Lonely Planet Prague City Guide [With Map]

by Neil Wilson and Mark Baker

Book Overview

This guide includes tips on the city's best restaurants, cafes and bars; information on the city's architecture; and a Czech language section. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1741796687
• ISBN13: 9781741796681
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Well done

Lonely Planet Prague provided a great synopsis of the historical sites, with descriptions often better than those provided by our formal tour guides. The detailed information regarding transportation, costs, and hours were right on. Without the book we would have missed some off-the-beaten-path activities. Our only complaint was that some key restaurants were not included but this is the only area which I believe needs to be improved.

Great, but check out LP's "Czech Republic", too

I have an uncanny nack for picking up free guides, which is the only reason I took this book with me to Prague over the summer. I ended up using it for a month, though, so it was well worth taking along. It's got everything you'd expect in a good travel guide -- what makes it better than most is that it lists some unusual and out-of-the-way places instead of just the typical run-of-the-mill museums and churches. It's also got a strong nightlife and eating/drinking section, ideal for college bums and happy Pilsener-chuggers with a dose of wanderlust!The only bone I would pick with this guide is that it's identical to the Prague section of LP's general "Czech and Slovak Republic" guide -- it just weighs less. So there's absolutely no reason to buy both guides. While the book includes a short section on some sights within about an hour of Prague (like Kutna Hora and Theresienstadt concentration camp), the Czech Republic is a gorgeous country and you'd be crazy not to blow out of Prague for a few days and see something else. Still, if you just can't get enough of Prague (and "this little mother has claws", as Kafka said), you can't go wrong here.(If you're a Kafka fan, check out at Klaus Wagenbach's nifty guide to "Kafka's Prague", reviewed by me.)

Great guide book!!

Just returned from a 7 day visit to Prague. This book went with us everywhere!! We did 2 of the suggested "walks." Loved that it told you what to see if you had an hour or if you had an afternoon. Everyone of the restaurants we visited based on LP's recommedation was amazing. (We're thinking of buying the LP guide to NYC so we know where to grab a bite after work).We also took along the Eye Witness guide when we went to major spots -- Prague Castle, Charles Bridge -- because it had more pictures.Will buy a LP guide for next overseas travel!!

Definitive

In the past year I have had the chance to travel to Prague, Paris, and London, and for each trip I brought along a Lonely Planet city guide. These books are simply the best. In previous travels I have tried books by other groups, but Lonely Planet has never steered me wrong. The books are accurate and up-to-date, and offer advice for all modes of travel (economic, social, time constraints, interests, and so on). The history and culture sections are useful but not too long, and the same is true of the descriptions of the various sites and sights. Don't travel without one!

very useful

This was a great guide for Prague. It provided me with maps of places like St Vitus' Cathedral and Prague Castle that were hard to come by even at the ticket office for these places. I have limited experience with other guidebooks, but I have always found the Lonely Planet series to be well-written and particularly useful for finding a range of services delineated by cost. So you can find the cheap stuff as well as the expensive stuff. Historical details are interspersed throughout the books, too, which can make for a more in-depth travel experience. This particular guide was written in a personable style and was full of useful information. It greatly enhanced my trip.