Poland

Our cheap holidays to Poland represent the perfect opportunity to discover one of Europe's coming countries.

Start with the capital. Yes, Warsaw will meet all your stereotypic expectations of post-war, post-communist, eastern European cities. But while it may have its share of grey, bleak apartment blocks and indiscriminate urban sprawl, history, culture and grandeur remain intact in the stately boulevard, The Royal Way.

Warsaw also has the buzz of a city on its way up. Street markets, cafés, discos and spanking new bars flank the reconstructed buildings and monuments of the Old Town, imbuing the capital with a contemporary spin.

But you'll soon realise that there's more to cheap holidays to Poland than Warsaw. All roads lead from the capital like spokes on a wheel. To the north, there are the canals and watermills of Germanic Gdansk, home of the Lenin shipyards and birthplace of Solidarity as well as the watery resorts of Poland's Lake District, Masuria.

To the south, there is the royal and romantic capital of Kraków, with its renaissance, baroque and gothic buildings and UNESCO status as one of the world's top 12 historically significant sites, an unmissable for all cheap holidays to Poland.

Radiate out almost anywhere else and you'll travel into a time warp of legendary hospitality, omnipresent Catholicism and slow-moving rural life. Farmstays offer a gentle introduction to Polish life; the Tatra Mountains, on the southern border, present more dramatic opportunities; from hiking along trails below their snowy peaks to white-knuckle white-water rafting through ravines and gorges. For cheap holidays to Poland, look no further than Opodo.