Cruise port
Gdynia: cruise quay at the French Quay
Gdynia’s cruise quay is at the historic Maritime Station in the northern commercial harbour, separate from the public ferry terminal.
French Quay cruise berth
The French Quay (Nabrzeże Francuskie) is in Gdynia’s northern commercial harbour at ul. Polska 1. The historic Maritime Station, now home to the Emigration Museum, is beside the quay near the harbourmaster’s office. Cruise ships berth here. The public ferry terminal is separate, at ul. Polska 4.
Gdynia’s port construction began after Tadeusz Wenda selected the site in 1920. Poland needed a seaport for the navy, imports, migration and exports. Over the following years a major port took shape and the seaside settlement grew into a city. Public support and private investment shaped the development; modernist architecture marked the new city.
Waterfront and transport
Skwer Kościuszki is the city’s tourist centre, with Molo Południowe extending toward the Baltic Sea. Gdynia Główna station and the long-distance bus station are both at Plac Konstytucji 1. The airport serving the region, Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa, lies south-west of Gdynia; rail connections reach Gdynia via Wrzeszcz or Osowa.
Maritime Station and emigration history
The Maritime Station, built in 1933 in the modernist style, served emigrant traffic; Polish ocean liners including MS Batory called there. It was damaged in the Second World War. Reconstruction and adaptation began in May 2013 using the original 1933 plans, and the Emigration Museum opened in the building on 16 May 2015. Its collection includes a Batory model and 220 photographs taken aboard the ship by Florian Staszewski between 1947 and 1967.
On shore
Excursions around Gdynia (Poland)
Gdansk & Malbork
Lunch is included in the price. The city of Danzig with its 463,000 inhabitants, known in Polish as Gdansk, is one of Poland's most important port and trading cities. Before its destruction in the Second World War (at the end of March 1945), the city centre was a Jewel of the medieval and Renaissance art of construction. Magnificent house facades and gates, the Church of St Mary from the 14th and 15 centuries and the "stumpy" tower (79 m high) and the famous Crane Gate (1443) were all seminal images of the city. The old city has subsequently been rebuilt exactly as it was and at great expense.
Gdansk
The city of Danzig with its 463,000 inhabitants, known in Polish as Gdansk, is one of Poland's most important port and trading cities. Before its destruction in the Second World War (at the end of March 1945), the city centre was a jewel of medieval and Renaissance architecture. Magnificent house facades and gates, the Church of St Mary from the 14th and 15 centuries and the "stumpy" tower (79 m high) and the famous Crane Gate (1443) were all seminal images of the city. The old city has subsequently been rebuilt exactly as it was and at great expense.
