Beautiful architecture, clean, well lit, great amenities. The Auchan is super size. Reachable by…read morebus or drive & use underground parking.

What a gorgeous mall. There is a large parking garage underneath where you take a escalator…read moretogether with your shopping cart up to the next floor. Inside the small is the largest grocery store I have ever seen. The store was like a giant Walmart without all the welfare people. Wait it was like a giant Walmart superstore without all the Chinese crap. I think I posted a bunch of pictures, if I didn't I will post them now. I want to move here so I can shop here every day. They had rows and rows and rows of food, dairy, hot foods, sausages, gorgeous looking fruits and vegetables, 1000 kinds of beer and liquor, anything you could possibly need to, they have it. The prices were pretty good. Everything in Poland is inexpensive compared to the United States so I can't really compare the prices to other stores in Kraków but only to my perception of value which was excellent. Interesting little tidbit you have to stick a coin into the shopping cart to get it loose from the rack and then you get it back when you put it back in the rack.

This is such a big mall it's almost overwhelming. So many huge stores. There is a train station in…read morethe basement so you can actually take the train right to it. It's very close to the city center. I would say the only drawback is that because of the train, it is constantly busy, it almost had an airport feel with lots of people hurrying around with suitcases.

It is a very very busy place with big mall, with large variety of stores, food court, individual…read morerestaurants & a grocery store. Train station on lower level. Biggest issue- lack of women's bathrooms. What ever bathroom you go to there are 3 or 4 stalls & a long line. ALWAYS. Been there at least 20x never without a long line. Very poor planning for a place this big.

Factory is an outlet mall located just outside of Kraków. Obviously, it's not a real factory…read moreoutlet. You'd need to be in China or Bangladesh to find those. It's simply a regular mall whose main draw are large discounts. Very roughly, I would say, around 10% of the products offered here are discounted while the remaining 90% are priced regularly--that is, with a modest discount off an artificially inflated list price. To find the real bargains, you have to hunt for them. Last week, I managed to find a couple shirts for 30 zł each and a nice ceramic blade for 50 zł, which normally sells for 80-90 zł. Personally, I like the Desigual and Reserved shops. Most things at Desigual are way too expensive for my taste but there are usually a few items that are attractively priced. Meanwhile, as Reserved is a domestic brand, prices are usually fairly reasonable to begin with. When discounted the clothes here can be real bargains. The designs are pretty trendy as well. It's a way to dress fashionably at an affordable price point without being clad head to toes in H&M gears. I'm also rather fond of Dajar Home & Garden. It sells many tools of the kitchen at eye-opening prices. When I was there last it was selling a non-stick ceramic-lined wok for 59 zł. Normally, it costs close to 200 zł at a regular shop. As I have a very nice wok already, I ended up walking out with a very nice knife. Factory is worth an occasionally visit. By car, it's pretty easy--there're plenty of parking spaces. By public transportation it's hard to reach, as it's outside the reach of normal buses and trams. The aglomeracyjne buses take you there, but they're pretty infrequent and you'd still need to walk quite a bit. The free mall buses are probably your best bet if you don't have a car. They operate in two lines, one going to Nowa Huta and another to Rondo Matecznego, with stops in between. You can find the schedules at the website.