For one traveler the Bus 300 is cheaper by up to PLN 83. The Kraków Airport Taxi, zone fare fare is sold "from" a price rather than at it, so this comparison holds only at the advertised prices and the real answer can change with the day you travel.
The Bus 300 is quicker: 19 min against 25 min. The Kraków Airport Taxi, zone fare varies between 19 and 35 minutes.
Bus 300: 04:33–23:42. Kraków Airport Taxi, zone fare: Runs all night.
Priced against each other
Whole-party totals · adult fares
What each costs for the whole party, in PLN. The cheaper of the two is marked on every row.
Travelers
Bus 300
Kraków Airport Taxi, zone fare
Difference
1
PLN 6
from PLN 89
up to PLN 83
2
PLN 12
from PLN 89
up to PLN 77
3
PLN 18
from PLN 89
up to PLN 71
4
PLN 24
from PLN 89
up to PLN 65
5
PLN 30
from PLN 89
up to PLN 59
6
PLN 36
from PLN 89
up to PLN 53
7
PLN 42
from PLN 89
up to PLN 47
8
PLN 48
from PLN 178
up to PLN 130
Side by side
Where each one leaves you
bus · Komunikacja Miejska w Krakowie (ZTP), operated by MPKBus 300
From
Stop "Kraków Airport" by the passenger terminal
To
Muzeum Narodowe at the western edge of the Old Town in 19 minutes, Jubilat by the river in 20, Rondo Grunwaldzkie by the ICE Congress Centre and Wawel in 24, Os. Podwawelskie in 25
Luggage
Free — "przewóz bagażu i zwierząt nie podlega opłacie" in the city's price order. A city bus with no hold.
Runs
04:33–23:42
Journey
19–25 min
It does not go to Kraków Główny. For the station take the train, or at night the 902; for the Old Town this bus is nearer than either.
The PLN 6 ticket lasts to the end of this bus's run however long it takes. If you change to a tram at Muzeum Narodowe, the 30 minutes will have nearly gone by then — buy the PLN 8 60-minute ticket instead.
A zone-I 24-hour ticket (PLN 20) is not valid on this ride; the airport is in zone II. The all-zones 24-hour ticket is PLN 25.
The route has been "temporarily" diverted via Al. Focha and Królowej Jadwigi since 2 September 2023, and ZTP's own line description still shows the old road through Przegorzały. The times here are the diverted route, which is the one that runs.
The scheduled 19 minutes is a timetable figure. The same road is used by the night bus, which is timed at 24 minutes to the same stop.
Bus 209 also passes the airport about twelve times a day on its way from Mników to Salwator, on the same ticket; Salwator is a tram terminus well short of the Old Town, so the 300 is the one to take.
taxi · MPL Services, the airport company's taxi subsidiaryKraków Airport Taxi, zone fare
From
The covered Kraków Airport Taxi rank beside the passenger terminal, or by phone or online; the dispatch office answers 06:00 to 22:00, the rank works around the clock
To
Any address; the zone is read off the meter at the end of the ride
Luggage
Carried in the boot; the fare is for the ride.
Runs
All night
Journey
19–35 min
PLN 89 is the floor for the center, not necessarily the price. The band is decided by the meter's distance, and the operator's own map puts the Rynek in the PLN 109 band and the station in the PLN 129 band. Ask which band before you get in.
It never beats the bus: eight people in a van and a sedan pay from PLN 178 against PLN 48 on the 300. It does beat the train from five people, if the ride really is zone 4.
No authority states a taxi journey time. The 19 to 35 minutes here are the scheduled times of bus 300 and night bus 902 over the same roads, not a taxi figure.
A larger party should tell the driver 30 minutes ahead; the rules call a bigger group an atypical service. A van is not guaranteed at the rank without notice.
The city's meter ceiling (PLN 9 plus PLN 4 a kilometer by day) is a rule for licensed taxis inside Kraków's limits; the airport is outside them, in gmina Zabierzów, and this tariff is the airport company's own.
It is the only option that runs at every hour with no wait; the 902 is hourly in the dead of night.
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