Transportation from Prague airport Ruzyne to Prague city center.

This article is going to save you money, so read it now!

Friends are visiting all the time and when dropping down in a strange country with a language they don’t understand most tend to go for the easy choice and take a taxi to their downtown hotel.
But in Prague the public transport is excellent and downtown is really small! And even when they are doing maintenance on the transport system it’s much better than public transport in Sweden, and much cheaper!

Take a look at your options:

• Taxi about 700 CZK
• Minibus < 4 persons about 600 CZK
• 24 hours of unlimited public transport 100 CZK
• One journey less than 75 minutes 26 CZK

This means taxi is almost 30 times more expensive than public transport (This is if you go with the reliable AAA service, others quite frequently rip off tourists even more…), and what does a saving of 670 CZK mean?

Well maybe not much in your own currency, but in buying power here it is about a dinner for four including excellent Czech beer to your meal… (A beer here costs in beetween 18 and 40 CZK, in most cases less than the bus ticket!)

But isn’t it difficult to go by public transport in a strange city you might ask?

Not at all! Here is what you need to know:

When you walk out from the customs area to the lounge area with all the people waiting for the arrivals, look left (Or walk left if there is a loot of people obscuring your way.) and there you will find a booth selling tickets to the public transport system. Buy a single ticket or a 24 hour ticket if you think you will use it.

Please note! If you arrive from a non Schengen country (You arrive at a different terminal) look and walk right instead!

Then just walk out of the terminal and look right for bus 119 (Chances are that there already will be a crowd there waiting) this bus will take you to a metro station called Dejvická (End station, everyone will be thrown off!) leave the bus and walk 20 meters and walk down into the metro. It is the end stop so just take the first train down town which would be 3-5 stops depending on where in the center you are heading. Now just walk a couple of blocks to your hotel. (Check on google maps how, perhaps even print out the page.)

If this feels like a big adventure, drop us a mail and we will pick you up and escort you to the hotel, for this we normally charge a dinner. We choose establishment depending of you income and if it’s on the low end dinner is at the sausage stand 10 meters from the tourist ones, in those ten meters the price drops by 50%…

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