Auschwitz Memorial Avis 

I highly recommend booking the Auschwitz tour directly with the museum on their website, as they are the only people who can secure your spot. Many of the private tours cancel last minute. I booked the English tour for around £20 per person for 3.5hrs. This was a really detailed and informative tour, and public transport to the museum is frequent from Krakow and shuttle buses from the museum.

I’m seeing all these negative reviews and I’m flabbergasted. I believe everyone should do this tour at least once in their lives! It is such an important time in history that we should keep alive. From my own experience, what happened during the Second World War now means so much more after having experienced the horrors that happened in Auschwitz & Birkenau. Our tour guide, Ziggy, was wonderful and he deserves a mention. We all had headphones and a machine that connected to Ziggy’s microphone so no matter how far away you were standing, you could hear everything he had to say.

History is an incredibly difficult subject to give, and I can only imagine how difficult it is to talk about what went on in Auschwitz & Birkenau during the war. Ziggy sometimes seemed to be touched by the stories he told us which only added to our experience. He explained everything so well and with so much passion and emotion that we were all able to follow him very clearly, and experience his stories ourselves.

Auschwitz is a horrible place to be, let’s keep it realistic. You’ll go into the original buildings, see original human remains, pictures, numbers, hear personal stories of people who lived and died there in horrible circumstances, etc. But, it is so incredibly important that you visit, learn, remember, and keep the stories alive.

Super dårlig oplevelse.
Vi har været der for 12 år siden, hvor man måtte gå alene og bearbejde alle de indtryk det gav, man kunne gå ind alle stederne og se og læse.
Denne gang var det tvunget tur med guide, vi blev hastet igennem alt ting. Vi så ikke halvdelen af stedet og vores guide kunne dårligt engelsk vi var 30 plus mennesker på turen plus alle de andre kæmpe store grupper. Så dårlig en oplevelse, pengemaskiner rent ud sagt! Så syndt de ikke har bibeholdt det som det var engang, så man kan få lov til at suge til sig af oplevelser og indtryk.

Ingen tid til at læse og få indtrykkene ind. Du SKAL følge en guide, du SKAL have høretelefoner på, ikke muligt at gå som familie og snakke om tingene, og kigge ordentligt. Haster igennem, kun halvdelen bliver vist frem. Kom efter 16 og gå for dig selv. Alt andet er spild af penge.

It was HOT
We booked tickets to a guided tour by bus to Auschwitz
The bus was HOT without air-conditioning
The guide weren’t able to talk loud enough for everyone to hear
She was stressed and yelled at people
We had 15 min for toilets together with the other 500 guests
We walked like prisoners through the blocks in lines listening to the guide telling about things we could not see
And when we got there she talked about something else

Next time I am going on my own
I would really like to dive into what happened and pay my respects in my own pace

What a humbling, educational, harrowing experience.
I recommend that everyone should experience this tour once in their life so that they get to understand the horrors that one human can inflict on another.
The tour takes you across both camps and you learn the history of the camp and the stories of the people who were imprisoned there. The brutality, the horror. Be warned this is NOT a pleasure tour.

There are things that everyone should be aware that isn’t clearly indicated by just looking at this tour. There is a LOT of walking, and all of it on uneven ground there are also a lot of steps in the buildings of camp 1 so if you are unsteady on your feet or in a wheelchair, this tour may not be for you. If you are attending the tour- wear sturdy, sensible shoes and take a good coat, hat and scarf if you’re going in the winter or early spring. It was cold being out in the open for 3-4 hours.

Havde købt billet til kl 16.45. Vi kørte i 4 timer fra Warszawa men der var kø så blev forsinket i 10 minutter. Vi stod foran døren kl 16.58. Desværre valgte de at lukke 2 minutter før selvom de først skulle lukke kl 17. Ingen forståelse og ingen service. Vi kunne så køre 4 timer tilbage til hotellet. Spild af en ferie dag. Vi finder et andet sted at bruge vores penge.

im pretty gassed about the tour ngl BIT SMOKEY tho

Gedemarket, unden respekt for stedet.

Det går kun ud på at tjene penge, på baggrund af en frygtelig historie

Jeg troede jeg skulle have en hyggelig dag i Auswitch, men bliv væk for guds skyld bliv væk... De tror man er kriminel og hele stedet er indrettet som fængsel alt skal scannes og alt personale er analfabeter der hverken snakker engelsk eller tysk. Jeg kom ind uden billet fordi de selv anviste hvor jeg skulle gå hen. Spurgte selv flere gange hvor jeg skulle købe billet... Da de fandt ud af jeg virkelig ingen billet havde, troede de at de skulle tilbage holde mig under tvang og blev ved med at snakke til mig som en 5 årig barn der er ved og lære dansk. Til sidst sagde jeg nu går jeg og jeg forlader Polen... Kendt mage til uhøflige mennesker skal man godt nok lede længe efter... Møj beskidte svin rent ud sagt. Jeg er færdig med at behandle dem godt der kommer til Danmark... Forfærdeligt land rent ud sagt.