Travel Information

Flying to Warsaw (Warszawa)

If you fly to Warsaw, at the airport you should take a train to the city centre. At the main train station (Warszawa Centralna) you should take a train to Bielsko-Biała Główna – the trains to Bielsko-Biała go a few times a day. The tickets can be bought at the ticket window at the station or onboard the train (you can pay by debit/credit card). It takes four hours and a half to get to Bielsko-Biała. The ticket is around 150 PLN (~30 EUR). Because there are more trains going from Warsaw to Katowice, you can also take a train to Katowice, and then take a regular train from Katowice to Bielsko-Biała. These regular trains go more or less every hour. The journey takes from one hour to one hour and a half. The ticket costs about 13 PLN (~3.50 EUR).

Polish State Railways routeplanner: http://rozklad-pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/en? (use Bielsko-Biała Główna, i.e. “main” station as the destination)

Intercity trains website (offering the possibility to buy tickets online, only for direct Intercity trains): http://www.intercity.pl/en/

Warsaw Chopin Airport website: http://www.lotnisko-chopina.pl/en/passenger

Flying to Cracow (Kraków)

If you fly to Kraków, at the airport you should take a public bus to get to the city centre, and get off at the main train station. Since there are no direct trains going to Bielsko-Biała, it would be advisable to take a bus (the main bus station is adjacent to the train station). The journey takes around two hours and a half. The bus fare is around 16 PLN (~4 EUR).

Kraków Airport website: http://www.krakowairport.pl/en/ (you can check it for the buses too)

Flying to Katowice

If you fly to Katowice, there are buses going to the city centre (final station: Katowice Pl. Oddz. Młodzieży Powstańczej). You get off just by the main train station. The trains to Bielsko-Biała go several times a day. The ticket can be bought at the ticket window (you can pay either in cash or by debit/ credit card) or onboard the train (you have to pay in cash). The journey takes around an hour (or an hour and a half – depending on the train). The ticket is about 13 PLN (~3.50 EUR).

Katowice Airport website: http://www.katowice-airport.com/en/index/index/0 (you can check it for the buses too)

Arriving in Bielsko-Biała.

When you arrive at the Bielsko-Biała Główna train station, you can either take a taxi or a public bus. Long distance busses stop next to train station.

There is a taxi rank just outside the station (the taxi will charge you around 30 PLN = ~7 EUR for the ride to the University).

There are two bus stops from which you can take buses to the city centre:

Piastowska Dworzec is on the left side of the Piastowska street, which runs straight down to the Bielsko-Biała Główna station;
Warszawska Dworzec is on the other side of the Warszawska street (which is the street parallel to the station), right behind a flight of stairs going over the main street.

To get straight to the University of Bielsko-Biała you should use the Piastowska Dworzec bus stop:

you can take the 24 bus and get off at the last stop right at the gates of the University
you can also take the 10 bus get off at the Bystrzańska bus stop, from which it’s a couple minutes’ walk from the University (see the map below).

The public bus ticket is 3 PLN (~0,71 EUR). There’s a self-service ticket machine at the bus stop; or the driver can sell you the ticket for 4 PLN. To all the hotels that we have listed you can get either by taxi or by public bus.

How to get from the train station to the Piastowska bus stop:

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