City of culture! (Transport in Prague)

Member Name: elcampnordas

Product:	Transport in Prague
Date:	05/08/01 (179 review reads)
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Advantages: Quick, Easy, Cheap

Disadvantages: sometimes a little to quick

Prague is a magical place and a cheap place to visit. In getting around Prague it really couldn’t be easier. First of all when you get there ‘do not!’ buy the tickets that last you an hour they are a waste of your money and time. Go straight for the daylong travel passes. I bought one the would have lasted me 15 days on any transport when I’m in or around Prague and that cost me 280Kc = about £5. That gave me the full use of the Trams, Buses, and the Metro I also heard that this could also be used for a type of river transport that I never managed to try.

As well as being cheap it’s very easy to use. Directions and signs are plastered everywhere and all transport types run really effectively. Not like England where you can be waiting for up to half an hour. Metros run on average every 7-8 minutes and they take about 50 seconds to a minute to travel between stations.

METRO STATIONS

Getting into the Metro stations can be quite daunting for some people as they do travel to quite a depth underground. The escalators are huge absolutely massive and do travel at a fair space so watch yourself. I myself have never seen any sticky accidents with the as yet but I’m guessing they have had problems.

Watch out for pickpockets, when getting on or off and travelling up the escalators these are prime times for your belongings to be pinched. Basically from above it looks like herding sheep.

Getting on the things as a large group can cause havoc there has been many a time where people have missed the doors getting on or off, when we went as a group and getting lost in Prague is not a particularly brilliant idea.

Metro lines have to motions stopped and belting it. So once on board one of these for the first time grab something metal. Or line your feet up as if you were going to be surfing. And Brace!

They are good in that they will tell you like all other modes of transportation what the
next stop they are arriving at.

TRAMS

Follow all the instructions with Metro Stations apart from travelling deeper underground they may not help trying to catch a Tram.

BUSES

Bus timetables in Prague are so easy to read a lot like the Tram timetables. If you know the destination of which you are travelling to then you simply need to look through the different buses then scroll across at the hour period you are currently in.

Buses like Trams and Metro lines still adopt the time and punctuality rule if you’re running for a bus. ‘They will not wait!’ And once on them grab the nearest thing that will be able to support you whilst the bus driver is trying to handbrake turn corners or accelerating like a dragster.

One key element to remember when travelling on a bus is when now getting on. Walk through the front door of the bus and flash your ticket at the driver if you have not already punched it with the electronic device you will find on all the buses and trams, and the metro in Prague.

DESTINATIONS

If you want to travel to the biggest to my knowledge shopping centre in Prague they make you way to the yellow metro line and get off at Namesti Republiky. There you should find a rather flash restaurant, and a shopping centre about 6 stories large full of everything from clothes to gadgets to sports equipment.

If you wanna get to Old Town Square then get to the Green Metro line and get of at Staromestska. From exiting the station you should be able to see the Tyn Church, you’ll be able to recognise this by the many spires it has on its roof.

If for some reason you are missing Tesco’s. Or you need to do your shopping there then get on the yellow or green metro lines and make your way to Mustek. But when reaching mustek make sure that you exit the station via the yellow mustek station otherwise you won’t have a clue where you are.

Green will
put you buy dunking doughnuts, and yellow by Tesco’s.

From staromestska if you trek back to the river and take a left this will take you to Charles’s Bridge, which is one of the most beautiful things I believe you can walk across.

Anyway good travelling and don’t hesitate to email me about Prague as I am going for the forth time next year. Cause I’m totally in love with the place.

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