10-Nights Christmas Markets of Poland from $2,795

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Christmas Markets Of Poland
Celebrate the season in Poland as you journey through Warsaw, Gdansk, Torun, Poznan, Wroclaw and Kraków, discovering Christmas markets, city legends and local traditions along the way. You’ll explore with Local Specialists who share stories of Poland’s heritage, from Gothic Old Towns to royal castles and medieval market squares. Enjoy a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience at Wroclaw’s oldest confectionery as you try traditional doughnuts. Browse for Boleslawiec pottery, Torun gingerbread and Kraków crafts and warm up with hearty Polish dishes, returning home with festive memories, local flavors and thoughtful gifts.

Dining Summary

4 Dinner (D)
10 Breakfast (B)
1 Lunch (L)

Must-see Highlights

Explore Warsaw, Gdansk, Torun, Poznan, Wroclaw and Kraków
Visit the Old Town in Warsaw, the European Solidarity Center, the UNESCO World Heritage town of Torun, the Cloth Hall and St. Mary's Church in Kraków and the former concentration camp of Auschwitz
View Salt Square and the Old Town Hall in Wroclaw, the Old Market Square in Poznan and Kraków’s szopki nativity scenes

How You'll Travel

Deluxe coach travel
Selected hotel dinners plus a locally hosted meal
4-star stays

Iconic Experience

Gdansk: Spend the day exploring Gdansk, one of the oldest cities in Poland.
Gdansk: Gain incredible insights into a turbulent time in Poland's history and the importance of freedom, citizenship, democracy and solidarity at the state-of-the-art European Solidarity Center in Gdansk.
Torun: Discover Torun on a guided city tour with a Local Specialist, exploring its UNESCO-listed Old Town and Gothic brick streets along the Vistula. See the house linked with Nicolaus Copernicus and former merchants’ homes, then learn why the city is famous for its spiced gingerbread, still sold in shops and stalls around the historic center.
Poznan: Discover Poznan on a guided city tour with a Local Specialist, from Cathedral Island and Poland’s oldest cathedral to the cobbled lanes of the Old Town. Step into Stary Rynek to see the Renaissance town hall and hear the story of the city’s goats that appear above the square’s clock tower.
Wroclaw: Discover the rich history of the city of Wroclaw.
Auschwitz: Bear witness to the horrors/atrocities of the Holocaust at Auschwitz.
Kraków: Walk around the beautiful town square, Rynek Glówny. See the famous Sukiennice Cloth Hall, St. Mary's Basilica and the many historic townhouses, palaces and churches.

10 nights from $2,795 per person

Itinerary

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Itinerary Details

Trafalgar Tours: Christmas Markets of Poland

Day 1 - Welcome to Warsaw
Welcome to Warsaw, the Polish capital, known for its rebuilt Old Town, grand squares and rich musical heritage. During the festive season, Christmas markets and illuminated street displays fill the city with lights, music and the scent of spiced treats. After settling into your hotel, meet your Travel Director and fellow travelers, then head out together to enjoy your first dinner in the city.
Accommodations: Crowne Plaza The Hub
Meals: Dinner

Day 2 - Christmas in Warsaw
Start the day with a sightseeing tour of Warsaw with your Local Specialist, taking in the restored Old Town, the Palace of Culture and Science, the Chopin Memorial and the Ghetto Heroes Monument. Later, visit the Christmas markets in the Old Town Square, where stalls, decorations and a seasonal light display fill the historic center. This evening, you can choose to join an Optional Experience to enjoy a live Chopin recital — a chance to hear the music of Poland’s most famous composer performed in the city he once called home.
Accommodations: Crowne Plaza The Hub
Meals: Breakfast

Day 3 - Onwards to Coastal Gdansk
Travel north from Warsaw towards the Baltic coast, passing farmland, forests and small towns as Poland’s landscape shifts around you. Your journey brings you to Gdansk, a historic port city shaped by trade, amber and its position on the sea. Walk the Royal Route to the Long Market, where colorful facades frame the festive stalls. Browse local crafts, warm up with seasonal treats and take in the glow of Gdansk’s Christmas markets.
Accommodations: Dwor Arche
Meals: Breakfast

Day 4 - Christmas in Gdansk
Set out with your Local Specialist to get to know Gdansk, from its colorful facades to the stories of the shipyards, then visit the European Solidarity Center to learn about the Solidarity movement and modern Polish history. In the afternoon you may choose an Optional Experience to Malbork Castle one of the largest brick castles in the world and a stronghold of the Teutonic Knights. If you stay in the city, use your free time to visit a museum, browse amber shops or warm up in a cafe near the Christmas lights. This evening, you could join an Optional Experience dinner to sample local dishes and hear how Gdansk’s brewing traditions have shaped the beers poured here today.
Accommodations: Dwor Arche
Meals: Breakfast

Day 5 - Onto Torun & Poznan
Stop in Torun, a UNESCO-listed medieval city on the Vistula founded by Teutonic Knights and known for its Gothic brick architecture. Join a Local Specialist for a walk through the Old Town, passing the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus and former merchants’ houses. Then visit the Christmas markets to try Torun’s famous gingerbread before continuing through Greater Poland to Poznan, with its colorful Old Town and Renaissance town hall, where you’ll spend the evening.
Accommodations: Sheraton
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 6 - Christmas in Poznan
Join a Local Specialist to visit Poznan’s cathedral, the oldest in Poland and burial place of the country’s first rulers. Continue with a walking tour around the Stary Rynek, the Old Market Square, where historic facades frame the Christmas market. Hear the legend of Poznan’s famous goats and spot their symbols around the square. Afterwards, enjoy free time to browse the stalls, visit a museum, warm up with a hot drink or try a St. Martin’s croissant from a local bakery.
Accommodations: Sheraton
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 7 - Onto Lower Silesia & Wroclaw
Join a Local Specialist for a sightseeing tour of Wroclaw, taking in the main Market Square, the Gothic Old Town Hall and the neighboring Salt Square. Later, you’ll head to the Christmas market to browse the stalls and look out for Boleslawiec pottery. This afternoon, you may choose to join an Optional Experience to discover more of Wroclaw’s treasures, including the Raclawice Panorama.
Accommodations: Novotel Centrum
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 8 - Wroclaw Your Way
Enjoy a full day to explore Wroclaw at your own pace. You might return to the Christmas market for any last-minute gifts, search for the city’s dwarf statues, visit a museum or warm up in a local cafe. You can also consider joining an Optional Experience to Ksiaz Castle and UNESCO-listed Swidnica Church of Peace.
Accommodations: Novotel Centrum
Meals: Breakfast

Day 9 - Venture to Auschwitz and on to Kraków
Travel to the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum for a guided visit of the former Nazi concentration camp, preserved as a memorial to the people imprisoned and killed here during the Holocaust. Afterwards, continue to Kraków, the former royal capital. This evening, you may choose to join an Optional Experience to a local restaurant for a farmhouse-style dinner with traditional food, live music and polka dancing.
Accommodations: Golden Tulip Krakow City Center
Meals: Breakfast

Day 10 - Christmas in Kraków
Begin the day with an Optional Experience to the Wieliczka Salt Mine, exploring its underground chapels and carved salt chambers. Later, join a Local Specialist for a tour of Kraków, viewing the Royal Castle and Cathedral on Wawel Hill. Continue on foot through the Old Town to see Kraków’s szopki nativity scenes, the Cloth Hall and St. Mary’s Church. You’ll then have time at the Christmas market in the Main Market Square, your final chance to pick up gifts and Polish souvenirs. This evening, share dinner with your Travel Director and fellow travelers and raise a glass to your Christmas markets journey through Poland.
Accommodations: Golden Tulip Krakow City Center
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 11 - Farewell Kraków
Bid farewell to Kraków, your Travel Director and fellow travelers after your festive journey through Poland’s Christmas markets.
Meals: Breakfast

Featured Destinations

Krakow

Wroclaw

Poznan

Set on the banks of the Warta River 165 mi/270 km west of Warsaw, 1,000-year-old Poznan, Poland, blends Gothic and baroque in much of its architecture.

Highlights of this industrialized city include the 10th-century Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Gorka's Palace (that houses the Archaeological Museum), the Greenhouse (10 pavilions that contain more than 17,000 plants), Raczynski Library, the Opera House and the Museum of Musical Instruments (it houses Chopin's pianos). In Old Town Square, a crowd gathers on the hour to watch the clock on the old town hall that dates from 1550.

Poznan has all the requisite charm Americans typically look for when traveling in Europe. Its vibrant Old Town bustles with outdoor bars, restaurants and shops, and the Royal Imperial Route walking trail wends past historical and cultural attractions.

In warm weather, the Old Market Square comes alive with shops and outdoor entertainment, and during the winter holidays, it becomes the site of a picturesque Christmas market, with everything from local crafts to regional food and drink.

There is a modern side to Poznan, too, evidenced by the dramatic, multicolored Freedom Fountain sculpture in Plac Wolnosci that turns colors at night, and the Stary Browar (or Old Brewery) shopping center, a combination art and retail space. Familiar franchises such as Starbucks and Zara may not appeal to visitors, but the center's artful renovation bespeaks the attitude of a city eager to preserve its heritage while moving aggressively into the next century.

One of the Poznan's most notable geographical features is Malta Lake, host to international rowing regattas as well as a place to rent boats or visit a water park. For families, there is an outdoor amusement park, minigolf and even an artificial ski slope, for visitors who can't wait for winter.

In addition, Poznan, located about halfway between Warsaw and Berlin, is accessible from either city in about three hours by train, and flights from Berlin to Warsaw offer additional flexibility for travelers who want to start in one city and depart from another.

Finally, like many parts of Poland, Poznan is a bargain. The country has not yet adopted the euro, and while some aspects of the tourism infrastructure are more advanced than others, it is not hard to find hotels and restaurants that are up to, but priced below, Western European standards.

Poznan is also home to the Poznan International Fair, which is a large exhibition and trade center that hosts numerous events during the year. For a schedule of these events, see http://www.mtp.pl.

Gdansk (Gdynia)

Historic Gdansk represents one of the richest, most lavish complexes of architectonic relics in Poland. The entrances to historic quarters are huge stone gateways guarding the main thoroughfare; the well-proportioned tower of town hall makes a powerful impact. The main square is filled with fine mansions. St. Mary’s Church is the world's largest brick church, with a capacity of 25,000. Dominating the waterside is seven-story Great Mill. Gdynia is the modern port for Gdansk. Near Gdansk is Sopot, one of the most fashionable seaside resorts in northern Europe during the 19th century and the country’s most popular health spa with its beach and flair for entertainment. Sopot is known as an important music center, featuring an annual Opera and International Song Festival. Gdansk Historical Museum has lavish decorations and fascinating exhibits. Maritime Museum features a model of every ship produced in local shipyards since 1945 and is housed in the massive 15th-century Gdansk Crane. National Art Museum, one of Gdansk’s highlights, boasts a collection of Gothic art and sculpture.

Excursions

Gdansk - Window to Freedom - Half Day Tour

A Pulsating Harbour - Gdansk/Gdynia/Sopot - Full Day Tour

A Pulsating Harbour - Tri-City Complex: Gdanks/Gdynia/Sopot

Gdansk, as fascinating and special city as one could hope to find anywhere, was once known as Danzig - name etched deep in European history. It is a major harbour, first German, then Hanseatic, Polish, Prussian, Free City and finally Polish. Desired by many, the city was often fought over. Indeed, it was the nearby Westerplatte that the first shots of history’s greatest war were fired in 1939. Later in the late 1970s the city’s Lenin Shipyard saw the birth of the Solidarity Trade Union, which made Lech Walesa a household name and began the process of transformation across the entire region. Gdansk has not forgotten its history. The lovingly restored buildings of the Old Town and waterfront provide picturesque and interesting surroundings, in which one may take a stroll, dine or shop for the city’s famous amber jewelry. In turn, the impressive Monument to Murdered Shipyard Workers gives the visitor a pause for thought about all that has happened since the 1970s.But further surprises await, for Gdansk is just the largest component of the Tri-City of Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot. North-south development along the coast left beautiful and unspoiled woods and forests on hills just inland, and allows the visitor to travel smoothly from place to place by road or by local railway. Required stops for all include Gdynia, the lively naval, fishing and commercial port with its historical ships, beaches and the Oceanographic Museum; Sopot, an elegant beach resort of villas and hotels famous for its musical and cultural festivals; and Gdansk-Oliwa, a suburb boasting beautiful parks and a cathedral, whose world-famous organ Poland-largest entertains and entrances all who hear it. Lively, attractive, cultured, historical: the Gdansk area is as varied and eternally fascinating as the sea, which brought its fame and fortune.

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You will be picked up at the port by your guide and driver.

Gdansk & Stutthof - Full Day Tour

Gdansk & Stutthof

Full Day Tour

We start the tour from the Upland Gate - a fragment of the city's fortifications and one of its main gates. Just behind it, we pass by a baked-brick construction consisting of the Prison Tower and the Torture House - relics of the Gothic defence walls from the 15th century. The Golden Gate, situated next to the Prison Tower, opens onto the Long Market - a magnificent street, with Patrician mansions decorated with late Renaissance and Baroque facades - a real feast for the eyes!!! It is here that the richest burghers of Gdansk used to live. Next, we can see the Main Town Hall, with a life-sized figure of king Sigismund Augustus on the top. Beyond the Main Town Hall, we admire the Artus Court - a building used for Hanseatic League meetings, the most beautiful court in all the Hanseatic cities. Just behind it rises the tower of St. Mary's Basilica, a part of the most precious and largest red-brick Gothic church. On our way back we pass by Mariacka Street, with its gabled terraced houses and elegant boutiques, leading to the Long Wharf on the Motlawa River. At the river's edge stands the characteristic Gdansk Crane, where the tour ends.

Afterwards, drive to see the former Nazi Concentration Stutthof Camp established at the beginning of September 1939 is the oldest camp of mass-extermination in Poland. The first prisoners of camp thought for "desirable Polish elements" were representatives of Polish associations in Free City of Danzig. Within the 5 years of camp existance 110.000 mens, women and children were kept and almost 65.000 prisoners died as result of murdering in gas chambers, beating, hanging, torturing and making medical tests by Nazi mad scientists. Stutthof was freed at the beginning of May 1944 by troops of the Soviet Army.

Nowadays there is the National Museum of Stutthof established in 1962 including post-camp buildings, prisoners' barracks, gas chambers, crematory, gallows. There is also permament exhibition dedicated to prisoners of Stutthof inside post-camp buildings.

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You will be picked up at your port by our guide and driver.

Gdansk: Gdansk & Sopot – 5 hours

Warsaw

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11/28/2027 - 12/08/2027

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11/30/2027 - 12/10/2027

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12/02/2027 - 12/12/2027

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12/04/2027 - 12/14/2027

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12/06/2027 - 12/16/2027

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12/08/2027 - 12/18/2027

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12/10/2027 - 12/20/2027

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* This departure has been designated a guaranteed departure by the operator, meaning that the minimum number of guests has been met, although still subject to weather and other conditions.

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