It’s not that expensive - you have a Cinci-Paris Air France flight and then from Paris to Warsaw on LOT
If you want to visit us, then I would suggest September - because July-august is the school holiday time with lots of kids crowding the places (mine too!).
The food and stay is not that expensive — check noclegi.pl for bed and breakfasts or go through booking.com
the castles are one thing, but there is a lot more:
> Warsaw - the phoenix city, visit the old town, nowy swiat, powazki cemetery (in the evenings), the jewish cemetery, the warsaw uprising museum, the faras gallery in the national museum.
I don’t recommend going to the Jewish museum - it’s not very well done at all imho - it’s chaotically organized.
Then we have the Lazienki park and the palace on water in Lazienki
> Krakow of course - for the castle and the old town, worth 2 days
Kaziemierz, a district of Krakow - the Jewish district - definitely worth visiting
Wieliczka - the salt mine arts - worth it
Auschwitz - must visit - it is haunting
Torun - a 14th century pearl
Gdansk - a beautiful Hanseatic port
Wroclaw - again another beautiful city
Bieszczady, Bielowieza, Beskidy etc - beautiful forests and mountains.
If you stay using booking.com, travel on our public transport (in the cities superb, somewhat ok to the smaller towns) you’ll end up paying perhaps 1K USD per week for accomodation+food+travel
Thanks! I’m thinking of traveling in Mid May.