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Trains Brno
8 Reviews Brno is served by trains from Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade, Prague, and Germany, as well as inter city trains from Ostrava, Pardubice and other Czech cities. There are also local trains to towns...
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Busses Brno
11 Reviews There are 4 buses per day with Student Agency from Vienna Lasalle strasse / Praterstern (about € 6, to Prag about € 12) and Vienna Airport (about € 9,50) to Brno. Online booking is a bit...
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Trams MHD Brno
7 Reviews Use 'salina' (tram) to get around Brno. The best are the old roundish ones (look a bit like dragged from a scrap)- the newer, cubic trams, don't have the feeling and I dislike them. They are like...
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7 Reviews I have ordered a Brno taxi and transport company Brno-transport from Viena airport to Brno and their service was really good. The driver spoke english, I had drink free and I could pay by a credit...
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Air travel Brno
4 Reviews Brno's airport, recently modernised is about 7kms from Brno centre. Forget a taxi, there is a half hourly bus service from Turany to Brno hln (main station). The bus number is 76 and it takes about...
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The bus trip from the airport to the city center takes 30 minutes from the moment you leave the airport to the moment you pop your head out of the subway. So if you have a 5 hour layover or more in Prague on your way to/from other destinations, visit the city. I had a 6 hour layover both ways from Beirut to New York and back and I had a great time seeing the city. I got a nice feel for the city and saw some beautiful sites.
Don´t take a taxi unless you arrive in the night and can´t wait on the airport. For a taxi you will pay at least USD 40,-, probably even more.Use the city-transport instead, it is not difficult:There is a City-Bus-station at the airport (signs visible, you can´t miss it). Directly at the bus-station there is an automat for sale of tickets (english instruction available on the machine) buy here a ticket for CZK 26,- (less than USD 2,-) and wait for bus no. 119 (first one coming daily on 4.18AM last one shortly after midnight). Mark your ticket (which is than valid for your whole journey) inside and go with this bus up to its terminal called "Dejvická" it takes 20-25 minutes. Than follow the majority of other passangers and go down to the tube, line "A" and than to the station called "Mustek" or the next one - "Muzeum". Both stations are directly in the city-centre (on Vaclavske namesti)....
Entrance the towns in the Czech Republic you can see the label with name of each village/town. But that label doesn't mean only the name for this or that town.It also says, that you should slow-down. If traffic signs don't display another speed limit, the speed in town is max. 50 km/h / 31 mph.
If you go to Karlovy Vary ( Karlsbad, Charlie's bath, whatever ), take the kladno express bus from Florenc station. The train to Karlovy is hell. In fact most Czech trains suck compared to their buses. If you rent a car in another country, make sure the contract does not exclude Chechia, and if you drive on Chechia's private autobahns, make darned sure your mietwagen ( rental car ) has an autobahn sticker glued to its windscreen. Get one with a locking gas cap. If a local can siphon 3 gallons of gas out of your tank, he has made a day's wages. See my Prague transportation tip about the highways and biways of the country.
Prague is a pretty big city and in order to get the best out of it, transportation is important. If you seem like a tourist taxis will try to over charge you maybe even three times what it actually is. be careful, plus the metro and subway are rarely checked for tickets. make sure not to get lost because Czech language is extremely difficult, but any homeless person can help you out (Some know up to 9 languages).
When traveling from city to city in the main roads make sure that you buy an auto bahn pass. I am not sure the exact name of it but I am sure you can buy them at you certain gas stations, also right when you cross the boarder they have an area where you can buy one. I was driving back to Germany and about 20 minutes from the border I was pulled over for speeding. I then had to pay a fine for speeding and one for not having the pass. Finally after paying the fines I try and get back in to Germany and they fine me again at the border crossing. My friends and I are pretty sure that they first cops called ahead and let them know we where coming because they knew what was up right away. So at the end of the day my friends and I ended up buying these guys dinner and beer for the rest of the month, they just took our money and gave us no recite.
When we decided to rent a car in Prague we contacted Vecar; a company recommended in the Lonely Planet Guide to Eastern Europe. We had booked the car for 26 days six months in advance and at 9:30pm on the night before we were to collect the car we were hit with a bombshell. Evidently the car we were to receive had been involved in an accident and, not only was it not available, but the company had no other vehicle to offer us and could not even recommend another car rental agency. Luckily our landlady spoke Czech and English and found us a replacement car but the outcome could have been a whole lot less satisfactory. We were really stressed out by the experience at the time.
Last year i was in Czech Republic for two weeks with my own car.The style of driving there is that they drive as fast as possible, but when they reach a village (or even one house) they limit there speed promptly. When there's a chance to overtake you a Czech won't omit it.The highways are very good asphalted, but when you leave them you will find roads with holes of 30 cm.
The popular Czech bus company (Student Agency) which is a well-kept secret in Praha now has busses from Budapest to Praha. Their web site in Hungary is about to start (Nov. 8, 2006). The tickets from Budapest to Praha can be also bought in person. The address is:Cseh és Szlovák Utazási IrodaH-1132 Budapest VISEGRÁDI UTCA 66.Tel:06-1 270 23-34Fax: 06-1 270 23-35Email: info@cseh-szlo.huThe price going from Budapest to Praha is 3000 Forint (about 11 Euro) for adults, children pay 50%, students with ISIC 85%, seniors or people under 26 90%The schedule (2 busses every day) is here:http://www.cseh-busz.hu/hu/143_153/Csehország%20Prága%20Student%20Agency%20_Menetrend%20(Magyarország)%20Budapest%20-%20Pozsony%20(Szlovákia)%20-%20Brno%20-%20Prága%20(Csehország)-%20Brno%20-%20PozsonyThe bus in the morning departing Budapest at 9:15, arriving Praha 17:00The bus in the evening departing Budapest at...
The Czech Republic has a huge train systems.Euro City train connections to the neighbouring countries are fery freuquent.For timetable information see the hp.Check if it is worth buying the "Karta Z" see my Czech Deals.
Aria Hotel Prague
7 Reviews and 584 Opinions innovative musical theme, great location in Mala Strana, except that it is nextdoor to the American...
Grandhotel Brno Brno
8 Reviews and 102 Opinions I have never stayed in this hotel, but i would like to. It has a good reputation and it is located...
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Reviews and photos of Czech Republic attractions posted by real travelers and locals. The best tips for Czech Republic sightseeing.
Q: Recently on a travelers documentry they shot a lot of footage of the town square and I noted many tables with large umbrella,s...
A: Likely just the restaurant using outdoor sidewalk space during the summer months. I remember having a nice meal at one of these places in Kutna Hora, as well as many...
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