budget for spending in Prague

paddyrg

^^^ The Beer Museum is a nice bar, open late, friendly, huge beer choice, but there are great bars all over the place depending on your taste.

Weekend nights are a lot less fun thanks to the stag parties, weekdays much nicer.

Hotels, 4* and modern near the Beer Museum and Alchemy Museum(!) around €89, although there's no lack of hotels weekdays.

Czech dishes (meat, cabbage, horseradish in various forms) are inexpensive, Western dishes can be more expensive - there are plenty of restaurants. With a couple of beers and local dishes you might spend a tenner each upwards.

It's a stunning city.

CharlieRabbit01

Thanks for the bar recommendation.

We're going in the week. We had heard that it was full of stag and hen parties at the weekend.

Doshwaster

CharlieRabbit01 wrote: »

Thanks for the bar recommendation.

We're going in the week. We had heard that it was full of stag and hen parties at the weekend.

There are a lot of stag/hen parties (mostly German these days, the Brits have moved elsewhere to cheaper cities) but they are easy to avoid as thy tend to congregate in the fake Irish bars around the main square. Go a few streets away and you won't see any.

One of the joys of Prague is getting lost in the maze of streets in the Old Town and discovering one of the many cellar bars. Often they have little more than a door at street level and some steps leading down. Many of them have live music at night.

Do try some of the local cuisine. It's usually meat, veg (lots of cabbage) and dumplings and is very filling especially on a cold night. Czech food isn't so good if you are a veggie.

PompeyPete

Spot on as usual Doshwaster. Like a lot of places, don't follow the masses, and be amazed at what you'll find.

We stayed in a cell in the old Czech Secret Service headquarters. I think it's called UNITAS Pension, but not sure if the same premises are operating as a B&B..

Within a couple of hundred yards radius there were several great basement bars and restaurants.

We had a fortnight in Czech Republic, d-i-y'ing it by train. Stayed at some lovely atmospheric places, and got as far as South Bohemia. It snowed all the time and was a real magical wonderland.

Spent a lot of time seekinging out our next pint of Budweiser Budvar (not to be confused with the yank rubbish). Our main (and successul) aim was to visit the brewery at Česk! Budějovice in South Bohemia, for a tour...

http://www.budweiserbudvar.co.uk/brewery

Hic!:beer:

paddyrg

Oh, and if you want to see something a little different, try Sedlec Ossuary - it's out of the city but... well a quick google search will illuminate you ;-)

hamsterfan1

eating out in pubs is usually cheaper than the UK - if you go off the beaten track it is very cheap ( we went to a micro brewery in the sticks & the meal was about £3 & the beer under a pound) the beer museum mentioned above charges about £2 plus a beer but they are special beers , most places we went to last summer were around 30-40kc.

Tuesday_Tenor

I was in Prague June 2013.

Along with most other responses:

For the few trips outside Prague, food and drink was much cheaper than UK.

Within Prague, prices and range of options was similar to major cities in UK. Perhaps a bit cheaper than some, but marginally more expensive than where I live out in the sticks. With, as expected, the least-value-for money generally being in the touristy centre, but there are some exceptions even to that ....! Enjoy hunting out what you want!

lelasuzi

We loved Prague. Its beautifull and it made me cry. We went with friends from Bulgaria. I never had a bad meal. We ate expensive, and we ate cheap. Just walked, found and ate. The only thing I hated was the dog poo everywhere. Have a good time.

Tuesday_Tenor

Tips, totally unrelated to your OP ....

1. High-heeled shoes will be even more useless than in most places. Streets are either cobbled or criss-crossed by tramlines ....! Choose sensible footwear!

2. Visit the Museum of Communism for a reminder of that part of the city's history, not now much evident elsewhere. For instance, I'd seen the sculpture on a massive plinth in Letna Park, but didn't realise until I saw the photos in the museum that that's where the HUGE statue of Stalin had stood. And on the whole people don't want to talk about that era, so as a visitor it's easy to be oblivious of the oppression people lived under until recently.

skint_chick

I went to Prague last year for 5 days with my dad who refuses to eat at any type of 'fast food' place, only what he considers 'proper' restaurants, in the UK they would cost around £8-15 for a main. In Prague it cost between 1/2 and 2/3 of the price. I usually picked up bottles of water in the supermarket after breakfast for about 10p. We spent £220 in total but that included a trip to Terezin - highly recommended. The beer was about £2 for a pint size. We had a great time, and I'm heading to the Bavarian forest on the Czech border next summer so can't wait to explore more of the country. We also did a free walking tour with Sandemanns that you can prebook online and it was a great introduction to the city.