Prague - Czech me out!
25th – 28th August
As usual by now, my arrival was in the morning at the Florenc bus station, in walking distance from Old Prague Hostel (reviewed as well). For those that been to
What’s to be said about
On one night I went on a pub crawl with some people from the hostel and had a great night with a hangover to remember. Btw I would like to say hello to Rose from England – wonderful and lovely girl, Bianca – one of the maddest Aussie I’ve ever met, the 2 Hawaiian girls who’s names escape me right now, the four Canadians and Dutch guy (who looked a bit “on something” every time) and also to the cute Argentinean girl from my room that had a sexiest Spanish-English accent ever. We all had great fun and lookin back right now I miss those days.
Positive things about
Nightlife is also very active and you’ll get plenty of clubs, pubs, bars and places to choose from. Go to a pub/restaurant U Vejvodu near the old town square, down on Jilska street. Great food and atmosphere and the prices are more than decent.
As for minuses I only got two. Beware with the money exchanging offices. Lots of them, especially in the old town area, are rip-offs. They show different rates depending on how much amount of money you exchange. You’ll get a sign on the street with a very good rate and printed below, with very small text, that those rates are applying only when you exchange, for example over 500 euros or maybe 1000.
And when you go inside and only exchange 50-100 euros you get worse rates. So my advice is to go to a bank and change it there, at least you’ll get decent rates. Also I’ve seen warning signs for tourists to be careful about some fake banknotes that they could get when exchanging money.
And like I said before, because of the large number of tourists, everywhere around the city centre, the atmosphere is a bit like of a McDonalds. So if you really want to get a bit of the local feeling you have to wonder a bit off the centre.
So that was
It’s a bit difficult to locate it at first because of all the narrow streets. Clean and quiet, not really a party place, but definitely a place to meet people always ready to go for a pub crawl and good times.
They give free breakfast in the morning as well and you’ll get all the facilities you’ll have at any decent hostel. Plus they have a music/dvd player - and it works like a jukebox, you can choose whatever you wanna listen/see.
Only one tiny thing I can reproach them: I had to pay in Czech kronas and they didn’t accept euros, so I had to leave my bags, get out and find an exchange and come back and pay, which is a wee bit frustrating after a long and tiresome trip.
They have 83% rating on Hostelworld.









