Welcome to Warsaw Behind the Scenes!

Let me explain to you the main idea of Warsaw Behind the Scenes tours. While visiting cities around  Europe I've usually felt, that I've been missing something important. Most guidebooks have not helped me experience the real spirit of the cities I've tried to get to know. I've always missed someone, who could take me off the beaten path to some real places full of local people and not necessarily tourists... Meanwhile I have passed exams for a Warsaw tourist guide and started to work as a city guide. I have very soon discovered that most of city tours in Warsaw were not aimed to show you the true face of the city. By the way, going from place to place is something you can do by yourself, you don't need a guide.  For me, however, this was not enough so I decided to set up my own tour company in January 2012.

The idea at the core is to let you get to know my city and make friends with it. I want you to feel its atmosphere, taste its flavours and understand its complicated history. Our means of transport will be a sheer communist FSO 125p car which will let you feel the old times :). With the car we will drive to places that are usually hard to find in guidebooks. In the "Behind the Scenes" tour, which is the main offer, I will drive you through the times – we will explore some of the remains of the pre-war city and compare them with monumental post-war communist constructions. To experience the spirit of Warsaw we will visit a vodka bar, an old micro-bakery with delicious donuts and have a lunch in a common peoples' bar.

My tours are highly personalized, guides will stay in touch with you all of the time. If you decide to change the program, it won't be a problem.

I wish you a wonderful time in Warsaw,

Marcin Grabowski
Warsaw Behind the Scenes founder