Prague

Four Seasons Hotel Prague

Old Town / Riverside

Prague's riverside grande dame, a cluster of historic buildings on the Old Town bank right beside Charles Bridge, with rooms looking straight across the Vltava to the castle, an Italian restaurant on the water and the polish that defines the brand.

Mandarin Oriental Prague

Malá Strana

A former Dominican monastery on a quiet lane in Malá Strana, turned into a serene luxury hotel with a spa in a Renaissance chapel, vaulted rooms and a garden courtyard, minutes from Charles Bridge and the castle steps.

Golden Well Hotel

Malá Strana / Castle

A small Renaissance house tucked against the castle walls, once owned by Emperor Rudolf II and home to the astronomer Tycho Brahe, with intimate rooms, a celebrated terrace restaurant and the red roofs of Malá Strana spread out below.

Aria Hotel Prague

Malá Strana

A music-themed boutique hotel in Malá Strana, where each room is dedicated to a composer or genre, with private access to the Baroque Vrtba Garden, a rooftop terrace in summer and the Lesser Town Square around the corner.

Hotel Paris Prague

Old Town / Náměstí Republiky

A 1904 landmark of neo-Gothic and Art Nouveau design opposite the Municipal House, with period-style rooms, a café and bar dripping with Belle Epoque detail, and the Old Town and the Powder Tower on the doorstep.

Hotel Josef

Old Town

A crisp design hotel by architect Eva Jiřičná on a quiet Old Town street, with glass and limestone bathrooms, a breakfast with pastries from its own bakery, a rooftop gym and sauna with views, and Old Town Square five minutes away.

Mosaic House

New Town / Charles Square

A sustainable design hotel and hostel in the New Town, with smart private rooms, en-suite dorms and a lively bar, a short walk from the river, the Dancing House and the National Theatre. Prague's best-value base with style.

U Medvídků Brewery Hotel

Old Town

Sleep above one of Prague's most famous beer halls: a historic Old Town house with Gothic rafters and painted Renaissance ceilings, its own tiny brewery, rooms for families and beer-themed rooms, and a buffet breakfast included, five minutes on foot from Old Town Square and Charles Bridge.

Jalta Boutique Hotel

New Town / Wenceslas Square

A 1950s landmark on Wenceslas Square, restored as a boutique hotel with period-style rooms looking towards the National Museum and the State Opera, a lobby staircase to a terrace over the square, and a secret Cold War fallout shelter beneath its cellars that now houses a museum.

Motel One Prague Florentinum

New Town / Náměstí Republiky

Smart, affordable design near Náměstí Republiky: compact rooms with king-size beds and rain showers, family rooms with a sofa bed, a lobby of Prague marionettes and a lounge bar lit by Bohemian crystal, with the Old Town and the Municipal House a few minutes' walk away.

Czech Inn

Vinohrady / Vršovice

Prague's best-known hostel-hotel hybrid, on the Vinohrady and Vršovice border: private en-suite rooms, apartments for up to five with full kitchens, pod beds and dorms for younger travellers, plus a bar, a cafe and a guest kitchen, in a neighbourhood full of locals' pubs.

Mama Shelter Prague

Holešovice

A playful, sociable design hotel in Holešovice near Letná Park: 238 rooms including connecting family rooms for four, a big all-day restaurant with a kids menu, a bar with DJs at weekends and a terrace, in an up-and-coming district of galleries, cafes and beer gardens.

OREA Hotel Andels Prague

Smíchov

A large, modern hotel in Smíchov with an unusually wide choice of family-sized rooms: triples, studios and apartments with kitchenettes, rooftop apartments and two-bedroom maisonettes, plus wellness and fitness, steps from Anděl metro and trams.

Hotel U Prince Prague by BHG

Old Town Square

A 24-room historic hotel right on Old Town Square, facing the Astronomical Clock, with antique-furnished rooms and family suites, a heated rooftop terrace with a 360-degree view of the spires, and Black Angel's Bar, a celebrated Prohibition-style cocktail cellar.

Hotel Monastery

Hradčany / Strahov

A small, romantic hotel in the former wash house of Strahov Monastery, in a quiet garden at the top of the castle district, with views over Prague Castle, Malá Strana and the Old Town, attic duplex rooms and a family room. The Strahov Library and the monastery brewery are steps away.

Prague Castle

The thousand-year seat of Bohemian kings and Czech presidents — a hilltop citadel of courtyards, palaces and churches crowned by St. Vitus Cathedral, with Golden Lane's tiny cottages tucked behind. The grounds are free; the main circuit ticket opens the cathedral, the Old Royal Palace and Golden Lane.

Old Town Hall and Astronomical Clock

The medieval orloj on the Old Town Hall has been tracking the sun, the moon and the hours since 1410, and every hour the apostles parade past its windows while Death rings his bell. Watch the show from the square, then climb the tower for the best view of Old Town Square's spires.

Charles Bridge

Prague's fourteenth-century stone bridge, lined with thirty Baroque saints and guarded by Gothic towers at each end. Crossing it is free and best at dawn; climb the Old Town Bridge Tower for the classic view of the bridge running toward the castle.

Jewish Quarter and Jewish Museum

Josefov's synagogues and the Old Jewish Cemetery form one of the most important Jewish heritage sites in Europe — the medieval Old-New Synagogue, the layered tombstones of the cemetery, and the Pinkas Synagogue's walls of Holocaust victims' names. One ticket covers the museum sites; closed Saturdays and Jewish holidays.

Vltava River Cruise

See Prague from the water: an hour or two gliding past the castle, under Charles Bridge and along the embankments, with the National Theatre's golden roof and the islands slipping by. The easiest way to rest your legs and still see the skyline, best at sunset or after dark.

Petřín Hill and Lookout Tower

Prague's own little Eiffel Tower crowns the wooded Petřín Hill, with a 360-degree view over the castle and the hundred spires. The funicular is back after a two-year closure, there is a mirror maze next door, and the rose gardens and orchards make the walk down a joy.

Kutná Hora and the Sedlec Ossuary

The medieval silver town an hour from Prague, with the soaring Gothic Cathedral of St. Barbara and the Sedlec Ossuary, the chapel decorated with the bones of tens of thousands of people. A UNESCO-listed day trip that is far more than its famous bone chandelier.

Český Krumlov Day Trip

A storybook Renaissance town wrapped in a loop of the Vltava, crowned by a castle with a painted tower and one of the best-preserved Baroque theatres in the world. A long day from Prague, but the most beautiful small town in Czechia.

Old Town Square

The heart of Prague since the Middle Ages: the twin Gothic spires of the Týn Church, the Baroque St. Nicholas, pastel palaces, the Jan Hus memorial and the Astronomical Clock, all around one cobbled square. Free, open at all hours, and home to the city's main Christmas market.

Malá Strana (Lesser Town)

The Baroque quarter between Charles Bridge and the castle: palace gardens, the green dome of St. Nicholas, steep Nerudova street, Kampa Island and the Čertovka channel, and the graffiti-covered Lennon Wall. Prague's most romantic neighbourhood, and free to wander.

Vyšehrad

Prague's other castle: a legend-filled fortress on a cliff above the Vltava, with ramparts to walk, the twin-spired basilica, and the cemetery where Dvořák, Smetana and Mucha lie. Free, peaceful, and the locals' favourite spot for a sunset.

Letná Park and Beer Garden

A green plateau above the river with the best view of Prague's bridges, a giant metronome where Stalin's statue once stood, and a sprawling beer garden under chestnut trees. Free, local and the city's favourite place to watch the sun go down with a pilsner.

Wenceslas Square and the National Museum

The grand boulevard of the New Town, where Czechoslovakia was proclaimed in 1918 and the Velvet Revolution was won in 1989, running up to the domed National Museum and the statue of St. Wenceslas. Free to walk, though the upper end is a building site until trams return in 2027.

Klementinum Baroque Library and Astronomical Tower

A guided route through the old Jesuit college beside Charles Bridge: a gilded Baroque library hall of frescoes, globes and leather-bound books, a Meridian Hall where astronomers once told noon, and a steep climb up the Astronomical Tower to one of the best rooftop views in the Old Town.

Lobkowicz Palace

The only privately owned building inside Prague Castle, home to a princely family collection of old master paintings, arms and armour and original Beethoven and Mozart manuscripts, with an audio guide narrated by the family and a cafe terrace overlooking the rooftops of Malá Strana.

Žižkov Television Tower

Prague's tallest structure, a 216-metre space-age tower with David Černý's giant crawling babies on its legs, an observation deck at 93 metres with the whole city laid out below, a restaurant in the sky and a single luxury suite. Open late every day, which makes it a good after-dark view.

Museum of Communism

A vivid, compact museum on V Celnici near Náměstí Republiky that walks you through four decades of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, from the 1948 takeover and the show trials to the crushing of the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution of 1989, using objects, film, propaganda and recreated rooms.

Terezín Memorial Guided Tour from Prague

A sobering half-day trip north of Prague to the fortress town the Nazis turned into a ghetto and transit camp, and to the Small Fortress, their Gestapo prison. A guided tour with transport makes the logistics simple and the history clear. Note that the Ghetto Museum closes for reconstruction from November 2026.

Prague Zoo

One of the best zoos in Europe, spread over a wooded hillside in Troja above the Vltava, with a gorilla rainforest pavilion modelled on Cameroon, an Indonesian jungle, elephants, giraffes, Komodo dragons and a chairlift up the slope. The top family day out in Prague.

Image Black Light Theatre

An evening of Prague's own art form: black light theatre, where performers dressed in black vanish against a black stage while glowing objects, dancers and puppets seem to float. Image, on Národní avenue near the National Theatre, mixes it with dance, pantomime and comedy, and needs no language at all.

Karlštejn Castle

The Gothic castle built by Emperor Charles IV to guard the crown jewels and his treasury of relics, rising in tiers above a wooded valley forty minutes by train from Prague. Guided tours only; in winter just the Imperial Residence tour runs, on a reduced weekend schedule.

Strahov Monastery and Library

A working Premonstratensian monastery at the top of Hradčany with two of the most beautiful library halls in the world, a cabinet of curiosities with fake basilisks and real cannonballs, a monastery brewery, and gardens with one of the finest views over Prague. A modest fee for the library; the grounds and views are free.

Loreta Pilgrimage Site

A Baroque pilgrimage complex in Hradčany built around a copy of the Holy House of Nazareth, with a carillon that plays a Marian hymn every hour, a Rococo church and a treasury whose star is the Prague Sun, a monstrance set with 6,222 diamonds. It marks its 400th anniversary in 2026.

St Nicholas Church Malá Strana

The finest High Baroque church in Prague, whose green dome dominates the Malá Strana skyline: a soaring interior of marble, gilding and illusionistic frescoes by the Dientzenhofer father and son, with organ concerts year-round. Entry costs a modest fee; the separate bell tower offers views.

Kampa Island and the Lennon Wall

A green island in the Vltava just below Charles Bridge, separated from Malá Strana by the narrow Čertovka stream and its mill wheels, with a riverside park, a modern art museum and, a few steps away, the graffiti-covered Lennon Wall. Free, and lovely at any time of day.

Municipal House

Prague's Art Nouveau masterpiece next to the Powder Tower, home of the Smetana concert hall, a Mucha-painted mayoral hall and a famous cafe. Walk in free to the cafe, restaurant and pub; join an hour-long guided tour for the ceremonial halls where Czechoslovakia was proclaimed in 1918.

Dancing House

Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunić's twisting glass-and-concrete building on the Vltava embankment, nicknamed Fred and Ginger, the icon of post-1989 Prague. Free to admire from the riverbank; inside are a gallery and a rooftop bar with a terrace looking over the river to the castle.

Náplavka Riverbank and Farmers Market

The lively lower embankment of the Vltava below the Dancing House, where Praguers gather on boats, benches and the old stone quay for beer, street food and sunsets. On Saturday mornings it hosts the city's best-known farmers market, with more than ninety stalls of Czech produce, food and drink.