Prague

Pros: The single most gorgeous city view I've ever seen
Cons: The center is a tourist funnel.

Prague was our last big fling before we moved back to the States from Europe. It was a city that had been on our endless list of places we wanted to see while living on the continent, despite a few grumblings and caveats we'd heard from certain friends ...

Pros: Beautiful city, great beer.
Cons: Average food, locals understandably annoyed with you as a foreigner if you're under 30.

I have to admit that I was a bit ambivalent about seeing Prague for the first time. I was excited about the beauty of the city, whilst feeling slightly wary about it's reputation as a weekending retreat for lager louts, stag doo's and not quite the place ...

Pros: Fantastic public transportation
Cons: Most Czechs do not speak English

Where do I begin to describe this city? Shall I talk about the people? The infrastructure? The transportation? Our Hotel, Best Western After leaving Frankfurt on Monday, we drove into Prague or Praha, as it is listed on the Czech Republic maps. We ...

Pros: Unbelievably beautiful. Obscenely cheap. Any questions?
Cons: Not 100% credit card friendly

Review Topic:  Overview

Until last month, I emphatically believed that Paris would always be my favorite city in the world. I have always had a special affection for it. I’ve always loved the French language and I studied many of...

Pros: Great Art, Food & Shopping!
Cons: None

When I think of art and of Prague, the spectacularly talented artist Alphonse Mucha always fondly comes to mind. Born in the Czech Republic in 1860, he rose to great fame as an artist in 1894 when he was commissioned to prepare promotional artwork for...

Pros: Historical significance, accessible, affordable, multi-cultural
Cons: None

Prague has been on my list of “Places to see before I Die” for years and years. I am not sure why I haven’t actually made it there until now – but one reason would be that living in Scotland for the last 13 years, direct flights can be a challenge, and I ...

Pros: good hotel discovery
Cons: seedy housing alternatives; crime in the city

Last summer, I came to a shocking self-realization: I was no longer a low-maintenance, easy-going college student. As a working mid-twentysomething, I had gotten used to the luxuries of a private bath, clean sheets, a paycheck -- and who would...

Pros: Diverse, ever-rewarding city.
Cons: Can be taxing - language barriers, finding your way around, etc.

Border control comes at dawn. The coach driver moves up the aisle and collects passports from his passengers. The sun burns low and cold through the coach windows, and people either try to resume their cramped sleep or peer out anxiously, eager to get...

Pros: Lots of attractions and cheap stuff, great beer
Cons: Crime, many policeman, pickpockets, and prostitutes

So I went to Prague. Couple of my friends and I booked a bus and paid 280 € for hotel and tickets to several attractions as well several other people and we went. Since I live in Croatia, the drive to Prague lasted aprox. 16 hours, but we've spent ...

Pros: Too beautiful to be real; I felt like I was inside a storybook.
Cons: They speak Czech there.

"Wanna take a brief hiatus from your oh-so-grounded world and join me in a fairy tale land?" wrote Melanie, one of my closest friends since way back in junior high school. She was responding to an email I had written to her just the day before after an...

Pros: easy to get around, cheap, historic & beautiful
Cons: touristy!!

I'm absolutely in love with this city. I spent about a week in Prague in early February. MAIN ATTRACTIONS +Prazsky Hrad (Prague Castle)- You can buy a ticket that covers this as well as Golden Lane, St. Vitus Cathedral, the Basilica of St. George ...

Pros: A cheap, fantastic, gorgeous city that's easy to get around in!
Cons: It's so far away that getting back takes some effort on my part!

After four months of writing nonstop reviews, I'm running out of stuff to review. While some people would take this as a sign and shut the hell up, I see it as a challenge and decided to branch into areas that I've never reviewed in before. And so march ...

Pros: An important center of Jewish history in full revival.
Cons: The "disneyesque" use of the Prague golem as a tourist emblem.

A good friend of mine has an interesting hobby: he traces his family roots. He has been able to find direct ancestors back to the 1400s, in England. I don't know anything about my family before the 1880s, even though my cultural heritage goes back some 33 ...

Pros: You can spent hours on the Wenzelsplatz and you dont have seen half of it.
Cons: Your feet will hurt, when you walked it all the way up and down.

This part of the city, one calls modern center, but emperor Karl actually began to modernize IV. here in the year 1348; once was here an enormous area with fields, ways, farms and cows. About 250 hectars this effective area and emperor Karl were large...

Pros: Beautiful, Interesting History, Good scene for young people
Cons: Too many people in the summer time

Review Topic:  Sights & Attractions

I love Prague. I spent the summer of ’96 in Prague as a student at Charles University. I went with my colleague and good friend Lulu. Lulu and I are both hardcore veteranos of eastern...