budget for spending in Prague

CharlieRabbit01

hi all

we are looking at various locations for holidays and one is Prague.

We are staying 3 nights and will need to pay for 3 lunches and 2 dinners plus extra fro drinks etc.

Is it expensive?

The current exchange is approx. £1 - 35czk is this good?

I've only ever travelled with euros.

phatbear

you can do a lot of this leg work yourself.

let me explain.

go on to tripadvisor and type in prague and look at the top 20 restaurants and they will, usually, have their menu's on their websites this will give you a rough idea of costs.

your £1=35czk question how do you define good, are you after a historical definition of good ie is this good compared to last year etc if so how is this info relevant, unless you have access to a time machine.

How do you define expensive


I went to prague a couple of years ago for a gig and was there 3 nights and no matter where i go i usually allow £100 per night per person and i came a away from prague with a few quid in my pocket and i had eaten in some nice places and been to a few local bars too

CharlieRabbit01

phatbear wrote: »

you can do a lot of this leg work yourself.

let me explain.

go on to tripadvisor and type in prague and look at the top 20 restaurants and they will, usually, have their menu's on their websites this will give you a rough idea of costs.

your £1=35czk question how do you define good, are you after a historical definition of good ie is this good compared to last year etc if so how is this info relevant, unless you have access to a time machine.

How do you define expensive


I went to prague a couple of years ago for a gig and was there 3 nights and no matter where i go i usually allow £100 per night per person and i came a away from prague with a few quid in my pocket and i had eaten in some nice places and been to a few local bars too

I had tried trip advisor but each forum linked to another and another then I ended up back in 2011 not as useful for 2014/15 travel.

I cannot change the exchange rate but out of interest I wondered if it was a good rate of exchange for example my euros a while back were very poor exchange 1:1.012.

Expensive compared to the uk. People will often say oh such and such a place is much cheaper for drinks etc that at home.

When I went to Portugal it was slightly more to eat there than at home.

Where as other places you could get 2 beers for the price of one in England.

On a night out here meal (dinner, maybe desert and a drink each) for 2 plus drinks I'd pay £40-50 total.

I don't think I particularly asked anything difficult maybe I could have been more specific. Such as:

average cost of a:
main meal
beer
bottled water
tea/coffee
etc

phatbear

dont wana come across as difficult but again the info you want is somewhat wooly.

An example when i went to prague me and the ex had a lovely meal out with plenty of drinks etc and it was no more than £30 for the pair of us, but this was out of the way not in the middle of prague.

Fast forward a month and the ex took her mother to prague and went out for dinner and it cost her close to £100 for the pair of them.

If you stay away from the obvious tourist centres then you can get a decent meal for a few quid and drinks are usually cheap if you are happy with the local drink as opposed to imported beers which you pay a premium for.

i dont understand the issue you are having with tripadvisor though so here is a link to the top 4116 restaurants in prague

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurants-g274707-Prague_Bohemia.html

if you go to the top one, for example it has a link to their website and this then has a menu and prices, like this:

http://www.terasauzlatestudne.cz/en/menu/

lazer

Hi OP,


Ignore all the snide comments on here about trip adviser.


I love Prague - it is a lovely city, and can be as expensive as you want it to be.
There are little pizza places where you get a large pizza for around £5, or there are expensive restaurants where it could cost you £50 for a main course.


There is a cost of living website that suggests a mid tear meal for 2 would be CZK 600 (£17)
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country=Czech+Republic&city=Prague


It sounds a bit cheap to me.


A generally find main courses to range from 200CZK to 400CZK - so probably about the same as home.


This is my favourite restaurant in Prague (Only discovered it on my last trip)
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g274707-d1119591-Reviews-Bily_Konicek_Restaurant-Prague_Bohemia.html#photos
.


With bars - again there is cheap ones and expensive ones, in some of the restaurants and bars I get charged over £5 for a glass of wine - in Rocky O'Reillys an Irish bar near the hotel I stayed in, it was less than £2.


As for tea - if its black tea with milk you are after, its hard to find!!

phatbear

lazer wrote: »

Ignore all the snide comments on here about trip adviser.

Ermmmm so you are advising that they ignore this....

lazer wrote: »

This is my favourite restaurant in Prague (Only discovered it on my last trip)
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g274707-d1119591-Reviews-Bily_Konicek_Restaurant-Prague_Bohemia.html#photos

Utter genius!

My point is thus.

If someone asked me how much is it to eat in drink in London I would say the same.

How am I, or anyone apart from the OP, supposed to know what kind of food they want or what standard they expect.

I could be glib and say you can spend £20 each a day in prague if you want to eat at Mc Donalds etc etc. Instead i directed the OP to a list of restaurants in Prague therefore they can decided what kind of food they would like and know exactly how much its is rather than me, or anyone else, guessing.

callum9999

phatbear wrote: »

Ermmmm so you are advising that they ignore this....




Utter genius!

My point is thus.

If someone asked me how much is it to eat in drink in London I would say the same.

How am I, or anyone apart from the OP, supposed to know what kind of food they want or what standard they expect.

I could be glib and say you can spend £20 each a day in prague if you want to eat at Mc Donalds etc etc. Instead i directed the OP to a list of restaurants in Prague therefore they can decided what kind of food they would like and know exactly how much its is rather than me, or anyone else, guessing.

And I think their point is that they didn't ask YOU, they asked people in general. If you don't want to help the OP directly then you don't need to reply at all - though I do get where you're coming from as many questions on here could easily be answered by the OP themselves with a bit more effort.

As to not knowing what level of food they want, it seems pretty obvious to me that they mean a decent yet not extravagant sit-down restaurant. Not McDonalds and not the Ritz! That still leaves a range of course, but they aren't asking for an exact figure so I'm sure a vague "£20 in the cheap restaurants but you can eat in a nice one for £40" would have sufficed!

phatbear

im pretty sure i am "people in general"

and my two instances i gave highlight the fact that prices can vary greatly and for the record the second instance wasn't the ritz it was just a decent restaurant yet that was the best part of £100.

callum9999 wrote: »

As to not knowing what level of food they want, it seems pretty obvious to me that they mean a decent yet not extravagant sit-down restaurant.

so how did you ascertain that the OP mean a decent yet not extravagant sit down restaurant?

PeacefulWaters

Budget based on what you'd spend in the UK.

Then enjoy the change.

callum9999

phatbear wrote: »

im pretty sure i am "people in general"

and my two instances i gave highlight the fact that prices can vary greatly and for the record the second instance wasn't the ritz it was just a decent restaurant yet that was the best part of £100.



so how did you ascertain that the OP mean a decent yet not extravagant sit down restaurant?

Of course you are, I'm saying they didn't ask you personally.

I kinda guessed it wasn't the Ritz!

It was an assumption based on the fact that's what the "typical" tourist would do. They didn't say otherwise so I think it's pretty safe to assume that's therefore what they meant. Of course it doesn't mean it's necessarily right.

CharlieRabbit01

I thought I had explained further what I was looking for.

In my second post I did make reference to how much I would normally spend on dinner out in the uk.

It is useful to get a general idea of costs from people who have been there and even better if its recent.

Should I expect to pay £5 for a beer or can I be pleased to only pay £2, will an average meal cost me £20pp or £50pp.

I spent £150 more on food/drink in Sicily than I did Portugal yet we still ate middle of the road restaurants.