Getting Around

The metro, trams and the 90-minute ticket, plus the airport — which has no rail link, and that is the fact most visitors need before they land.

Inside a Prague metro station — Photograph by Praguegirl15, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Prague's metro, trams and buses are one network on one ticket, and the ticket is priced by time, not distance — you buy 30 minutes or 90 minutes and travel as far as you like within it. That is the opposite of Vienna's zones or Munich's rings, and it is the thing visitors from either city get wrong.

Validate the ticket in the yellow machine when you first board. An unvalidated ticket counts as no ticket, and inspectors work in plain clothes.

The Muzeum metro station in Prague — Photograph by Ralf Roletschek, Wikimedia Commons, GFDL 1.2

The airport is the other trap: Prague has no rail link to its airport. It is bus and coach only, which surprises people arriving from almost anywhere else in central Europe. The public bus plus metro is the cheap route; the dedicated coach is the simple one.

Articles here cover how the time-based ticket actually works, what each airport route costs, and whether a longer pass is worth it for the length of your stay.

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