Warsaw Tours of the City
Trakt Guide Office (tel: (022) 827 8068; website: www.trakt.com.pl) offers personalised English-speaking tour guides, while Our Roots (tel: (022) 620 0556; website: www.our-roots.jewish.org.pl) specialises in tours of the city's Jewish sites.
Bus Tours
Mazurkas Travel (tel: (022) 635 6633; website: www.mazurkas.com.pl) offers half-day tours of the Old Town and Royal Route, with stops at Wilanów Palace or the Royal Castle. Pick up for tours is from a variety of city hotels. Bus 180 offers a cheap and pleasant unofficial sightseeing tour. Operating between Powazki Cemetery and Wilanów, the bus passes all the main monuments in Warsaw. Double-decker bus 100 passes by some of the city's biggest attractions, including the Old Town, Citadel, and Warsaw Rising Museum. On weekends Tram T, a renovated historical tram, covers the same ground at bus 100. The cost is the same as for a city transport ticket. Warsaw's tourist offices produce a brochure detailing times and routes of the buses and tram.
Boat Tours
Have a pleasant, relaxing jaunt on the Vistula River between May and September with Vistula Boat Trips (tel: (022) 697 7810; website: www.zegluga-stoleczna.pl).
Other Tours
Visitors can take a trip around the Old Town in a horse-drawn hackney cab or dorozki. These are run by individuals, licensed by the city, and wait for passengers at the Old Town Square. PiPiN (tel: 0510 432 564; website: www.pipin.pl) offers vintage car and bicycle tours of Warsaw's major sites.
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