Easily get from Katowice to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum with this guided tour and save time while you’re there with a skip-the-line ticket. Learn about the horrific history that took place during the Holocaust at this former concentration camp in Poland from your tour leader over headphones. This tour is limited to a group size of 30 people.

Group tour to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
Skip-the-line ticket for quick entry to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum
Bottled water and headphones for your guided tour of the site are provided
Pick-up from hotel in Katowice and transport to and from the memorial and museum

What's Included

during your tour , you will be visiting The Museum with professional guide - you will get special audio receiversrs and headphones .
Air-conditioned vehicle
All Fees and Taxes
Bottled water

Lunch

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

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Start time

Confirm time with the local provider in advance of your experience.

Opening hours

3/26/2020 - 6/2/2025
Monday - Sunday : 07:30 AM - 05:00 PM

Pickup details

For any other type of accomodation like air bnb , private appartments - etc. Pick up point is located at Mariacka 11 Street - Silesia Trip & Hotels Office

What To Expect

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
Wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Near public transportation

Infant seats available
Transportation is wheelchair accessible
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 30 travelers

Cancellation Policy

This experience is non-refundable and cannot be changed for any reason. If you cancel or ask for an amendment, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

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Reviews

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Excellent tour, two minor improvements suggested

Jodi_F, Feb 2024

The driver was punctual, friendly, a considerate driver, and very informative about what we needed to do once we arrived. The tour itself is indescribable and very informative, such a good experience, albiet a difficult one (emotionally). Two minor issues - 1. The confirmation from Viator did not have any indication of pick up time and no message from the operator about the pick up time, leaving me to message on a Sunday evening the night before the tour hoping to get a response (which thankfully I did). 2. It says that bottled water is included, but none was offered. This is a minor thing in terms of cost/value provided by the tour, but if I had known it was not included, I would have brought some with me.

Impactful experience

Rishi, Jan 2024

The ease of pick up and drop at my hotel was a convenient thing to begin with. The tour itself at Auschwitz and Birkenau is very powerful and the monument has been very well preserved. The tour guides are OK and I would recommend that you should do some reading on your end too to truly appreciate what you experience.

The Reality of Auschwitz’s Legacy

Daniel_B, Jun 2023

Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and well spoken. We experienced daily life in Auschwitz as we walked through the buildings and saw the pictures and the gas chambers and cremation areas. The depravity and sim was astounding.

Auschwitz great, tour operator not so great.

Sonia_M, May 2023

Just be wary, to ensure to get what you paid for, there’s no free water (minor detail) but also we were told to go back to the car after finishing the first museum, to be taken to the second one, so we did this leaving our hosted group to get a shuttle together and instead return to the transport. After travelling for sometime, we made a comment that we thought the museums were only 3 km apart. It was difficult to speak to the driver because the whole time he was on the mobile phone while driving, he must’ve understood us because he then asked are you going to the hotel? We replied now we were going to Birkenau (given this trip is meant to be between 9 am and 5 pm and we were back at the car around 1230. I would’ve thought this also would be obvious). The driver turned the car around and took us to Birkenau. However, we no longer had a tour guide group to go round with and had to wander round on our own reading the signs, not really the hosted /guided trip that we’d paid for and I’m sure we missed a lot of valuable information. However, the place is well worth a visit and I would definitely advise that you make the trip out to it, maybe just with a different tour operator. On the way home, the driver spent the entire journey back talking on and holding his mobile phone not particularly the best experience overall.

Great experience to live the history!

Ivette_M, Jan 2023

The pick up and experience was on time, as expected. I had the opportunity to know about the history

Wonderful experience!

Lauren_B, Oct 2022

This was the first time I had ever used Viator, or booked a tour online, and I was so impressed. The tour guide picked us up from our agreed hotel on time, and was so friendly. He knew us by name and we had a wonderful journey to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He even waited for us the whole day and was there to take us home at the end of the tour! When we arrived at the museum, everything had been arranged perfectly and we were booked onto an English speaking tour with a guide. I was so impressed by the organisation of the whole day. The guide in the museum was great and so informative. We finished our day with a lovely trip back to our hotel with the same driver, who was informative, spoke absolutely excellent English (knew all the funny slang!) and was really friendly. Thank you so much. We will recommend this company to everyone we know hoping to do the same tour.

Rough start, decent finish

Roy_G, Dec 2021

There was a mix-up on departure instructions that caused us to arrive at the wrong place two hours early. After that was straightened out the driver picked us up at the new time and at our hotel. He was a very safe and smooth driver. Tour guide at the camps was overly dramatic and made it seem like somehow the visitors were to blame for what happened.

Hier spricht das Ziel für...

Elke_R, Apr 2024

Hier spricht das Ziel für sich und bedarf wohl keiner weiteren Kommentare. Außer vielleicht, dass jede*r einmal da gewesen sein sollte. Kein leichter Ort. Der Service des Veranstalters war nicht zu übertreffen. Top! Herzlichen Dank.

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