New public transport ticket prices come into effect from today, Monday 1st February 2021. The changes include a new 5+1 half year ticket, exclusively for Kraków City Card (KKM – Krakowska Karta Miejska) holders.
New penalty charges have also been introduced:-
- for the lack of a valid ticket (transport document or a document confirming the right to travel free of charge) – 240 zł
- for the lack of a valid document confirming the entitlement to reduced travel – PLN 160
- for violation of the provisions on the transport of goods and animals – PLN 160
- for causing an unjustified stop or change of the vehicle route – PLN 520
Additional fees will be reduced to 30% or 50% (if paid within seven days of issuing the request for payment).
The New 5 + 1 Ticket (for Krakow City (KKM) card holders only)
The cost of the new 5 + 1 half year ticket, is 420 zł, however, you will not have to pay the full amount in advance. The fee will be charged automatically every month from the payment card indicated by the passenger – for five months it will be 80 zł, and for the sixth month it will be 20 zł or in the case of a concessionary ticket – 40 zł for five months and 10 zł for the sixth month.
How to buy a new 5 + 1 month half year Krakow City Card ticket
Other useful transport maps, routes and schematics can be found here.
What about existing tickets?
Passengers also ask what to do with the purchased validating tickets and season tickets? krakowwpigulce.pl asked this question of MPK Kraków spokesman, Marek Gancarczyk.
“All season tickets purchased before the effective date of the resolution may be used until their expiry date, in accordance with the rules applicable so far. All unused validating tickets with an outdated price may be exchanged at the Ticket Sales Points for an additional fee for other validating tickets selected from the current ticket offer. Tickets for validation with an outdated price expire 6 months from the date of entry into force of the resolution (July 31, 2021). – informs the spokesman.”
Full Details of New Ticket Tariff’s
Time tickets to be validated, the so-called short-term:
- 20-minute ticket – PLN 4 normal, PLN 2 reduced
- 60-minute or single-ride – PLN 6 regular, PLN 3 reduced
- 90-minute ticket – PLN 8 regular, PLN 4 reduced
- 70-minute ticket (shared with Małopolska Railways) – PLN 7 regular, PLN 3.50 reduced
Ticket prices are the same for all ticket zones.
Single-ride tickets for validation, group tickets up to 20 people:
- For the first ticket zone – PLN 50 normal, PLN 25 reduced
- For all zones – PLN 60 normal, PLN 30 reduced
Time tickets to be validated, the so-called long-term:
- For the first ticket zone:
- 24-hour – PLN 17 regular, PLN 8.50 reduced
- 7-day – PLN 56 regular, PLN 28 reduced
- To all ticket zones:
- 24-hour – PLN 22 normal, PLN 11 reduced
- 48-hour ticket – PLN 35 normal, PLN 17.50 reduced
- 72-hour ticket – PLN 50 normal, PLN 25 reduced
- 7-day ticket – PLN 68 regular, PLN 34 reduced
- weekend family – 25 PLN
Personal periodic tickets (for holders of the Krakow Card status):
- Monthly tickets:
- for one line in the first ticket zone – PLN 54 regular, PLN 27 reduced
- network for the first ticket zone – PLN 80 regular, PLN 40 reduced
- network for the first and second ticket zones – PLN 103 normal, PLN 51.50 reduced
- network for I, II and III ticket zones – PLN 116 regular, PLN 58 reduced
- Half-year tickets:
- for the first ticket zone – PLN 420 regular, PLN 210 reduced
- for I and II ticket zones – PLN 515 regular, PLN 257.50 reduced
- for ticket zones I, II and III – regular PLN 580, reduced PLN 290
- 5 + 1 for the first ticket zone – PLN 420 regular, PLN 210 reduced
Personal periodic tickets (for persons who do not have the Krakow Card status):
- for one line in the first ticket zone – PLN 80 regular, PLN 40 reduced
- Network tickets:
- for the first ticket zone – PLN 148 regular, PLN 74 reduced
- for the second ticket zone – PLN 79 normal, PLN 39.50 reduced
- for the third ticket zone – regular PLN 37, reduced PLN 18.50
- for I and II ticket zones – PLN 158 regular, PLN 79 reduced
- for II and III ticket zones – regular PLN 96, reduced PLN 48
- for ticket zones I, II and III – regular PLN 179, reduced PLN 89.50
- Special network tickets (when purchasing at least 30 tickets):
- for the first ticket zone – PLN 110
- for I and II ticket zones – PLN 126
- for I, II and III ticket zones – PLN 146
- Social network tickets:
- for the first ticket zone – PLN 30
- for the I and II ticket zones – PLN 50
- ticket zones I, II and III – PLN 70
- Activation tickets for the unemployed:
- for the first ticket zone – PLN 50
- for the 1st and 2nd ticket zones – PLN 100
- ticket zones I, II and III – PLN 140
Integrated monthly registered tickets – for combined journeys:
- for the first ticket zone – PLN 133 regular, PLN 66.50 reduced
- for the second ticket zone – PLN 71 normal, PLN 35.50 reduced
- for the third ticket zone – PLN 33 regular, PLN 16.50 reduced
- for I and II ticket zones – PLN 142 regular, PLN 71 reduced
- for I, II and III ticket zones – PLN 161 regular, PLN 80.50 reduced
There will also be a possibility of group purchase – by the organisers of mass events or events for their participants – entitlements to multiple journeys in ticket zones I and II (up to 100 people):
- for one day – PLN 300
- for two days – PLN 580
- for three days – PLN 810
- for four days – PLN 1100
- each subsequent day – PLN 200
Travel agencies will have the opportunity to obtain a personal Krakow Tourist Card for their clients, entitling the holders to multiple journeys in all zones:
- 1-day – PLN 17
- 2-day – 45 PLN
- 3-day – PLN 50
Additional fees (if paid within seven days of issuing the request for payment, the fee is reduced to 50% or 30% of the value):
- for the lack of a valid ticket (transport document or a document confirming the right to travel free of charge) – PLN 240
- for the lack of a valid document confirming the entitlement to reduced travel – PLN 160
- for violation of the provisions on the transport of goods and animals – PLN 160
- for causing an unjustified stop or change of the vehicle route – PLN 520
Other payments:
- for activities related to the collection of an additional fee or issuing a request for payment in the event of their redemption – PLN 16
- for the repeated and subsequent issuance of an electronic card (carrier of season tickets and slow travel tickets) – PLN 8
- no fees are charged for the first issue of an electronic card (carrier of periodic tickets)
- there are no fees for the transport of animals and luggage
Full details can be found at krakow.pl
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