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Staré Město, Malá Strana, Vinohrady, Žižkov and the rest — which side of the river you are on changes the prices as much as the view.

Náměstí Míru in Prague's Vinohrady district
Photograph by Daniel Baránek, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Which side of the river you are standing on changes the prices as much as the view.

Staré Město (the Old Town) and Malá Strana (the Lesser Town, below the castle) hold almost everything a first visit wants, and are priced for it. Vinohrady, east of the centre, is where the city becomes residential and the restaurants get cheaper and better. Žižkov, next to it, has the reputation for pubs and the least polished streets of the four.

A street west of Náměstí Míru in Vinohrady
Photograph by Txllxt TxllxT, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The practical version: stay or eat one tram stop beyond where the crowd stops walking, and the same evening costs noticeably less. Prague's centre is small enough that "further out" still means ten minutes.

Articles here cover what each district is actually like rather than which is "best".

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