WARSAW TRAVEL GUIDE

This page is a guide only. It contains recommendations from either TMs, Referees or Parents from previous seasons.  Venues or official hotels may change for the current season so we recommend that you check the reglement’s before confirming any travel arrangements.  If you are booking hotels before the reglement is out we advise you may want to consider booking with free cancellation as it is not guaranteed that competition details will stay the same.

Background Info
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland and its population is officially estimated at 1.8 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/warsaw

Latest Foreign Office Travel Advice
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/poland

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Visa Requirements
None (as of 25.07.2022)
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/poland/entry-requirements

Local Emergency Numbers
Central Emergency Number – 112
Ambulance – 112 / 999
Police – 112 / 997
Fire Service – 112 / 998
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London on +44 (0) 20 7008 1500 (24 hours)

Venue
Representative Rooms, Hotel Okcie Warsaw
ul. Komitetu Obrony Robotników 24, 02-148 Warszawa, Poland (same as official hotel)

Nearby Supermarket (Venue)
Żabka (1 km from the venue/hotel)

Hotel
Hotel Okcie Warsaw (same as venue)

Flights
There are flights to Warsaw Chopin Airport from airports across the UK.

Transfers
Official transfers are provided by the organisers to and from the airport to the official hotel/ venue.

N.B. The accreditation rate will allow competition accreditation only. Airport transfers, travel to venue, accommodation and food is NOT included. The room rates will include accommodation and food in the official Hotels, airport transfers to the hotels and between the hotels and the venue.

Covid
Facemasks are compulsory in medical facilities and pharmacies (bandanas, scarves, balaclavas and visors are not permitted alternatives to facemasks. Your mouth and nose must be covered.) but are no longer required in other indoor and enclosed spaces.

If you test positive for COVID-19 or develop symptoms from 28 March 2022, neither you nor anyone you live with are legally required to isolate or quarantine.

If you live with someone who must quarantine but has not tested positive, you are not required to quarantine or complete a test (unless you later develop symptoms or they later test positive).

If you suspect you are infected with COVID-19 you should contact the Ministry of Health 24 hour hotline on 800 190 590 and press 6 for English language advice. A list of hospitals equipped to deal with COVID-19 patients can be found at https://www.gov.pl/web/coronavirus

Brexit
Passport stamping: Check your passport is stamped if you enter or exit the Schengen area through Poland as a visitor. Border guards will use passport stamps to check you’re complying with the 90-day visa-free limit for short stays in the Schengen area. If relevant entry or exit stamps are not in your passport, border guards will presume that you have overstayed your visa-free limit. You can show evidence of when and where you entered or exited the Schengen area, and ask the border guards to add this date and location in your passport. Examples of acceptable evidence include boarding passes and tickets. You may also need to show a return or onward ticket and/or show you have enough money for your stay.