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Prague (Czech Republic) Reviews |
Barb and Mike
Guest
Visited in:
June 2006
for a period of
7 days
Accommodation:
Hotel
Hotel Duo
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This Hotel is on the outskirts of Prague, so if you use this Hotel you must allow for extra time and expense to travel into the City.
The Bedroom was adequate,but eating in the upstairs restaurant was appaling.It is like a huge School Canteen with long tables.It is a Buffet where the Starters and Sweets were passable except for the Soup which was always cool or cold.The main course I only tried on one of the three days we were there as it was cold and inedible.Much of the Crockery is chipped, and once you have stood in a long queue (as the buffet is too small) it was all to common for the soup bowls or the knives or the spoons or the cups to be finished. This was a major problem as there was perhaps five young girls on duty who cleared the tables and spent long periods grouped together chatting. They seemed to have no other duties,apart from selling Drinks and Teas and Coffees and there was no Manager making any checks on the Buffet or Cutlery and Crockery.On approaching them for more Cutlery, they did not understand, and the only solution was to go to the other Restaurant upstairs and move a reasonable amount of cutlery ourselves.(This other Restaurant always seemed to have steam issuing from the hot food,unlike the larger Restaurant we were in ) There is a Coffee Machine in the Restaurant but it is only used at Breakfast.If Coffee is required at Dinner it has to be ordered via a Staff Member at extra cost.
After the first Dinner,our Travelsphere Guide after receiving complaints spoke to the Hotel Management but to no avail.
We are reasonably well travelled and we would not want to repeat this experience.
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[color=red]Shearings, Dec 2005
We had a wonderful Christmas holiday, taking my parents to Prague on a Shearings Coaching holiday.
We prefer flying but the parents don't. The coach trip was very good, the drivers very professional and experienced, with plenty of stops along the way. Its a tiring journey if you aren't used to it.
The hotel was very good, room spotlessly clean, clean towels every day, the maid was superb.
Food very good with a good choice both at breakfast and dinner. Only gripe was that they frequently ran out of food such as bacon or chicken, and there was a long wait before it re-appeared.[/color]
Excursions were great, and the Christmas Day trip to the Spa Town of Karlovy Vary (sp?) was exceptional, the included lunch at the 5 star Grand Hotel Pupp exceeded all expectations, and was very decadent! It is where the movie stars and VIPs stay.
The hotel was a few Metro stops from Wenceslas Square, but was easily reachable, and cheap, and very easy to navigate the Metro system. (extremely clean, too!)
All in all, Shearings provided a fantastic Christmas holiday with such value for money I dont know how they do it.
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Janey
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Wenceslas Square, Prague
Operator and Date: Fregata Travel - December 2005
My wife and I were visiting Prague for the first time so it was very helpful to be met at the airport by taxi as part of the four night package. We had a confirmed booking which included a twin bedded room but arrived at the hotel to find that it claimed not to have any knowledge of it and there appeared not to be one available. The was corrected next morning when we were given the excuse that bookings from the UK are routed through the Czech Tourist Office in London which did not pass on the correct information about our booking. If we go again to Prague I would make the hotel booking direct with my choice of airline and hotel. The "hot" breakfast was execellent. We would be happy to stay at the same hotel again.
Finding good reasonably priced restaurants in Prague is not easy because there are a large number of inviting looking places, especially below the castle, offering very similar fare from the deep freeze. We found an excellent and very reasonably priced restaurant very close to the Bethlehem chapel in the grounds of Klub Architektu, which we used for lunch, dinner and after a concert, with wine and coffee under £12 per head. Booking was not necessary. www klubarchitektu com.
The metro and tram system is very good and relatively easy to understand. Be wary of picking up a taxi in the street because there is a tendency for the driver to give a tour of the city, even for very short journeys. The safest place to get a taxi is from your hotel where there is a list of prices for specific journeys.
We went to Prague particularly for its music, pages of which can be found on www pis cz/en/prague/events/insert month/concerts. We booked for the opera through Fregata Travel, having been told that we would pay exactly the same price as buying direct. In the event we were charged about 40% more than face value of the tickets. We booked 2 concerts at the Rudolfinum, the main concerthall, by telephone before we left the UK and paid for them when we arrived for the first of the concerts. The price for the best seats for the 2 outstanding concerts were 200 crowns each - tne equivalent of under £13 each. I mention the price because we were pestered by sellers of tickets at 500 crowns each for early evening concerts in unheated churches. These last a hour only and are generally given by a string quartet of good technical standard but without any raport with the audience - no doubt because they know the audience is being ripped off! For the one we attended opposite to the entrance to Charles Bridge I offered 200 crowns a seat which was taken with alacrity.
The main Art Gallery, which includes a number of fine French impressionists and Picasso drawings, is well worth a visit. This is in the north of the city across the river and is reached by metro and a bit of walking. Although it boasts a restaurant, which looked very uninviting, a local told us to cross the road to eat or in a restaurant in the nearby park.
Since the well-known sights are well covered in other reports I have not added to them.
A few final points: Seniors either get into the sites free or at reduced rates.
Because of warnings about the possibility of receiving old or non-czech currency in change we took small denomination notes. (100 and 200 crowns). There are also pickpockets and bag snatchers to watch out for. Metro tickets are bought from newsagents and can be used on trams and buses - travel around Prague by these is very cheap indeed.
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