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Any suggestions about taking taxi at night in Poland/Katowice?



cybnsThreads: 4
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Hi all, I'm going to Katowice next month. I'll arrive at the airport about 23:00. Then I will head for hotel. Probably I should take a taxi (It's too late to take a public transportation). Could anyone give me any suggestion about taking taxi at night in Poland/Katowice? How will it charge? Anything I should pay attention to?
ukpolskaThreads: 51
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Joined: Oct 23, 06  Gold Member MEMBER 		  Dec 30, 08, 01:48 /  #
There is a bus that will take you at 23:30 to the centre, but you may not be able to catch that.
Then the next option is a taxi, make sure you go with one of the taxi's at the taxi rank and not one of the guys that will hang around offering you a taxi as the are fly taxi's and not official one's.
The fare should be no more than 50zl, you may be able to catch one of the private minibuses but I think at that time of night they will be finished, if you do the fare will be around 20zl.
Have a piece of paper with the Hotel and street written down on it if you don't speak Polish.
Wroclaw Boy   Dec 30, 08, 03:20 /  #
ukpolska:

The fare should be no more than 50zl

i was shocked to discover how far away the Katowice airport is from Katowice, it took me around 30 miuntes to get there from the A4.
LondonChickThreads: 43
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Enjoy your trip - what will you be doing in Katowice?
ukpolskaThreads: 51
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Wroclaw Boy:

i was shocked to discover how far away the Katowice airport is from Katowice, it took me around 30 miuntes to get there from the A4.

That's what I was basing it on 30 mins, according to my local rates, so maybe someone a bit more local could give a better assessment of the taxi fare.
I took a taxi from Lublin to Pulawy 55klms and it cost me 100zl and we have strangely for this area some of the highest charges for fuel in the country.

*edit*
Wroclaw Boy I am a bit perplexed as to why you took the A4 when it’s the opposite end of the City from the Airport, unless of course you were coming from that end.
SeanusThreads: 22
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More like 80zł. I think they lay on late night buses tho. Worth investigating.

The same is with Krakow. It was a 40-minute bus trip to get to the airport from the centre. I took the train the last time, only 25 mins.
cybnsThreads: 4
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Thanks guys. I'm going there for business visiting. If only around 100zł I think it's still affordable. However, as I check in the google map, the airport is really far away from the city center..................O_o!
cybnsThreads: 4
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Hi it's me again.

I'm looking for the train/railway station of Katowice in google map. But it seems a little bit hard for me because I don't know Polish at all. Could anybody tell me the name or address of the station? Thanks so much...
SeanBMThreads: 41
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http://wikitravel.org/en/Katowice
It talks about the train station.
doesnt give an address though.
KrzysztofThreads: 2
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I once did some research and the taxis were supposed to cost about 200 złotych which is really much for that short distance, maybe it has changed :)
Here you can find links to timetables of different bus companies, maybe at 23.00 they will be still going.
ukpolskaThreads: 51
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Krzysztof:

I once did some research and the taxis were supposed to cost about 200 złotych which is really much for that short distance, maybe it has changed :)

Bloody hell that's more than Warsaw rates !!!
Krzysztof:

Here you can find links to timetables of different bus companies, maybe at 23.00 they will be still going.

As I said above the last bus is at 11:30pm if you wish to check the time tables.
Guest   Jan 3, 09, 14:34 /  #
hehe airport taxi take 160 PLN to Katowice , and it is only corporation in area PYRZOWICE
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