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Rather than
cruising the streets Krakow
taxies wait in
long lines for their cargo to find them at numerous
cab-stands scattered throughout the city. But you may hail
one if it happens to pass by you.
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Watch the
taximeter. Also fares per one kilometer that should be
displayed in the window of the right-hand rear door. It's
free market and some taxi corporations and many independent
cabbies prefer fleecing customers to undercutting
competitors.
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One-way bus or
streetcar ticket is 3.8 zlotys. You may also purchase
tickets good for all trams and buses, valid for a set period
of time. The tickets are available at newsstands and from ticket machines at some stops and in
many
buses as well tram cars. Immediately after boarding put your ticket
through the stamping machine and keep till you get out.
Tickets bought aboard the bus or the tram also need to be
stamped asap.
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Beware of
pickpockets in buses and streetcars more than anywhere else.
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If possible, leave
your vehicle at your hotel's car park and take bus or taxi
instead. On the one hand, it is difficult to find a place in
downtown Krakow to park; on the other, driving after
drinking as little as one beer is an offense in Poland.
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You need to pay
for parking your car in the street in the city
center
between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. on weekdays. One may buy a ticket from
machines installed at every street in
the area. They accept the Polish coins and don't give the
change. You should pay
one zloty to park twenty minutes, three zlotys for one hour,
6.5 zloty for two hours, and 10.6 zloty for three hours. Leave your ticket visible behind the windshield.
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Horse-drawn
carriages practically throughout year, while electric carts
and cycle rickshaws from springtime through autumn wait for
you on Krakow's central Rynek Glowny grand square and
elsewhere in the Old Town.
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