Originally Posted by
EmailKid
It's a lovely city, though most Western tourists won't want to spend more than a day or two there, but you can take a direct train to Poprad to go explore Vysoke Tatry.
Yes, this is pretty much what I gathered after doing research. Bratislava is a nice city, and a cheap one too, it seems, but if we're also doing BUD and KRK it all might be a bit much of the same.
Looks for now like the plan will be to get BUD to KRK somehow and then take a car and backtrack across the border into the mountains. Vysoke Tatry looks lovely. Going by way of Poprad or Kosice also looks doable, but wouldn't solve the issue of getting across the PL border.