More and more people are traveling to Poland and deciding it to be the destination in summer or winter. There is no special season to travel to Poland; every season is the perfect one.
But why does Poland, especially Kraków, become more and more attractive for tourists? With all of the amazing sights, the savage parties, and the good food—it’s affordable for everyone!
The currency in Poland is the Polish Zloty.
1€ = 4.6 Zloty (1£ = 5.4 Zloty).
A full meal in a nice restaurant or a fancy Airbnb/Hostel in Kraków’s City Center or the parties—everything is affordable.
If you want to keep your expenditures even lower, you should take one more piece of advice: Don’t exchange money in an exchange office—especially not in the main square.
There are almost a million exchange offices in the center, but going there will make you lose a lot of money. If you want to exchange, for example, 100€ into zloty, you will get around 345 zloty, which in reality is only 75€.
The exchange fee is massively high, and it’s the same in most of the ATMs.
So how to get cash in Poland then? ATMs in the streets will cost you between 16 to 20 zloty for the withdrawal, then they’ll take an exchange fee, and you also have to consider that your bank may charge you for withdrawing money, too.
The cheapest bank is PKO Bank Polski. They were even nominated as the best bank for customers. The exchange fee is the lowest and fairest, and there will always be one bank in the city center.
Also highly recommended is to have a credit card that allows you to cash out money for free, like the MasterCard Gold.