from the center of Krakow, to within a couple of hundred meters of the front gates. You cannot miss this testament to the horrors of the Nazis and genocide. 2. Wielizcka salt mines. This is another trip possible by the efficient Polish railway system. These salt mines have been in service for hundreds of years and are now a Unesco world heritage site. As the miners took the salt out they carved statues and even a cathedral into the caves. Really amazing. Don't forget to listen to the trumpter in the main square and to have a great time. Krakow is fantastic!

How to get to Lublin from Warsaw?

TRAIN:
Many trains leave daily from the Warsaw main train station (WARSZAWA CENTRALNA). The only problem is that most of the trains are so called Fast Trains (Pociąg Pospieszny), which means there is no assigned seat and on some days (before holidays or Friday afternoon) the trains can be packed - it's wiser then to take a first class ticket as there is usually more free room. To make sure you have a reserved seat buy a ticket for a TLK Train - there is only one train a day to Lublin at about 2 pm but they have seat reservations and you can buy ticket online here:
https://bilet.intercity.pl/irez/
The trip takes 2,5 hours and ticket is about 35-40 PLN one way.

BUS:
Near the Holiday Inn Hotel (street: Al. Jana Pawła II), next to the Złote Tarasy shopping mall there is a place where small passenger buses stop - they travel regularly to Lublin but on some days like before the weekend it's wise to book by phone +48 607 66 90 80 bet. 9:00-17:00. The most popular line is CONTBUS. The trip takes about 2 hours. The ticket is about 25 PLN.

http://busy.info.pl/2,19503,40243,lublin,warszawa.html?object_id=26

An underground tourist route with a length of 400 m, was derived from XV - XVI century cellars merchant, made available to the public in 1984, raises the attractiveness of a tourist location of the municipalities and cities in the vicinity of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains.