Poland 2025

While it's still fresh in my memory, the main points of the trip to Poland. From Modlin airport you can get to Warsaw by bus or by one of two trains. One train goes to the in-city airport, passing through the main railway stations. The other goes to the West station, to platform 9, which used to be a separate station and is located far from the main station. They all run every hour.

Buses between the airport and the Modlin railway station run every 15 minutes, the ride takes 5 minutes, so you can catch the bus 10 minutes before departure. Nobody checks tickets on the bus.

You can buy tickets both at the airport and online. If you look at the exit from the airport from inside the building, then on the right there's a kiosk that sells bus tickets to Warsaw, which runs every hour, and on the left there's a kiosk selling train tickets.

I needed to get to the West station in Warsaw, both trains go there. The nearest bus to the trains left at :33, and the bus to Warsaw at :40.

I took tickets for the train going to the West station, it came out as two separate tickets, one for the bus, the other for the train.

The train was 8 minutes late, by that time another train had already arrived and was standing, because it wasn't leaving for another 20 minutes.

I could have taken a taxi, but at that time it was just snowing, so the roads were more dangerous and unpredictable, Poland isn't very ready for snow.

My train was an hour and a half late because of the snow. And the train coming from mountainous Kraków was running more than 3 hours late.

The West station has a McDonald's, but there was no working ATM. There were ATMs at the bus station nearby.

If you're getting around by taxi in Bydgoszcz late at night, when public transport isn't running, then it's better to get off at the stations before the central one, because at the central one people quickly grab the nearest taxis and you end up waiting for a car from the outskirts of the city, near those outermost railway stations.