Wroclaw Transportation Tips by coceng

Wroclaw Glowny...

Wroclaw has it's own small airport, and it's even an international one. Unfortunately unless you're flying in from either Munich or Frankfurt, the only 2 international destinations handled, the airport won't be much use to you. The daily flights to and from Warsaw are a much quicker (if much more expensive) alternative to the train though.

Wroclaw has good train links, both to other cities within Poland and internationally. To save space I'll sum up what I said about Polish trains on other pages; they're cheap, reliable, comfortable, but very slow. Still, it's a nice way of seeing the Polish countryside, a much more pleasant alternative to staring at the Scotsman for hours on end.

Domestically there are services to Warsaw (via Lodz); we were on an Express train which took just under 6 hours for this journey, which was extremely demanding on the buttocks (from sitting down for 6 hours, not from anything else the Scotsman and I may have been up to. We're manly men). There are faster Intercity trains which make the journey a couple of hours quicker, but they left Wroclaw either early in the morning or late in the evening. There are also regular trains to Krakow (via Katowice); at a leisurely 4 and a half hours this journey won't exactly leave you rushed off your feet either.

On the international front there are regular trains to Dresden, Prague (both of which are closer to Wroclaw as the crow flies than Warsaw), Berlin and Frankfurt.

Road links to Germany in particular are good (the German border is about 80 miles due west) and so if you're travelling to or from Germany it would be worth considering going by coach. For longer journeys either abroad or within Poland, stick to the train.

Wroclaw main station might be your first sight if you arrive by train.
I arrived in Wroclaw by train from Gdansk ( a night train)...the photo is the train station.

Mode: TO

Type: Train