Quick look
The panorama hop
Shortest and cheapest
- LengthAbout 30 minutes
- Boards atMarina Warszawa
- CommentaryAudio guide
Price it for your group
Vistula river cruise prices in Warsaw, compared boat by boat
Galar cruise on the Vistula, 54 minutes
★ 4.5 · 1,927 user reviews
Brief answer
Vistula river cruise prices in Warsaw start low: a short panorama hop is the cheapest seat, a full hour on the galar sits mid-range, and evening sailings with a drink cost a little more.
Price essentials
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- Our galar cruise54 minutes · per person starting at €16
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View - Panorama hop30 minutes · per person starting at €10
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View - Gondola55 minutes · per person starting at €21
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View - Evening with a drink54 minutes · per person starting at €26
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Figures are GetYourGuide from-prices, translated at the ECB reference rate. The booking step shows what you pay exactly.
From a short panorama hop to a catered evening, here is what the Warsaw boats cost from, what each fare buys, and where the small savings hide.
Editorial team, warsawrivercruise.click · Updated November 9, 2026 · Reading: 7 min
Essentials
- Our galar cruiseFrom €18 for 54 minutes on a wooden galar, with an audio guide.
- Lowest startAn Old Town panorama hop starts from €11 for about 30 minutes.
- With a drinkEvening cruises with a welcome drink start from €24.
- Direct faresThe galar operator's homepage lists PLN 80 for adults and PLN 50 for children.1
- RefundsBooked here, cancellation is free until 24 hours before.
What a cruise on the river costs in Warsaw
Warsaw prices its river trips in a narrow band, which makes comparing them easy once you know what each fare includes. Booked online, the cruises in our table run from €11 for a short panorama hop to €29 for an evening sailing with a drink and an audio guide. Above that band sit private boats and catered tables, priced for a whole group or a long lunch rather than a single seat on a bench.
The cheapest seat is a hop of about 30 minutes to the Old Town panorama, leaving from Marina Warszawa near the Copernicus Science Centre and starting from €11. A standard sightseeing hour costs a little more: a galar-type boat with a choice of 35 or 55 minutes starts from €14, and the cruise on which you play your own music, limited to 9 participants, starts from €14 as well.
The middle of the range is crowded. Our galar cruise starts from €18, the RIB speedboat from €19, and the gondola, the sunset sailing and the evening cruise with a welcome drink each start from €24. With gaps this narrow, a Vistula cruise is chosen on the boat, the length and the hour of the day far more than on the price, and the sections below take those in turn.
Side by side
Warsaw river cruises by fare, length and reviews
| Cruise | From | Length | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Town panorama hop | €11 | 30 minutes | 48 |
| Plain Vistula cruise | €14 | 35 or 55 minutes | 198 |
| Cruise with your music | €14 | 55 minutes | 101 |
| Our galar cruise | €18 | 54 minutes | 1,927 |
| RIB speedboat | €19 | 30 minutes | 190 |
| Gondola | €24 | 55 minutes | 192 |
| Evening, welcome drink | €24 | 55 minutes | 262 |
| Evening, drink and audio | €29 | 54 minutes | 45 |
These are GetYourGuide from-prices, not exact fares: the date, the option and the ages in your group decide what you pay.
Our galar cruise: the fare and what it buys
Our galar cruise costs from €18 a head and spends 54 minutes on the water aboard a replica of a traditional wooden galar. It boards at the Marina Warszawa barge on the boulevard, and the commentary comes from an audio guide: bring your own headphones and you will hear the river and the city explained as the bridges pass overhead. In autumn and winter the boat is heated.
Guests rate it 4.5 across 1,927 reviews, and its sub-scores are 4.8 for the guide, 4.5 for value and 4.7 for transportation. That long record matters on a page about price. A cheap ticket on a boat nobody has reviewed is a gamble, while a fare backed by that many opinions is a known quantity: you know roughly what the hour will feel like before you hand over any money.
Nothing is due when you book: payment waits, and you may cancel without charge up to 24 hours ahead. What the fare does not include is a drink or food, and the listing names neither. The same operator sells its evening cruise with a drink as a separate product, at PLN 120 per person with the glass included.3 If a drink on deck matters to you, compare that sailing in the table rather than expecting it on the daytime galar.
Direct adult fares
What the operators charge an adult on their own sites
Short hops, full hours and evening sailings
Think of each fare as time on the water. The shortest options last about 30 minutes: the Old Town panorama boat from €11 and the RIB speedboat from €19. Both suit a tight schedule or children who will not sit still for long. The speedboat adds pace and spray, while the panorama hop is a calm look at the Old Town skyline from below the escarpment.
Most sightseeing cruises run close to an hour. The galar takes 54 minutes, the gondola and the music cruise 55, and the galar-type boat sold as a plain cruise offers 35 or 55 minutes. Over a full hour you pass beneath several bridges, see the National Stadium rise on the right bank and turn below the Old Town, which covers the central stretch of the city river.
Evening sailings carry the higher fares. The evening and sunset cruises with a welcome drink start from €24, and an evening cruise with a drink and an audio guide from €29. You pay for the hour of the day as much as for the glass: low light on the water, the bridges switching on and the skyline turning gold are what these departures sell.
Pick by budget
Which fare fits your plans
Name your priority and find the cruise that matches your budget.
If I want the lowest fare possible
The Old Town panorama hop
It starts from €11 for about 30 minutes on the water.
If I want a full hour on a traditional boat
Our galar cruise
It spends 54 minutes on a wooden galar, from €18, with 1,927 reviews behind it.
If We want a glass on the water at dusk
An evening drink cruise
Welcome-drink evenings start from €24; the galar version is for adults only.6
If We are a family with young children
A daytime cruise at a child fare
The galar operator's homepage lists PLN 50 for a child.1
If We are a group of friends
A private boat
A private motorboat seating up to 9 costs from €116 in total.
Budgets compared
A quick look, a full hour or a glass at dusk
Our pick
The galar hour
The cruise we book
- Length54 minutes
- BoatWooden galar
- In winterHeated
Evening
The evening glass
Adults only
- Length54 minutes
- DrinkPampelle or mulled wine
- CommentaryAudio guide
Children, families and adults-only departures
Bought directly from the operators, child fares are clearly lower. The galar operator's homepage lists PLN 80 for an adult and PLN 50 for a child, while its sightseeing-cruise page shows PLN 79.17 and PLN 47.50.1,9 Po Wisle, which runs small modern cruise boats, charges PLN 70 for a standard day ticket and PLN 35 reduced, and keeps the reduced fare for a child under 15 travelling with a parent or guardian.4,10
The gondola operator asks PLN 100 per person on its own site, offers discounts for children and takes 11 people at most.5 On the booking platforms, the child price depends on the listing: choose the ages in the booking box and the fare for your group appears before you commit. For a family, that check takes a minute and can change the choice of boat.
Evening drink cruises are a different matter. The galar operator sells its evening sailing with a drink to adults aged 18+ only, and its premium tasting cruise is for adults too.6,11 Families who want the evening light can look at Po Wisle, whose terms ban alcohol on board: it sells an evening cruise at PLN 65 with no reduced fare for children.4,12
From booking to boarding
Where the money goes, step by step
At booking
Reserve, pay later
Hold a seat on the galar from €18 without paying today.
Before the day
Free cancellation
Cancel free of charge until 24 hours before the start.
Getting there
A transit ticket
A zone 1 ticket valid 75 minutes costs PLN 4.40 on city transport.2
At the barge
Check in early
Be at Marina Warszawa 20 minutes before for the ticket check.
On board
The audio guide
The commentary plays through the headphones you bring.
Buying on the quay, online or through this site
Most trips on the Warsaw stretch can be booked and paid online, the city tourism office notes, and the boats moor in many places, mostly along the left bank.7 Booking ahead matters more than it seems: the boats are small. Po Wisle takes 12 passengers at a time and allows no more than 8 on the upper deck, and each galar seats up to 12.13,14
Walking up to the quay can still work. Po Wisle sells tickets online or on board, and the gondola crew waits on the boulevards from Friday to Sunday between 10:00 and 22:00, taking walk-up guests whenever the boat is free.15,16 If you are checking the Vistula river cruise price in Warsaw on the day itself, a weekday afternoon gives you more choice than a warm Saturday evening.
Paying is straightforward. The currency is the Polish złoty, PLN, and Po Wisle takes cards, Blik and cash on its boats.8,17 Online, the booking box shows the fare in your own currency before you confirm. Reaching the river costs little: a zone 1 public transport ticket valid for 75 minutes costs PLN 4.40 and covers the ride to the boulevard.2
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All these vessels moor in many places, mainly on the left bank of the Vistula. In most cases, you can book and pay for your trip online.
Before you pay
What the fare covers, what it does not, and how to save
In the fare3
- 54 minutes on a wooden galar
- An audio guide on your own headphones
- A heated boat in autumn and winter
On top3
Ways to save3
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours before
- A child fare when buying direct, PLN 50 on the galar operator's homepage1
- A 30-minute panorama hop instead of a full hour
What the welcome drink adds to the fare
The step up from a plain cruise to an evening cruise with a drink is small. On the galar operator's evening sailings the glass holds Pampelle, a grapefruit aperitif, through the summer, and hot Galician mulled wine once autumn comes, with winter tea instead if you prefer.18 Those cruises leave every evening and last about 54 to 56 minutes, starting and ending at Marina Warszawa.19
The same evening product appears on GetYourGuide from €29, listing the drink, an audio guide and heated boats, and it is sold to adults only. The welcome-drink cruises that board from a restaurant barge below the Mermaid monument start from €24 and last 55 minutes. Either way, the drink is part of the fare rather than an extra.
Is the drink worth paying for? If you are heading out for the evening anyway, a glass on the water replaces a stop at a bar and turns the cruise into the start of the night. If you do not drink, or travel with children, the daytime galar from €18 shows you the same river without paying for a glass you will not use. Our food and drink page covers what each boat pours and serves.
Refunds, low water and the fine print
Read the cancellation terms before you decide where to buy. Through this site, cancellation is free until 24 hours before departure. Buying directly can be stricter: the Po Wisle terms refund nothing when you cancel 2 days or less before the cruise and return 50% of the fare when you cancel earlier.20 For a traveller whose plans may shift, that difference is worth more than a small saving.
The river itself can cancel a sailing. The same terms promise a full refund of the unused part when weather prevents navigation or the water is low, below 60cm on the Bulwary gauge in Warsaw.21 This was no theory in 2026, when Po Wisle shortened its evening route to 40 minutes from 28.8.2026 and later suspended its cruises from 7 September, until further notice, as the Vistula sank to a record low.22,23
A cruise can also be dropped when too few people book: Po Wisle reserves that right below 3 passengers on a sightseeing cruise.24 None of this makes a booking risky, but it does argue for a flexible ticket and a look at your email on the morning of the trip. In a dry late summer, keep a spare evening in your plans in case the river decides for you.
FAQ
Short questions, short answers.
How much is a cruise on the Vistula in Warsaw?
From €11 online.
Panorama hops start from €11; our 54-minute galar cruise starts from €18.
Is there a child price on Warsaw river cruises?
Can I buy a ticket at the boat?
Do I pay in euros or złoty on the quay?
In złoty.
Poland uses the złoty (PLN); online, the booking box shows the fare in your own currency.8
Is a drink included in the cruise price?
Only on evening drink cruises.
Our galar listing names no drink; evening cruises with a welcome drink start from €24.
Do I get my money back if low water cancels the cruise?
Yes.
Booked here, cancelling is free until 24 hours before; Po Wisle refunds the unused fare when the river is too low.21
How much is a private boat for a group?
From €116 for the boat.
A whole motorboat for a party of up to 9 begins at €116; our private hire page compares the rest.
Sources
- Szerokie Wody Foundation, cruise operator (krypa.pl) · Vistula River Cruises in Warsaw ↩
- Warsaw Tourism Office (go2warsaw.pl) · Getting around Warsaw ↩
- Szerokie Wody Foundation, cruise operator (krypa.pl) · Evening cruises with a drink (Polish page) ↩
- Po Wisle, cruise operator (po-wisle.pl) · Tickets, prices, timetable (Polish page) ↩
- Aquatica Boats, gondola operator (aquaticaboats.com) · Sightseeing cruises (Polish page) ↩
- Szerokie Wody Foundation, cruise operator (krypa.pl) · Evening cruises with a drink (Polish page) ↩
- Warsaw Tourism Office (go2warsaw.pl) · Cruises on the Vistula ↩
- Warsaw Tourism Office (go2warsaw.pl) · Good to know ↩
- Szerokie Wody Foundation, cruise operator (krypa.pl) · Sightseeing cruises ↩
- Po Wisle, cruise operator (po-wisle.pl) · Tickets, prices, timetable (Polish page) ↩
- Szerokie Wody Foundation, cruise operator (krypa.pl) · Premium cruises (Polish page) ↩
- Po Wisle, cruise operator (po-wisle.pl) · Terms and conditions of use of Po Wisle services on cruise ships (PDF, English column) ↩
- Po Wisle, cruise operator (po-wisle.pl) · Tickets, prices, timetable (Polish page) ↩
- Szerokie Wody Foundation, cruise operator (krypa.pl) · Sightseeing cruises ↩
- Po Wisle, cruise operator (po-wisle.pl) · Tickets, prices, timetable (Polish page) ↩
- Aquatica Boats, gondola operator (aquaticaboats.com) · Sightseeing cruises (Polish page) ↩
- Po Wisle, cruise operator (po-wisle.pl) · Tickets, prices, timetable (Polish page) ↩
- Szerokie Wody Foundation, cruise operator (krypa.pl) · Evening cruises with a drink (Polish page) ↩
- Szerokie Wody Foundation, cruise operator (krypa.pl) · Evening cruises with a drink (Polish page) ↩
- Po Wisle, cruise operator (po-wisle.pl) · Terms and conditions of use of Po Wisle services on cruise ships (PDF, English column) ↩
- Po Wisle, cruise operator (po-wisle.pl) · Terms and conditions of use of Po Wisle services on cruise ships (PDF, English column) ↩
- Po Wisle, cruise operator (po-wisle.pl) · Evening cruises (Polish page) ↩
- Po Wisle, cruise operator (po-wisle.pl) · Tickets, prices, timetable (Polish page) ↩
- Po Wisle, cruise operator (po-wisle.pl) · Terms and conditions of use of Po Wisle services on cruise ships (PDF, English column) ↩