Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory — Attraction in Krakow

We booked this trip when we booked our break with Jet2 through Hays Travel. They use a company called Attraction World. Complicated innit! On the day we made our own way to the site. Got there in time so we grabbed a drink and a piece of cheesecake at Restauracja Paleo, a lovely little place across the road. Two cokes and two cheesecakes were 80pln. Accessing the trip was a bit of a bun fight. There was the queue outside of people who had just turned up to buy tickets and enter, we joined that just in case, but I decided to go to the big bollard at the entrance to see what was happening. All of a sudden there was a girl calling names out. I responded to mine and my partner had heard it too so she came to the front. No branded clothing or signs, no nothing. The group was formulated, we were given stickers to wear and taken into the factory. The tour itself was very informative but it's generalised about the history of the German invasion and the background to the history of the events of that, the formation of the ghetto and the clearing of the ghetto. There are hundreds of photos with text next to them and we didn't get to linger long enough as the group moved through the museum. In all we enjoyed the tour, the guide was extremely informative. It's a place that's well worth visiting. I think, another time, I'd go early and queue to have the time to look at every picture and read every caption. I'd also recommend wearing flat shoes and not flip flops as the floor surfaces change and can be quite uneven. Overall, an...

The museum itself was amazing and very well done. I loved how thorough it was, and everything was also available in English. My problem lies with the fact that the museum does not handle groups and individual tourists very well. This is a tourist hotspot, and by that, I mean a TRUE tourist hotspot. You get constant flows of huge groups of people (40 or more at a time), and their guides have absolutely no shame in occupying an entire room and blocking the access for individual tourists. They also take FOREVER to say their speech, and they won't let you through. You have to wait, regardless of what you want to do in the museum. You can't move at your own pace, take photos, or enjoy the place because of the constant chaos caused by the careless guides and their groups. It was unbearable to be stuck between an Italian and a Spanish group for almost two hours. We were unable to advance or enjoy or take photos because we simply couldn't. The museum doesn't care. They don't let the groups in one at a time. They have no rules, and it feels like a jungle. I absolutely would not recommend visiting this place just because of the poor management. Not to mention the high price of the ticket. And also they run out of tickets, apparently. We tried going there around 1pm on a weekday, and they told us they had no more tickets available. Weird. It wasn't even close to the closing time. How does a museum even run out of tickets? Anyways,...

The exhibition is 95% all in Polish. if you are going to take a wonder round without a guide then its very hard to understand what the exhibition refers too because its mainly in Polish. We joined an English tour guide who went around ans pointed out what was relevant to his talk. I guess all guides will point out exhibits that they want to talk about so a lot we found interesting but but wasn't covered. most of the exhibit is about Poland history of the 2 world wars. if you are going to Oscar Schindlers Factory to mainly hear his story well then you would be dissapointed. his story is a very small part of the exhibit. Once the tour with your guide is finished, everyone leaves so if there were parts that the guide didn't cover, you could go back but no one from our group did. I wasn't overly impressed as I was more interested in shindlers part of the war but it was fat more general. its a shame they dont have much im English as I can't see what tou would gain if you were left to go around the exhibit on your own. we had prebooked our ticket from the UK. there was nothing available from the government website, the tickets shoild be around 40 zloty but all the tour operators buy up the tickets and sell them at 4 times the price. This is what we ended up doing. Our online tickets clearly said 40 zloty but we paid much more. We just didnt want to take a trip to Poland and not be...