Tatra National Park — Attraction in Vysoké Tatry

The parking fees keep getting more expensive each year. Recently, we paid 15 EUR for 5 hours of parking just to do a quick hike to Sliezsky dom. The prices aren’t displayed on a sign—only when you scan the QR code, you discover that the minimum parking fee is 15 EUR (1 day). There are no toilets or trash cans at the parking lots, except for a single bin designated for plastic bottles and cans with a deposit system.

TANAP is addressing the issue of excessive cars in the High Tatras with immorally high parking fees instead of implementing a thoughtful solution (like increasing train frequency and capacity, offering free train tickets for guests that are staying longer, etc.).

Moreover, new accommodations are being built on greenfields along TANAP’s direct borders with poor infrastructure that forces visitors to rely solely on car transport, further worsening the situation. Meanwhile, plenty of historic buildings in central areas (e.g. in Stary Smokovec) remain unused and are now in such poor condition that they...

I really doubt I like TANAP. Half of Tatras converted into ski centers - harmful to nature but providing $$$ - and no new hiking trails probably for decades, because nature - meaning $$$ for paid guides who magically save the nature. It's really hard to decide which is worse: Polish highlander mafia with chaos, cheating on accomodation and good access to mountains or Slovak business with bad access to mountains "because we say so"... unless you pay for our guide or our cable car or our super-expensive hotel in the...

I have a kind request to TANAP. Please improve the trail markings on Sławkowski Stit. They are particularly absent ( marks)near the mountain's top. In the rock rubble at the top, people wander over shifting rocks, risking their health, if not their lives. There are practically no trail markings there. Sometimes you can find a small 10cm x 10cm sign, probably painted 25 years ago. I don't mean to be rude, but the Polish Tatra National Park (TPN) marks trails...