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Prague
A gothic fairy tale with the world’s best beer at $2.50 a pour.
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The Prague guide
Inside the premium guide
A preview of the real thing — a detailed premium guide, researched and checked in 2026. Click a page to enlarge.
THE COMPLETE CITY GUIDE
CZECHIA · RESEARCHED 2026
Prague
A gothic fairy tale with the world’s best beer at $2.50 a pour.
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The cover
What this guide covers
38 pages, A4 — cover to back. A phone edition comes with it.
What’s inside + how to use
The place & what a day costs
City at a glance — the best-of snapshot
What & how to eat
Where to eat — cheap & local
Mid-range & special occasion
Sweets, cafés & coffee
Vegan, veggie & gluten-free
Supermarkets & typical prices
Markets & food halls
Souvenirs & shopping
Where to stay — neighbourhoods
Budget, boutique & luxury stays
Hostels — the backpacker shortlist
Six big things to do
Top 10 experiences — book & compare
Nightlife & after dark
Best day trips
Insider tips + safety & scams
Ready-made day plans
Getting around
Arrival, tickets & transport cheat sheet
When to go + best time to visit
Cash, cards & tipping
Connectivity & insurance
Health, safety & entry
The travel toolbox
Every link, one place
Sama·Sama · Prague guide38 pages
Everything it covers
STRAIGHT FROM THE GUIDE
Designed cover to cover
One real entry from the Prague guide
The price tables further down give you the ranges. The guide gives you the places — 35 of them in Prague, each priced, each one tap from Google Maps.
€4-9Naše masoThe Ambiente butcher in the Gurmet Pasáž on Dlouhá, where you queue at a marble counter for a beef burger, a hot párek or a beaker of steak tartare made from Czech beef and Přeštice black pied pork. Eat it standing at the shelf by the window with a bottle of beer.📍 Open in Google Maps →One of 35. The rest are in the guide.
Everything. Two files. One price.
This isn’t a blog post saved as a PDF — it’s a detailed, premium, 38-page A4 magazine — researched and checked in 2026, designed to be used. And every purchase comes as two files: the A4 edition for your laptop, tablet and printer, and a phone edition laid out tall and narrow so you never pinch or zoom — the same guide re-flowed into 113 phone-sized pages. Keep it on your phone or print it, open it at a street corner in Prague and it answers the question you’re standing there with.
38A4 pages — cover to back
113phone pages — same guide, re-flowed
346+researched prices in €
265live, verified links
124jump straight to Google Maps
56hand-picked photos
Add it up: 667+ researched details — every price checked, every venue placed, every link live. More usable information than a week of blog-tab hopping, in one beautiful file.
- Made for the phone in your pocket — as well as the A4 magazine you get a phone edition: one attraction per screen, nothing cut, every link still live. No pinching, no sideways scrolling.
- Every venue is one tap from navigation — 124 Google Maps links mean you never type an address on holiday.
- Real prices, not vibes — three honest daily budgets (€48 / €82 / €165) and prices on everything from a dorm bed to a splurge dinner.
- Zero sponsorships — nobody paid to be in this guide. If it’s in, it’s in because it’s good.
- Book everything from the page — stays open on Booking.com & Hostelworld, experiences on GetYourGuide, Trip.com & Klook, transport on official operator sites.
- Plan-it-for-me included — ready day plans, a Top 10, a best-of snapshot, and neighbourhood “best for” labels that choose your base with you.
Buy the Prague guide — €9.95 →Or buy Prague on Etsy ↗
Was €14.50 — now €9.95, every city the same.
This page gives you the ranges. The guide gives you the places — every venue named, priced and linked.
SHOESTRING
€48/day
dorms, street plates, transit
COMFY
€82/day
private room, sit-down meals, a treat
FLASH
€165/day
nice hotel, good dinners, no maths
🧮 Trip maths
€577 total
What Prague costs, day to day
🛵 Getting around
Bolt
Uber
Liftago
Metro / tram 90-min ticket€1.2
24-hour pass€4.8
Airport bus 59 + metro€1.7
Petřín funicularincluded in transit passfree
🛏 Stays
Per night
Hostel dorm bed€13–€22
Airbnb 1-BR€61–€95
3-star near centre€69–€113
Design hotel€130–€243
Monthly
Studio, Žižkov€694–€1,042
1-BR, Vinohrady€868–€1,302
🛒 Groceries & daily life
Lidl / Kaufland — value anchors
Albert / Billa — everywhere
Farmers' markets — weekend produce
Water 1.5 L€0.6–€0.9
Milk 1 L€1–€1.3
Eggs ×10€2.4–€3
Bread loaf€1.1–€1.6
Rice 1 kg€1.5–€1.9
Chicken breast 1 kg€5.6–€7.4
Bananas 1 kg€1.1–€1.5
Local beer 0.5 L (shop)€0.6–€1
🍜 Eating out
Polední menu (weekday lunch)€5.2–€7.8
Svíčková or goulash€6.9–€10
Pub dinner€10–€17
Tank Pilsner (tankovna)€1.7–€2.6
Tasting menu€61–€113
🎡 Things to do — with kids
Petřín tower + mirror maze€6.1–€8.7
Prague Zoogenuinely one of Europe’s best€10–€13
Vltava paddle boatper hour€6.9–€10
🌙 Things to do — grown-ups
Castle circuit ticket€10–€16
Charles Bridge at dawnfree
Classical concert€17–€35
Beer spa€52–€78
Vyšehrad sunsetfree
🌤 Climate
Day °CRain
Best: May – Jun & Sep · Wet: —
Four seasons, low rain overall. December is cold, mulled-wine pretty and crowded.
✈️ Getting there
RyanairWizz AireasyJetSmartwingsLondon€22–€52
Barcelona€26–€61
Rome€26–€61
🏧 ATMs & money
Fees: Czech bank ATMs are surcharge-free; Euronet's tourist-zone army is not — and its 'converted' rates are 10 %+ bad.
Limits: Bank machines allow hefty pulls (10,000–20,000+ Kč); Euronet deliberately caps low to multiply its fees.
Best machines: Česká spořitelnaČSOBKomerční banka
Never touch the Old-Town exchange kiosks with the '0 % commission' signs — the margin is in the rate. If you must change cash, use a bank or a vetted honest exchange; otherwise card + bank ATM is perfect. Decline CZK↔your-currency 'conversion' every single time.
🩺 Health & safety
Vaccines: Routine. Forest hikers: Czechia is a tick-borne encephalitis hotspot — the vaccine is worth asking about for countryside trips; city breaks need nothing.
Health: Tap water excellent. Pharmacies (lékárna) are everywhere and capable.
Tap water: ✅ Excellent — Prague tap water is high quality. Bring a refillable bottle.
Safety: Prague's violent-crime rate is among Europe's lowest (~0.7/100k). The entire risk profile is pickpockets on Old Town Square, Charles Bridge and tram 22 — front pockets, zipped bags, done. That, and the exchange kiosks we've already banned you from.
Emergency: 112
🌱 Vegan, veggie & gluten-free
Plant-based: Beyond fried cheese: Prague has one of Central Europe's biggest vegan scenes; traditional menus offer smažený sýr and dumplings-with-sauce vegetarian picks.
Gluten-free: Dumplings and beer are wheat; roast meats + potatoes are safe. 'Bezlepkové' menus appear in most Prague districts.
'Bez masa' = meat-free · Prague's vegan map is genuinely long.
🛂 Visa & entry
This is a Schengen-area country. Most US, UK, EU, Canadian, Australian, NZ, Brazilian, Japanese and Korean passports enter visa-free for up to 90 days in any 180-day period across the whole Schengen zone. From 2025 the EU's ETIAS pre-authorisation applies to visa-free non-EU visitors — check before you fly.
Rules change — always verify with an official source for your nationality before you book.
💬 Traveller tips & reports
Drink where the tank is — Look for ‘tankovna’ — unpasteurised Pilsner from copper tanks. It costs $2.50, it’s the best beer of your life, and a pub with one is never a tourist trap.
@pivo.pilgrim · Nov ’25 · ▲ 187