• Prepare for your departure to the airport and your overnight flights to Poland.

• Arrive at Krakow Airport and meet our professional English-speaking tour escort.
• Board the coach and transfer to the hotel.
• Check into the hotel upon arrival.
• Welcome dinner at the hotel.
• Overnight.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Drive to the 11th-century Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec (entrance fee included).
• Celebrate a Mass there (subject to confirmation).
• Lunch on your own (Optional Restaurant or Lunch 3 course meal).
• Lunch on own - 3 course meal - $32 supplement per person
• Return to Krakow.
• Tour the Krakow Old Town. Explore Market Square (at two hundred meters squared, it became the largest market place in Europe) and hear the silver trumpet of the bugler from St. Mary's Tower. We will visit the Church, where we can see the extraordinary Europe's largest wooden altar the work of Wit Stwosz. The surroundings of the square have remained unchanged for almost 700 years and contain buildings of historic value, such as the Town Hall Tower, the Cloth Hall, and the Burgher's houses.
• Dinner and overnight.

Breakfast at the hotel. Today we will begin our retreat at the Shrine of Divine Mercy where St. Faustina, the apostle of Divine Mercy lived and died, and the Basilica which St. Pope John Paul II consecrated, the miraculous image of Divine Mercy, and the tomb of St. Faustina are. The sisters at the Shrine will lead the retreat with a guided tour, two separate conferences, Holy Mass, Adoration, lunch, prayer at the Hour of Divine Mercy, and meditation and individual prayer at the tomb of St. Faustina. Evening return to hotel and dinner in Old Town.

Breakfast at the hotel. The retreat will continue at the Shrine of Divine Mercy with two conferences, Holy Mass, Adoration, lunch, prayer at the Hour of Mercy, meditation and individual prayer at the tomb of St. Faustina. Evening return to hotel and dinner in Old Town.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Celebrate a Mass at the Cathedral of St. Stanislaw, Poland's second most important pilgrimage Shrine (subject to confirmation).
• Note: Mass at the Cathedral of St. Stanislaw is available only at 8am and remains subject to confirmation.
• Proceed to Wawel hill for a guided tour of the Cathedral, Coronation Chapel and the Royal Chambers where a superb collection of Arras tapestries are on view (entrance fee included).
• Lunch on your own ((Optional Restaurant for Lunch 3 course meal).
• Continue to Collegium Maius (entrance fee included) where JPII was a student, as well as the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus were students. Have a guided tour.
• Free afternoon in Krakow. • Dinner at the local restaurant with a folk show. • Overnight.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Drive to Lagiewniki for a visit to the new John Paul II Center - "Have no Fear" and pray by the relic of Saint Pope John Paul II.
• Visit to the Rynek (Old Square) Underground Museum
• Celebrate Mass at one of the center's Chapels.
• Lunch on your own (Optional Restaurant for Lunch 3 course meal).
• Return to Krakow for a free afternoon.
• Dinner and overnight.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• In the morning, travel to Wadowice, the birthplace and hometown of Pope John Paul II. Visit his house, now a museum (entrance fee included).
• Celebrate Mass in the Basilica of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (subject to confirmation) and see the baptismal font where John Paul II was baptized.
• Lunch on your own.
• On the way back to Krakow visit Kalwaria Zebrzydowska which was a popular pilgrimage place for Pope John Paul II when he was a young man and where in the 17th century the Palatine of Krakow founded a Franciscan Monastery. On the slope of the hill and the valley is an architectural 'Way of the Cross' made up of 40 Chapels set on the surrounding hills.
• Free afternoon in Krakow.
• Dinner and overnight.

• After breakfast, depart for day trip to Zakopane.
• Celebrate Mass at Our Lady of Fatima Church (subject to confirmation), built by the mountaineers in gratitude for the Blessed Mother saving the life of Pope John Paul II from an assassination attempt.
• Take a guided sightseeing tour of Zakopane (tour with TE), called the "Winter capital of Poland" including a typical mountaineer architecture.
• Lunch on your own.
• Take the gondolas to Mt. Gubalowka for a bird's eye view over the city and hillsides of Zakopane (entrance fee included; subject to confirmation upon to the weather conditions).
• Free time in the afternoon for shopping and relaxation on famous Krupowki Street.
• Dinner and overnight.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Celebrate Mass at the St. Mary's Church in Krakow (subject to confirmation).
• Visit the Schindler's Factory Museum (entrance fee included).
• Drive to Kazimierz and have time for lunch there.
• Have a guided tour of Kazimierz - the former Krakow Jewish District, for centuries center of Jewish life and culture in Europe, highly damaged during the World War II. Your walk will include a visit to the Remuh Synagogue and Old Synagogue (entrance fees included).
• Free time in Kazimierz.
• Dinner at the restaurant in Kazimierz with live Klezmer music.
• Overnight.

• After breakfast, depart Krakow for Oswiecim.
• Celebrate Mass at the Franciscan Monastery at St. Maximillian Center in Oswiecim (subject to confirmation).
• Lunch on your own.
• Have a guided tour of the Museum of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp (entrance fee included). It was the largest in the Third Reich, set up in 1940 for prisoners from Poland. The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions in which Genocide was performed by the Nazi Germans. NOTE Visit to Aushwitz is subject to confirmation upon availability.
• Dinner and overnight.

• After breakfast, drive to Czestochowa.
• Guided tour of Jasna Gora (entrance fee included) by one of the Paulinian brothers, seeing the Old & New Via Dolorosa, Knights hall, the Treasury, Rectory and Sacristy, on your way to the Chapel of the Black Madonna. Pope John Paul II has visited Eastern Europe's most famous Shrine four times since his election to the Chair of Peter. Czestochowa remains one of the biggest pilgrimage centers in the world, attracting more than five million visitors each year.
• Celebrate a Mass at one of the Chapels.
• Lunch on your own.
• Return to Krakow with time on your own.
• Dinner and overnight.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Board the couch and drive to Wieliczka to visit World Famous Salt Mines, known for its beautiful and unique underground constructions made of salt NOTE Visit Wieliczka Salt Mine is subject confirmation upon availability.
• Celebrate a Mass in the underground Chapel (subject to confirmation).
• Lunch on your own in Wieliczka.
• Board the couch, drive back to Krakow.
• Free afternoon in Krakow.
• Farewell Dinner at Wierzynek Restaurant.
• Overnight.

• Breakfast.
• Prepare for your departure to the airport and your homebound flights.