Bydgoszcz

Introduction

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Bydgoszcz is a city in the central northern part of Poland with around 350,000 inhabitants (agglomeration about 450,000) which makes it the 8th biggest city in the country.

Neighbourhoods

In the area of Bydgoszcz there is Torun and a few towns interesting for turists as Chełmno, Pakosc and Gniezno.

Getting There

By Plane

Bydgoszcz Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport (BZG) only offers flights with Ryanair to/from Birmingham, Dublin, London and Airport Weeze, and with EuroLOT to/from Warsaw.

By Train

The city has many connections to other cities in Poland and towns in the region - details are available on the website of the Polish State Railways, with the possibility to by many tickets for many lines online.

By Car

Bydgoszcz is on the route from Warsaw to Szczecin and further Hamburg and from Poznań to Gdańsk.

By Bus

It is possible to reach Bydgoszcz by bus from many Polish cities - detailed information about bus transport is available on the websites: www.pks.bydgoszcz.pl and dworzeconline.pl.

Sleep

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Keep Connected

Internet

In the cities there are more and more Wifi Hot Spots, so if you have your own mobile device, you can connect. Best chances of finding one are at airports, railway stations, in cafés, shopping malls and universities. Places like McDonald's and Starbucks usually have unlimited free wifi. In some hotels you can find free wifi, though you might have to pay as well or maybe just use it for a limited amount of time. Internet cafes become less popular recently as people prefer to use internet at homes.

Phone

See also: International Telephone Calls

To call to Poland from abroad, dial the Polish country code,48, then the number without the leading 0, as if calling from a domestic mobile phone.
The general emergency number is 112. Police (997), Ambulance (999) and Fire (998) have phone numbers as well, and municipal police has 986 as a number.

Mobile phones work almost across the whole country. There are four mobile phone operators in Poland: Plus, T-Mobile, Orange and Play. About 98% of the country is covered by the standard European GSM 900/1800 MHz network, the remaining 2% are wildlife reserves or high mountains. 3G is available in almost every town.
Domestic call rates are roughly the same across all services. Prepaid starter kits with SIM card (called starter in Polish) are widely available in reasonable prices (PLN5-20, most of which is available for calls), in most of the shops, supermarkets and news agents.

Just about every shopping centre has at least one independent cellphone shop, the guys who run them are usually knowledgeable and have a range of cheap handsets which you can use as a local / travel phone. This may be a good option since juggling SIM cards is always a pain.

Post

Poczta Polska is the Polish public post service. Post offices are generally open from 8:00am to 6:00pm Monday to Friday. Some offices are open on Saturday until 2:00pm and the main post offices in major cities are open daily, 24 hours. Services are generally ok, but don't expact it to be fast and it is not always reliable, though most letters, postcards and parcels will arrive at its destinations after a week or two. You can find the red post boxes dotted throughout the country. You can check this postal website to see how much sending a letter, postcard or parcels costs, both domestically as well as internationally. For sending packages internationally, you can also check FedEx, TNT, DHL or UPS, as they have fast and reliable services and generally competitive prices as well.

External Links

• Official Governmental Website