travel info

Your arrival

By plane:

• The John Paul II International Airport Krakow-Balice
  
  This is the most convenient option.
  
  The City Centre can be easily reached by public transport. You should take the bus number 192 and get off at "AGH" bus stop. From there you will have to take a 10 minute walk along the University buildings to your accommodation. The bus leaves approx. every 20 minutes and the journey should not take longer than half an hour. For details see The Public Transport in the City section below.
  
  he Krakow Airport has direct flights to/from: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bonn/Cologne, Budapest, Copenhagen, Chicago, Dortmund, Dublin, Frankfurt, Glasgow, London, Milan, Munich, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rome, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Vienna, Zurich
  
  The Airport website: http://www.lotnisko-balice.pl/
  
  
• Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport
  
  After arriving in Warsaw you will have to take the bus line 175 to get to the Central Railway Station. The InterCity trains to Krakow leave every hour and the journey takes about 3h. The cost of the ticket is approx. 60zl (17 Euro). At the train station in Krakow you should take bus no. 501 and get off at "AGH - Miasteczko Studenckie" bus stop.
  
  The Warsaw Airport website : http://www.lotnisko-chopina.pl/?lang=en
  The railways website and schedules: http://www.pkp.com.pl/

Railway:

Krakow has direct railway links with Berlin, Budapest, Bucharest ,Hamburg, Kiev, Lviv, Prague, Vienna, ¯ilin. All trains stop at the Main Railway Station.
At train station in Krakow you should take bus no. 501 and get off at "AGH - Miasteczko Studenckie" bus stop.

The railways website and schedules: http://www.pkp.com.pl/

Public Transport in the City (MPK)

The accommodation for the participants will be provided in the AGH University of Science and Technology Campus. The Conference halls can be reached 5 minute walk from the dormitories. The walk to the Old Town takes about 20 minutes.

However you may like to use the public transport to get to Campus from an airport or the railway station.

Tickets valid on trams and buses can be purchased in kiosks and, with a surcharge, from the driver. The following types of tickets are available:

• single-trip (allows one way trip, without interchange),
• night ticket (allows one way trip by night buses, without interchange),
• group tickets for up to 15 or 20 persons, one-hour (valid for unlimited travel for one hour on trams and buses, non-invalid on night buses)
• 24-hour (valid for unlimited travel for 24 hours on trams, buses and night buses), 48-hour (valid for unlimited travel for 48 hours on trams, buses and night buses) ,
• 72-hour (valid for unlimited travel for 72 hours on trams, buses and night buses).

All types of tickets should be validated in the ticket validator immediately after boarding a vehicle. Please note that the reduced rates are unavailable for foreigners.

Prices (normal rate in PLN):

• Single trip - 2,50
• Night ticket - 5,00
• Group of up to 15 people - 21,00
• Group of up to 20 people - 24,00
• One hour pass - 3,10
• 24-hour pass - 10,40
• 48-hour pass - 18,80
• 72-hour pass - 25,00

Emergency contacts

Ambulance:999
Police: 997
Fire Brigade: 998
All emergencies, calling from a mobile telephone: 112