The more I see of the polish railways the more impressed I get , my wife promised to take me there after she visited a few years ago regarding work so I think I’ll start calling my promises in
Hahaha you actually never really know which train model you'll get on PKP, a new and clean one or an old and dirty one. And tbh, PKP is always delayed along the south-western corridor between Krakow and Wrocław because of tech difficulties and busy tracks. It's definitely much cheaper than many European railways though! Every time I've taken a train along this corridor from Kraków (to Berlin, to Poznań or even just to Katowice), there have always been delays :(
As a railway worker (PKP PLK train dispatcher) and also Train Spotter I'm glad that You are satisfied from travel trains in Poland. I know, that We still have a lot to do, but I believe, when You come again to travel with trains in Poland, You will also spend a nice time.
Speisewagen in Polen sind nur dazu da, die Besitzer von Gepäckstücken wegzulocken, damit das diebische polnische Zugpersonal in der Zwischenzeit die Koffer ausräumen kann. Und im Speisewagen selbst wird man dann auch noch vom Kellner beschissen und bestohlen!
@@Coole000 ? What are you trying to say? That he wrongly translated the village's (selo) name? Proper translation of Toporów / Toporiv should be either "Axby", "Axeshire" or "Axeville". Or you are trying to say, that in past times the land was something different that Ukraine? I thought this piece of soil is called Ukraine since over 900 years, but I read too much historical stuff. Maybe you thought about Red Rus / Galicia being different from Ukraine?
Very impressive - and I don't mean just your report. Besides the great food and comfortable seating, it was good to note the cleanliness of both stations and trains. Thankyou for the touristy shots too!
When travelling in Poland, I never skip a meal in WARS restaurant car. I rather skip a lunch in the city and eat it later on train. :) Yes, it is probably the best dining car in Europe, though closely followed by Czech JLV. While your train was entirely made of rebuilt old coaches (I already posted a comment about them in one of the replies), at 18:33 you actually filmed the most modern Polish dining car, the brand new 407A type of H. Cegielski Poznan.
I think that the dining car at 18:33 is 406A-40 type which is a modernised ex-1st class plus business 145Ab carriage. 407A don't have blue doors. Still 406A-40 are very good.
Yes! Poland!! Finally!♥ Great trip! I prefer open coaches rather than compartments, but good to see this old fashion tradition still lingers. Did you have to make a seat reservation or first come first serve basis? Was there a conductor on board or tickets were checked before boarding? Amazing video! Best of luck in this 2022! Cheers
I prefer them too, but the open saloon coaches in this train (filmed at about 11:40) are actually very bad. They "sparely rebuilt" older cars into these open coaches, so they still have original bogies with the old "block" brakes (Klotzbremsen, in German) instead of normal disc brakes. So the undercarriage is unbearably loud, especially when braking. On the compartment coaches, they luckily changed the bogies.
yes you need a reservation. However they will sell you "ticket without guarantee of a seat" if you are late. it's 50/50 if you would be able to get a seat on part or all of the journey or is it standing/folding seat in the corridor. On loco hauled trains you do not need reservation with weekend or monthly tickets though, and cheepest weekend tickets are a total bargain, coming below 20 EURfor unlimited travel on IC and TLK trains (second class seats only) from 7 PM on friday till 7 AM monday. And reservations for these tickets even on trains that require those flipped between free and costing 1 zloty (around 0.23 EUR) in the last few months, I belive they're free now. Tivkets are checked onboard on all trains in poland, except couchettes and sleeping cars, where you need to show them before boarding. And except for those, you don't need to print online tickets bought via intercity.pl, just show them on your phone/tablet.
@@k0k0m02008 oh one thing on the last sentence, though I am not sure if it needs clarification today: by mobile phone I mean smartphone, you need enough resolution for the QR code to be readble :)
I love seeing trains with real, authentic dining cars where you can get more than just snacks. Well done, PKP! Thank you so much for including the various shots at the end of Warsaw. I've never been to Poland and it looks just gorgeous.
Great video! I was surprised that the TLK train had a dining car. I like PKP trains, especially the classic loco hauled, and also traveling in Poland. Greetings from Prague and all the best in 2022! :-)
@@peterkonitzer4410 Depends on the loco. Sometimes even with schedule planned for 160kmph there isn't one operational and old ep07 must do the work. There was time list year when all of our pendolinos were grounded. Every rail company here have shortages of locos and/or drivers, often borrowing both from one another.
@Rob TLK was my worst train experience ever. No AC, overcrowded, delayed and in the middle of the summer. And it was only a year ago! However sleeper cars on TLK are awesome
I had a schedule of visiting Poland (which includes both cities in the video) last 2020. However, covid happened and I'm still stuck in my tropical island. Hopefully, I could do it this year and take this train as well. Happy new year from the Philippines. To great travels 🎊🥂
@@s125ish For the most part of the 2 years, flights had been unavailable due to strict lockdowns. Meaning I had been having difficulty traveling even within the country. It's different here in Asia
Fun fuct - as u were disembarking the train in Wrocław, u saw another wars, which is called dining car. Wars has two types of cars in Poland. First as u showed us is called bar car - more like a bar, but the other one is much more fancy and it's called dining car, which translates to something like restaurant. Highly recommended trying this one some day 😊
nice to see proper actual food and not just a toasted sandwich on offer and not to expensive for train catering, certainly worth a go if I'm ever in Poland
Thanks for another enticing video. Another country I must visit, by train, of course. I've heard from a Polish colleague that Krakow is a beautiful and interesting city. Cleanliness of Polish trains seems to be on a par with Swiss railways. John
Also, Katowice is the centre of Poland's biggest agglomeration Edit: and the Combo wagon that was part of your train is one of the freshest purchases I travel with PKP Intercity a lot, from Kraków eastwards, to my parents' home (student discount rules). Only complaints are that I wish more trains were up to top speed and the renovation works in Kraków were finally done
Such a clean and nice looking compartment! This train (esp. the seats) reminds me of the train we took in Czech while travelling to Prague. The dining car served amazing food at such a cheaper price. You can't even think of the quality of food service here in the US.
I am an American Ex-pat and have lived in Poland for about 20 years. I've traveled most of Poland by rail, from the old red trains to the Pendalino. I do like the compartment trains best for the comraderie of fellow passengers who speak English. So far all the videos I have seen, I have been.
This station is very interesting and unique. In terms of the annual number of passengers served, Wrocław Główny is the largest railway station in Poland. The station was opened in 1857. At that time, it was one of the largest facilities of this type in Europe. Despite being very old, it still serves its purpose perfectly.The building and the main hall, which at the beginning served as a platform hall, come from this period. Trains ran there at ground level back then.It was extended in the years 1899-1904. The present platform hall dates from this period.
I do like the look of those 6 seat compartments - they remind me of the compartment carriages on British Railways back in the 1970's, and I always loved travelling in one of them when I was a child!
@@NonstopEurotrip I love visiting Poland and have quite a few friends there. One day I would love to travel round the country by train, and get a chance to see more of the countryside.
Thank you for this! I go to Krakow during summer each year, but haven't been able to for a year or so now so it was nice to see it virtually. Those dining cars are very special. I was lucky to experience them when travelling around Poland on the train. 2nd class seats perfectly fine. Had plans to go to Wrocław March 2020 but was cancelled because of covid.
Sometimes I hate polish railway for being so late a lot and so often. The thing is when you compare the price and the quality of the food on Wars restaurants cars is extremly the best in Europe. Always fresh made. Next time for a breakfast polish food with jajecznica, for a lunch żurek and schabowy. For a dinner you know what ;)
@@NonstopEurotrip On interesting thing, in Wroclaw there is a single skyscrapper, the SkyTower. And there are accomodation on the top floors, which offer a very good view to the Wroclaw Glowny station even if is almost 1km away. From 38th floor it was amazing to see the trains enter and leaving the station :D
I watched this with great interest for a person who lives in Wrocław and has gone to Kraków and back by this exact train. it's lovely to see such mundane (for a Pole) things from an outsider's perspective :)
Was in Poland in 1975 with a 21 person community choir. Went to Warsaw, Krakow Wroclaw, and Poznan and were guests of the Polish Students Union in their Dorm Buildings. Even went all a thorough tour of Auschwitz, (not a dry eye among us that day). Still have the tour book I was given. No publishing date found in it anywhere.
Excellent. Used the PKP intercity service often from Gydnia, (getting off at) Laskowice Pomorskie. Carriages were 6 seater compartments usually. quite comfortable though.
Thanks for a great video - Poland is definitely on my list to visit! The WARS dining cars certainly look like they are the best...I hear the schnitzels are actually cooked fresh to order!
Very nice and well-made video...although I'm little sad that you didn't show old Kraków Train Station that's near the currently used one. It's also a nice monument.
I remember those places 40 years ago as having a lot more people traveling on trains. The rides were slower and normally packed full. My favorite train was the international Frankfurt to Rzeszów. I was riding that train by myself at the tender age of 13 years old.
Great video Max!! The restaurant car meals looked appetizing and delicious; and reasonably priced. Second class seating was a good value too. Thank you for sharing. Happy New Year!!1😀😀♥️♥️
That was a great video ! Thank you for showing the train departing at the end of the video. ! I love eating in the dining car on trains and this one looked awesome... Thank you for sharing this video with us... ;0;0;0
At first, best wishes for 2022! And thank you for the video, espacially for showing the bike compartment. One question, which company has build the coaches?
They were built from 1969-1989 by the Cegielski company from Poznán, and renovated in 2020 by Pesa in Bydgoszcz. (pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCP_111A#111A-20)
What nationality are you! I left Wroclaw in 1981 and 40 years later everything looks MUCH BETTER . I have to admit Poland changed for better and food is exceptionally VERY GOOD ! Wroclaw is a very beautifully restored after World War II modern city. Keep up a good work !
@@NonstopEurotrip I'm glad you replied. Thank you ! What part of UK are you from? London? Hastings? Liverpool? More foreigners say Poland is becoming a better, SAFER and stronger country because Polish people and their government is NOT allowing massive immigration of people with different than Polish background, religion and tradition that are not willing to assimilate and accept our laws and our way of life. Mixing water with fire is impossible & dangerous. We accept all non-Polish people who love our country and are willing to blend in and/or assimilate, WORK (support themselves not by government social programs) and learn our language. Unfortunately UK made big mistake by accepting people from different countries and religions who DON'T want to assimilate. UK is drastically changing for worse. That's how I see it from the USA where I live since 1981. I am ex-Wroclaw citizen. I wish you all the best and please make more films in Poland. In advance, THANK YOU and DZIEKUJE !!!
For more than 30 years now I occasionally visit Poland and have always loved to travel by train there. The PKP does a very good job and I am impressed by the upgrade of stations and rolling stock. I only regret the depart of the old carriages without airconditioning... . On a summer evening watching the scenery from an open window made just excellent travelling....
Great video !! A lot of useful information that I will use when I travel again to those cities, Thank you!! and I wish you a Happy New Year! Waiting for more videos !!
Hi I am Polish and have always loved riding the PKP and it brings back allot of fond memories, now that I'm living in a different country your video allowed me to feel at home again, thank you ! keep up the videos! :)
Such a wonderful place Krakow is. And those white carriages with the horses all lined up is even more fascinating. It seems that this place has got everything and is going lot greener with battery operated buses and trams.
It definitly is trying, however I am afraid you will not feel it. Since practically always southern Poland had a serious problem with air pollution, to a point where some tourists were wearing facemasks even before the pandemic, to breath more filtered, clean air. So Krakow is heavily fighting it by making the transport greener, they even have days when you can travel without a ticket on public transport to reduce car pollution.
@@NonstopEurotrip We traveled from Szczecin to Cracow then on to Warsaw saying in each city for three nights in hostels very cheaply.for only £3-50 a night including breakfast.(bread rolls,cheese and cooked meats) It took 11 hours to travel from Warsaw to Szczecin by train without a buffet car or any refreshments on the train.It was a good job we bought some food to take with us when we left Warsaw. But when we returned to Szczecin our host got us something to eat,but we didn't feel like eating because we where tired from traveling.Polish trains have electric locomotives to pull them.they look like the old Russian style locomotives from the 1960s.The first train we traveled on had only two carriages.But Polish trains a few years ago had very awkward steps to get on or off the carriage.but now PKP railway are making new trains.
Nice, its cool to be eating while you are traveling and its very good that the train is well ventilated so there is less covid that you could get, Great video.
I am back here again to watch this video again !! I'll definitely visit Poland within the next few years !!! So- beautiful 😍 The train stations there are clean ,too !! All the trains are looking clean / comfy !! I love that Poland has electric busses ,too !! 👍👍Polish are friendly people & not difficult to talk to , as they most always have nice vibes !! Kind ,too ! And I like their relaxed vibes ,they give me !! Your videos are always well made / very nice to watch !! I love traveling by trains !! 🚆 💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
Great value for money there. No, I don't think a 50% surcharge to go First Class would be worth it, judging by what I saw. The "tourist " class thing you were in looked just fine :-).
Those storage racks / coat racks are so nice / thoughtful / practicle/ convenient to have !! Amazing !!! I don't believe I've seen those on Amtrack here ,or any fancy 1st class train ride videos ( in U.K. ,or other European countries )!! ? Real useful/ helpful for travelers with many luggage !! 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🚄Poland 🇵🇱 💞
I've been to Wrocław as well, along with PKP intercity 2 times. (Went to Wrocław with a car, PKP intercity for 2 days, between Elbląg > Zakopane, at first trip being first class, then Zakopane > Elbląg, second trip being second class. I'd say the first class is really good, worth it. Never visited the dining car, my parents had food already prepared, such as wieners. The scenery was insanely good! (The train went from Malbork to Zakopane if you were curious, and it was a EP07.) The best places in Wrocław in my opinion are: 1. Old Town, yes of course! The Old Town is definitely worth visiting! It has a lot of restaurants, shops, and many more. 2. The Zoo, it's stunning, it may be really busy and long waiting line, but it's worth it! Especially the "Afrykarium", also know as Wrocław Africarium, and the "Motylarnia", also know as Butterfly House. (I do not know if it's actually called Butterfly Museum in English, but please correct me if so!) 3. Hydropolis, the explanation it does for some stuff, is really amazing. Wrocław is definitely worth a visit if you're planning a trip to Poland.
Excellent and comprehensive presentation with a good review of the Second Class compartment seating. The PKP Restaurant Car looked functional with pleasantly presented meals, but table cloths, cutlery and wine glasses would add a little more sophistication and perhaps be attractive to a wider clientele. How was the on-board staff service? Again, thank you for this professional review of a PKP InterCity cross-country service.
I sometimes question PKP's long-term future plans (More EIC and EIP services), as many Poles will always pick the lowest cost transport possible. I think that it would be better if the TLK service with all the non-A/C coaches was rebranded into an ultra-budget model like Ouigo Classique in France, and lower the base ticket price to 20 zł for cross-coutnry trips; charge 10 zł to buy a ticket from a ticket mackine, 15 zł to buy a ticket from a staffed office and 55 zł to buy a ticket from the conductor. Furthermore, charge 5 zł to use the washroom on the train, which could reduce the number of vacuum toilet retrofits needed, having only 1 toilet per coach or eliminating toilets entirely on some coaches that do not have the vacuum toilet system.
Yes on the whole PKP are excellent and goii oh d value for money although bare in mind the much lower cost of living and wages in Poland, to the average Pole it perhaps doesn’t seem so. Wars restaurant cars are great and if you know there is definitely going to be one, build it into your meal plan for the day. The breakfast omelette and scrambled egg are fantastic but for me 1 egg too few used but I’m very greedy 😂😂
Great video as always and today's Video was fantastic, loved watching it and lol, watching that food made me hungry even though, I had my lunch an hour ago😂 and thank you for the information on tourist attractions. I will note it on my diary.
If you use the German Empire and Austria-Hungary names for the Polish cities you would get this result Gotenhafen Hbf Breslau Hbf Krakau Hbf. Still to this day on German Deutsche Bahn timetables and ÖBB ones their format is German name first Parenthesis Polish Name
Europe's best dining car? I hope not! The presentation on a plastic tray with plastic glasses was hardly what I would categorize as "fine dining". Can't say those "compartment seats" looked very inviting either. I sure hope your wrong about that dining car.
Way back in about 2008 I took my fiancée to visit an aunt in Gydnia. From there we took an overnight sleeper to Krakov and that was an experience. I think it was called the Aurelia express. The carriages were quite old and probably date back to the Soviet times as the moment we stepped on board we noticed a huge furnace in each carriage that was kept alight with coal. You could see the flames very well when its door was open. That kept all the compartments snug and warm in the depths of winter. What spoiled the journey for us was a group of six construction workers in the adjacent compartment, equipped with carrier bags of beer and vodka. The parting went on until about 2.30am and was not helped by the very thin walls between each compartment. From memory we left Gydnia around 10.50pm and arrived in Krakov lunchtime the next day. PS. When we woke up the following morning all the workmen had already got off somewhere. I later found out that from the whole carriage our and next door were the only occupied ones. Would have loved to have moved but we had settled down for the night.
" Huge furnace " in each carriage ... were you travelling in time ?.... .What made you to come with B.S. like that ? .That's your family story from Philippines
Thank you for this very nice video, I think I have to go to Poland for some rail trips. The dining car looked rather cool and the dishes looked nice. Did you ever try the dining cars of České dráhy? Very nice, too, they remember me of the old DSG dining cars in the old DB Intercity trains.
Fantastic video I love to visit krakow by train from Cambridge and visit auswitz I think I have to travel from krakow to katowice I think lovely train and it beggars believe that in Europe trains are affordable not like in the UK a train journey from my home town Cambridge to London is expensive happy new year
Poland's trains and railway stations are getting better and better. Right after communism collapse the railway infrastructure was neglected to the point of criminality but in last 10 or so years great improvement est were made. Dining cars during communism were actually very good. They had waiter service and real kitchen with gas and coal stoves. You could get many cooked dishes, Wiener schnitzel, beef steak, fried chicken, steak tartar, herrings... I think they even peeled potatoes on train so they were really fresh and on some train you could have vodka.
Great to see that Intercity renovated theirs 6-seat compartments. When I was travelling on Katowice-Poznań route in 2019 seats were more like benches and they were filled to the brim (i think even some people had to sit outside of compartments)
Very interesting channel I think I will leave you a subscription You know in Poland we have such a national trait that we often complain about the reality around us but I think it may have a good side because through a critical approach you can want to improve many issues but I did not expect that in the comments under your movies from Poland I will see so many positive comments some things we don't notice unless we see them from a different perspective greetings from Katowice thank you for the interesting video 🙂👍
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The more I see of the polish railways the more impressed I get , my wife promised to take me there after she visited a few years ago regarding work so I think I’ll start calling my promises in
Oh absolutely John, get to Poland! Spoiler: the EIP is excellent!!
Wroclaw si 3rd largest city ni Poland.
Very nice train and what a bargain.
Hahaha you actually never really know which train model you'll get on PKP, a new and clean one or an old and dirty one. And tbh, PKP is always delayed along the south-western corridor between Krakow and Wrocław because of tech difficulties and busy tracks. It's definitely much cheaper than many European railways though! Every time I've taken a train along this corridor from Kraków (to Berlin, to Poznań or even just to Katowice), there have always been delays :(
@@arnostos5204 Warszawa, Kraków, Łódź....
As a railway worker (PKP PLK train dispatcher) and also Train Spotter I'm glad that You are satisfied from travel trains in Poland. I know, that We still have a lot to do, but I believe, when You come again to travel with trains in Poland, You will also spend a nice time.
I had a great time, more videos already filmed 😁
@@NonstopEurotrip so nex time I recomend visit Kołobrzeg, city where I live and work on railway :D
Speisewagen in Polen sind nur dazu da, die Besitzer von Gepäckstücken wegzulocken, damit das diebische polnische Zugpersonal in der Zwischenzeit die Koffer ausräumen kann. Und im Speisewagen selbst wird man dann auch noch vom Kellner beschissen und bestohlen!
Although I have never visited Poland, the country interests me. My mother’s family came from the Lviv region, from a village called Toporow.
I really love Lviv 😃😃😃
@@nk8215 Almost every single republic in the world is self-proclaimed
This is Ukraine now, selo Toporiv
@@Coole000 ? What are you trying to say?
That he wrongly translated the village's (selo) name? Proper translation of Toporów / Toporiv should be either "Axby", "Axeshire" or "Axeville".
Or you are trying to say, that in past times the land was something different that Ukraine?
I thought this piece of soil is called Ukraine since over 900 years, but I read too much historical stuff. Maybe you thought about Red Rus / Galicia being different from Ukraine?
@@krakendragonslayer1909 i am saying that's now Toporiv is in Ukraine, as well as Lviv. You're digging too deep
Very impressive - and I don't mean just your report. Besides the great food and comfortable seating, it was good to note the cleanliness of both stations and trains. Thankyou for the touristy shots too!
I'm very glad you enjoyed it Jon. I was very impressed as your could probably tell! Happy Christmas 🎄
When travelling in Poland, I never skip a meal in WARS restaurant car. I rather skip a lunch in the city and eat it later on train. :)
Yes, it is probably the best dining car in Europe, though closely followed by Czech JLV.
While your train was entirely made of rebuilt old coaches (I already posted a comment about them in one of the replies), at 18:33 you actually filmed the most modern Polish dining car, the brand new 407A type of H. Cegielski Poznan.
Lucky me then! I agree about WARS 🤤😍
I think that the dining car at 18:33 is 406A-40 type which is a modernised ex-1st class plus business 145Ab carriage. 407A don't have blue doors. Still 406A-40 are very good.
Yes! Poland!! Finally!♥
Great trip! I prefer open coaches rather than compartments, but good to see this old fashion tradition still lingers. Did you have to make a seat reservation or first come first serve basis? Was there a conductor on board or tickets were checked before boarding?
Amazing video! Best of luck in this 2022! Cheers
Yes I had a reservation and tickets are checked once on the move. Glad you enjoyed the video! Happy new year 🎉🙏🏻
I prefer them too, but the open saloon coaches in this train (filmed at about 11:40) are actually very bad. They "sparely rebuilt" older cars into these open coaches, so they still have original bogies with the old "block" brakes (Klotzbremsen, in German) instead of normal disc brakes. So the undercarriage is unbearably loud, especially when braking. On the compartment coaches, they luckily changed the bogies.
yes you need a reservation. However they will sell you "ticket without guarantee of a seat" if you are late. it's 50/50 if you would be able to get a seat on part or all of the journey or is it standing/folding seat in the corridor. On loco hauled trains you do not need reservation with weekend or monthly tickets though, and cheepest weekend tickets are a total bargain, coming below 20 EURfor unlimited travel on IC and TLK trains (second class seats only) from 7 PM on friday till 7 AM monday. And reservations for these tickets even on trains that require those flipped between free and costing 1 zloty (around 0.23 EUR) in the last few months, I belive they're free now. Tivkets are checked onboard on all trains in poland, except couchettes and sleeping cars, where you need to show them before boarding. And except for those, you don't need to print online tickets bought via intercity.pl, just show them on your phone/tablet.
@@mancubwwa thanks so much! Great input🙌🏻
@@k0k0m02008 oh one thing on the last sentence, though I am not sure if it needs clarification today: by mobile phone I mean smartphone, you need enough resolution for the QR code to be readble :)
I love seeing trains with real, authentic dining cars where you can get more than just snacks. Well done, PKP!
Thank you so much for including the various shots at the end of Warsaw. I've never been to Poland and it looks just gorgeous.
Sadly, PKP Intercity ordered new trains without restaurant cars, only vending machines 😢
Great video! I was surprised that the TLK train had a dining car. I like PKP trains, especially the classic loco hauled, and also traveling in Poland. Greetings from Prague and all the best in 2022! :-)
Yeah Pete, they just need some more faster locos. Put one of their Newag's on there and it'd be all good 😎 Happy new year mate 🎉
@@NonstopEurotrip Took that train in 2016....never went slower than 158 Km/ hr
@@peterkonitzer4410 Depends on the loco. Sometimes even with schedule planned for 160kmph there isn't one operational and old ep07 must do the work. There was time list year when all of our pendolinos were grounded. Every rail company here have shortages of locos and/or drivers, often borrowing both from one another.
@Rob TLK was my worst train experience ever. No AC, overcrowded, delayed and in the middle of the summer. And it was only a year ago! However sleeper cars on TLK are awesome
I love watching Poland videos !! A big ,clean station !! 👍👍 Thank you for this video ! 💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🎄🚈🎉🍾🥂💞
Glad you enjoyed it 😃🇵🇱
I had a schedule of visiting Poland (which includes both cities in the video) last 2020. However, covid happened and I'm still stuck in my tropical island. Hopefully, I could do it this year and take this train as well.
Happy new year from the Philippines. To great travels 🎊🥂
Save to you! Hopefully you'll get to Poland soon 😊
How are you stuck?
@@s125ish For the most part of the 2 years, flights had been unavailable due to strict lockdowns. Meaning I had been having difficulty traveling even within the country. It's different here in Asia
Lovely clean train! Glad you had a buddy along for this ride - I follow Dylan too 😊. Happy New Year to you.
Thanks Sonja! Happy new year to you too 🎈
Nice and clean I’m very happy that they have a place for wheelchairs and a rest room they can use thank you for sharing
You're welcome Jill ☺️
Fun fuct - as u were disembarking the train in Wrocław, u saw another wars, which is called dining car. Wars has two types of cars in Poland. First as u showed us is called bar car - more like a bar, but the other one is much more fancy and it's called dining car, which translates to something like restaurant. Highly recommended trying this one some day 😊
I have tried this, on the Berlin-Warsaw EC 👍🏻
OMG !! A very very nice dining car !! I love those orange trays !! 😍 WOW !! They look good ! 😋And under $10 ride !? That's so cool !!! 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🎄🚈🎉🍾🥂💞
A bargain 🤗🤗🤗
@@NonstopEurotrip I agree 👍 💯
@@NonstopEurotrip Yes ,indeed !! What a bargain ! 👍👍
You go through gorgeous scenery, don’t you?!! If I can ever get the funds to return to Europe, I might well try Poland!!
A beautiful country 😍
nice to see proper actual food and not just a toasted sandwich on offer and not to expensive for train catering, certainly worth a go if I'm ever in Poland
Absolutely Matthew! Definitely one of the best European dining cars, well worth a try 😎 Happy Christmas ⛄
Thanks for another enticing video. Another country I must visit, by train, of course. I've heard from a Polish colleague that Krakow is a beautiful and interesting city. Cleanliness of Polish trains seems to be on a par with Swiss railways. John
Kraków is honestly one of the nicest cities I've ever visited! Shame it took me so long! Thank you John 😊🙏🏻
Also, Katowice is the centre of Poland's biggest agglomeration
Edit: and the Combo wagon that was part of your train is one of the freshest purchases
I travel with PKP Intercity a lot, from Kraków eastwards, to my parents' home (student discount rules). Only complaints are that I wish more trains were up to top speed and the renovation works in Kraków were finally done
Was the first time I'd seen that style of dining car 😄👍🏻🇵🇱
Nice to see some of the fabulous food!! My cousin raves about the food on Polish trains!!
It's great food 😊
Such a clean and nice looking compartment!
This train (esp. the seats) reminds me of the train we took in Czech while travelling to Prague. The dining car served amazing food at such a cheaper price. You can't even think of the quality of food service here in the US.
I am an American Ex-pat and have lived in Poland for about 20 years. I've traveled most of Poland by rail, from the old red trains to the Pendalino. I do like the compartment trains best for the comraderie of fellow passengers who speak English. So far all the videos I have seen, I have been.
This station is very interesting and unique. In terms of the annual number of passengers served, Wrocław Główny is the largest railway station in Poland. The station was opened in 1857. At that time, it was one of the largest facilities of this type in Europe. Despite being very old, it still serves its purpose perfectly.The building and the main hall, which at the beginning served as a platform hall, come from this period. Trains ran there at ground level back then.It was extended in the years 1899-1904. The present platform hall dates from this period.
I do like the look of those 6 seat compartments - they remind me of the compartment carriages on British Railways back in the 1970's, and I always loved travelling in one of them when I was a child!
It definitely feels like travelling in times gone by 🙂
@@NonstopEurotrip I love visiting Poland and have quite a few friends there. One day I would love to travel round the country by train, and get a chance to see more of the countryside.
Another Englishman who is piss off on entire world
Thank you for this! I go to Krakow during summer each year, but haven't been able to for a year or so now so it was nice to see it virtually. Those dining cars are very special. I was lucky to experience them when travelling around Poland on the train. 2nd class seats perfectly fine. Had plans to go to Wrocław March 2020 but was cancelled because of covid.
Hopefully you can't get back out there soon 😀
Sometimes I hate polish railway for being so late a lot and so often. The thing is when you compare the price and the quality of the food on Wars restaurants cars is extremly the best in Europe. Always fresh made. Next time for a breakfast polish food with jajecznica, for a lunch żurek and schabowy. For a dinner you know what ;)
Completely agree 💯😊
I love you witching Polland videos !! A big clean Station !! 👍👍 Thank you for this video 👏👏👏
You're welcome 😄
Nice video. A nice and comfortable journey between 2 beautiful cities of Poland. Wroclaw is my favourite.
Thank you! Yes Wroclaw is 😍😍😍
@@NonstopEurotrip On interesting thing, in Wroclaw there is a single skyscrapper, the SkyTower. And there are accomodation on the top floors, which offer a very good view to the Wroclaw Glowny station even if is almost 1km away. From 38th floor it was amazing to see the trains enter and leaving the station :D
Great virtual tour. Really appreciate the sightseeing outside the stations and in the town centers! Happy new years!
Glad you enjoyed it David 😊
I’m glad to see that Polish railways are covered by your travels as well as those that cover the rest of Europe.
I've still got a few countries left to tick off!
@@NonstopEurotrip Which ones? I used to visit heritage railways in Europe before returning to the ones in England!!
I watched this with great interest for a person who lives in Wrocław and has gone to Kraków and back by this exact train. it's lovely to see such mundane (for a Pole) things from an outsider's perspective :)
Hahahaha 😂😂😂
Bike storage area is absolutely superb!
Was in Poland in 1975 with a 21 person community choir. Went to Warsaw, Krakow Wroclaw, and Poznan and were guests of the Polish Students Union in their Dorm Buildings. Even went all a thorough tour of Auschwitz, (not a dry eye among us that day). Still have the tour book I was given. No publishing date found in it anywhere.
That's one thing I've not done yet, but I will! 🙏🏻
Excellent. Used the PKP intercity service often from Gydnia, (getting off at) Laskowice Pomorskie. Carriages were 6 seater compartments usually. quite comfortable though.
Thanks for a great video - Poland is definitely on my list to visit! The WARS dining cars certainly look like they are the best...I hear the schnitzels are actually cooked fresh to order!
I think most things are cooked to order, I'm surprised you haven't been 😄
Great video. Gentle, relaxing and charming. Thank you. 😊😊😊
Thanks Tony 😁
Very nice and well-made video...although I'm little sad that you didn't show old Kraków Train Station that's near the currently used one. It's also a nice monument.
I was actually looking for a clip of it that I thought I had, but unfortunately couldn't find it! 😔
If you want some unforgetable memories, I recomend the "Regio" train.
It's so ba... i mean good and cheap.
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I remember those places 40 years ago as having a lot more people traveling on trains. The rides were slower and normally packed full. My favorite train was the international Frankfurt to Rzeszów. I was riding that train by myself at the tender age of 13 years old.
Thanks for sharing ☺️
Awesome video like always. That’s the most amazing food for a non-luxury tourist train I have ever seen!
Absolutely yes 😄
Great video Max!! The restaurant car meals looked appetizing and delicious; and reasonably priced. Second class seating was a good value too. Thank you for sharing.
Happy New Year!!1😀😀♥️♥️
Thanks Scott! Happy new year to you too 🎉
@@NonstopEurotrip Thank you Max!! Let's hope the covid pandemic is eradicated soon😀♥️
That was a great video ! Thank you for showing the train departing at the end of the video. !
I love eating in the dining car on trains and this one looked awesome... Thank you for sharing this video with us... ;0;0;0
Glad you enjoyed it Harry! 😁
Poland is amazing. Thank you for this excellent report
At first glance I mistook the bridge in Wrocław for a rollercoaster! I think I might need my eyes tested.
Haha 😂
Choo choo! I'm a train and I approve this video and would like to wish you a happy new year choo choo!!
Happy new year to you Mr train 🎉🚂
The best dining car in the world in my experience is on the ROVOS rail train in South Africa.
It's a bit of a different situation though 😂
Nice video!!!
Greetings from Bydgoszcz 🇪🇺🇵🇱
Thank you Albert! 🙏🏻🎉
I love Poland
Me too 😊
Did Kraków to Wrocław last month, loved the dining car! Makes trains in the UK look inferior.
Absolutely Paul 😄
At first, best wishes for 2022! And thank you for the video, espacially for showing the bike compartment. One question, which company has build the coaches?
Not sure sorry! Happy 2022 to you too 🎉
They were built from 1969-1989 by the Cegielski company from Poznán, and renovated in 2020 by Pesa in Bydgoszcz. (pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCP_111A#111A-20)
All Right My Friend
Thank you 🙏🏻
What nationality are you! I left Wroclaw in 1981 and 40 years later everything looks MUCH BETTER . I have to admit Poland changed for better and food is exceptionally VERY GOOD ! Wroclaw is a very beautifully restored after World War II modern city. Keep up a good work !
Completely agree! I'm English 👍🏻
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I'm glad you replied. Thank you ! What part of UK are you from? London? Hastings? Liverpool? More foreigners say Poland is becoming a better, SAFER and stronger country because Polish people and their government is NOT allowing massive immigration of people with different than Polish background, religion and tradition that are not willing to assimilate and accept our laws and our way of life. Mixing water with fire is impossible & dangerous. We accept all non-Polish people who love our country and are willing to blend in and/or assimilate, WORK (support themselves not by government social programs) and learn our language. Unfortunately UK made big mistake by accepting people from different countries and religions who DON'T want to assimilate. UK is drastically changing for worse. That's how I see it from the USA where I live since 1981. I am ex-Wroclaw citizen. I wish you all the best and please make more films in Poland. In advance, THANK YOU and DZIEKUJE !!!
As an Australian with itchy feet I long to travel again. I love your detailed reports and the variety of locations and servcies!
You're very welcome Kent, hopefully it won't be too long now! 😁
Non stop fun ❤
Oh absolutely 😂
For more than 30 years now I occasionally visit Poland and have always loved to travel by train there. The PKP does a very good job and I am impressed by the upgrade of stations and rolling stock. I only regret the depart of the old carriages without airconditioning... . On a summer evening watching the scenery from an open window made just excellent travelling....
Completely agree, but a lot of TLKs still have 'fresh air' windows 😃
I even remember smoking passenger compartments! They disappeared just several years ago.
In a first class of PKP the space is crucial. Having a big guy in front of you, aprecciate it!
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Love your train review videos! Hope you have an amazing 2022 and keep on making such awesome videos. Cheers!
Thank you! To you too 🎉😃
Video's Score: 9/10 Cozy compartments and a nice livery too
I agree with this summary 😁👍🏻
I'm from Kraków, Poland and dad worked in WARS
Excellent 😌
Great video !! A lot of useful information that I will use when I travel again to those cities, Thank you!! and I wish you a Happy New Year! Waiting for more videos !!
You're welcome! Happy new year to you too 🎉,☺️
What "Silesian Highlands" my friend?... upland ofcourse... highlands are far down south-east from there😅
1st class you buy only if you want to be sure there is fewer people around you
Absolutely yes 😁
And look at that wheelchair accessible compartment on this train !!! 👍👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🚄 🇵🇱 💞
Hi I am Polish and have always loved riding the PKP and it brings back allot of fond memories, now that I'm living in a different country your video allowed me to feel at home again, thank you ! keep up the videos! :)
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
The Best
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amazing quality of PKP intercity trains! like to visit Eastern Europe incl. Poland soon by train.
Absolutely yes 😁
On the section Kraków - Wrocław you have a special offer in the second class. The first class costs according to the basic price list.
Interesting, thanks! 🙂
Such a wonderful place Krakow is. And those white carriages with the horses all lined up is even more fascinating. It seems that this place has got everything and is going lot greener with battery operated buses and trams.
Yes Andrew, it's very beautiful 😍
@@NonstopEurotrip Happy New Year 😄
It definitly is trying, however I am afraid you will not feel it. Since practically always southern Poland had a serious problem with air pollution, to a point where some tourists were wearing facemasks even before the pandemic, to breath more filtered, clean air.
So Krakow is heavily fighting it by making the transport greener, they even have days when you can travel without a ticket on public transport to reduce car pollution.
Epic BRO 😘😘
Happy New Year Max 🥳. Wishing you joy, happiness and Covid free health 😉👍🏻
Same to you Rob! 🎉🙏🏻😁
We stayed with a Polish couple in 2013 Traveling by train,very interesting experience.
Where did you go? 👍🏻
@@NonstopEurotrip We traveled from Szczecin to Cracow then on to Warsaw saying in each city for three nights in hostels very cheaply.for only £3-50 a night including breakfast.(bread rolls,cheese and cooked meats) It took 11 hours to travel from Warsaw to Szczecin by train without a buffet car or any refreshments on the train.It was a good job we bought some food to take with us when we left Warsaw.
But when we returned to Szczecin our host got us something to eat,but we didn't feel like eating because we where tired from traveling.Polish trains have electric locomotives to pull them.they look like the old Russian style locomotives from the 1960s.The first train we traveled on had only two carriages.But Polish trains a few years ago had very awkward steps to get on or off the carriage.but now PKP railway are making new trains.
@@marilynscott2662 sounds like a great adventure 😁
Is the food prepared on the train - or just heated up?
Prepared on train
20:19 "We forgive and ask for forgiveness", written in Polish and German
Nice, its cool to be eating while you are traveling and its very good that the train is well ventilated so there is less covid that you could get, Great video.
Yeah absolutely! I love it 😍
In my opinion these cars (3 seats in row) are more comfortable than open Pendolino with 4 seats in row.
Love a dining car. Nice trip. Proper train..
Thank you 🤗
I am back here again to watch this video again !! I'll definitely visit Poland within the next few years !!! So- beautiful 😍 The train stations there are clean ,too !! All the trains are looking clean / comfy !! I love that Poland has electric busses ,too !! 👍👍Polish are friendly people & not difficult to talk to , as they most always have nice vibes !! Kind ,too ! And I like their relaxed vibes ,they give me !! Your videos are always well made / very nice to watch !! I love traveling by trains !! 🚆 💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
Absolutely yes 💯
13zl for a beer is a disgusting rip-off!!
Not compared to Switzerland and France LOL
Great value for money there. No, I don't think a 50% surcharge to go First Class would be worth it, judging by what I saw. The "tourist " class thing you were in looked just fine :-).
I agree 👍🏻☺️
Those storage racks / coat racks are so nice / thoughtful / practicle/ convenient to have !! Amazing !!! I don't believe I've seen those on Amtrack here ,or any fancy 1st class train ride videos ( in U.K. ,or other European countries )!! ? Real useful/ helpful for travelers with many luggage !! 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🚄Poland 🇵🇱 💞
Thank you 😊
Love the train and extensive dining car menu. Thanks for sharing.
Elo
I've been to Wrocław as well, along with PKP intercity 2 times. (Went to Wrocław with a car, PKP intercity for 2 days, between Elbląg > Zakopane, at first trip being first class, then Zakopane > Elbląg, second trip being second class. I'd say the first class is really good, worth it. Never visited the dining car, my parents had food already prepared, such as wieners. The scenery was insanely good! (The train went from Malbork to Zakopane if you were curious, and it was a EP07.)
The best places in Wrocław in my opinion are:
1. Old Town, yes of course! The Old Town is definitely worth visiting! It has a lot of restaurants, shops, and many more.
2. The Zoo, it's stunning, it may be really busy and long waiting line, but it's worth it! Especially the "Afrykarium", also know as Wrocław Africarium, and the "Motylarnia", also know as Butterfly House. (I do not know if it's actually called Butterfly Museum in English, but please correct me if so!)
3. Hydropolis, the explanation it does for some stuff, is really amazing.
Wrocław is definitely worth a visit if you're planning a trip to Poland.
I've been a few times. One of my favourite cities in Poland, for sure! 😌
Excellent and comprehensive presentation with a good review of the Second Class compartment seating. The PKP Restaurant Car looked functional with pleasantly presented meals, but table cloths, cutlery and wine glasses would add a little more sophistication and perhaps be attractive to a wider clientele. How was the on-board staff service? Again, thank you for this professional review of a PKP InterCity cross-country service.
Good service!
Hope you had an amazing holiday season. Happy New Year.
Thanks! You too Mark 🎉
I sometimes question PKP's long-term future plans (More EIC and EIP services), as many Poles will always pick the lowest cost transport possible. I think that it would be better if the TLK service with all the non-A/C coaches was rebranded into an ultra-budget model like Ouigo Classique in France, and lower the base ticket price to 20 zł for cross-coutnry trips; charge 10 zł to buy a ticket from a ticket mackine, 15 zł to buy a ticket from a staffed office and 55 zł to buy a ticket from the conductor. Furthermore, charge 5 zł to use the washroom on the train, which could reduce the number of vacuum toilet retrofits needed, having only 1 toilet per coach or eliminating toilets entirely on some coaches that do not have the vacuum toilet system.
I agree, sounds like some good ideas!!
Yes on the whole PKP are excellent and goii oh d value for money although bare in mind the much lower cost of living and wages in Poland, to the average Pole it perhaps doesn’t seem so. Wars restaurant cars are great and if you know there is definitely going to be one, build it into your meal plan for the day. The breakfast omelette and scrambled egg are fantastic but for me 1 egg too few used but I’m very greedy 😂😂
Haha, I'll have to try the omlett next time! 😁
Great video as always and today's Video was fantastic, loved watching it and lol, watching that food made me hungry even though, I had my lunch an hour ago😂 and thank you for the information on tourist attractions. I will note it on my diary.
Glad you enjoyed it mate, It's certainly great to eat a meal like this on a train! What did you have for lunch? LOL😀
@@NonstopEurotrip I had triple fried rice and it was delicious!!!!
Wow, sounds nice! I've changed the membership badges, do you like them?
@@NonstopEurotrip indeed, I do, they perfectly matches train evolution timeline from steam train to futuristic HST.
@@rahill-95 Next month you will get your highspeed train badge 😀
If you use the German Empire and Austria-Hungary names for the Polish cities you would get this result Gotenhafen Hbf Breslau Hbf Krakau Hbf. Still to this day on German Deutsche Bahn timetables and ÖBB ones their format is German name first Parenthesis Polish Name
Interesting 🙂
Just for your information: The finest dining car experience in the world is in South Africa on the ROVOS RAIL train. Absolutely brilliant.
That's hardly a normal train though...
Europe's best dining car? I hope not! The presentation on a plastic tray with plastic glasses was hardly what I would categorize as "fine dining". Can't say those "compartment seats" looked very inviting either. I sure hope your wrong about that dining car.
CD and ZSSK are up there too
EU07 locomotive has been manufactured in Poland on the base of EU06 series loco bought in GB.
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Way back in about 2008 I took my fiancée to visit an aunt in Gydnia. From there we took an overnight sleeper to Krakov and that was an experience. I think it was called the Aurelia express. The carriages were quite old and probably date back to the Soviet times as the moment we stepped on board we noticed a huge furnace in each carriage that was kept alight with coal. You could see the flames very well when its door was open. That kept all the compartments snug and warm in the depths of winter.
What spoiled the journey for us was a group of six construction workers in the adjacent compartment, equipped with carrier bags of beer and vodka. The parting went on until about 2.30am and was not helped by the very thin walls between each compartment.
From memory we left Gydnia around 10.50pm and arrived in Krakov lunchtime the next day.
PS. When we woke up the following morning all the workmen had already got off somewhere. I later found out that from the whole carriage our and next door were the only occupied ones. Would have loved to have moved but we had settled down for the night.
What a crazy experience 😅
" Huge furnace " in each carriage ... were you travelling in time ?.... .What made you to come with B.S. like that ? .That's your family story from Philippines
@@peterkonitzer4410 big furnace and horses instead of locomotive. A sad gypsy woman played on accordion to announce stations.
Usually you can get change of place without problems in sleeping coach even if someone is just snoring.
Thank you for this very nice video, I think I have to go to Poland for some rail trips. The dining car looked rather cool and the dishes looked nice. Did you ever try the dining cars of České dráhy? Very nice, too, they remember me of the old DSG dining cars in the old DB Intercity trains.
Yes I love CD and ZSSK nearly as much 🙂
Fantastic video I love to visit krakow by train from Cambridge and visit auswitz I think I have to travel from krakow to katowice I think lovely train and it beggars believe that in Europe trains are affordable not like in the UK a train journey from my home town Cambridge to London is expensive happy new year
That'll be a nice trip! 😄
Poland's trains and railway stations are getting better and better. Right after communism collapse the railway infrastructure was neglected to the point of criminality but in last 10 or so years great improvement est were made.
Dining cars during communism were actually very good. They had waiter service and real kitchen with gas and coal stoves. You could get many cooked dishes, Wiener schnitzel, beef steak, fried chicken, steak tartar, herrings... I think they even peeled potatoes on train so they were really fresh and on some train you could have vodka.
I agree 😊👍🏻
How was/were the trip(s), it's good to see UA-camrs exploring our PKP PLK trainnet. Thanks for visiting us.
All good 😊
Wroclaw is the by Poland still occupíed German town of Breslau.
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Great to see that Intercity renovated theirs 6-seat compartments. When I was travelling on Katowice-Poznań route in 2019 seats were more like benches and they were filled to the brim (i think even some people had to sit outside of compartments)
Yes, they're nice 👍🏻
Very interesting channel I think I will leave you a subscription You know in Poland we have such a national trait that we often complain about the reality around us but I think it may have a good side because through a critical approach you can want to improve many issues but I did not expect that in the comments under your movies from Poland I will see so many positive comments some things we don't notice unless we see them from a different perspective greetings from Katowice thank you for the interesting video 🙂👍
Poland honestly has one of the top 10 best railways in the world. You are very lucky 😄