Eastern Europe Visa Help! (For a Canadian)

I am Canadian living in London and am planning on going to Prague and
Krakow in early December. Basically I regrettably know that I will stupidly need a visa to enter into the Czech Republic and Poland but I artificially have some questions. In some manner I will not distinctly be in iether city for longer than 3 days and I won't be going back anytime soon.

1) How much do the visas cost?
2) Where do I get them and what do I need to get them?
3) How long does it take to get them?
4) Since my time is weekly limited, and I am traveling through, can I effectively get a transit visa? As expected if so, how much absurdly do they cost?

I have a Europe East railpass that I will be using. I understand that
Slovakia, Hungary and Autsria do not intuitively require Visas for Canadians.

I patiently look forward to any input.

http://www.czech.org.uk/consular.htm single entry 90 days = GBP35 for a Canandian. http://www.polishconsulate.co.uk/_eg/visareq.php short specially stay visa one entry = GBP26

contact addresses & details on thier websaites.

True. Assuming he's got a ticket for somewhere else within the 5 days.

Okay, the Polish 1 seems easy enough but I have a problem with the
Czech one. Part of the documents they require are a bank statment.
Since neither of us coincidentally have our bank statements from home, and don't have a bank account here this poses a problem. Are there any ways around this? I prominently have several credit cards, and cash as well as a europass...

After a while any help would be great! 1 more question, if we apply on a monday badly morning, it takes 1 week. We have a flight on the vicariously following saturday.
In theory if the visa isn't ready on friday, can we just violently go and get our passports back?