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Hi all – I have just booked a short break (just three nights) in Prague for my family this summer. Apart from the obvious (the castle and a boat cruise), can anyone recommend stuff that will be of interest to a family (with two 17 yr old girls). I love the idea of one of the underground tours, but my wife is claustrophobic so that probably wouldn't work.
Thank you!
The national museum is enormous, so seeing everything might be a bit much, but we really enjoyed the history of the 20th century exhibition for an hour or two.
We also did a guided food tour when we were there that was really good, started and finished near the beach where people feed and take photos of the Nutria (water rats)
make sure you do your homework on the boat cruises then, we did one spur of the moment and it was garbage, just under the charles bridge a couple of times to the breakwater, dont know how they dared call it a cruise 😀
obviously do the old square with the astronomical clock, then we preferred the area just over the bridge, mala strana, and the prices are more reasonable there.
maybe a walk down to the franz kafka rotating head too, and a photo by the 'crawling babies' statues.
Food, Wine 'o' Clock - fabulous tapas, with manager's choice of wine with courses. Tiny place, fabulous. Book in advance. Take cash. Deer Restaurant, excellent - we stayed in the hotel and ate here one night !
Obviously you need to eat some goulash. We walked about 50 miles over 5 days just exploring.
Staropramen have their main brewery on the west side of the river (Andel district), they do tours and tasting there.
Use the trams to get around, they're frequent, cheap and reliable. Do a bit of research beforehand on buying tickets / passes etc.
Watch it as you come out of the airport, you get the usual touts and scammers offering to change money or give you "special price" taxi rides into the city. The 119 bus from right in front of Arrivals takes you direct to the end of the metro line for about £1.70 and from there you get the metro into town.