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The best train tours in Poland

32 hotel-based trips in Poland had enough verified data to score; hostel and self-guided rail-pass trips are not ranked here. The ranking below is fully mechanical; here is exactly how it works:

  • Eligibility: only hotel-based tours are ranked. Trips built around hostels or self-arranged accommodation are left out, since these guides recommend hotel-inclusive tours for the general traveller.
  • Rail share (35%): the percent of the trip actually on trains, from the itinerary.
  • Value (20%): price per day against the other hotel-based trips on this page (cheaper per day scores higher).
  • Data completeness (25%): full day-by-day itinerary, imagery, inclusions, and verified price.
  • Departure breadth (20%): how many months the operator publishes departures for.
  1. 177.5

    Twelve-day rail loop London to Vienna via Berlin, Krakow and Budapest

    Rail share
    100
    Value
    88
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    12 days · from $1,674 ($140/day)

  2. 2
    Fall of the Iron Curtain

    Tailor Made Rail

    72.9

    Self-guided rail journey through six Eastern European capitals tracing the 1989 fall of the

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    91
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    17 days · from $2,344 ($138/day)

  3. 372.4

    Eastern Europe rail loop from Zurich through Prague, Krakow, Warsaw, and Dresden

    Rail share
    82
    Value
    94
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    11 days · from $1,471 ($134/day)

  4. 14-day London to Kraków rail journey through German and Polish WW2 and post-war history

    Rail share
    100
    Value
    59
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    14 days · from $2,821 ($202/day)

  5. Rail journey through Poland from Krakow to Poznań via Tatra Mountains

    Rail share
    95
    Value
    53
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    13

    11 days · from $2,345 ($213/day)

  6. 671

    Self-guided rail journey through 11 European cities in 29 days

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    81
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    29 days · from $4,287 ($148/day)

  7. 770.4

    Rail journey through Poland and Czech Republic from Cologne to Nuremberg

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    78
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    13 days · from $2,009 ($155/day)

  8. 8
    Historic Cities of Poland

    Great Rail Journeys

    65.6

    Twelve-day escorted journey through Berlin, Wrocław, Kraków, and Warsaw by First Class rail

    Rail share
    75
    Value
    9
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    63

    12 days · from $4,421 ($368/day)

  9. Self-guided rail journey through Hanseatic League cities, London to Gdansk

    Rail share
    73
    Value
    75
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    11 days · from $1,741 ($158/day)

  10. 10
    Eastern Europe Explorer

    Tailor Made Rail

    65.4

    Self-guided rail journey from Gdansk to Belgrade through six Eastern European countries

    Rail share
    60
    Value
    97
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    16 days · from $1,942 ($121/day)