City tours of Gdansk, Gdynia, Sopot and regional highlights

Local Tours

Discover Poland with us!

 During your stay with us you can take advantage of the following tours which are available. There must be a minimum of two people and the tour will be by car, minibus or coach depending on numbers.

1. Gdansk Old Town and Solidarity Museum

On this tour you will get to see the historical and scenic highlights of Gdansk. We will show you St. Mary's Church, the biggest brick built church in the world, the Jailing Tower, and follow the 'Royal Route' taking in the Golden Gate, the Długi Targ (Long Market), the 17th century Neptune Fountain (a famous landmark in Gdansk), and the City Hall and museum. You will walk along the charming and original Mariacka Street with it's unique architectural style and also 'Dlugie Pobrzeze' which runs alongside the Motlawa Canal. You will visit the Solidarity Museum and hear about those down-trodden shipyard workers who brought about the peaceful revolution against communism. Lastly you will visit St. Bridget's Church and see the Amber Altar built by master craftsman using the amber for which Gdansk is also famous.

2. Gdynia and Sopot

This tour includes the modern seaport of Gdynia and the resort town of Sopot. Gdynia is a young, but quickly expanding harbour city, offering many tourist attractions, splendid shopping opportunities and plenty of entertainment. There are beautiful waterfronts, marinas and yacht clubs. You will visit Koscuszki Square with it's outdoor art galleries and sculptures, the South Pier, and have a chance to go onboard the famous floating maritime museums, the 'ORP Lightning' (a Polish battlehip), and the 'Dar Pomorza' (a 'Tall Ship') from days past. There is also a fantastic sea-life aquarium.

Next we go to Sopot, a very popular seaside resort, where you can have a walk on the longest wooden pier in Europe and admire the beautiful sandy beaches. There are many colourful street cafes where you can eat and enjoy the best coffee around!

3. Malbork's Teutonic castle

Malbork is the former capital of the Teutonic Order, the 'Teutonic Knights', a fearsome monastic order of fighting monks.

Malbork Castle is a medieval marvel, a unique complex of three huge Gothic castles dating back to the last quarter of the 13th century and now a World Heritage site  and listed on the UNESCO list of unique monuments of the world. The castle, the biggest brick-built fortress in the world, is a labyrinth of tunnels, twisting towers, vaulted rooms and is surrounded by high city walls that are 4.5 metres wide. There are a wide variety of attractions to see, including temporary and permanent displays dealing with a broad range of subjects. The Museum`s highlight is the spectaclular exhibition of amber, the largest in Poland.

4. Centre for Education and Regional Promotion in Szymbark and the Kashubian Ethnographic Park in Wdzydze

We first go to Szymbark and visit the Centre for Education and Regional Promotion. They have on exhibit new and old  timber houses, even a church, a replica underground bunker as used by the partisans during WWII (Gryf Pomorski), an 'upside down' house, and a restored steam train as used to transport people to the camps in Siberia. They have the longest plank of wood in the world. It was cut from a Douglas fir measuring 36.83m and can be found in the Guinness Book of Records. Many Polish celebrities were involved in the sawing including Lech Walesa.

Next we visit the Kashubian Ethnographic Park in Wdzydze Kiszewskie, an open-air museum of old Kashubian architecture founded in 1906. The buildings were collected from the region, lovingly restored and furnished and set up as a folk village. In the area of 22 hectares there are approximately 90 buildings consisting of farmyards, manor houses, cottages, nobleman houses, a village school with a classroom, a church, a sawmill, a windmill, and a smithy.

5. Railway museum in Koscierzyna, botanical gardens in Golubie and the Kashubian Regional Museum in Kartuzy

This tour starts with the open air railway museum at Koscierzyna, which displays a huge collection of steam locomotives and railway stock, dating back to 1929, and documents the development of the railways in the region.

Then we go to Golubie and visit the famous botanical gardens and complete the tour with a visit to the Kashubian Regional museum in Kartuzy, which will introduce you to some of the intricacies of Kashubian domestic, cultural and religious traditions.

6. The sand dunes at Leba and the Hel Peninsula

We visit the Slowinski National Park, covering more than 18,000 hectares of dune, forest, water and peat environment, and sand-bars separating lakes Lebsko and Gardno from the sea. Here shifting dunes, which can reach a height up to 120m (400 feet), leave wilderness behind them; and one can feel as though in a real desert, Poland's own Sahara, with sand all the way to the horizon 

We make our way to the sandy Hel Peninsula, a unique natural landscape attraction and which some call the longest pier in Europe. On the Hel Peninsula there are the seaside resorts of Kuznica, Jurata and Jastarnia. At it's furthest point is the pretty fishing port of Hel, and a fishing museum, as well as a reminder of the last Polish bastion in the September 1939 fight with the Nazi invaders.