Tickets & Tours
Auschwitz-Birkenau English speaking tours and tickets
Book your English-speaking guided tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial here. Here you will get an overview of all types of tours and prices. Whether alone, in pairs or with a group, whether for 3,5 or 6 hours, here you will get all the information you need.
English speaking tours with guide from Krakow
Duration: 6,5 hours
1,5 hours arrival from Krakow (Pick up from the hotel)
3,5 hours guided English-speaking tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site
1,5 hours transfer back to Krakow
Adults
60 € per person
Students (up to 26 years)
55 € per person
Children up to 12 years (without headphones)
35 € per person
- Tour of the "Stammlager" with guide (2h)
- Tour of Birkenau camp with guide (1,5h)
Tour with English speaking guide
The tour includes:
– Pick up from the hotel or an agreed meeting point.
– Transfer from Krakow to the memorial in an air-conditioned minibus (1.5 h)
– English speaking guided tour of Auschwitz I (2 h)
– transfer to Auschwitz II camp
– English speaking guided tour of Auschwitz II (1.5 h)
– Return trip to Krakow (1.5 h)
Departure from Krakow will be from an agreed meeting point or directly from your hotel, depending on arrangements.
Upon arrival, an English-speaking guide will lead you through the main camp (Auschwitz I). The tour starts at the gate with the cynical inscription “Arbeit macht frei”. For better comprehension of the explanations, each participant will be equipped with a group guide system. This is an audio-radio system where each listener receives a small receiver and headphones to which the tour is transmitted via microphone. This allows for an uninterrupted tour even in the most confined spaces.
The tour program includes prisoner blocks with permanent exhibitions documenting the process of extermination in the concentration camp, as well as the “Wall of Death” and Crematorium I with gas chamber.
The guided tour of the main camp lasts 2 hours. Afterwards a shuttle bus will take you to the Birkenau camp (Auschwitz II), the place of systematic extermination.
At the railroad ramp, where the transports of deportees arrived, the “process” of selection will be explained to you. The ruins of gas chambers II and III with crematoria, ponds with ashes of hundreds of thousands of people and prisoners’ barracks are another part of the tour of Birkenau camp, which lasts about 1.5 hours.
After the sightseeing we will return to Krakow, the whole tour lasts 6.5 hours.
- Tickets for English speaking tours
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SIGHTSEEING FROM KRAKOW WITHOUT GUIDE
Duration: 6,5 hours
1,5 hours arrival from Krakow
3,5 hours independent tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site
1,5 hours transfer back to Krakow
Adults
40 € per person
Students (until 26 years)
35 € per person
Children from 5-12 (without headphones)
35 € pro Person
- Tour of the "Stammlager" without guide (2h)
- Tour of Birkenau camp without guide (1,5)
Tour from Krakow without guide
The tour includes:
– Pick up from the hotel or an agreed meeting point
– Transfer from Krakow to the memorial site in an air-conditioned minibus (1.5 h)
– Drive to the Auschwitz II camp
– Return to Krakow (1.5 h)
Departure from Krakow will be from an agreed meeting point or directly from your hotel, depending on the arrangement. Travel time from Krakow to Oswiecim is about 1.5 hours.
You will start your independent tour without a group and without a guide in the main camp at the gate with the cynical inscription “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work makes you free”).
The tour includes prisoner blocks with permanent exhibitions documenting the process of extermination in the concentration camp as well as the “Wall of Death” and Crematorium I with gas chamber.
The tour of the main camp takes about 2 hours. Afterwards, a shuttle bus will take you to the Birkenau camp (Auschwitz II), the place of systematic extermination. For the visit of the “ramp”, the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria, the prisoners’ barracks and the so-called sauna you have to plan about 1.5 hours.
After the sightseeing we will return to Krakow, the whole tour takes about 6,5 hours.
- Tickets for individual tour without guide
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VISIT WITHOUT GUIDE
(independent arrival)
Tour without guide and own arrival
An individual tour of the memorial is free of charge.
The Birkenau camp (Auschwitz II) can be visited without registration and without tickets during opening hours.
Access to the main camp (Auschwitz I) is limited due to the large number of visitors. It is also possible to purchase tickets on site at the ticket offices. Please note, however, that you will receive a timed ticket and that it may take 1-2 hours before you are admitted.
Therefore, it is recommended to order the tickets as early as possible.
Viewing Times
Visiting times for an individual tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial without a guided tour.
- Tickets if you arrive on your own - sightseeing without guide
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VISIT FOR GROUPS
Group tour with English speaking guide
For groups, the memorial’s visitor service offers the following tour options.
A 4-hour guided tour of the main camp (Auschwitz I) only, a 2.5-hour guided tour for the main camp and Birkenau, a 3.5-hour guided tour also for the main camp and Birkenau, a 6 or 8-hour guided tour also for the main camp and Birkenau, and a two-day tour with a total of 8 hours (4h+4h).
- Tickets for English speaking groups guided tours