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YOUR journey
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Program Itinerary
DAY 1
ON THE WAY
Fri. Jun 14, 2024
- Depart the USA.
Overnight: Flight
DAY 2
WELCOME TO POLAND
Sat. Jun 15, 2024
- Arrival at Warsaw International Airport.
- Meet your local guide in the hotel lobby and depart for an introduction walking tour of Warsaw.
- Walk through Warsaw’s Old Town. Established in the 13th century and destroyed by the German army during WWII, it was meticulously rebuilt using the original stones.
- Walk through the Old Town Market Place, once the center of European cultural life, and now a vibrant and colorful center. Explore the fashionable restaurants and shops, the beautiful, medieval architectural city walls, and a lookout of the Warsaw Barbican and St. John’s Cathedral.
- Enjoy the evening in Warsaw, once considered to be the European “city of lights”. Dinner in a restaurant on own with local and international cuisine.
Overnight: Warsaw
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 3
THE WORLD THAT WAS & THE WORLD THAT IS
Sun. Jun 16, 2024
- Explore the Museum of the History of Polish Jews located in the center of what once was the Jewish Ghetto. Explore the 1,000 years of rich history of the Polish Jews; beginning from their arrival as merchants, through the medieval ages until today. This 43,000 sq. ft. museum includes rare and valuable art, photos, documentation, and footage of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world.
- Take a guided journey through the Warsaw Ghetto, including the Remnants of the Ghetto Wall and the Nathan Rapoport Warsaw Ghetto Memorial. Follow the footsteps of the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes along the Path of Remembrance, commemorating the heroic Warsaw Ghetto uprising at Mila 18, and reflecting on the last moments of the Warsaw Jewish Community at the Umschlagplatz - the gathering area of the Jews before they were sent to the death camp of Treblinka.
- Lunch on your own, en route.
- Visit the Nozyk Synagogue, the last remaining pre-WWII synagogue in Warsaw.
- Travel to Krakow by train.
- Arrive in Krakow and transfer to the hotel for check in.
- Enjoy dinner and an evening at leisure in the vibrant university city.
Overnight: Krakow
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 4
THE DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY
Mon. Jun 17, 2024
- Depart Krakow with your local guide.
- Guided visit through the Auschwitz–Birkenau Complex, reflecting on personal stories and texts. Walk through the Auschwitz Museum exhibits, built in the original blocks of the camp, see the original artifacts and footage, and witness the life and death of the prisoners of this work camp. A short drive will take you to the Auschwitz II death camp, better known as Birkenau. This camp was barely touched or renovated, allowing you a first-hand experience to understand the last moments of the prisoners of this camp.
- Boxed lunch, en route.
- Visit the Oswiecim Synagogue, on the site of one of Oswiecim’s many pre-Holocaust synagogues – a silent witness to what was once an ordinary Polish town known as Oswiecim with a Jewish majority, later to become the ultimate symbol of the Holocaust.
- Return to Krakow.
- Guided evening walk to Krakow’s Historical Market Square, with its medieval architecture, basilicas and sculptures. This UNESCO World Heritage site, once the capital of Poland, was not destroyed during WWII and bears witness to the rich history of the country.
- Dinner and an evening at leisure.
Overnight: Krakow
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
DAY 5
EXPLORING KRAKOW
Tue. Jun 18, 2024
- Connect to the story of Jewish life in Krakow with an interactive program in the Kazimierz Jewish Quarter, including:
- The Altshul, the oldest synagogue in Poland, transformed into the local Jewish life cycle museum.
- The Rema Synagogue, the synagogue of Rabbi Moses Isserles (the “Rema"), the great codifier of Jewish law.
- The Rema Cemetery, where many great rabbinical leaders of Polish Jewry are buried.
- The Temple, once the first “Modern” orthodox synagogue.
- Lunch on own, en route.
- Take a guided journey following the Jewish community on their descent from Kazimierz, crossing over the bridge into the Jewish Ghetto of Podgorze, including:
- The Krakow Umchlagplatz memorial, now called Ghetto Heroes Square.
- The Oscar Schindler Factory Museum. The museum tells the story of the city of Krakow and its residents under Nazi occupation from 1939 to 1945. The museum is housed in the administrative building of Oskar Schindler’s enamel factory.
- The Under the Eagle Pharmacy, a pharmacy inside the ghetto run by Tadeusz Pankiewitz. We’ll hear how this Polish-Catholic pharmacist saved many Jews and was subsequently recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous among the Nations.
Overnight: Krakow
Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
DAY 6
FROM KRAKOW TO TEL AVIV
Wed. Jun 19, 2024
- Check out of the hotel and transfer to Krakow International Airport.
- Fly to Tel Aviv.
Overnight: Flight
Meals: Breakfast
RATES & LODGING
participants
4+
Cost p/p in double room
$2,680
Cost p/p in single room
$3,015
Warsaw: Crowne Plaza- The HUB
- Nights: 1
- Room Category: Standard
- Hotel Website
Krakow: Indigo Old Town
- Nights: 3
- Room Category: Standard
- Hotel Website
What to expect
- 4 nights' accommodations.
- 4 days of touring with local guides, in a luxury, air-conditioned vehicle.
- Group Arrival & Departure transfers from/to Polish airports.
- Daily breakfast, 1 Boxed Lunch & 1 Dinner.
- 1st class train ticket from Warsaw to Krakow.
- Water on the bus.
- Porterage at the hotels.
- All site entrance fees & program fees as per your final program.
- Credit card fees.
- Flight from Poland to Tel Aviv.
- Flights to Poland & from Israel.
- Dinner in restaurants on June 15,16,17.
- Evening transportation when dinner is not included.
- Amendments to the program: In the event that any sites, programs or meals etc. are added to the program, an additional fee may be required.
- Personal extras: Items of personal nature such as laundry, wines, mineral water, beverages, coffee, tea, food other than the table d’hotel menu, passport and visa fees, insurance, and foreign port taxes, unless otherwise specified.
- US and foreign airport taxes, Q fuel surcharge and border taxes when applicable.
- Peace of Mind Travel Protection Program (POM).
- Gratuities: Recommend guidelines for tipping are provided in the terms section.
- Please review our terms & conditions (T&C’s) or request that we send you our full T&C’s. Until you do that, here is the small print, and other stuff you may want to know:
- Validity | All prices quoted are based on exchange rates as of the proposal date and are subject to change without notice. Rates are per person and are based on shared twin room occupancy.
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- Payments | The balance of your payment is due 90 days before your trip begins, or as specified in your invoice. You will receive an email reminder 2 weeks before this date. Various payment options are available as follows:
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- J² Adventures reserves the right to automatically cancel your reservation on that date and it may be subject to reconfirmation should the final payment not be received.
- Cancelation Policy | All cancelations need to be made in writing. The cancelation fee depends on the date when we receive written notification of your request to cancel your booking. Please note that the deposit is non-refundable.
- Cancelation fees | Cancelations made 90 or more days prior to departure incur the loss of the deposit. Cancelations made 89 to 46 days prior to departure incur the loss of 50% of the full trip cost. Cancelations made 45 days or less prior to the departure incur the loss of 100% of the full trip cost.
- Cancelation fees may also include: Hotel or supplier cancelation fees. J² Adventures reserves the right to adjust its terms of payment, including cancelation policies and initial deposits.
- Protect your investment for $495 p/p: Should you cancel your trip up to 5 days before your departure for any reason, our POM program offers you a trip refund. Call 888-230-6008 or e-mail: [email protected].
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