On tour in Prague

So I decided to do a walking tour…..6 hours of walking, tram ride, river cruise and includes lunch. I had picked one ` last night but this morning changed my mind and went with the same kind of tour but was about $10 cheaper. $50 instead of $60

When you get to the Old Town Square where you are to meet….there is no reservations, just show up and look for the right coloured umbrella….there are a lot of tours….the one I was looking for was blue and yellow. There are a lot of “free tours” but I have learned in Berlin that these are not really free….the tour guide lives on tips that the client does or does not give the guide…..the guide though must pay a certain amount per person on the tour to the company that does the advertising for them. For instance the guides in Berlin must give the company 3Euros per person….so if you don’t give them a tip they have to pay out of their own pocket. It is the same in Prague….but the people giving these free tours are people that have landed in Prague a couple of months ago and now are experts about Prague!

The reason I chose the company I did was that the brochure was laid out well and was written in good English, so I figured the guides would be proficient in English. Simply the Best Tour of Prague

The Charles Bridge

Little Quarter Street

                                                          

At first I was the only one for this tour, but a few minutes later a couple from New Zealand came along. Our tour guide was Pavel, who we later found out was the owner of the company. He was a well informed well read fellow who told great stories about the buildings, the people and the history as we bustled along after him. We started at 10:30 walked the whole old town area and the Jewish quarter weaving in and out of the maze of streets……then lunch at a very nice little restaurant near my hotel and then off again over the Charles Bridge which I went over last night, hopped on a tram to go up to the Castle, toured the out side of the castle and the Church….then walked down the hill, through the amazing streets of the Little Quarter, back over the bridge….all by 4:30.…where he dropped us off for a River cruise which took us on a little water tour for the next 50 minutes. . So really the tour was 7 hours.

The tour was great lots of stories and lots of sites, just right for a short stay in the city, when you don’t know where to go and what is the most interesting sites. I would recommend this tour company to anyone coming to Prague.  The only draw back today was the weather, which no one can control….it was way too hot and muggy for me…..as soon as I got back to the hotel I hopped in the shower before I went out again to buy a few souvenirs .

Back at the hotel and collapsed….a lot of walking on cobblestones in the last couple of weeks. \Off to the train back to Berlin tomorrow. By the way the breakfast that comes this the room isn’t bad ,

Across the street from the Old Prague Hotel