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For those travelling without service is the fastest postal DIRECTORY
a Wi-Fi-enabled device, most method, but is very costly. This
hotels and hostels have at service is available from larger Mobile Phones
least one computer with post office branches, as well as Orange
Internet access in the lobby from DHL and other similar
for guests to use. There are courier companies. ∑ orange.pl
also fewer Internet cafés (Kafejki Plus
Internetowe) than there used to ∑ plus.pl
be now that so many people
have access to Wi-Fi options T-Mobile
elsewhere, but a handful such ∑ t-mobile.pl
as Garinet and Hetmańska still
survive. They offer reasonable Internet Access
rates for Internet use – fares
rarely exceed 10zł per hour. Garinet
ul. Floriańska 18. Map 2 C4 (6 E2).
Postal Services Tel 12 423 2233. ∑ garinet.pl
Branches of the post office are Hetmańska
scattered liberally throughout ul. Bracka 4. Map 1 C5 (6 D3).
central Krakow and the suburbs. Tel 12 430 01 08.
The main post office, Poctzta ∑ hetmanska24.com
Głowna, is situated at the
junction of Westerplatte and A newsstand selling newspapers and Postal Services
Wielopole streets. It is open magazines in Krakow
8am–8pm Monday–Friday, Newspapers DHL
and 8am–2pm Saturday, and Tel 6 345 345. ∑ dhl.com.pl
offers a wide range of services. and Magazines
You can send letters, faxes, Foreign newspapers and Poctzta Głowna
telegrams and parcels, as magazines are available from ul. Westerplatte 20.
well as make international the larger newsagents and Map 2 D5 (6 E3).
money transfers and operator- bookshops. The widest choice
initiated calls. Stamp collectors is available at the Empik multi-Empik multi-Empik Newspapers and
can buy from the philatelic media store in the Galeria Magazines
counter. A poste restante Krakowska mall, which sells
(mail-holding) service is also English-language and other Empik
available. The post office branch foreign publications. Galeria Krakowska, Level -1.
near the railway station has a The most popular quality Map 1 D3 (6 F1).
24-hour counter. newspapers in Krakow are the Tel 22 462 72 50.
Stamps can be purchased at nationals Gazeta Wyborcza and ∑ empikgroup.com
post office counters and from Rzeczpospolita, and the local
D D
selected newsagents. Inland Dziennik Polski and ziennik Polski and ziennik Polski Gazeta Krakow Post
letters arrive after 2 to 3 days Krakowska. Dziennik Polski and Dziennik Polski and Dziennik Polski ∑ krakowpost.com
but international mail can take Gazeta Wyborcza have the best
a week or maybe a little longer. “what’s-on” information. English-
Letters or cards sent via the language monthly the Krakow TV and Radio
more expensive express service Post, only available online, is a Most hotels have a television
will arrive sooner. Courier good source of local news. in the room offering a handful
of Polish-language stations and
a choice of German-, English-,
Italian- and French-language
stations. News channels such
as CNN or BBC are more
common than entertainment
or film channels. Polish TV
stations broadcast many
English-language films and
drama, although the voices
are usually dubbed into Polish
or read by a single actor.
Popular radio stations include
RMF FM (96 FM), Trójka (99.4
FM), Radio Kraków (101.6 FM)
A post office housed in an old palace by the main railway station and Radio Zet (104.1 FM).