Prague fits in a weekend. Deciding what to book does not.
Which castle ticket actually skips the queue. What an hour on the Vltava costs at dusk. Whether Kutna Hora or Cesky Krumlov is the better day out of the city. Reviews of every tour you can book in Prague.
The Old Town walk, a cellar dinner, a castle town on a river bend.
Four bookings a first trip to Prague tends to hang off. What each one costs, and what the travellers who took it say.
01Morning one3-Hour Walking Tour of Old Town & Prague CastleOld Town Square to the castle gates on foot, over Charles Bridge while the statues still have room around them.
02The cellar nightMedieval Dinner with Unlimited DrinksFive courses in a vaulted cellar with the jug refilled all night. Book an early sitting and walk it off along the embankment.
03South for a dayFull-Day Trip to Český KrumlovCesky Krumlov, three hours south, where the Vltava loops right around a castle town. One coach, early, back after dark.
04The Czech idea of a spaBernard Beer Spa with Beer and Massage OptionAn hour in a wooden tub of warm malt and hops with your own tap at your elbow. It reads like a joke until you try it.
In Prague the beer is the cheapest thing on the table.
Tank pilsner in a hall that has poured it for six hundred years, a cellar crawl through the Old Town lanes, ninety minutes west to the brewery that named the style. Four ways to spend an evening on it, and what each one costs.
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · Pilsner Urquell Experience & Beer Tasting
Brewery tours and tastingsTank pilsner, a cellar or two, a guide who orders for you.
Pub crawlsFour or five bars in a night, drinks included, a club at the end.
Beer spasA hot tub of malt and hops with an unlimited tap beside it.
The Pilsen day tripThe original pilsner cellars, unfiltered, straight from the oak.
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Old Town below, castle above, Charles Bridge in between.
Everything in the Old Town →
The Old Town is flat, dense and free to wander. The castle is a hill, a queue and a ticket. Almost every first day in Prague is some version of joining the two, and these three carry more travellers than anything else in the city.
Skip-the-line entry, or a guide
The plain ticket covers St Vitus, the Old Royal Palace and Golden Lane. A guide is what turns a row of rooms into a thousand years of Bohemian argument, and gets you past the security line at the gate.
Six synagogues and a stacked cemetery
Josefov holds the oldest working synagogue in Europe and a burial ground stacked twelve graves deep, because the quarter was never allowed to spread outwards. One ticket covers the lot.
The cellars below the Old Town
The whole Old Town was raised a storey to keep the Vltava out of it, so the ground floors became cellars. Tours drop into them, and into the dungeon under the Old Town Hall.
The Prague days out more people book than anything else.
Every Prague tour we have reviewed →One evening cruise, one castle ticket and one medieval feast run away with this city’s booking sheets. Here is what earns each of them the slot.
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50-Minute Sightseeing Evening Cruise
Take a 50-minute evening cruise from Pier 4 along Prague’s Vltava River. You’ll see Charles Bridge, Prague Castle, Rudolfinum, Petřín Tower, and Straka Academy from the water, with indoor seating, an open deck, onboard drinks, Wi-Fi, and guide options in several languages.
From · $21
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Medieval Dinner with Unlimited Drinks
from $75
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Skip-the-line Castle Ticket and Optional AudioGuide
from $35
4
Castle Tour with Local Guide and Entry Ticket
from $61
5
Prague Castle 2.5-Hour Tour Including Admission Ticket
from $57
6
Oldtown, Medieval Underground & Dungeon History Tour
from $30
7
Vltava River Night Cruise with Buffet
from $81
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Panoramic Vltava River Cruise
from $16
South Bohemia, a chapel of bones, and sandstone arches on the German border.
Prague sits within two or three hours of a castle town inside a river loop, a spa valley of pastel colonnades, a silver town with an ossuary under it and the rock country the Romantics painted. Six day trips, and the best way to do each.
Half of Prague’s skyline only lines up from the river.
The bridges, the castle and the whole spired skyline line up from a boat deck, and the boats cost less than lunch. Fifty minutes at dusk, a glass-roofed lunch run, or a jazz band and dinner after dark.
A day in Prague, priced from the cheap end up.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. Prague is one of the last European capitals where a genuinely good day out still lands under the price of dinner at home.
Old Town walks, tower tickets, the short river cruises and a night out on the beer.
Guided castle days, dinner cruises, food tours and most of the coaches out of the city.
Private guides, small-group trips to the sandstone country and the once-a-trip splurges.
Prague does its best work once the streetlights come on.
Ghost stories in the lanes behind the Old Town Square, a chamber quartet in a mirrored chapel, black light theatre that has run since the sixties, and a hall where the beer does not stop until you say so.
Every Prague evening out →
Three things that only happen in Bohemia.
Old squares and chamber concerts run right across Central Europe. A bath of warm beer, a stage lit only in ultraviolet, and a chapel furnished with forty thousand people’s bones do not.
The Beer Bath
You sit in a wooden tub of warm water, hops, malt and yeast, with an unlimited tap at your elbow and a bed of straw to lie on afterwards. Czechs drink more beer a head than anyone on earth and have treated it as a mineral bath since the monasteries brewed it. Sessions run about an hour and are sold by the tub, not by the head.
- 1Bernard Beer Spa with Beer and Massage Option★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 4,164 reviews
- 2Caroline Bernard Beer Spa Prague with Beer & Massage Option★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 283 reviews
- 3Beer Spa Experience with Unlimited Beer and Sauna★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 · 190 reviews
Black Light Theatre
A Prague invention from the early sixties: performers dressed in black against black velvet, with only the ultraviolet-painted props lit, so objects float and bodies vanish mid-stage. There is no dialogue, which is part of why it filled theatres through the decades when there were things you could not say out loud.
- 1WOW Show Black Light Theater★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 3,990 reviews
- 2Skip the Line: WOW Show Black Light Theater in Prague Ticket★★★★★★★★★★ 3.5 · 251 reviews
- 3Prague ‘Antologia’ Black Light Show by Black Light Theatre Srnec★★★★★★★★★★ 3.5 · 109 reviews
The Bone Chapel at Sedlec
A half-blind monk stacked the bones of the plague dead under this chapel in the sixteenth century. Three hundred years later a woodcarver arranged some forty thousand of them into a chandelier, a coat of arms and four bells of skulls. It sits in Sedlec, on the edge of the old silver town, and most trips pair the two.
- 1Kutna Hora UNESCO Site Tour with Bone Chapel★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 1,917 reviews
- 2Kutná Hora, St.Barbara’s Church, Sedlec Ossuary★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 · 673 reviews
- 3Day Trip to Kutná Hora by train from Prague★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 587 reviews
Four Prague bookings that will not wait.
Most of this city can be arranged over breakfast. These four run on fixed sittings, one departure a day and calendars that take no interest in when your flight lands.
- 01Medieval Dinner with Unlimited DrinksOne or two sittings a night in a cellar with a fixed number of tables. Weekend seats go first.
- 02Bernard Beer Spa with Beer and Massage OptionA bathhouse has only a handful of tubs and they are sold by the hour, to one party at a time.
- 03Full-Day Trip to Český KrumlovThree hours each way, so the coach leaves once, early. Miss it and the day is gone.
- 04Entry Ticket Classical Concert at the Mirror ChapelConcert dates are set weeks ahead and the best rooms in Prague seat a couple of hundred people.
Prague in the wet, and in the four o’clock winter dark.
The rain arrives in summer and the light goes by four in December. Both have the same answer: go under the streets, into a concert room, or somewhere warm with a tap on the wall. Half of this city’s best hours are indoors anyway.
By place: the quarters, and the towns beyond
By kind of day: on foot, on the water, on two wheels or on the beer
Old Town, the bridge, the castle, Josefov, and a boat at dusk.
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