Elblag and Braniewo offer a well organized accommodation base. Eastern and northern parts of Zalew can be reached from Gdansk by road no.501 going along Mierzeja Wislana to Krynica Morska and Piaski.

Since Zalew Wislany is a large reservoir every year it attracts many water sports lovers. The Baltic shipping offers pleasure boat cruisers through Zalew Wislany: Elblag-Krynica Morska and Frombork-Krynica Morska and cruises from Frombork and Krynica Morska.

The greatest number of water birds can be observed on the waters of  Zalew Wislany in autumn, since September to December. If the Zalew is not covered by ice, wintering birds can stay here until March or April. In order to observe birds on the water one needs good binonculars or a telescope on a tripod.

There are some historical monuments worth visiting in the neighbourhood:

Braniewo

• remains of the Warmia bishops castle, built in the 13th century,
• fragments of the town's fortifications with a donjon and Wieza Ksiazeca (the Prince's Tower),
• a gothic St Catherina's and St Maria Magdalene's church from the 14th-15th centuries
• a baroque St Cross' church, built in the 18th century,
• a late-gothic St Trinity's church from 1583, redecorated in the 17th century;
• a St Catherine's monastery.

Elblag

• a historical city complex of Elblag,
• burghers' tenements from the 18th-19th century,
• a complex of an old castle and homesteads at the foot of it,
• remains of bailey with Brama Targowa (the Market Gate) from the 14th century,
• an old Virgin Mary's church and  post-Dominician monastery,
• an old church and a hospital of Holy Spirit from the 13th century,
• a gothic Saint Nicholas' church.

Frombork

• a palace of the bishops from the first half of the 16th century with Muzeum Mikolaja Kopernika (the Nicolaus Copernicus Museum)
• a Radziejowski's tower with a small planetarium and a Focault's pendulum,
• a gothic St Nicholas' church from the 14th century,
• a St Anne's chapel,
• bailey from the 14th and the 15th centuries.