Can you afford your Prague vacation? (Travel cost, budget tips)
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2024
- Tourists tell us every day: "We thought Prague will be much cheaper". Prague travel costs have risen significantly in the last two years. So what is the real cost of traveling to Prague and can you still afford it?
In this video, we will cover the cost of food, accommodation, and attractions in Prague. We will show you how much it will cost to travel to Prague on a budget, but we will also demonstrate how much you should expect to spend if you are ready to enjoy your Prague vacation to the fullest.
When I was in Prague, I got a hotel room just outside the city center area, a few minutes walk from a transportation hub where I was able to catch either a tram or the metro. I was able to get into the city center and other places without any problems at all. I highly recommend staying outside the city center.
Great INFO!! While I can see that prices in Prague have gone up, I still think almost everything you covered would be more expensive in Vienna, Paris, London or Lake Jackson Texas where I live. I also think Prague is equal to the finest cities in the world, so even at current prices it is still a bargain. BUT!!! That is vied through my own expectations and others might not have the same experience. Either way, the information you present is very useful to anyone considering traveling to this great city!!! Keep up the good work RPG‘s
That was funny, Gas is cheaper in Lake Jackson at least...
I live in Prague, and recently became s citizen.
Yes, there are better cities/countries to live, but there are not many of them
Just a side note - if you want a beer in the city centre, find the nearest Tesco, Billa or Albert, buy for example the one that was shown in the video as "not good" its called Kozel.. very good beer indeed.. and enjoy it.. otherwise buy your beer in any pub OUTSIDE the city centre.
Another great and informative video. A visit to Prague is not expensive at all comparatively speaking. The things to do and see in Prague, as well as outside of Prague, makes a trip there A GREAT BARGAIN. Prague and its neighboring towns are incredibly beautiful on so many levels. Thank you Valery for being a great hostess and to your camera man!!!🙏👌
I come to Prague since I was born >50 years ago to visit my grandparents. I've seen the metamorphosis the last decades. Last week we've been there again and we always take a hotel or apartment outside city center, but close to metro or tram stop, which makes it good affordable. When in the Center for diner, we actually always go to Havelská Koruna. PID Litačka app is best to use for public transport planning and paying, but also for parking. My most important app in Prague.
I was there in May. Got 2 hlebicki for breakfest, lunch menu for lunch, dinner at bageterie boulevard, a night on Dlouha street, got a day card for transport... it wasn't that expensive. About twice as cheap, actually.
Another great video, glad I found your channel! Living here, two things that are definitely more expensive here than back home - clothes & electrical goods!
I loved the trams in Prague. So convenient that its time based and not a destination based ticket. O was there for 3 days and spent entire days walking and only took trams to go back to my hotel, freshen up and come back to the cuty centre and walk more.
Valerie and guy’s it’s still far cheaper than France and more romantic than Paris, things have gone up everywhere. Unless you want to go to other places out of Prague, Shanks pony ‘you legs’ are your best bet. There are so many beautiful buildings, doors, windows etc that you would miss if you took transport around the city. Great video as always guys👍
I took Taxi 3 times in Paris,once from CDG airport to Montmartre costing 55 €, from Orly airport to Vincannes cosing 41€ and from Vincannes to CDG airport 60 €.. In geneva I paid 22 SF for 2 KM ride... What you are saying, comared to my experience is just heaven❤!! Prague is in my hot list next time!!
Great content! Thanks for sharing, I stumble upon your vlog as I will be hosting students from Czech! I am very intrigue by the way you narrate. I will pm you soon with regards on sight seeing for elderly especially from Asia countries.
Thanks for another great visit - our tour with 1000 Spires in May was so good. Watching this brings back excellent memories. We ended up walking everywhere and really enjoyed the atmosphere in the Old Town and along the river. Your information is so current that it helps with planning.
Fantastic video! You guys now have one of the best video libraries on the subject. 😉
New subscriber. Loving your videos, you along with Honest Guide are excellent.
I'm looking to go to prague for my first time in December, these videos are great! thank you!
I love Prague and I love you valeri
Your channel is excellent 👍 I’ve been traveling to czech for 10 years and I always learn something new from your videos. I’m heading to Plzen and Karlstejn in a couple of weeks
Thank you valery😊I really love watching your informative videos,will soon visit prague.
This video and lady are brilliant. Thank you.
Super cool & helpful content Valery, thanks team :)
Thank you so much.......we need more videos......going to Prague soon.......Thank you again🌹
You are great Valérie as always perfect. I like your work very much. Thank you for the valuable information. 👍💯😘😘♥️🌹
I would still say that Prague is a very cheap place. At least for nordic people.
Cause here it’s expensive.
Last time I went to a pub (a quite cheap one) I payed almost 200czk for a beer from tap. A cocktail is like 300czk at least.
For like 250czk I can get a kebab from a crappy place… 300czk will buy me a lunch at a decent place.
I mean it’s possible to find lunch for like 250czk… but they’re not good.
A dinner… well.. 1 starter is about 200czk, a main course starts at about 600czk… a glass of wine or beer at least 200czk… a desert also about 200czk… so a 3 course with drink is at least 1200czk per person. A 2 course 1000czk per person.
I recently booke hotel room in prague with a good review and close to the city centre… an equal room in a nordic city is 50% more expensive.
A public transport ticket in a small city here is like 80czk..
and if I were to take a taxi home from the city (4km) it would cost me at least 700czk.
Well… my salary las month came out as 85000czk.
So yes prague is still cheap… for us. And that’s a very good way to describe Prague. But I mean… for us nordics bothe germany and france are quite cheap places aswell. But those places depends a lot more about how the euro stand against the nordic currencies (except for finland and denmark). While the Czech crown just as norwegian crowns, swedish crowns or icelandic crowns aren’t attached to the euro. So even though our currencies maybe stands weak to the euro they can be strong against the czech crown which makes even more of an advantage .
Hej, last year we included Prague in our road trip, your videos helped a lot that time. This year my cousin is going there and i will definitely share this video to him. You are awesome 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for your information, next week i will be there
I'll be taking my first trip there next month! I can't wait. I'm really looking forward to the beer spa!
Oh thank you! You are very informative and helpful thank you
You are very good at this! You are informative and entertaining and your professionalism makes you very attractive! You sell Prague well!
Brilliant coverage. Crisp and practical. Wish you covered more of Czech.
Love your brains, sense of humor, charming accent, great job and thank you 🙏🏻 for tips and education
Thanks I'm blushing
In 1973, on the way back from East-Berlin, we slept homeless in the our car in Prague. This year, Pragotour could not find a room, the hotel was not calculated for the Hungarian wallet.
Very helpful. Thank you.
thanks. I'll be there in September and I'm debating on how much to spend on hotel.
Those prices certainly make those that we paid on our visit to Prague in 1996 seem laughable! I'm glad that questions about why I would choose to visit overseas destinations before we'd traveled around Australia were ignored then with the retort that I can drive around my own backyard when I'm long retired but hauling the creaking bones up the Matterhorn when you're past 70 gets to be more a punishment than a holiday! 😱🙄😉
We stayed at an Airbnb Apartment by Florenc station. This was May 2023. There was just two of us, and it was perfect. It was a one bedroom, one bath, and one washing machine. When traveling around Europe for three weeks, having a washing machine was a must. We paid $140 USD a night. Looking back, that seems steep and we could have done better farther out, but in relation to other European destinations, it seemed OK at the time.
I you want cheap food in Prague, the chinese places are your best option. I was in prague 2 weeks ago and there were meals for around 140czk, even in the city center.
If you don't want chinese, go to a vietnamese place, they are in every corner due to the big vietnamese minority in Czech Republic.
Valerie you are the best! xx
Love the vid. And in case of the food, the 250 is way too much. Find regular restaurants and not those expensive ones for tourists. Regular restaurants around Prague are below 200 crowns per meal ✨ mostly around 150.
Absolutely not around 150. The restaurants I go to around Žižkov and Vinohrady all have their prices around 250 for a meat entrée. And likewise I recently for instance noticed that Dish's Dish burger was raised from 259,- to 289,-. Parlament's Svíčková raised their price from 275,- to 295,-
@@serebii666 wow. those are high prices in more expensive places 🤷♂️ regular restaurant have svíčková up to 200. Almost 300 for this dish is freakin too much. You are comparing very expensive places nos. Try burger at Jacobs Street food or Master burger. Small places, but cheaper than dish yet very awesome. Visit more places that are not this expensive. As a local i can say that dish for 300 per person is too much.
@@icwsi Parlament is absolutely a normal mid-tier priced restaurant. For comparison, Červený Jelen sells it's svíčková for 345,- while Lokál Korunní sell its for 235,- and u Bulínů sells its for 299,-. A meat entrée being around 250,- is accurate.
And no, those are not expensive places. Expensive places are restaurants like Yuniku, Sia, Cafe Savoy, Pot au Feu, Cafe Imperial, where mains cost between 450-600,-.
And that is not even discussing actual fine dining - restaurants like Marie B, Field, Coda, or Alcron, where mains can easily cost 750-1200,-
And as for burger pricing, Dish is not particularly expensive or special either. Tavern's burgers are around 260,-. Palanda's burgers sell for 279,-. Hillbilly's burgers sell for around 249,-. That is simply the cost of a sit-down meal in a restaurant with good meat quality.
I'm sorry but neither Jacobs Street Food or Master Burger is a restaurant - those are street kiosks. That is a completely different market category. They neither need to pay rent for seating space, nor dishware, nor service staff that restaurants all do. I would not base acceptable restaurant prices off the hot dog stand (delicious as it is) on nám. Míru either.
I am a local too, and I eat out in every district of the city (1-10, except 9 because its far). 150,- (currently closer to 170,- actually) is what you can expect for lunch hotovky and týdenní menus, not á la carte entrées, and that is primarily in cafés - not full service restaurants.
I stand by my points, and I recommend you broaden your food experiences, in Prague you really do get what you pay for. All the restaurants I mentioned all make food that I found was worth the price.
The prices are going up all over Europe, unfortunately. Thanks for the information about Prague.
Yes it is, very sad. Prague was cheaper years ago, but unfortunately now it is incredibly expensive.
Love it . Very good
Looking forward to seeing Prague later this year. I’m used to paying equivalent to 200 czk for a 570mL beer. So I think I’ll cope with the European price increases.
Very good as usual!
Totally agree. Of course you have to visit Prague, but after living here long ago, now been visiting many times, maybe I would say Budapest is a better option esp for longer stays nowadays. More affordable, and of course London, Paris and most Eurocountries, unfortunately on another price level.
I would say when it comes to London if you book flights and accomodation like a Travelodge months (sometimes weeks) in advance, especially on off peak days like Sunday, or off season like out of school holidays, you can actually get a cheap deal. Eat in Wetherspoons pubs (vast menu) or take aways, buy food in major supermarket chains like Tesco or Sainsburys and use your feet then you can have a very inexpensive trip to London.
Yes. After Prague, Budapest is the only city from East Europe that is quite beautiful and spectacular. Although Budapest is cheaper, Prague is nicer and cleaner. Greetings from Budapest
great video :)
Three of us will be in Prague for New Years, and the hotels are much higher then. I found an apartment for around $350 a night within a mile of Old Town Square.
Haha, thanks to the inflation in Prague, we actually felt like at home when we visited Italy a few months ago. Very similar prices in restaurants and supermarkets.
Lovely video! Just a but of info - Albert's has cheaper pastries. If you need XL taxi, an AAA kombik taxi is cheaper. There is another budget tip I get a little pissed off with. I noticed people watching ME play on the Ava terrace across from Kotva on a Sunday without going in. That's a budget tip too far, like someone listening in to your guided tour without paying to join. Ach jo. Love you guys.
In my experience Prague is super cheap! But I think that depend on where you come from. I'm from the Netherlands and our country is in general super expensive compared to lots of other countries. I've been in Prague twice and both visits (of 5 night) have cost me around €300 each (including hostel/airbnb). But, most of my food I bought in the supermarket and I did a lot of activities that are either free or very cheap. I barely drink alcohol and I'm easily satisfied, I'm not a needy person.
I'm visiting Prague in 10 days. Would you be so kind as to tell me what these activities, cheap or free are please?
I'm also from the Netherlands, and I "discovered" Prague about two years ago. Since then, I've been back six times! I love it! It's only a one-hour flight from Amsterdam Schiphol, and not terribly costly if you stay outside the city center. (See my post above in the comments.) I never eat in a restaurant, or drink a beer in a pub in the Netherlands. MUCH too expensive! If you ask me, Prague is more beautiful than Amsterdam, and safer, too.
@@magicalexanna Old town square with astronomical clock, Wanceslas square and national museum, Prasna Brana (tower), Jindrizska vez (tower), Naplavka (river sides), Prague Castle and its gardens, squares, cathedral, Hradcanske square/Hradcany, Vitkov park, Prague metronome and viewpoints around it, Vysehrad (with castle walls), Nuselsky bridge near Vysehrad, National Theathe/Galery, Rudolfinum/Klementinum, Namesti miru square
@@jakubantal2546 Τhank you so much!
@@jnx2333 Ha! If I was rich, I would get a flat in Prague in addition to my flat here in the south of the Netherlands! I would split my time between Prague and here. (I do like living in the Netherlands. I'm an immigrant from the U.S. There aren't very many of us in this country.) Amsterdam and Utrecht are both charming cities, but SO crowded. We have 17 million people packed into this tiny country! And do you know what's involved in finding a place to live here? Several years ago, the waiting list for a flat in Amsterdam in the social sector was 11 years. Utrecht was 13 years. Since then, the housing shortage has only worsened. Private sector housing is unaffordable for the average person. Everything else is terribly expensive here, too!
For the rest, I found the Czech people I met in Prague to be friendly and helpful. If you approach them politely and with respect, your respect will be returned.
You might enjoy the "Dream Prague" videos posted by an American couple who immigrated to Prague about a decade ago.
Still great prices for us tourist from USA 🇺🇸 I love Praga and I will continue visiting every year ❤I never get over it ❤❤❤❤
Paying to sleep on the floor of a school is a great option. However, when I was a student, I used to be able to sleep at my desk for free.
Lived in Prague for 5 years in 80th and my Czech is still pretty good. Things are changing for sure even compare to 2014, when I visited Prague last time. Going to celebrate New Years(Silvester) this year and want to know where is the best place to make reservations for the evening (bar, club ...). Any advise?
I love how sh*t-faced is a universal word!!! 😂So looking forward to my visit!
Been looking for my second travel to prague after 7 years since my first.
Hello, i'm heading to Prague next week, i see on the restaurant receit that tip is on us, what is the average tip we should leave ? Thank you
From very long time I see that the size of the plates of food shown in the videos is small,I mean the quantity of food in the plates.
Maybe that's cause of the types of restaurants they go.
Dobrá práce!
Děkujeme!
well i took an apartment via airBnB great price and used the public transport around the city it was great
Any recommendations on Vegetarian friendly restaurants and what food options ?
Little bit of a random question. Can you recommend a good business lawyer in prague? Or an account. I'm a content creator here in the US. Thinking of coming to Prague for a summer or a year. But had some questions on laws
Thanks for making this, it helped a lot. I’m just curious, does anyone know what the trams are like in the evening ?
Me and my friend are aiming to go to Prague sometime next year and we would love to explore in the evening as well as the day but not sure if the teams operate in the evening as much as they do during the day or how they work during the evening if it’s different
Trams operate 24/7. At midnight, the daily 26 tram lines stop, and 10 night trams operate. You will be fine exploring in the evening.
@@Kamil712 great, thank you!
Thx
I'm in the process of making my bookings for my trip to central Europe. And I am absolutely puzzled that accommodation is much more expensive in Prague than in Vienna.
As somebody interested in moving there sooner or later, I have a question. Are salaries adapting to these two years of super inflation? From where I'm writing, Italy, inflation was a little lower (now 6,5% year on year) but salaries were not increased at all. Thanks for your enjoyable videos 🙂
unfortunately not. Salaries here in Prague have not increased much in the past year or two, but prices in shops have jumped up massively. It seems that every week the prices are going up again.
🇨🇿 I've been travelling for 12 years to Prague (the European jewel) as a solo-traveller with a limited budget 💕 I guess Prague is proportionately still cheaper than her adjacent sisters 😊
What I really hate in Prague was : Heavy Smoking 🚬🤢 & Crazy Drinking 👎🏻🥃
These 2 infamous phenomena in CZ are deteriorating and trashing this beautiful gem literally 😢❤
I remember my first trip to Prague in 2004 - it was pouring with rain so we dived into the first restaurant we saw, had a nice 2 course meal with a beer and a coffee and a free shot of slivovitz...it was less than 600 koruna between 4 people! There were one room apartments for sale for 250,000 koruna, this was when the exchange rate was about 25 koruna to 1Pound Sterling. Prague is still relatively cheap if you avoid the tourist traps but Poland is the absolute bargain country to visit these days....
well, I was born and lived in PRG all my life (except few years abroad), and I can assure you that in 2004 you could not have lunch/dinner you describe for 600CZK for 4 people (may be main dishes), and definitely you could not buy 1 bed apartment for CZK250k :):)
In 2004, 1 bed apartment somewhere in the suburbs in a (undesirable) commie-built apartment concrete building was about CZK 1.5-2million .... I remember well, I started my professional career around that time, and I was eating & drinking out a lot, plus looking for an apartment to buy;)
I get that you felt it is 'extremely cheap' compared to Britain back then, but you sort of let your let memories be 'magnified'
@@letecmig Ah, I accept your local knowledge - maybe I missed a zero off that apartment sale sign :) It was still incredibly cheap though compared to UK...
@@Veaseify As somebody who lived in London for some time and bought a flat there..... I agree:):)
But when I bought flat in London and another in Prague at about the same time (2014,2016), the prices where not 'uncomparable' any more ...... the equivalent flat (same size, equivalent neighborhood- not 'posh', not undesirable, outside city center, but not outskirts) was like London was 3x more expensive than PRG...
Nowadays I assume (leaving London aside), real estate prices in PRG are higher than in most big cities in the UK of 'comparable' size as PRG (Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Necastle ..... but of course, PRG is PRG, can't compare to these cities re quality of life, culture,sights etc)
Have the prices gone up that extremely? I am staying in A&O Hostel/Hotels Hotelroom in early April for 5 nights with breakfast and only pay 129€ total ;-) The last time I stayed for a couple days was January 2019 and I had a really great AirBnB that cost me 105€ for 5 nights, pretty close to the center.
Hostels for 100€? Everyone says it’s that expensive in Prague. It’s cheap. Most of the 5* hotels are for 100£ a night including breakfast
Feeling barbie vibes in pink today, Valerie?
Prague has lost a lot of its magic since Covid. It was a leading touristic destination, but has fallen since. It focused on low prices, ironically, and people who are traveling Europe want quality, something Prague never focused on.
The overall costs of things has gone up, the quality has not. Prague did a lot in the past to extend the time of visitors, today Prague has fallen under two days.... Still, it feels like a tourist trap.
Prague was the cheapest city i ever been to, maybe its different from which valuta u have. But in Denmark u usally spend around /(1300DK) 4.177CZK for 2 persons, eating out. In prague for 2 u usally spend 2-300DK (1000CZK) and thats ''expensive'' in prague.
Other things like transport, museum and atractions are almost free, so i dont see how it is ever ''expensive'' to be in prague.
For what we paid for 1 week in prague, u cannot even get flight tickets to New york..
How many kroons do i need for 4 days?
I will be there in a few weeks. Note to self: Remember to watch your "How to Dress for Prague's AUTUMN Weather" video.....
I've in Prague twice, both times in mid September and both times the weather was still great. First time it was actually kind of hot and second time it was just fine. Note: I'm a person that absolutely hates hot weather, so maybe i'm easily satisfied with weather that others might experience as less good weather and I'm from the Netherlands, so basically everywhere in the world has better weather that what I'm used to 😂
@@bike-tyson-oak I hate hot weather, as well.
@waynezbytovsky1191 than in general you shouldn't worry too much about the weather in Prague 😀
Can I afford my vacation to anywhere?? Even across the street or a hotel in my own town??
No. No the hell I can’t.
Can I get away only paying in Euros instead Czech crowns??
wow, I used to live in Prague, but it was like 15yrs ago and those prices are really something else, I dont remember it was already so expensive few years back when Ive been there last time for more than few days, I guess its the covid and this inflation fun were going thru now that is mostly to blame for this upswing.
Czech hotels are overpriced generally, not only in Prague, but still better than Slovakia where you pay for nothing.
One night in a hotel 90 Euro - that is for two people?
Definitely not cheap, it is way more expensive than countries like Spain and Portugal.
500 to the AirPort? In your dreams
Just ordered three nights in Prague in September in the Old Town, and for a double room in the Old Town a hotel I paid 75 euros a night (that was the cheapest option for ok hotel that was central). Looking forward!
I live in NYC. Prague and is still cheap.
Much too fast cuts as if you were on speed. Please consider.
"eat pastries off a door" 😂 what are we homeless?
Prague is Cheap compared to London. I was in London from September 8-15 2019 and I spent $6,000. These includes Hotel Foods and Tours. So Expensive.
Prague is NOT cheap, still affordable.
Nothing anywhere is cheap anymore and never will be again. Accept that reality and plan for it. Maybe get out of bed before noon and get a job and save up for six months or a year lazy offs. It wont let me type the abusive word I want but you get what i wanted to say!
What are you talking about, Prague is VERY cheap compared to the rest of Europe
Why do you use euros as your non Czech money, when no English speaking people use it? Dollars or pounds would be more useful
Euro is used by more countries than dollar and pounds
@@samuelepollichemi exactly!
HAHAHAHHAHA
@@samuelepollichemi but not English speaking people. People who speak German, French, Spanish, Italian….. they all use euros, true. But no English speaking people
@@stroke_of_luck what language is the most widely spoken in Ireland?
And what is the most common language for people to use intentionally?
Waste of money go to Prague👎👎👎
Kutna Hora was cheaper. Average beer cost was about $1.35 USD compared to Prague about $3-$4 USD for 0.5L. A 10-15 minute Uber ride cost about $7 USD. That's easily $20 in ripoff usa. Overall, probably still more affordable than anywhere in the usa, the land where you're underappreciated, expendable, and overworked.