Meet your guides
The people who will show you around
Guiding since 2008. Trained as an artist and art historian. She specialises in English-speaking groups and themed tours, and is licensed to guide in the Rynek Underground and Schindler’s Factory.
Historian, teacher and licensed Kraków guide. His licences include the Rynek Underground and the Trail of Remembrance (Schindler’s Factory, the Eagle Pharmacy and Pomorska Street).
Why KrakKos
More than sightseeing. A story told with passion
We love this work
Kraków fascinates us and we love what we do. We put our whole heart into every tour.
Experience
We have been guiding around Kraków and the region for over a decade and we know this city inside out.
Professionalism
Official licences from the Regional Authority, and routes that are carefully researched and well prepared.
Flexibility
We work around what you want to see and fit the day to your needs. With us no two tours are the same.
Creativity
No off-the-shelf scripts. We make sure your time in Kraków is special and well spent.
Everything organised
We can plan the whole stay: tickets, transport and meals, so you can simply enjoy the city.
Openness
We are warm, we love to talk, and we genuinely respect every guest.
Tours in English
Looking for an English-speaking guide? You are very welcome, we host travellers from all over the world.
Licences and experience
A licensed Kraków guide: what it means in practice
A qualified guide is not simply someone who knows the dates. It is someone who can shape a day so that it works: choosing the order of the sights, allowing for queues, knowing when a service is on in St Mary’s Basilica and which door to use so you are not stuck in the crowd.
Several sites in Kraków require separate permits on top of general training. That applies to the Rynek Underground, Schindler’s Factory and the Trail of Remembrance, which takes in the Eagle Pharmacy and the former prison on Pomorska Street. Our guides hold those permits, and we list each guide’s identification number.
We guide in Polish and in English. English-speaking groups are something we have done for years, so the tour is not a word-for-word translation of the Polish script. It is a separate version, with different points of reference and a different choice of detail.
We work with very different groups: independent travellers, families with children, school parties, pilgrimages and companies. Each needs something else. A family does better with more legend and shorter stretches of walking, a school class with things to do along the way, a corporate group with tight timing.
A guided tour also covers the practical things that are easy to overlook: where to meet, how long to allow for getting there, whether tickets are still available for that day, where to eat near the route. That is usually the difference between a good day in the city and a stressful one.