Europe Trip 2025 - Malbork

For our first trip in Poland we went by train to Malbork. From Warsaw you can take the PKP Express Intercity Premium (EIP) train - ED250 Pendolino, which travels at up to 200 km/h on the Warsaw - Gdańsk line. Tickets (up to 6 paying or not-paying passengers per ticket) can be bought in the KOLEO or PKP Intercity apps/websites. Koleo has more detailed and more to scale seat maps. Both apps have issues - make sure to check that the seats you selected show up in the summary right before paying. If you need to cancel, you get 85% back. If you buy early enough, you can get heavily discounted tickets (50% or more). If you are travelling with children under 6 look for special compartments - they don't cost more, but you get extra privacy and space. In a Pendolino they are 4 seat, in other Intercity trains, they are 6 seat.

OpenRailwayMap showing Max Speeds

ED250 in Malbork

Train station building

Malbork (population 36 thousand) has free public transport since 2022.

Malbork city electric Solaris bus. 

Malbork was 80% destroyed in World War 2, and unfortunately the old town was not rebuilt. 

Pre-war old town square, with the castle in the back.

The Teutonic Knights castle is worth visiting. It is the biggest brick castle in the world.

The castle from the Nogat river

Statue of Virgin Mary

The courtyard

I like this view with a kayaker

A moat used to be here?

Don't expect lavish interiors. The castle was burned, bombed and looted in WW2.

This could be in England