How to get to Poland?

All information is taken from Exotic Poland website.

Train access

The best train access points to Eastern route described in  Exotic Poland website are Suwalki, Augustow, Dabrowa Bialostocka, Sokolka, Terespol, Chelm, Zamosc, Zwierzyniec and Przemysl. Trains also reach Hajnowka, Czeremcha, Krasnystaw, Susiec and Horyniec, but the connections may be not so convenient.

Bikes on trains

Bikes are allowed on nearly all trains in Poland. You need an extra ticket for bicycle, costing up to 11 PLN one way for longest possible travel across Poland (usually cheaper).

Many of the trains connecting Warsaw with Olsztyn, Bialystok, Suwalki, Sokolka, Lublin, as well as some to Zwierzyniec, Hrebenne and Przemysl have a special car for bicycles. In 2005, InterCity Wawel from Hamburg and Berlin to Wroclaw, Katowice and Krakow is the only international train with such facilites.

Local electric trainsets (EZT) have special compartments for people with bigger luggage (including bicycles). Look for it at the rear end of the trainset (also in the middle, if the train is double long). In Exotic Poland, most of trains on the lines Warszawa - Siedlce - Terespol and Lublin - Chełm - Dorohusk are EZT.

In other trains, without a special car or place for bicycles, you may put the bike in the last (or first) carriage at the very end or front of the train next to the entrance. If there are more cyclists on the train, it may definitely not be a viable option. Train crew may ask some of you to leave the train in such case and take the next one (although usually they are cooperative). Locking the bike to the door knobs is a good idea, much like dismounting all precious luggage and equipment. This also makes evacuation quicker. At many destinations platforms are very low and pulling the loaded bike out of the carriage may be difficult.

Beware: during the travel you are responsible for your bike and luggage.