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Going with some mates for a week and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or recommendations for things to do? Also I know Czech beer is awesome (Staropramen and Budvar) but do they brew a Weisse there or is that a Germany thing? |
Anyone been to Prague?
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Slurmseh 2,848 posts
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Slurmseh 2,848 posts
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Registered 14 years agoHmm, maybe I should point out that I'm Irish. When I say I want things to do, it basically means where do I go to drink! -
BartonFink 35,268 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThere is an Irish bar right in Wenceslas square.
Normally I would recommend trying the local fare ... Czech republic is an exception ... they fucking boil everything.
Beautiful city. Enjoy. -
warlockuk 19,519 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIf you fancy a dark beer, I can recommend Kelt.
Also, one of the walks they do is basically a glorified pub crawl, so you might wanna go on the pub walk. -
BartonFink wrote:
Normally I would recommend trying the local fare ... Czech republic is an exception ... they fucking boil everything.
Not true! Roast pork, sauerkraut and dumplings is the perfect meal for before, during, or at the end of a piss-up! -
DaM 17,729 posts
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Registered 20 years agolucky_jim wrote:
BartonFink wrote:
Normally I would recommend trying the local fare ... Czech republic is an exception ... they fucking boil everything.
Not true! Roast pork, sauerkraut and dumplings is the perfect meal for before, during, or at the end of a piss-up!
+1 - avoid the tourist traps, and if you get handed a menu in English in a locals haunt with burgers and stuff, there will be a different local menu - a phrase book should get you through it.
Avoid Wenceslas Square (especially the Irish bar!) unless you want to pay 2-3 times the price of beer- spread out from the centre a bit. We found a great beer cellar place - underground, totally basic, big long tables, served 2 drinks (lager and dark), when you were finished one, they brought you another without asking. God knows where it was. I don't think it had a name....
This was 10 years ago right enough....might all be one big tourist trap now! -
smoothpete 37,743 posts
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Registered 17 years agoOoo yeah I can recommend an awesome beer place, it's a microbrewery / beer hall / food type place. It's not too far from Wenceslas sq, it's awesome. You can buy beer ny the giraffe, which is a huge tall jug with a tap on the bottom, think you get about 6 pints in there. they have some excellent beers. Highly recommended. I'll ask my mates and see if they remember the name of it, will post again later -
smoothpete 37,743 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIt's called Pivovarský dům, on the corner of Jecna and Lipova streets, up the road from Karlova Nemesti metro station -
DaM 17,729 posts
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Registered 20 years agosmoothpete wrote:
It's called Pivovarský dům, on the corner of Jecna and Lipova streets, up the road from Karlova Nemesti metro station
That might be the place I was talking about, but with a serious makeover!
If you want something different and depressing to do, there is a "model" concentration camp about 20 miles for Prague, Terezín. It was a fortified town the Nazis shipped Jews into - they used to tart it up and let the Red Cross visit to show how nice concentration camps really were. -
smoothpete 37,743 posts
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Registered 17 years agoNah it's not underground, it's street level with big windows. But I think we went to the place you're referring to -
JohnnyWashnGo 1,544 posts
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Registered 17 years agoWent there a few years ago - great place, plenty to see and do but my memory of it is shocking. Sorry. -
I actually used to live there, but I'd go drinking with my Czech friends (I was gonna say "Czech mates" but decided that was too obvious) in the locals' places, often in the suburbs, so I don't have too much advice to give to visitors. The locals' pubs are outrageously inexpensive, and they tend to close only when there's nobody left to serve. I remember this one place in Prošek, the suburb I was staying in, that had around fifty arcade machine from the 1980s, quality Czech lager of course, and bar staff who sold weed from behind the bar (this was about ten years ago when I saw that as a good thing). Happy times!
Oh, and Czech girls are mostly hawt. -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoIf you can't find a place to get drunk in Prague you are either tied up in a coffin or plain dumb. If you want cheapish local food close to the center of town I recommend a restaurant right next to the hostel u Bubenicku seen here
They have a lunch menu on weekdays but it is all inczech. The staff translated it for us though. The restaurant is just a stones throw from the famous Dancing House -
figgis 7,721 posts
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Registered 16 years agoDon't go in Rocky O'Reilys pub it's quite possibly the roughest pub in Europe. -
Are you really only going for a piss-up? So many people do this, and it's a shame because Prague is a beautiful city. I'm sure you wouldn't regret it if you took some time to see the sights. -
Scurrminator 9,045 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI can't remember what it was, but we went into this club that had loads of different floors.
Went underground and everything.
At the bottom there was a nightclub where you could dance while strippers diddled themselves in the ass all around the edge -
All of the strippers are stunning, and dead inside, so they'll let you put a finger up their bum.
^^ pretty sure that was an observation previously made here? Never been myself (but tempted if this is true) -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agomouse wrote:
Are you really only going for a piss-up? So many people do this, and it's a shame because Prague is a beautiful city. I'm sure you wouldn't regret it if you took some time to see the sights.
I'm a bit torn about Prague for this reason. It is littered with drunk idiots. It's as if they are hell bent on becoming "Amsterdam of the East". I prefer Budapest to Prague. -
DaM 17,729 posts
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Registered 20 years agoTonka wrote:
mouse wrote:
Are you really only going for a piss-up? So many people do this, and it's a shame because Prague is a beautiful city. I'm sure you wouldn't regret it if you took some time to see the sights.
I'm a bit torn about Prague for this reason. It is littered with drunk idiots. It's as if they are hell bent on becoming "Amsterdam of the East". I prefer Budapest to Prague.
Yup, I don't really fancy going back. We went in November, it was fairly quiet - even back then, i heard terrible stories of how busy it was in the summer.
Do they still have the Hall of Mirrors thing on the top of the hill? My (now) wife gave me a WTF look when I suggested going in, but after declared it to be the best 20p she had ever spent. They should have that on a board outside. -
X201 22,150 posts
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Registered 16 years agoTonka wrote:
mouse wrote:
Are you really only going for a piss-up? So many people do this, and it's a shame because Prague is a beautiful city. I'm sure you wouldn't regret it if you took some time to see the sights.
I'm a bit torn about Prague for this reason. It is littered with drunk idiots. It's as if they are hell bent on becoming "Amsterdam of the East". I prefer Budapest to Prague.
There was a report on the Beeb about it a couple of weeks ago, they're clamping down on the stag weekends and drunken prats. Putting beer prices up, closing dodgy clubs etc.
Will try to find a link. -
That's good to hear. -
smoothpete 37,743 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAll the places that we went to, stags basically got refused entry, or refused service, which was brilliant. -
Mageme 2,330 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI'm heading out there tomorrow! ;D -
X201 22,150 posts
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Registered 16 years agoCouldn't find the link I wanted, but the fourth section of the first one will cheer you up a bit - yay for the credit crunch \o/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7875415.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8185159.stm -
phycus 326 posts
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Registered 13 years agoLast time I was there the cheapest place to get a pint was on the palace side of the river. A few local pubs on that side were doing pints for Ł1+, on the tourist side (charle square?) you pay a lot more.
Theres a 6 level club next to one of the bridges (if it is still there) taxi should know the place sorry name escapes me, go there late as its dead before 11. Loads of different styles, though when i was there the 80s room was packed and strange. Girls on one side, blokes on the other - like a school dance or something. Don't let that put you off, girls are hot and its relatively a good night out.
Anyway watch out at the strip joints, usual eastern europe shite - girls ask you buy them a drink, they come back with expensive champagne that you are charged for etc (riga was the worst for that). -
figgis 7,721 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThe massive 6 level club is next to the main bridge (names escape me). Any club with its own well and Techno floor in an empty swimming pool is OK by me. -
Slurmseh 2,848 posts
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Registered 14 years agoYeah I've heard of that club, the hostel I'm staying is like a five minute walk from the place. We're right in Old Town which I'm told is expensive enough (for Prague) but I'm sure the prices will seem cheap to me after being ripped off in Ireland for so long! -
LockeTribal 4,740 posts
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Registered 14 years agoConveniently enough, I'm going to Prague at the start of next month .gif)
Oddly enough I'm also Irish, not going with the lads though, first holiday abroad with my gf so looking for any recommendations on good places to go and see, decent restaraunts and nightclubs, that kinda thing.
I was also wondering how much money I would need to bring with me, so if anyone has any ideas on that it'd be pretty helpful. We're only gonna be there 5 days though, so shouldn't need too much, right? -
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Oddly enough I'm also Irish, not going with the lads though, first holiday abroad with my gf so looking for any recommendations on good places to go and see, decent restaraunts and nightclubs, that kinda thing.Sometimes posts may contain links to online retail stores. If you click on one and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. For more information, go here.
