[Closed] What's warsaw in Poland like?

Ugly/beautiful, exciting/boring, great/waste of space. Your opinion will depend on the company. Have a look here: [url] http://e-warsaw.pl/2/index.php [/url] or here: [url] http://www.warsaw-life.com/ [/url].
As a bit of a taster:
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Check this out too: http://www.tunliweb.no/SM/English/alb_Warsaw_English.htm

I was there for a couple of days with work and found it extremely grim. Might be different asa tourist though. I found Krakow a much nicer city.

The bits I've seen, thoroughly underwhelmed me, TBH.

Warsaw was 90% flattened in the war and rebuilt in a hurry afterwards as the people needed housing - except the old quarter which was painstakingly reconstructed from the rubble - so most of the city is concrete jungle with brutalist megaliths.

I liked the people tho. Kracow was untouched in the war so remains a beautiful town.

TJ, Krakow suffers from the inferiority complex, it used to be the capital but isn't anymore. Warsaw is fine as long as you have someone to show you around. It's like any other city, boring and exciting at the same time.
And don't believe the 90% damage, nothing unusual there.

With which other Warsaw were you worried STW would confuse the one in Poland?

Hairychested - warsaw was 90% flattened in the war. I have seen the maps and photos and read the history. Not 90% damaged but 90% flattened. Warsaw ghetto and Warsaw uprising saw to that.

Edit - according to wiki 80% of buildings were destrooyed.

Gdansk or Krakow would be a better bet. Spent a weekend in Warsaw, and the only really imposing building is the Palace of Culture, which was built by the Russians, so all the locals hate it, so don't comment on it. A bit like asking a Welshman, Scotsman or Irishman how much he loves the english.

Pros for Warsaw are: Great clubs and cafes. The new old town has some great places to eat, and there is a new museum about the uprising. The royal park with Chopin's monument (My wife is looking over my schoulder, and guess where she's from...)

TJ, the vast majority of Polish cities was flattened to a similar degree. Warsaw, however, benefited greatly from being the capital as other places were ruined even more in order to rebuild it.
Books are great, but you'll learn more from talking to people who lived through that. I have, my family did. My childhood estate was damaged really badly as building materials were needed for Warsaw.
The thing now is that the local Warsaw government are idiots and don't restore anything. Krakow is the most overrated Polish city in terms of architecture and culture.
As for the history, your knowledge seems either limited or incomplete. It wasn't that, it was the German policy of not leaving anything behind. Any Festung suffered such fate. You'd need to speak Polish to gain access to details as any translation will loose them. As it's unlikely you do I suggest you remember that what you see isn't always what it is. Give Poland another 50 years, it might be enough to sort its own history out.

Warsaw - often confused with the Paris of the Black Country!

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walsall ]Easy mistake to make[/url]

Shock horror as question about black country tourism turns into a squabble

I worked in Poland quite a lot in the past. Warsaw isn't anything special. Like somebody said before it depends who you are with. The old town is nice but elsewhere there are a lot of old soviet tower blocks that they are slowly getting rid of. I used to stay in the Ibis in the concrete jungle near the Holocaust memorial... Not exactly a barrel of laughs.

If you have the choice i'd go to Gdansk instead. Poznan is OK too.

I studied in Poznan, loved it to bits.
I still prefer Wroclaw, proper German city with the proper German buildings.
The wildest parties ever were in Warsaw, but I was 18-19 then. Loads of [i]friendly [/i]local females [i]met [/i];-)