Why this site exists

There is no shortage of Prague content in English. What there is very little of is Prague content written for the trip people actually take — two nights, a Friday evening flight, and a Sunday afternoon return. Most guides are written as if you had a week, and most of them stop at the sights.

This site is organised around the weekend instead. Every itinerary starts from an arrival time rather than an abstract ‘day one’. Every price is given in koruna first, because that is what you will be charged in. And a disproportionate amount of space goes to money and transport, because that is where short trips go wrong.

Who writes it

Ellie Marsh writes and edits Weekend Prague. The focus is practical: costs, logistics, and the decisions that are hard to reverse once you have booked.

How the research works

• Perishable facts are checked against primary sources — transport fares against the PID tariff, the tourist tax against city and government announcements, market dates against the organisers.
• Prices are dated. Where a number is likely to change, the page says when it was checked and what could move it.
• Proposed changes are labelled as proposed. The tourist tax increase is the current example: backed by MPs, not in force, and reported that way here.
• Pages are reviewed quarterly, and after the January tariff changes.

What we do not do

We do not cover stag and hen weekends. It is a large part of Prague’s visitor economy and an even larger part of what English-language search returns, but it is not the trip this site is for, and pretending otherwise would make the recommendations worse for everyone else.

We also do not recommend hiring a car for a Prague weekend. The city centre is walkable, parking is difficult and expensive, and a car is a liability rather than an asset for the trip described here.

Corrections

If something on this site is wrong — a fare that has changed, a place that has closed, a claim that does not hold up — we want to know. Corrections are made to the page itself rather than appended as notes, and the ‘updated’ date at the top of each page reflects the last substantive change.

How the site is funded

Some links on this site are affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission when you book through them, at no additional cost to you. This never changes what we recommend. Where the honest answer is ‘do not pay for this’, that is what the page says — which is why so much of the site points at things that are free. Full detail on the affiliate disclosure page.