Auschwitz Tour from Lodz

Ten-hour private trip from Łódź to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, with early hotel pickup, about 3 hours’ drive each way and a guided visit of both camps.

Tour Details

• Duration: approx. 10 hours, including up to 3.5 hours at the Memorial
• Tour type: private tour by car or minivan with an English-speaking driver
• Drive time: around 3 hours each way
• Pickup: early morning from your hotel in Łódź; drop-off in Łódź at the end of the tour
• Guide languages at the Memorial: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish
• Price: from 80 EUR per person

Description

The Auschwitz tour from Łódź is a private return trip by car that fits into about ten hours. It starts with an early morning pickup at your hotel. Around three hours later, you arrive in Oświęcim at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, and you return to Łódź the same day. Your group travels in its own air-conditioned car or minivan with an English-speaking driver.

At the Memorial, a licensed local guide accompanies you for up to three and a half hours through both parts of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. You spend around two hours in Auschwitz I and around an hour and a half in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Tickets are reserved before the tour. Once the guided visit ends, you have up to an hour for lunch or rest before the drive home.

The guide helps you understand the history behind each place on the route. You hear how the camp was established in 1940, how it expanded and how it functioned until liberation in January 1945. You also hear who was deported there: mostly Jews, along with Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war and people of other nationalities. Seen this way, the visit becomes an act of remembrance as well as a lesson in history.

Auschwitz Tour from Łódź Itinerary

1. Early morning pickup
   Your driver picks you up from your hotel in Łódź early in the morning. The pickup time is confirmed by email before the tour.
2. Drive to Oświęcim (around 3 hours)
   The journey from Łódź to Auschwitz takes about three hours in an air-conditioned car or minivan, reserved only for your group.
3. Arrival at the Memorial
   Your guide meets you on arrival, and your reserved tickets are ready. You are given headphones so you can hear the guide clearly as you walk. Every ticket is issued by name, so carry a passport or ID card.
4. Auschwitz I (around 2 hours)
   The guided route begins in Auschwitz I, set up in 1940 in former Polish army barracks on the outskirts of the town. Beneath the “Arbeit macht frei” inscription, you enter an area of brick blocks that now hold exhibitions about the deportations and the camp’s prisoners. The visit includes Block 11, the former camp prison, and the Death Wall beside it.
5. Transfer to the second camp
   Auschwitz II-Birkenau lies about 3 km from the main camp. The transfer is included in the guided visit.
6. Auschwitz II-Birkenau (around 1.5 hours)
   Birkenau was the largest part of the Auschwitz complex and the main site of the murder of European Jews. At the railway unloading ramp, among the wooden and brick barracks, and at the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria destroyed by the SS, the guide explains what took place there. The visit ends at the International Monument to the Victims.
7. Lunch break (up to 1 hour)
   After the visit, you have up to an hour for lunch or rest.
8. Drive back to Łódź (around 3 hours)
   The return journey takes around three hours, and the tour ends with drop-off in Łódź, about ten hours after it began.

Prices

Since the vehicle and driver are reserved for your group only, the price per person depends on the number of travellers and decreases as the group gets larger.

What is Included

• Hotel pickup and drop-off in Łódź
• Private car or minivan with an English-speaking driver
• Travel in a high-quality, air-conditioned minivan or minibus
• Reserved entrance tickets to Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau
• Guided visit of up to 3.5 hours at the Memorial in your chosen language

Before you go

• Reserve ahead: Guided visits at the Memorial are often booked out weeks in advance, particularly from spring to autumn. Booking early gives you a wider choice of dates and languages.
• Identity document: Tickets are issued by name, so each traveller must bring a passport or ID card.
• Bags: Bags taken into the Museum must not be larger than 30 x 20 x 10 cm. Larger items can stay in the vehicle.
• Children: The Museum does not recommend visits for children under 14.
• Walking outdoors: Much of the visit is outdoors, especially in Birkenau. Choose comfortable footwear and clothing suited to the season.
• On the road: With around six hours of driving in total, bring water and a snack for the journey.

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