Introduction to Living Prague

 Welcome to an insider guide to the City of Prague. I'm English. I've lived here first as a tourist, then as a resident and my interest is in giving the visitor/researcher the best local knowledge and Prague travel advice, not making profits. The aim of this city guide is to take my experiences from living and working in Prague since 1996 and my knowledge of existing internet resources about the city and combine them into a Prague city travel guide with a unique tourist-turned-resident perspective. This city guide lists all my options for Prague hotels, Prague apartments, airport transfers, restaurants, bars, tour guides, tour companies and a lot more than that. Tourists, expats, students and business travellers have all benefited from travel advice in one or more areas of this site. It has that refreshingly honest "tell it like it is" approach that you don't find in your average Prague city guide.


What's different about this Prague City Guide?

Well for a start it makes a big difference to actually live here in Prague because as I use the city my Prague city guide reflects these experiences as they go into the webpage. I like to eat and drink, go to bars, restaurants, jazz clubs, take my kids to different Prague attractions, parks and museums, I use public transport, and I walk a lot etc. Does this sound familiar?

Well it's normally what a tourist would be doing. Normally the webpages you read are just re-hashes of the same old tourist info. My Prague city guide is independent, impartial, practical and importantly, up-to-date. The various pages are stuffed full of basic, time saving, money saving and practical information much of which you will not find in any existing published Prague guide either paper or online. I show you how to use "Czech language" resources to find what you want. Next time you visit a "Prague Travel Guide", ask yourself some questions:

1) did the travel guide have information that you had found nowhere else?
2) did you get the impression that the author had personal knowledge of Prague?
3) was it possible to contact the guide author (to ask a question or to get advice, not to book a room)?
4) could you find the homepage of the pension/hotel (rather than the booking service description)?

People have told me in the past that they don't read my Prague city travel guide, they explore it. It's the attention to detail that makes it different. Currently the most positive feedback is coming from the accommodation area. This lists many of the hotels in Prague (centre to 3km out of town). It seems that I am the only Prague guide offering it's own pension/hotel description with the option to see other independent comments from previous guests as well as publishing the actual hotel accommodation webpage (no booking agent ever publishes the real homepage because they are afraid that people will deal direct). I don't care, I just want people to get the facts and decide for themselves and then use one of the agents that advertise on this site to get the best deal.


What is new on the Living Prague city guide?
There are now 6 photo galleries and three trip travelogues containing more than 200 pictures of Prague and other recently added pages are;

Accommodation Introduction. Popular central areas of Prague and their hotel accommodation options including independent reviews and their actual homepage.
FREE walking tour. That's right! a free printable walking tour of central Prague.
Nightlife. The page now has instructions on how to use a local website to find exactly the club and music genre that you want.
Stag and Hen. A guide for people planning Prague Stag and Hen parties and other large groups.
Airport Terminal 2 description. The terminal is only for Schengen member countries.
Money and Exchange Rates. The page now has instructions for three online exchange rate calculators for cambio and bank rate comparison.
Don't Miss List. Shortlist of places to get to if you are not staying here very long.
European Insurance Card. How having this card proved invaluable in a medical emergency.

Most Recent Changes
Public Transport. Update for new 2008 DPP Tariffs and new DPP webpage links.
Airport. Description of the new Terminal North 2.
Old Town Square Hotels. New places added.
Prague Card. Prague Card details with updated prices and options for 2008.
Site Search. Site re-indexed for up-to-date searches.



Other guides and links

 Discover Czech
My Czech Republic
Expats.cz