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.
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 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.
How do you get from Prague to Munich? Two practical ways exist: a direct train or a long-distance bus. A cross-border EuroCity train, run jointly by Czech and German railways, goes from Praha hlavní nádraží (Prague’s main station) straight to München Hauptbahnhof, with no change of train. Buses from Florenc, Prague’s main coach station, are … Read more
Direct train, about four hours, run jointly by Czech Railways and Deutsche Bahn. A cheaper bus, closer to five, run by RegioJet or FlixBus. Neither number is the real travel time. Add the walk to the station, the boarding cutoff, and the transfer once you land in Berlin, and the actual door-to-door day is often … Read more
How do you get from Prague to Vienna? The fastest and most common way is the direct train between Praha hlavní nádraží (Prague’s main station) and Wien Hauptbahnhof. Three operators run trains on this line: the Czech state railway České dráhy (ČD), the private carrier RegioJet, and Austria’s ÖBB. A cheaper, slower alternative is the … Read more
Václav Havel Airport Prague has no train line. Every way into the city starts with a bus, a taxi, a rideshare car, or a booked shuttle, and each is priced on a different logic: public transport charges per passenger, taxis and shuttles charge per vehicle. Which is actually cheaper depends on group size, the hour, … Read more
How does the Prague transport ticket actually work? One ticket buys a block of time, not a single ride. Validate it once, and it stays valid for a set number of minutes across trams, the metro, buses, and even the funicular up Petřín. Change vehicles as often as needed inside that window, in any direction, … Read more
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