Prague is best before nine. And again after dark.
Charles Bridge is empty at dawn and packed by ten. The castle courtyards fill with coach groups by eleven. At dusk the Vltava boats slide under the bridge arches and the beer halls fill up. Reviews of every Prague tour worth fitting around that clock.
Charles Bridge is empty at dawn and packed by ten. At dusk the river boats slide under its arches. Reviews of every Prague tour worth timing right.
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IXFour Prague bookings that make a first visit.
Both banks of the river on foot, an hour on the water, the Jewish Town and the bone chapel at Kutná Hora.
01Day one, on foot3-Hour Walking Tour of Old Town & Prague CastleOld Town Square, Charles Bridge and up through Malá Strana to the castle in three hours. Book the morning departure.
02The first evening50-Minute Sightseeing Evening CruiseFifty minutes on the Vltava as the castle lights come on. The cheapest way to see the whole skyline at once.
03The Jewish TownJewish Quarter Walking Tour with Admission TicketsThe synagogues and the Old Jewish Cemetery, with the entry tickets folded in. Not on a Saturday.
04The day outKutna Hora UNESCO Site Tour with Bone ChapelSt Barbara’s cathedral and the Sedlec bone chapel, an hour east of the city by road.
Hradčany or Staré Město first? Prague’s two halves, priced.
The castle sits on the hill on the left bank; the Old Town and its clock fill the right. Most visitors try both in one day and see neither properly. Pick a half, then book the way in.
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 8,927 reviewsPrague Castle 2.5-Hour Tour Including Admission Ticketfrom $57
Castle hill with a guideSt Vitus, the Old Royal Palace and Golden Lane before the courtyards fill.
The Old Town and the clockThe square, the Orloj on the hour and the lanes down to Charles Bridge.
Josefov, the Jewish TownThe synagogues and the cemetery where the graves stand twelve deep.
Under the Old TownThe Romanesque ground floors buried when the streets were raised.
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The Vltava is how Prague looks best: from below the bridges.
An hour on the river puts the castle, Charles Bridge and the Rudolfinum in one frame, and dinner boats run until late. Pick by length: fifty minutes for the view, three hours for the meal.
The Czechs invented the golden lager. Prague still pours it best.
Tank beer in a vaulted hall, a tasting cellar under Malá Strana, svíčková with bread dumplings, and the train to Pilsen where the brewing started in 1842. Book the tasting, then stay for the second round.
What visitors to Prague book more than anything else.
Every Prague tour →River cruises, castle tickets and medieval dinners lead the list. Here is what earns each its place.
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50-Minute Sightseeing Evening Cruise
Board at Pier 4 for a 50-minute evening cruise past the Rudolfinum, Charles Bridge, Kampa Island and Prague Castle. Choose the open deck for photos or the air-conditioned cabin for shelter. Audio commentary is available in Czech, English and German, with a printed guide in 16 languages and an app in 13.
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
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Castle Tour with Local Guide and Entry Ticket
from $61
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Prague Castle 2.5-Hour Tour Including Admission Ticket
from $57
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Oldtown, Medieval Underground & Dungeon History Tour
from $30
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Vltava River Night Cruise with Buffet
from $81
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Panoramic Vltava River Cruise
from $16
Bohemia starts an hour past the Prague ring road.
All the day trips out of Prague →A bone chapel, a river-loop town under its castle, a spa town of colonnades, the brewery behind every pilsner, the sandstone gorges on the Saxon border and the wartime ghetto at Terezín.
Three Prague-area visits you will not find anywhere else.
A chapel decorated with forty thousand skeletons, a medieval town buried under the one you walk through, and a Cold War shelter still under the city.
The Bone Chapel
Earth from Golgotha was scattered over the Sedlec cemetery in the thirteenth century, and burials there became so sought after that the bones had to go somewhere. A woodcarver named František Rint arranged them in 1870: garlands, a coat of arms, and a chandelier that uses every bone in the human body.
- 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
The Buried Old Town
The Vltava flooded the Old Town so often that from the thirteenth century the streets were raised by several metres. Whole ground floors became cellars, and the Romanesque vaults are still down there, under the shops on the square. Tours go in through ordinary doorways.
- 1Oldtown, Medieval Underground & Dungeon History Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 8,244 reviews
- 2Ghosts, Legends, Medieval Underground & Dungeon Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 · 5,104 reviews
- 3Prague Old Town, Medieval Underground and Dungeon Historical Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 3,227 reviews
The Nuclear Bunker
In the 1950s Prague dug shelters under its hills for a war that never came, and some still hold their gas masks, bunks and ventilation machinery. The tours pair a bunker visit with forty years of daily life under the party.
- 1Communism History and Nuclear Bunker Guided Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 2,417 reviews
- 2Prague Communism History and Nuclear Bunker Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,742 reviews
- 3Communism & Nuclear Bunker Tour + 70s Canteen Lunch (own expense)★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,036 reviews
Four Prague visits that run on their own timetable.
Most of the city can be booked the night before. These four keep their own hours, and turning up at the wrong one costs you the visit.
- 01Jewish Quarter Walking Tour with Admission TicketsThe Jewish Museum sites close on Saturdays and on Jewish holidays. Plan Josefov for any other day.
- 02Klementinum Library & Astronomical Tower Guided TourThe Baroque library hall is shown only on guided tours that leave at set times through the day.
- 03Castle Tour with Local Guide and Entry TicketSt Vitus Cathedral opens to visitors only from midday on Sundays, after morning Mass.
- 04Pilsner Urquell Brewery Tour with Beer TastingBrewery tours leave at fixed hours, each in one language. The English departures sell first.
Prague is cheap until you sit down to dinner on a boat.
Every tour on the site, sorted by what it costs a head. Walks and tower tickets stay low; dinner cruises and day trips into Bohemia climb fast.
Tower tickets, ghost walks, short river cruises and the concerts in Baroque chapels.
Guided castle mornings, medieval banquets, Kutná Hora and Karlovy Vary by minibus.
Private guides, Czech food crawls with a dozen tastings and the long day to the sandstone gorges.
Prague in winter: dark by four, and the city moves indoors.
From November to February the light goes mid-afternoon and the wind off the Vltava bites. Prague has the answer under its roofs: string quartets in Baroque chapels, the vaults under the Old Town, a museum per street and a beer hall on every corner.
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