How you can explore Prague for €50
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- čas přidán 30. 05. 2024
- The Czech capital is a popular European city that’s known to be fairly affordable. DW‘s Aisha Sharipzhan has set out to see how affordable Prague really is. She has explored Prague on a €50 budget and as a local, she has plenty of special tips for you.
00:00 Intro
00:29 Public transportation: get the 24-hour ticket
01:05 Old Town Square
01:20 Charles Bridge
01:43 The Lennon Wall
02:20 Coffee break at Dobrá Trafika
02:43 Tram ride to Prague Castle
03:10 Prague Castle with the Old Royal Palace, St. George's Basilika, St. Vitus Cathedral
04:51 The Golden Lane, Franz Kafka's house
05:15 Riding the Petřín funicular railway up to Petřín hill
06:12 Eating Svíčková and drinking beer
07:26 Desert: Tdelník in the Jewish quarter Josefov
08:25 Boat ride on the Vltava River
09:19 Letná Park and beer garden
Credits:
Report: Aisha Sharipzhan
Camera: Holm Weber
Editing: Roberto Reis
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Honest Guide has the best channel on Prague
Agree 😄
You should also mention that Golden Lane street is FOR FREE after 5 pm. So I recommend getting to Prague Castle at the end of day trip.
That Trdelník is such a touristy dessert! 😩
😅😅3.30€ for air and a whole in the middle.
As a Praguer I am fully aware that this trdelník is a tourist thing and that it is even not of Czech origin. But man it so yummy that I buy one everytime I happen to be in the city centre. But it has to be tha plain trdelník without any icecream oř Nutella or similar stuff, so you can enjoy all the flavours of the warm dough completed by the sweet cinammon. I wish I would have one when writing this.
@@vs2573 You can complain however you want but trdelník is nowadays reality and is so widely loved by young Czechs around the whole of Czechia, that it becomes a new Czech tradition. In fact, it's way better than döner in every corner of Germany.
2:21, this place is directly below my flat, I see the yard from my window. That being said, 85 czk for a coffee is quite expensive.
Other than the Letna Park conclusion, not much presented here but high volume tourist sites. Would hope for more off-the-beaten-track fare from a local. Also the budget didn't include breakfast or dinner, a fair "see ___ on X dollars per day" should include at least two meals.
I'd go to the Honest Guide Channel for that
Thank you for this important feedback.
I would go to Vysehrad or to one of the gardens (frantiskanska, valdstejnska, vojanovy sady ....) it is free and nice :)
How you can explore Prague ? yes good video but check out HONEST GUIDE !
So cool! Thanks for the tips! :)
Cool, I like the food there
Welcome in the Czech republic and Prague.
I loved the old square. I remember that church.
So far my favourite city.
Damn, such a great video but I had to switch off at the Trdelnik....
An interesting video subject - well done. DW Travel
Just one thing-trdelník is NOT loved trough Prague but hated. It is advertised as a "traditionally czech" but it is NOT. Its a shame that tourists buy these fake czech pastry instead of something that is actually Czech (koláče, vdolky...). Other than this its a really nice video showcasing Prague.
Trdelník is hated by Janek Rubeš only. His little war against this particular pastry was fun at the beginning but now is just downright ridiculous and annoying. Trdelník has been made in Czechia for at least 150 years. It is therefore probably as traditional as the Czech guláš or svíčková.
@@Gosudar ask basicly anyone living in Prague and they will confirm you that trdelník is hated (not just because it is not czech but also because little shops are everywhere in city centre and the amount of food waste is terrifying). Also Czehc gulash is something completly diffeent than hungarian gulash (there are similarities but those are two different dishes) and that is something you cannot say about trdelnik... also svíčková IS a dish invented in czechia (well technically in an area that is todays Czech Republic as it did not exist at the time)
@@Gosudar I am native Czech and I never tried trdelník, I don't even know why should I pay 5 eur for some international random tourist pastry which is not my culture and it's really overpriced. These trdelník stands started appearing around like 2008, nobody saw it before, it's not traditional, it's just annoying tourist thing which you can find everywhere in Europe. It can be traditional for Slovaks and Hungarians or maybe Romanians, bot definitely not for Czechs. Fact that someone is making it for 150 years doesn't make it traditional Czech pastry.
@@Pidalin It was here on street since 90s and before it on some fairs. It came from Hungary, but who cares.
@@Gosudar I am not Czech but I've been living and traveling in Prague for some years. Trdelník is just like these cannabis shops, you only see them in the touristic/old town areas but you can find guláš or svíčková everywhere. So it makes me doubt if czechs actually like it
Loved 💕 our time in Prague, 5 years ago, at the end of our Danube River cruise! Such a beautiful and historic location, with so much to see and admire! 😊. Had always wanted to visit Prague, and it certainly was all that I had hoped for, and more! 💕
There is NOT Danube in our lovelly Prague - there is a Vltava river !!!!
@@johnnygomez7063 did not say the Danube was in Prague. I said we enjoyed going there after our Danube cruise (on Viking). I know what river is in Prague. Sorry you misunderstood my message!!
7:48 I bet the Honest Guide will love your trdelnik suggestion... ;)
Nice
Loved Prague. I recall their Starbucks even had awesome cakes😅
Good video! Nice host!
I loved Prague. We took a bus tour and went shopping there.
This year opened in Prague first !!! Victoria´s Secret !!!shop,
by end of the year will open first 3 Popeyes (Luisiana kitchen) - as acompetition to KFC, Burger King and Mc Donalds and Czech chains MAD RUNNER and Bageterie Boulevard
@@johnnygomez7063 MAD Runner? really? with the overall two locations? but ok, they are designed like a franchise...
Thank you for the introduction! I wish that I can visit Prague one day!
Sadly I was disappointed with Prague when I went in May 2023. Because it wasn’t as cheap as I thought souvenirs are expensive the main square has restaurants that charge too much and I couldn’t find anything traditional to dine at outside the main square. There were things I wish I knew before I came, but I did enjoy the walk up to the castle and along Charles Bridge I also got a great selfie in the Old Town square and bought a Pinocchio puppet.
That's, why people should to do some research about destination. Here's a lot of touristic videos about Prague. And proud Czechs are commenting under, saying that's right, but that's wrong, seek for Honest guide channel...
I ❤ Prague
Yo!! Any camera stores in Prague? Such a beautiful city deserves to be photographed 📷
Go to local famous store Foto Škoda.
❤❤❤❤
Damn that's crowded! Is it that full in winter too?
Yes, and around the holidays it gets even worse
@@mmarianaa19 And January/February? Is it still crowded then?
Second half of January and all February is rather less crowded usually.
@@mobilmastercz Hmm, thanks! Maybe I'll go then... crowds really annoy me.
Where did you eat lunch in the video?
Well, the Svíčková was kind of a late lunch for Aisha that day😀.
Ben de gittim çok güzel bir şehir
typical Czech barman! Ty Vole!
Waiting for honest guide to comment 😂
It would be a pleasure for us 🙃!
I wonder if you can get by with English
in city center, yes, you can, easily
@@stonefire19 And at cultural sites outside of city center (e.g. house museums) always check before proceeding. Do not expect wall texts in English, and anticipate that an English language tour given by a Czech native can be limited in vocabulary.
@@stonefire19 no u cant, we are squatting gopniks who dont speak any other leanguage, dont even bother. 🙃
Everyone younger than like 45 already had English in school, even when knowledge of English can be very basic, you can at least ask how to get somewhere or to order something.
Why are people still asking such questions like "can I survive there with English only?" ofcourse you can, do you think tourists learn languages of all countries they visit? 😀 And compared to forced Russian in the past, you really need English today and you are using that language pretty often, so your skill is getting better, which is exact opposite of useless russian from the past, everyone forgot it few years after school, but you really need English now, you can't even survive without at least basic English.
@@Pidalin If you're talking about Europe as a whole, I agree that English is broadly spoken in the larger cities, but even that varies by country. Spain, for instance can be a real challenge communicating in English in cities other than Madrid and Barcelona. And cultural sites in Eastern Europe outside of the largest cities remain limited in English info as well as speakers on site. I lived in Poland back in the 00's, and there was a sharp 2nd language divide between the cultural and business realms, French for the former and English for the latter. Vestiges of that remain unfortunately for English speakers.
Quite expensive
If you really live in Prague, you should at least be able to say „thank you“ in Czech to a waitress. And you should know that Trdelnik is anything but traditional. Lastly, the Petrin tower admission fee is far below 300 CZK,
Not too much below. By the web it costs 220Kč and if you want skip the line than 290Kč.
@@xsc1000 220 CZK is far below 300 CZK. And skip the line tickets are unnecessary, at least this was the case during my 10+ visits so far.
How can she know enough Czech to order but doesn’t know not to get trdelnik
someones you just need to be that typical tourist who goes and buy trdelník, it's annoying overpriced tourist thing, but if you like it, you can buy it, I am not literally against that, I am just annoyed by that they call it a Czech tradition
We visited Prague in 2018. Unforgettable! very beautiful and very romantic. perfect for couples
my favorites were St. Vitus Cathedral, old Town Square , Tyn Church and Charles Bridge.
the John Lenon wall was never in our itenerary. What for? There was nothing historic or Czech about it. and NO, the Beatles were NOT more popular than Jesus
you may not like Lennon wall for any reason and that is absolutely okay, but to say that there is nothing historic or Czech(oslovak) about it, that is simply not true
@@stonefire19 what is historic or Czech about it then? Is John Lennon Czech? Was he murdered on the same spot where the wall is now? What connection does John Lennon have to the Czech Republic or Czechoslovakia?
@@ddiesel1836 John Lennon was used as a symbol of freedom and by making this wall (several times because communist painted it over quite a few times) it showed how people hated the regime and this was their way of expressing themself (it is a really nic place to see especially when some westerners think Czechs were ok with the communist regime). "West" music was either banned or EXTREMLY difficult to get during the time as it was (from the communist regime point of view) a music of "evil rotten capitalists".
While the wall does possess historic value, visually it doesn't impress. If staying in Prague for a week, leave it for day five. If staying for three days, skip it, and linger for longer in one of the better museums.
@@hd-xc2lz fpr ypi maybe it is not something worth the visit and that is completly OK. This summer I spend 5 hours of walking trough the forest to see an mideval boundary stone (this one did not even had any carving on it anymore as it eroded away)-by your logic I spend hours of walking to see a "normal looking stone". People visit place not only because of how they look visually but historical significance si for quite a lot of people much more important than soemthing that "just looks pretty". Visiting cities is not only about looking at "pretty things" but it should mainly be about learing about the culture and history of the place you visit and Lennon vall is one of the most important modern monuments showing the resilionce of czech people against communism (just show me a single monument that shows the resistance against communism in Prague).
trdelnik r u serious?
ja, das ist lecker!
it hurts to see a “local” recommending Trdelník in the video and saying that it is loved throughout Prague, that cannot be more wrong
*Honest Guide is leaving the chat*
Kürtőskalács! Kürtőskalács! Kürtőskalács! There is a stand by SV Barbora in Kutna Hora that sells Kürtőskalács and not trdelnik.
Trdelník nebrat! Trdelník no, no, no, nein, nein, nein! 🤦♀️
Tip for tourists. DON'T go to the historic center