RS Auschwitz visit - length of tour day?

First thing of the day. My memory is that it takes an hour or so to get there, the tour takes a bit less than 4 hours and then an hour or so back. After the tour, I remember some of our group went and saw the da Vinci at the museum. I personally just stayed at the hotel until dinner.

I knew survivors and it drained me.

No one can answer the question about afterwards for someone else. I will comment that having been to Buchenwald some years before our Auschwitz visit made it easier to do some more light touring after the return to Krakow. (Private car service, not group tour.) I would also add that the extreme summer crowding and seeing some bizarrely inappropriate pre-teen attire took some fraction of the (otherwise appropriate) edge of horror off our particular day.

Remember that the tour inside the camps is done by (well-trained) proprietary guides; Neither RS nor a high-end Executive tour service is allowed to do the inside guide work.

We were on that tour last summer. We left for the Auschwitz trip around noon (morning was free). Returned around dinner time (it was an on-your-own meal). We were pretty beat and just picked up a quick takeout near the hotel and took it back to our room. Certainly the day was impactful, but everyone reacts differently, so can’t say how you’d react/feel.

We emailed the RS Office to ask about the timing of the Auschwitz trip, because we were wondering about scheduling other activities in Krakow. They were responsive and provided the info we needed.

Thank you all for the very helpful responses.