Social Tours

The social tours will take place in the afternoon on Wednesday, 1^st June 2022.

The royal sound of Chopin

Visit the Royal Łazienki Park with the Palace on the Water and enter the unique court theatre, where the breathtaking, illusionistic frescoes will fool your visual senses. After a walk through the representative governmental district, treat yourself to a Chopin concert.

Price: 180,00 zł
Number of participants: min. 12 / max. 20
Time of meeting: 2:00 pm
Place of meeting: hotel lobby
Distance to walk during the tour: ca. 2 km
Duration: ca. 4 hrs.

The park-and-palace complex, occupying 76 hectares, is situated in Warsaw's central district on Ujazdowskie Avenue. The avenue is a part of the Royal Route linking three royal residences in Warsaw: Royal Castle, Royal Łazienki Park and Wilanów Palace. Łazienki designed in the 17th century as a baths park for Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, Grand Marshal of Poland, 100 years later had been transformed by Stanisław August, last King of Poland, into his beautiful summer residence.

Leaving the park you will walk along Ujazdowskie Avenue, passing by embassies and governmental buildings, to reach Chopin Salon – a place maintained in the atmosphere of interwar Warsaw.

During the tour you will:

• admire the most recognizable Polish monument – a symbol of Polish culture – Fryderyk Chopin monument, where famous Chopin music concerts take place in the summer season from over 60 years;
• be impressed by perfectly made illusionistic frescoes covering the interior of fully maintained court theatre - one of the few authentic 18th-century wooden court theatres in Europe;
• relax in the most beautiful park in Warsaw: full of flowers, red squirrels and majestic peacocks;
• see the representative district of Warsaw with Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, Sejm RP (buildings of Polish Parliament) and ministries among others;
• enjoy a glass of wine and homemade cake just before the concert of Chopin music.

Like a phoenix from the ashes

Visit the Old Town - the pearl of post-war reconstruction in details. See the picturesque corners of this UNESCO Site, hear some anecdotes and stories of its inhabitants and end your day with a relaxing cruise of Vistula river.

Price: 180,00 zł
Number of participants: min. 15 / max. 40
Time of meeting: 2:15 pm
Place of meeting: hotel lobby
Distance to walk during the tour: ca. 2 km
Duration: 3,5 hrs.

Not many cities have such a turbulent history as Warsaw. The city, which beginnings date back to the 14th century, suffered tremendous losses over the last 100 years. In the times of WW II the city was first heavily bombed by Luftwaffe during the siege of Warsaw in September 1939, then its Jewish quarters were turned into ruins during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of Spring 1943, and final destruction was completed by German troops during struggles of Warsaw Uprising in 1944. In result , the town was destroyed in 85%  -100% .. Its Old Town fully reconstructed in the 1950s  became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a heart of Polish capital city, belongs to the most visited places in the whole country and delights visitors with its charm. Check it!

The walk will be finished with a river cruise. On its route you can admire several Warsaw highlights like: panoramic view of the Old Town, Copernicus Science Centre, statue of Mermaid of Warsaw, National Stadium, beaches and protected natural parks on the right side of the river.

During the tour you will:

• become familiar with the general 700-year long history of Warsaw;
• find out why and when the capital city of the Kingdom of Poland was moved from Cracow to Warsaw;
• walk through narrow streets and picturesque squares to see colorful tenement buildings including the narrowest one in the town;
• enter the courtyard of the Royal Castle to listen why the post-war reconstruction was so difficult and time-consuming and who gave the money for that;
• stand on the top of historical waste dump;
• see the place of birth of the world-famous Polish scientist;
• see the monument of the Mermaid of Warsaw – the emblem and guardian of the city and … of our Warsaw KBS Symposium.

Warsze/Varshe Jewish Warsaw

Warsaw was a home to the biggest Jewish Community in Europe. Imagine Jewish streets pulsating with life: crowded squares and synagogues, the Yiddish language, klezmer music. Visit numerous Jewish heritage sites and finish the tour with an incredibly informative exhibition in the Polin Museum.

Price: 135,00 zł
Number of participants: min. 12 / max. 20
Time of meeting: 2:30 pm
Place of meeting: hotel lobby
Distance to walk during the tour: ca. 1,5 km
Duration: 4 hrs.

At first sight Muranów residential district doesn’t look interesting. Until you take a closer look to some hidden details, listen to a guide and see archival pictures of the places you are standing in – then you realize what an unbelievable history took place here.

Nowadays Muranów area is covered with hundreds of residential blocks that were built between late 1940s and 1970s, but still eighty years ago it was a part of crowded Jewish district, called “the Northern District” – famous of narrow streets and tenement buildings with tiny courtyards. In May 1943 during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising everything turned into the infinite sea of bricks.

The route will cover the northern part of former Jewish district and will focus on the general history of Jewish community in Warsaw and Poland. The tour will finish with a visit to the multiple award-winning Museum of the History of Polish Jews called “Polin”, located in extraordinary building which contemporary architecture delights all the visitors.

During the tour you will:

• find out why the biggest in Europe Jewish community existed in Warsaw and what was the impact of Jews on town’s development;
• see the place of famous “Kniefall von Warschau”, a spontaneous gesture of penance made by Willy Brandt in 1970;
• walk former “Nalewki” – the street, that used to be the most busy one out of Jewish district;
• visit the place where Ludwik Zamenhof created the international Esperanto language;
•  understand the symbolism of the building of Polin Museum and admire the breathtaking, wooden replica of the synagogue from Gwoździec;
• find out what was the history of the biggest Jewish Ghetto in the world.

The Polish People’s Republic (PRL) Revisited

See the places related to the real socialism-era, find the socialist-realism style buildings and try to understand the logic and mechanisms of that time. Visit the Museum of Life in the Polish People’s Republic and finish the tour with the panorama of Warsaw seen from the top of the Palace of Culture and Science - a gift from Stalin to Poles.

Price: 67,50 zł
Number of participants: min. 12 / max. 30
Time of meeting: 2:45 pm
Place of meeting: hotel lobby
Distance to walk during the tour: ca. 4,5 km
Duration: 3,5 hrs.

During the tour you will:

• see monumental socialist-realism styled buildings and squares constructed in the 1950s as headquarters of Central Committee which since 1989 has become a financial centre, including Warsaw stock exchange, the Palace of Culture and Science, Constitution Square with MDM (Marszałkowska Residential District);
• see modernism architecture of the 1960s and 1970s including impressive Central Railway station and Eastern Frontage of Marszałkowska Street;
• see a typical, fully equipped flat from an average residential building of those times;
• taste the most popular during PRL  period orangeade which competed with Coca Cola since the 1970s;
• find out what a “milk bar” is, why were they and still are so popular and where to go for an adventurous visit to one of them (menu and the service is in Polish only);
• admire the panoramic view of Warsaw from the top of the Palace of Culture and Science (some critics say, that there is the best view to the town, because from the viewing terrace you won’t see the Palace of Culture and Science itself).

Additional attractions (extra fee):

• see a typical, fully equipped flat from an average residential building of those times (individual visit);
• taste the most popular during PRL period orangeade which competed with Coca Cola since the 1970s.