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Poland by motorhome is different. You want to know why? Discover authentic sensations in this quiet, dreamy European corner. If your plan is to visit Poland by motorhome or camper van, let yourself be seduced by its great destinations by the hand of our one-month experience traveling through Poland by motorhome.
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Poland by motorhome: camper friendly country but with its peculiarities. Legislation and what you should know
Driving a motorhome in Poland
Driving on the roads of Poland It is easy but at the same time it can be somewhat tedious. Polish they drive like in SpainEven sometimes I would say that they are more polite than us, although they are rude and in a hurry there are everywhere. Now drivers are not the problem, there is something you need to know. The Poland's road infrastructures are at extreme, or they are excellent highways or they are roads, that if you suffer from your motorhome or camper, you can prepare yourself to suffer. There are a lot of minor and not-so-minor roads that are in pretty bad shape. Many are under construction and surely in a few years this will have improved a lot. Now, for the moment it is what it is.
Most of the roads are patched, with holes and no hard shoulder or painted markings. They are not narrow, nor do they normally have steep slopes, but they are in poor condition. They are roads that for a motorhome make you have to go very slowly if you do not want to get home without a motorhome. To do 60 km, think that it will take at least an hour, except you go from big cities to big cities where there are good highways and highways (but with very very minimal payments, the most we have paid have been 3 euros) of three lanes and new ones.
A trick: do not trust the GPS, take a good look at google maps and if you see a main road or highway pull for it, even if it is more kilometers and turn more.
But above all, driving on Polish roads implies respecting the country's highway code:
Speed limits on highways:
- Urbanized areas - up to 50 km / h (60 km / h after 23:00)
- Out of town - up to 90 km / h
- Urban helmet - up to 20 km / h
- Fast dual carriageway - up to 110 km / h
- On fast single carriageway - up to 100 km / h
- Dual carriageway with at least two lanes in each direction - up to 100 km / h
Obligations on the road that you must take into account:
- Mandatory to always circulate with the lights on
- The amount of alcohol allowed in the driver's blood is 0,2 mg / l
- If you are a motorhome of more than 3500 kg you must have the active TOLL road to circulate on Polish roads.
viaTOLL is an electronic road use charging system in Poland. For more information: https://etoll.gov.pl/en/
Stay overnight and do motorhome or van services in Poland
If the vehicle is well parked and without camping the overnight stay is allowed as a general rule throughout the countryWe have not seen any sign of prohibited motorhomes in the whole trip. However, in some natural parks or coastal areas the stay of the vehicle at night may be restricted and they put chains closing the accesses.
Although, remember, power staying overnight does not give you the right to camp on your own, something that we explain below and that is prohibited throughout Poland.
To spend the night, apart from being able to do it in any parking lot, you have enough private motorhome and camping areas that are cheap there. In these places, you can also camp.
As they do not exist in Poland they are free municipal motorhome areas as we know them in southern Europe.
In addition, you should know that the camper areas (as there they call motorhomes, vans or any home vehicle) many times they do not have emptying services gray and / or black water. And even in some very basic campsites, more in the south of the country, it also happened to us that they did not have gray casts.
Trick solution for services: obviously search areas and campsites with all services and if we have nothing nearby, look for a Car wash (on the map we leave you some point) or a motorway service area with the sign "Wc bus" and there gray and black drains where the buses. Above all, never ever pour water where you should not, remember that it is our future as a collective that we play for ourselves wherever we go.
Camping in a motorhome or camper in Poland
La wild camping is not allowed, Same as in spain. Camping is in fact prohibited and strictly controlled, especially in nature reserves and on the coast. If the police catch you camping, you can be fined up to € 120. As in Spain, we ask you to comply with the rules and never ever camp outside a campsite or private motorhome area or specifically regulated camping areas, which are the only places that allow it.
We remind you that camping is taking out an awning, taking out a table and chairs or taking out any element of your vehicle that causes it to exceed its perimeter.
For this, in Poland you are in luck, you have many private campsites and camper parks at a very good price. One good thing about Poland are the Prices of its campsites that average around € 15-20 per night for 2 adults + 2 children + 1 dog + 1 motorhome.
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Summary of our trip through Poland by motorhome
Our trip to Poland by motorhome
1 month from mid-July to mid-August.
We arrived in Poland, after 48 hours of travel, through the Lower Silesia region, crossing all of France and Germany. Trying to avoid the Czech Republic for its tolls (vignette) and its bad roads, which we already know.
We go through the south of Poland and then we go up to the central area and, finally, to the north of Poland.
Without a doubt, a route where we combine multiple landscapes and attractions. From sea, lakes, rivers, mountains, fairytale cities and towns, bike, boat or kayak routes, hot springs, castles and multiple activities to get to know Poland beyond the typical tourist who goes to see some main Polish city and the vestiges of the Holocaust or World War II.
This will lead us to discover that Poland is much more than we think.
Expenses for our one-month trip to Poland in a motorhome
To give you an idea of the approximate costs of a trip to Poland by motorhome, we give you a summary of our expenses during our one-month trip to Poland. These costs are the total for the 4 of us in the family plus our dog Max.
, of the total approximately 6.000 kilometers made. On tolls the costs have involved € 277, all mainly from France and Spain. Luckily neither Germany nor Poland have tolls if you are a vehicle weighing less than 3.500 kilos.
En car parks, motorhome areas and campsites the cost has been 370 € uros. And in tickets to museums or places of interest, restaurants and activities of leisure unos 1800 € uros.
In total this trip that we explain to you of a month for Poland for the 4 has involved an approximate cost of around 3800 € urosFor all that we have done, I assure you that in another place it would have meant a lot more.
Also, remember that we go in our motorhome. Now, if you do not have a motorhome and you want to rent one, add about € 50-180 per day if you rent it, depending on the season and type of rental you do.
The best of Poland by motorhome
- Without a doubt, in the first place we put Polish gastronomy, which we have enjoyed with 3 B (good, beautiful and cheap)
- Polish national natural parks. There are 23, very varied and all with very good trails prepared, marked and cared for.
- You can spend the night in a motorhome freely, as long as we do not camp, as in Spain.
- The roads and highways are mostly all free.
- The excellent security that is breathed throughout the country. Polish motorhomes do not have security locks, a good indication.
- There are many bike lanes.
- Poland is a country that has surprised us with its great tourist and varied leisure offer. And best of all, at a good price!
- Discover World Heritage sites such as the Wieliczka Salt Mines, unique in the world.
- Discovering that Poland is much more than the traces of World War II and the Holocaust, but without forgetting that trace, something that humanity must never forget.
- The Lake District has made us fall in love! and the cities and towns of the Baltic Sea too!
- Climb the mountains of the Tatra Mountains and enjoy a dinner with regional music in Zakopane
- See that it is not as the media say only a conservative and Catholic country, there are many open and tolerant people! And the further north, the more you will notice it. Poles are very kind and friendly people.
And more …
- Enjoy the hot springs of southern Poland, simply breathtaking!
- Polish bakeries and patisseries and their paczusie, the buns filled with jam made of roses or other flowers or fruits.
- Gasoline is even a few cents cheaper than in Spain.
- Poland is a country that bets on the camper world and it shows. It is starting to create more infrastructure and there are no RV ban signs anywhere. In addition, in many tourist places of interest they have specific areas and parking for motorhomes.
- If you want to escape the sweltering heat in summer, this is a wonderful place. The maximum temperatures in summer are 30º.
- We have loved the Polish campsites. Others with three B's, good, beautiful and at a good price, between 15 and 25 euros, being the 4 and the dog!
- The Poles drive well or at least not as badly as they had painted us, better than the Italians for sure.
- Know in the big cities, wonderful Spanish speaking guides. They have helped us not only to better understand the history of that city and of Poland, but they have helped us with all our doubts, advised and recommended wonderful foods and places, they have helped us with the Polish language and much more! We had good conversations and I would dare to say that friendships!
- In Poland, when they anticipate a risk of rain, they notify you with a message on your mobile, a plus that helped us avoid risks on the trip.
The worst of Poland in a motorhome
- The contrast of spectacular highways and roads in very bad condition. Roads in general are in poor condition, especially secondary roads that do not connect large cities. They are patchy or quite torn. To do 60 km it sometimes took 1,5 hours. They are not narrow or steep, but with the bad condition everything vibrates in a motorhome and you must go slower.
- There is little infrastructure adapted to motorhomes and campers. They are starting now. There are no free public motorhome areas as we know them in southern Europe and those that exist are private, often without emptying services and above at prices like campsites.
- Polish is a hyper-difficult language, not only because they can have many words without even a vowel, but because they also decline everything, including nouns and proper nouns! Good luck google translator and its direct camera transcription feature!
- English is not widely spoken. We were surprised that young people hardly knew a "hello", luck of google translator and body language hehehe. The good thing is that they are generally friendly people, and when they don't speak English they start looking for someone who does, and even if it's another client they come to you and act as an interpreter hehehe that happened to us a lot hehehe
- There are some regions that surprised us by the little public parking available they had. All the parking that we found was always private and paid for a small price (usually 3 to 6 euros). That they did let you sleep normally too.
And more …
- Poland is cheap, but you pay for everything. For things that in the rest of Europe seem surprising, like paying to enter a natural park. You pay little (from 1 to 3 euros), but little for everything.
- Some great cycling routes such as the Green Velo let us down in some sections that went through roads and there were no bicycle lanes enabled.
- The Pole talks a lot about politics notice. There is a sector of the country that is really very closed, ultra-conservative and Catholic that is sometimes not very open and tolerant. It may be that you run into someone like that and if you are like us, a tolerant and open person, it bothers you a little. Although like everything if you are polite nothing will happen and you can talk about everything. Luckily most Poles you will meet are open and very polite people.
- The Poles are totally the Latinos of the East. For the good and the bad. They are very similar to us, the Spanish. Lots of bars, restaurants, little beer (but it's half a liter lol), leisure and also few masks (or nothing, this is worse than the Spanish) or through the nose during Covid, and that's when they don't plant their hands to greet you or even some hug you and kiss you to say goodbye as happened to us in the middle of Covid hehehe Thankfully they are green on the Covid map!
Our route through Poland by motorhome on the map
Access the interactive map and see the motorhome areas, overnight or day-only car parks, campsites, restaurants that we liked and the points of interest (lilac or orange icons, those that are World Heritage by UNESCO) that we elaborate from Poland during our trip.
Our route through Poland by motorhome in a video summary
Poland what to see: The 30 essential plans on a route through Poland in a motorhome or camper
Poland what to see: 30 destinations in Poland that you should not miss
Finally, in this article, we will tell you our 30 essential destinations if you travel to Poland by camper or motorhome, after our one-month trip through Poland.
Apart from these 30 destinations, if you travel with teenagers or without children, we recommend that you also see the destinations of Auschwitz, witness to the horrible Holocaust, and other large and interesting cities such as Wroclaw, Polish Venice, or Poznan or Torun.
You will see that these places are arranged in chronological order and by visit during our route to help you in your travel planning.
Lastly, remember to do click on SEE each of the destinations and you will discover what to see and do in that destination, where to sleep in a motorhome and some advice or tips that will help you on your trip through Poland in a motorhome or campervan!
Our trip to Poland in photos
Bonjour, I am interested in leaving from a camping car in Pologne with my family and my children, and I want to know if it is easy for my children, if it is already beautiful for those who are interdits. Car sur vos photos, je ne vois pas votre animal, donc est-ce qu'il restait dans le camping car lors de vos visits? N'avait t-il pas trop chaud? Pouvez-vous me donner des conseils svp
thanks in advance
Mme Fernandes
Hello!
En effet en Pologne on trouve de nombreux «chien interdit» même dans les parcs naturels.
Dans ces cas, nous n'avons aucun problème car nous avons le refroidisseur Viesa qui est autonomous et na pas Bein d'être connected to the electricity, comme a climatiseur. Notre chien reste à l'intérieur et c'est mieux que dehors, literally: il ne veut pas sortir s'il fait chaud. I am strongly recommended to contribute a Viesa or a Neil lorsque vous voyagez avec des chiens en été. Ils l'aprécient et nous les humains aussi, c'est une super invention.
hello my name is orlando from argentina we travel with my wife in may 24 we will be in germany and poland we will be touring in a home motor something that you can give us thankful we are two older people me 70 years old and my wife 66 hehehe
Thank you Orlando for your message, from the bottom of my heart it is a gift to receive these messages of gratitude, they give us strength and energy every day