prague

[wizard69]

anyone here ever been to prague?My girlfriend wants to go on holiday there next year, just wondering about the usual...prices,eating out, places to visit etc.thanx

[Fish the Mod]

Praque will soon be the new Amterdam ( not new yorK)
It is fairly small and a long weekend is enough. The main strip or main town road as such has the normal nightclubs and as I write is still very cheap when it comes to booze. They are not stupid and this will soon go up. Plenty of bars, clubs and strip joints ( not that you would go with your girlfriend) and you will be spoilt for choice. Food is excellent but resturants tend to close by 11p,m. The market on the sunday is great and the people friendly. Loads of english and we had great fun watching english football in the english bar in the main square. These European countries tend to lookf dull with those concrete style iron curtain apartments but the hotels are the same here. Pay for what you get. I went with Expedia and the only thing wrong was that we got a double bed in each room - There were eight of us - All Men

[Martin27]

I went in Feb and wow it was cold! Try to go in the summer months if possible, lots of sights to see and things to do. We stayed on the main square and it was within easy reach of everything. Prices are very good, i`d recommend it :) [edited by ABED]

[Narolines]

Still reasonably cheap by British standards, but very much more expensive (and to my mind, less attractive) than it was when I worked there a few years ago. Joining the EU and becoming host to numerous stag & hen weekends have done absolutely nothing to improve Prague's charm. Having said that, it's still a beautiful, interesting city with plenty to see and do - I can't agree with Fish that a long weekend is enough; I spent over a year there and go back at least once a year to see friends, and I still haven't seen all there is to see.

Hotels in the city centre have always been, and still are, overpriced; go for somewhere just outside the centre - public transport is easy, safe and extremely cheap - and you'll do much better. Same goes for food - it's generally very good, and you don't have to go far out of the centre for prices to fall dramatically. You'll have to see Wenceslas Square, Staromestske Namesti and Karlova once - but once is enough, and you can only take so much overpriced tourist tat. Mala Strana is much better - still not over-commercialised - and the bars and restaurants round Betlemska are second to none. Enjoy my favourite city (after my native Birmingham, of course!).

[wizard69]

cheers guys...its got to be better than my native city of stoke on trent Narolines..lol