50 floors, 212 meters high, 1,142 steps, 30 000 tons of steel, 144 000 m3 of concrete and glass 40 000 sq.m, 2700 km of cables – it is hard to imagine. Those are the numbers that represent the tallest building in Poland, Sky Tower, located in Wroclaw.
On the 49th floor is a publicly accessible viewpoint – we couldn’t miss the opportunity …
The entrance to the top is possible every half hour. Detailed times are available on the website and at the ticket office. Oh, ticket office – an interesting fact: while the entrance to the corridor leading to the elevator is located outside of the building (from Gwiaździsta Street), the ticket office is inside the shopping mall, on the first floor. So to get a ticket, you have to go to the mall, walk through the shopping center, and then come back at the appointed time with the ticket at the door on the outside of the building. Visitor convenience above all, right?.
Another “convenience” is the fact that you need to wait a long time for a free slot to go up. At the ticket office the number of guests for every hour is displayed, however, on the website we can’t view this information before arrival. Also, there is no option to book ticket online. Online booking is available only for organized groups of at least 20 people. As a result, you need to select first free slot available when you are buying tickets. We wanted to go together, so we needed to wait 1 hour to the slot with 5 free positions.
Fortunately, then was a lunch time and we took advantage of the restaurant located in a shopping mall. While we waited the children were enjoying Kinect games, which were projected on one of the walls near the playground.
At the appointed hour we were waiting to enter the top. Standing under the building and looking up, you could see it was huge. We rode to the top using a high-speed elevator. In a moment we were on the 49th floor and our eyes saw an amazing view. Worth every penny.
The outer walls on the observation deck are glass from top to bottom. So it does not restrict the view of the city. We were lucky to go there on great weather – it’s important not to go up on a foggy day. From the top we saw fantastic panorama view of Wroclaw city. Seeing this, Justin boldly said, “I like it” and ran towards one of the windows without any fear in his eyes.
As the joke goes, the observation deck on Sky Tower is the only place in town where you can see the panorama of the Wrocław without Sky Tower.
There is no equally high building nearby, so impressions are completely different than on the panoramic terrace of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, where the surrounding buildings interfere with the view.
In good weather conditions you can see Sleza Mountain (we remembered trip with children at the top of it), and also Wroclaw Stadium, the old town. People looked like ants from up there. The impression is similar to that in visited before the hour in Kolejkowo, the only difference is that here the small things are real. The beautiful view compensated for the initial bad impression we had about the circumstances of purchasing tickets.
For technical reasons, you cannot walk around the building on the observation deck, but almost the entire circle is accessible. Without any problems, we can look in any direction.
Price – more expensive on weekends, during the week cheaper. We paid on Saturday a normal ticket PLN 15 and PLN 8 per child.