Polako Cities

Cities that get under your skin

Long weekends in the cities of the Balkans, arranged from start to finish. A guide who knows the place, and time left over to wander off on your own.

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What a Cities trip is

Not a checklist of sights. A city you actually get to know.

A Polako Cities trip is a long weekend in one city, put together by people who keep going back to it. You sleep somewhere central, you walk the neighbourhoods that are worth your time, and you eat where people eat on an ordinary Tuesday.

We arrange your stay, the guide and anything that needs booking ahead. What we leave out is just as deliberate: no queue of monuments, no schedule that runs from breakfast until bed. There is room every day to drift off and find your own thing.

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A group that fits the trip Often a handful of you, sometimes a bigger group when the city and the programme call for it.
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Guides who know the city Someone who knows the place inside out and can tell you why a neighbourhood feels the way it does.
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Time of your own Half a day unplanned is not a gap in the programme. It is the part you will remember.
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Every Polako Cities trip

Pick a city, open the trip and see the full programme, what is included and when we go.

Why Polako Cities

No copy-paste. Our own eyes.

We have been there more than once

A city only goes on the list once we have been back a few times. The first visit is an introduction. Understanding starts somewhere around the third.

Nobody pays to be on the route

No hotel or restaurant buys its way into a trip. If it is in the programme, it is there because it is good enough to be.

Kept up to date

The Balkans change quickly. We revisit our cities and adjust a trip when something no longer holds, rather than running on notes from five years ago.

Ready to get to know a city?

Tell us when you want to go and we will look at what is possible. Or take a guide with you and do the city on your own terms.

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