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Ice, frost and snow should have crackled underfoot as we walked Krakow’s city centre.
However January’s winter was not as cold or snow filled as normal. Still -10 degrees during the day and a few inches of snow were winter enough for us; so perhaps it was best to be a few degrees warmer and minus a metre of so of snow. Our visit a mix of winter break and exploration to see what Krakow might offer for MICE.
ICE, salt, underground meeting spaces, silent synagogues, great restaurants, bars, night clubs and unbelievably low prices for food and drinks.
ICE is Krakow’s spectacular new conference centre due to complete this Autumn and to open for conferences, concerts, exhibitions and more next Spring with the main auditorium capable of hosting 2,000. And for another spectacular meeting space why not go underground and hold your conference or gala dinner in a converted salt cavern. Wieliczka Salt Mine is over nine centuries old and close to five hundred feet deep. A stunning location to light and listen. Wieliczka’s largest space, carved out from the rock salt, can host 600 with breakout rooms, Wi-Fi (in main meeting spaces) full catering and more. Just imagine lights reflecting off ice crystals….and the acoustics are superb!
We stayed in Queens Hotel, a small boutique where the service was great, cocktails so so low priced and dinner (in a restaurant with a Michelin listing) also very affordable and over ate in several superb restaurants as the portions were generous. We enjoyed Wawel castle but saw only a fraction of the millions of art treasures held in Krakow.
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