Luggage Storage in Kraków: Where to Leave Your Bags

If you need luggage storage in Kraków, you have three realistic options: leave the bags at your hotel, book a spot in one of the storage points scattered around the Old Town and Kazimierz, or use the lockers at Kraków Główny station. All three cost between nothing and about 30 PLN a day. Only one of them is open at four in the morning.

The short answer. Ask your hotel first, because storing bags before check-in and after check-out is usually free and nobody advertises it. If you are not staying anywhere, the city storage networks have dozens of pickup points in the centre and charge roughly 8 to 15 PLN per bag per day. The lockers at Kraków Główny are open around the clock, which no other option guarantees. Kraków Airport is not an option right now: its luggage lockers are listed as suspended.

Start with your hotel, because it is usually free

This is the answer most people miss, and it is the cheapest one. Almost every hotel, hostel and apartment building with a reception in Kraków will keep your bags on the day you arrive and on the day you leave, at no charge, whether or not you have checked in yet.

Two situations cover most of it. You land at eight in the morning and your room is not ready until three. You check out at eleven and your flight leaves at nine in the evening. In both cases the reception desk is the obvious answer, and in both cases you get the whole day back.

What to ask, so there are no surprises later:

• Until what time? Some places close the luggage room in the evening, which matters if your flight is late.
• Is it locked, or is it a corner of the lobby? A locked room is not the same as a pile behind the desk.
• Do I get a tag or a receipt? Useful when a different person is on shift when you come back.

Apartment rentals without a reception are the exception. If you booked through a platform and there is nobody at the door, assume there is no storage and plan one of the options below.

Storage points around the Old Town and Kazimierz

Several networks operate in Kraków by partnering with shops, cafes and hotels that keep your bag behind the counter. You book online, walk in, hand over the bag, and pick it up later the same day or a few days later. The bag is sealed or tagged, and the booking usually includes insurance.

This is the option that fits the way people actually move around Kraków, because the points sit where you want to be rather than where the trains are. Prices advertised by the operators in August 2026:

• Bounce, from about 8 PLN per bag per day, with the densest network in the centre.
• Nannybag, from about 13 PLN per bag per day.
• Radical Storage, from about 15 PLN per bag per day, flat rate regardless of bag size.
• LuggageHero, charged by the hour, which is the cheapest way to cover a three hour gap.
• Stasher and Qeepl, similar model, fewer points.

Treat these as starting prices. They move with the season, and a summer Saturday is not a Tuesday in November. Check the current figure when you book.

Two practical notes. First, the point is a real business with its own opening hours, so a shop that closes at six will not hand your bag back at eight. Second, size is rarely a problem, because a person accepts the bag rather than a locker door, so skis, instrument cases and oversized suitcases are usually fine if you flag them when booking.

Two addresses worth knowing

The networks above are booking platforms, so the address you get depends on which shop has space that day. If you would rather walk to a known door, Kiss & Store is a local operator with two staffed points. Both are open daily from 09:00 to 20:00:

• Radziwiłłowska 26A, a three to five minute walk from Kraków Główny, which makes it the practical alternative to the station lockers during the day.
• Miodowa 7, in Kazimierz near the Tempel Synagogue, if you are spending the day in that part of town rather than the Old Town.

Staffed rather than automated, so there is no size limit, and each item is insured. Billing is hourly, from about 10 PLN an hour, which is the detail that decides whether it suits you. For a three hour gap it is the cheapest sensible option in the centre. For a full day it is the most expensive one on this page, because ten hours of hourly billing costs more than any locker. Match the pricing model to the length of your gap and the choice makes itself.

Kraków Główny: lockers and a staffed left luggage office

The main railway station has two separate services, and they are easy to confuse. PKP lists luggage lockers and a left luggage office as different entries.

The lockers are the reason to come here: PKP states that they are available around the clock. If your train leaves at five in the morning, or you land at midnight, this is the option that does not depend on somebody being awake.

What PKP publishes, and what it does not, is worth knowing before you plan around it. The station itself is open 24 hours, with some of the shops closed between 22:00 and 06:00. InfoDworzec, the station information desk, works from 7:00 to 21:00. Paid toilets cost 4.50 PLN and a shower costs 15 PLN, which matters more than it sounds on a long layover.

PKP does not publish locker prices or locker sizes. Figures circulating online put a small locker at roughly 25 PLN and a large one at roughly 30 PLN for 24 hours. We could not confirm either number at source, so treat them as a rough guide and read the tariff on the machine before you commit.

Getting there is easy from almost anywhere in the station complex. There are entrances from every platform by lift or escalator, straight through Galeria Krakowska, from Bosacka street, from the fast tram tunnel, and up the western ramp.

Galeria Krakowska, the same building

The shopping centre sits on top of the station and shares its entrances, which is why people search for it separately. Several of the storage networks have pickup points inside or at its doors, so if you are already walking through the mall to reach the platforms, you do not need to go looking for the lockers.

The practical difference is opening hours. The mall closes at night, the station lockers do not.

Kraków Airport: the lockers are suspended

This is the part most guides get wrong. Kraków Airport lists luggage lockers among its services with the status “service suspended”. If you were planning to drop a bag at the terminal and take the train into town for the afternoon, that plan does not currently work.

What the airport does have is a baggage wrapping point on the ground floor, open from 6:00 to 18:30, and the usual lost luggage desks. If you need to leave a bag near the airport, that means a private storage point rather than the terminal itself, or the twenty minute train ride into the city and the lockers at Kraków Główny.

Since almost everyone asking this question has just landed or is about to fly, the honest advice is to combine it with the journey itself. Our guide to getting from Kraków Airport to the city centre covers all five ways in, with current prices.

Bus station and day trips out of the city

The regional bus station, MDA, sits directly above the railway platforms, so from a luggage point of view it is the same building as Kraków Główny. If your coach leaves from there, the station lockers are a two minute walk.

Day trips are the case where storage stops being a convenience and becomes a requirement. Auschwitz-Birkenau does not allow bags larger than 35 × 25 × 15 cm inside the site. A cabin suitcase is already over that limit. If you are travelling from Kraków to the museum with your luggage, you have to leave it somewhere first, and the coach will not wait while you find a locker. Plan it the evening before. The same logic applies to Wieliczka Salt Mine, where the tourist route starts with a long descent on foot and a suitcase is simply not practical.

Full details on the museum rules are in our guide on how to get from Kraków to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

What not to put in a locker

Storage in Kraków is safe and theft from lockers is not a common problem, but the sensible rule is the same everywhere. Keep on you:

• Passport, ID and boarding passes. Retrieving a bag with your documents inside after the desk has closed is a bad evening.
• Medication you take on a schedule.
• Laptops, cameras and anything you would not replace calmly. Most insurance included in a booking caps out well below the price of a camera body.
• Chargers and a power bank, because you will be out for the whole day.

One more, learned the hard way by other people: do not leave food in a locker overnight in July.

You have half a day free and no suitcase. Now what

This is usually the real situation. It is one in the afternoon, the bags are locked up, the flight is at nine, and walking the same three streets for six hours is not a plan.

The centre is compact enough to see properly in an afternoon if you are not carrying anything. The Old Town, Wawel and Kazimierz sit within comfortable walking distance of each other, and the Main Market Square is a ten minute walk from the station lockers. If your legs have already done a week of cobblestones, an electric cart tour covers the same ground in about forty minutes with a guide, which fits neatly into the gap between check-out and a flight.

For a longer stretch, our full Kraków guide has half-day and full-day routes you can start from the station.