there is one exception to the "you dont have to buy tickets in advance" rule and that are tickets to cultural events like theatre, opera, concert etc. quite often all the good seats (and often even a bad seats) are gone long in advance
Can´t wait !! Next week i´ll be visiting Olomouc, Cesky Krumlov, Kutná Hora, and Prague. Your channel has been so helpful in my planning. Thank you !!!!
visited prague from 20.9 to 1.10 it was amazing and i saw so much of Czech republic like Kutna Hora, Prachovské Skály,Karlštejn and all thanks to your videos next time i might go and see brno and all the places i didn't see
Your videos about Prague are always my favorite. I found your channel a few months ago when I was trying to research Vyšehrad and found the video you did about it. Your content is so informative and I enjoy your humor. And I have now been on two of the Real Guide tours. Keep up the great work!
Another awesome video goddess Valery. When you said " hell hole " I laughed so hard, it caught me off guard. The skits part made the video, you always make it fun. Thanks again for making me laugh and smile, you made my day. Have a great tomorrow!!! BBBYYYEEE!!
This channel is amazing! I stumbled upon it when researching for my trip, and was hooked by the presentation - the humour and skits and the genuine personality that shone through. The content on here became more than a source for basic info - i became genuinely curious and checked out stuff that wasn't even related to my trip, like the abandoned cemetery video. And still, you helped me make a varied list which i could use for travel planning. I had a great time in Prague last week, thanks to you. Lots of love from Estonia!!!
so glad you are promoting the idea of “walking” am looking at Airbnb in Old Town for the purpose of walking to attractions. We will be there for 1 week so we don’t have to hurry to everything.
As a Czech for the tipping - we have obligatory minimal wage that will get you home and food, we have more obligatory income levels above it according to difficulty of the job (waiters are above a minimal wage job). We have laws that all expenses have to be booked on receipt and the business owner is obliged to count all their costs in it and never ask anything above. We have strong enough social security net system, paid leave, paid sick leave, paid maternity leave. Tipping is not necessary in our country. I don't give any tips in Czechia until the the service is truly remarkable (happened twice in my life) or run around me for several hours every five minutes with some rew quest. If it's a problem for them and they make me feel unwelcomed because of it, it's unprofesional, their only interest is to get unchecked income and they deserve negative review. Tipping is nonsense in this country and it started to be "obligatory" mostly because tourist from countries with less social security net set it as a norm and they slowly rise the level of acceptable tip as well. Thank you, but no.
Great Stuff!!!! I think that if you don’t mind a little cooler weather just before or just after tourist season can be a great experience. Put on a jacket and have a great time! PLUS!!! All the travel tips from RPG’s are still in play. Thanks RPG’s
We were in Prague in April 2022 and loved it!! It was nice that being old had a benefit in that I could ride public transportation for free. :) One day around noon were were walking around old town and saw a large crowd gathered, we walked over and it was the astronomical clock. Loved your video and unique presentation style.
Ok secret inside information. I resisted telliing of this but.... Cafe Mozart is level 2 directly opposite the old clock. I wont give details except it was the best experience I had in Europe. it was 1/4 the price of the cafes on ground level. I have tears in my eyes remembering how for 2 hours I got to have amazing company and had a table directly in front of the clock. 1000/10.
Will be visiting Prague this Christmas.🎉 your videos help me a lot understand and taste beforehand this beautiful city. Already in love with locals in Prague 🥰 Keep it up!
@@Jamhands9hey! Any plans or ideas for New year's Eve? Is it necessary to book a place in advance? I read that many restaurants work only until 11 pm. And bar are not making reservations in advance and rely on passing by people
I’m going late December and want to visit the hiking outside of the area to the bohemian Switzerland border. Also go south to see an amazing castle and town, can you recommend positive guides please?
I am in Prague for Christmas and it is really cold 😢 i bought 3 day tickets for public transportation but i don't regret it. It is impossible for me to walk for 20-30 minustes under heavy rain so i use public transport. It would be really nice to walk in summer... But don't forgot to check weather and plan everything according to it, there is a warning for storm right now. So i am planning a looong brunch in a nice cafe and check the weather in the afternoon if it will allow me to go to the castle. 😂 Thank you very much for your videos, they helped me a lot. ❤
Thank you very much for your videos! I've watched a bunch of them already and all of them are super useful! I plan to come from Uzbekistan for a New Years eve. I know it must be a very busy time but hopefully I'll get most of it. So please, if there are any suggestions which restaurant to book or how to spend new year in a most enjoyable way I'll really appreciate ❤
Nice védico. Crazy and creative again. I love it. I need your advice to travel from Prague to Sarajevo. I have 2 days in Prague for fun and 6 days in Sarajevo. Thank you in advance. I am a New Yorker and I am scared of flights 😂
Hi Valerie, it's a brlliant video and nice scenic spots Prague, could you tell ususally how long visitor would stay in Prague? what do you recommmend places around Prague? we are planning an around 14 days trip at mid europe. hhx. for your sharing. :)
😂😂😂😂 Brilliant, but your absolutely right Prague is sooo beautiful and easy to walk around why would you do anything else 😊. You would miss all the beautiful architecture etc. Everywhere we decided to have a coffee, meal etc we found the Czech people very friendly and professional, it was the tourist we saw and found being extremely rude to the Czech people🤨. Will definitely be back at some point guys👍
I visited Prague from 10. to 13.10.23. It is an awesome city and i will come back to Prague next year! Thank you RealPragueGuides for an amazing video. 🇳🇴🇨🇿
ı am going to visit Prague in 18th april so ı am curious about what ı need to wear in my 1 week pague trip . ı will be happy if you guys have suggestions for me !
Just visited there a few days ago. So you're saying that for goulash (guláš) one shouldn't spend less than 500 Czk? I had two goulash plates each for around 300 Czk and I thought they were great. Maybe my palette isn't refined enough to appreciate good goulash.
Hi, this is camera guy Václav. I am also Czech and I disagree. Valery didn’t say it’s mandatory. She said “if you liked the service”. This is standard. We can obviously disagree. But even Pohlreich talks about it here: cnn.iprima.cz/restaurace-nemaji-duvod-zlevnovat-mini-pohlreich-uroven-gastronomie-se-ale-zlepsila-433964
I was doing always a lot of research when I started traveling, I had plan for everything, tickets for everything, I knew exactly where everything is on a map, but after few years of traveling like that, you will get bored by that, so I don't care about research that much now, so it's more punk traveling now and it's even more fun. Like how to get from a train station to your hotel? I don't care, there must be a way. 🙂 But ofcourse it very depends on what country it is, when it's Poland or something close to us, I know there is always a way how to get somewhere by public transportation, you can just ask someone, but in some other countries, you really have to do some research or you will get stucked in middle of nothing. 😀 And authentic Czech restaurant is totaly the same as authentic Austrian restaurant, when I visited Vienna, I didn't like that too much there, but some things made me happy, like using coasters under beer and counting amount of beers by marks on paper. 😀
Went to Prague last year for a second time. Indeed two full days are not enough to enjoy everything, but more reason to go back again :) I laughed out loud about the authentic restaurant part. I never understood people who "want to get an experience like a local".... no, seriously you don't. People think we live in the instagram world, and then get shocked when us central-eastern europeans just want to down a shot of Becherovka/Pálinka and eat our Guláš/Pörkölt in peace as we stare at the table cloth trying to forget the hard days work :D
I can attest to the "don't jump in front of the tram" advice! It was unintentional on my part- I saw the tram coming, but I severely misjudged how fast he was driving that tram! He fired an angry blast of bell ringing at me, and I honestly thought he was going to run me over, but I got out of the way as fast as I could and escaped with only a huge amount of embarrassment. In fact, if I ever met that driver, I would buy him a pilsner and offer him my sincerest apologies!
hahaha loved the authentic Czech restaurant one... been living here for 12 years now and this is one of my first shock when arriving thinking that I would get great service... well... you can... try to speak some Czech, a nice thank you helps out a lot but if you go to a local restaurant and keep hammering them in English, well expect not much help... made me want to learn the language more.
I would say that it very changed in last years with new generation of people working in services, they mostly speak at least some English and they know that beying rude is not ok. But even when you speak English, you have to know that in Czech culture, we greet and say thank you all the time and you can't skip this even when you enter shop or something, many foreigners don't know this and yes, when you don't greet, they can be very rude to you, like you can't even imagine how rude, because to greet and say thank you is considered as basic good manner here, in the past, kids were sometimes even slapped by parents on public for not saying hello, so this is really important. But in some other culture, they don't say hello and thank you at all, which cause a lot of problems. For example a lot of ukrainian refugees have problems because of that and they wrongly think that we are rude to them, but it's because they don't say hello when they enter a shop or something. I noticed the same thing in Latvia, when I was saying hello and thank you all the time, they were staring at me like if I was an idiot. Also another similar cultural conflicts - when you accidentaly touch someone in public transportation or you accidentaly hit someone in a line in shop, you have to always say sorry, like ALWAYS, when you don't do that, it's gonna be really bad for you. It's not that complicated to follow few basic rules, but ofcourse, most of tourists don't know about these rules like to let people leave tram first and then you can enter and then they say we are rude when some pensioner starts yelling to them.
@@Pidalin totally agree with you... Tourist staying in the city center will be ok but anyone travelling here should just take your time to lean some basic words like Dobre den which was my first words here when I arrived and just that part helped me so much to get better service, such a small thing,...
Furthermore,in brief what they do are things that should not be done,until it's getting deeper and deeper... and that even the simplest thing they had to do (and that they always did wrong),turn into nothing. That's cause they invented their selves some patterns.
I’m of half Czech, half Polish ancestry. For some reason, your comment on the “rough” authentic restaurants made me think of my grandparents and smile. They looked and sounded like places my grandparents would have preferred. Ha! Looking forward to visiting both Czechia and Poland in the near future.
This channel is the funniest Prague Guides channel on youtube!!! Hahahahah!! Okay, its the funniest Guide to anything on youtube. I skipped this video when it came out because I expected a boring what not to do, but I had no idea it was going to feature the prague tourist hotline!!!! hahaha!!! This girl has such a great sense of humor, its almost sad she doesn't have more viewers. Maybe if Prague had more attractions than just a wierd outdoor clock, this girl would get the views she deserves
I really wonder how incredibly stupid a person must be to be able to write that "Maybe if Prague had more attractions than just a wierd outdoor clock, this girl would get the views she deserves". But I understand if you couldn't find anything else in Prague but clocks and you call them weird, then this video can satisfy your intellect.
Fajn video. I jako Brňák tyto typy oceňuji...i když se do Práglu následujících pár let nechytám. Třeba ten o chození pěšky...já měl za to, že krtkem je to nejlepší.
I will be forever haunted by the memory of me not tipping the waiter that served me and my family when they came for a visit. He was really nice, my parents gave me money and left for a smoke so that I (a person living in the Czech Republic) pay the bill. I don't know what's gotten into me but I didn't tip him and out bill was more than a 1000czk, I felt bad almost immediately after leaving the place but didn't have the guts to go back.. I was stupid and I'm still really sorry about it :(
Don't worry, I am a local and really we usually do not tip, just round the amount up by CZK10,- I know the tip is more common in the tourists areas since the waiters got used to it, well that is not a standard how it works here. You definitely do not have to tip.
@@bohuslavkanovsky4345 yeah, I don't usually tip either, but yeah it was a tourist area, the bill was quite big and the waiter was nice, I just didn't tip and I still don't know why :( I usually tip now when I'm in a good mood and the servers talk to me :D
Yep, she's an intelligent, attractive, bright personable young lady. As an Old Fart however, it's hard to resist the temptation to try to reach through the screen and scrub some of the excess paint off at times. 😉😊
when you say "A lot of people are confused about tipping" do you mean a lot of Americans are confused about tipping?" We are jus stupid, uneducated or intentionally ignorant. Many if not most of the Central and Eastern European cities I stay in have a choice of "Service included" or not required. As a resident of the NY Metro area, I always carefully and generously (by local standard) tip. The food is usually excellent and the service excellent. The wait staff deserves to be treated like the professional that they are
I returned from Prague on Tuesday, however, my trip was over shadowed by the sad death of the young Slovak opera star Patrícia Janečková at the age of 25.
That AUTHENTIC CZECH RESTAURANT reminds me of.. Few times nice clean smooth looking people, some even with children, asked for restaurant in german, a language I don't speak and I understand only few words. They said something like: "Entschuldige, wo ist GER GER GER beisel GER GER GER? So I knew that first words mean "Excuse me, where is..." and "Pajzl" means realy dirty kind of pub in czech language (yeah, we has some history with Germans). So I've send them to closest of dirty places I know wondering, why they pull even children to place where it smells and people smoke. Just later I found that in austrian german 'Beisel' means just 'Restaurant'. So... yeah. Sorry dear Austrian family, I didn't do it on purpose. I just ment that you mean it. I even asked twice: Pajzl?! So I've tried! :D - Sorry from Pražan
I should have watched this video before I visited Prague. Literally all the thing she said are all the things I thought after my visit. I bought dozens of tickets before hand via online, and thought it was a good deal, until I visited the city and realized it wasn't. But I still had a great time there, so it doesn't really matter. But if you are planning to go there, don't make the same mistakes as me. BTW, unless it's like big concert or opera, you don't need to buy those music concert that take place in church ahead of time, they sell those tickets on the spot, on the day of concert, and sometimes they give you discount as well (the man who was selling the ticket offered me 50% discount on that day of concert because I went to music concert day before, and he saw me there). Another mistake I made in Prague was buying all those tickets only for the good view, like buying ticket for zizkov tower, clock tower, river cruising...etc. I am not saying those sight wasn't worth it, but there are plenty of free options as well, and I didn't had to go to all of them. For example, national museum has awesome view, prague castle, and Lobkowicz museum also has nice view as well. Of course you have to pay to enter those places (except prague castle, unless you want to enter churches and exhibitions), but you also get to enjoy the museum. Also I realized this later, but you don't have to pay for zizkov tower, if you are going to the restaurant that's right below the observatory. So there's many way to enjoy the view of prague without paying for all those tickets. But my favorite viewing spot in Prague would be Vysherad. Entire park is like a balcony above the city, and there're plenty of benches where you can sit, eat and relax. Also it's free (unless you want to enter museums like prague castle). Moreover, anywhere you take photo is like instagram spot in Prague, so you really don't need to look for the places to take photo.
No information on your TH-cam site to indicate where you are from. But the slightly odd use of English in this post strongly suggests that you learned it in the same school as the young lady fronting this video? 😉
@@theoztreecrasher2647 I'm not from europe, but I learned my english from the internet. So yes, I propbably learned my English from same place as Valery
Prague is a beautiful city to visit. Even the neighboring towns. It is incredible how much they have to see and experience. Having said that, the notion of not tipping is just plain rude and unacceptable ANYWHERE. Also, going to Prague thinking you are going to see all in1-2 days is simply fool hardy and perhaps should not be travelling at all. Thank you Valery for a great video as usual.🌹🙏👌
That's not true. Not tipping is absolutely acceptable in many places. What's considered cheap is when you are paying with cash, and instead of at least rounding up, you wait for them to give you back some spar change. That's kinda rude, but not tipping? Nah, this is not the US.
Yes, waiters should be paid a living wage. It is not expected to tip in my country because they are paid a living wage. It is the greed of the US class system which makes the clients fit the bill and still it is uncertain for the waiters if there is no customers. If the service is great, the waiter is working really hard, has a genuine, pleasant feeling to them that has added to my mood, I do tip all the same and also at high end places which require a lot of skills from waiters but it shouldn't be a given that you have to pay every waiter's wage.
I wish every major tourist destination had a TH-cam channel like yours!
Totally agree , wonderful introduction to the Prague.
there is one exception to the "you dont have to buy tickets in advance" rule and that are tickets to cultural events like theatre, opera, concert etc. quite often all the good seats (and often even a bad seats) are gone long in advance
Love your sense of humor 😂. I’m a 60 yr old female solo traveler and appreciate all the tips I can get
Can´t wait !! Next week i´ll be visiting Olomouc, Cesky Krumlov, Kutná Hora, and Prague. Your channel has been so helpful in my planning. Thank you !!!!
visited prague from 20.9 to 1.10 it was amazing and i saw so much of Czech republic like Kutna Hora, Prachovské Skály,Karlštejn and all thanks to your videos
next time i might go and see brno and all the places i didn't see
Your videos about Prague are always my favorite. I found your channel a few months ago when I was trying to research Vyšehrad and found the video you did about it. Your content is so informative and I enjoy your humor. And I have now been on two of the Real Guide tours. Keep up the great work!
Another awesome video goddess Valery. When you said " hell hole " I laughed so hard, it caught me off guard. The skits part made the video, you always make it fun. Thanks again for making me laugh and smile, you made my day. Have a great tomorrow!!! BBBYYYEEE!!
Excellent video guys. I like the way you use humour in explaining things. Valery is very good at it. She should be a comic actress 😂😂 Very enjoyable👍👌
This channel is amazing! I stumbled upon it when researching for my trip, and was hooked by the presentation - the humour and skits and the genuine personality that shone through. The content on here became more than a source for basic info - i became genuinely curious and checked out stuff that wasn't even related to my trip, like the abandoned cemetery video. And still, you helped me make a varied list which i could use for travel planning. I had a great time in Prague last week, thanks to you. Lots of love from Estonia!!!
so glad you are promoting the idea of “walking” am looking at Airbnb in Old Town for the purpose of walking to attractions. We will be there for 1 week so we don’t have to hurry to everything.
We are thinking of going next October. Did you go yet and how was it?
As a Czech for the tipping - we have obligatory minimal wage that will get you home and food, we have more obligatory income levels above it according to difficulty of the job (waiters are above a minimal wage job). We have laws that all expenses have to be booked on receipt and the business owner is obliged to count all their costs in it and never ask anything above. We have strong enough social security net system, paid leave, paid sick leave, paid maternity leave. Tipping is not necessary in our country.
I don't give any tips in Czechia until the the service is truly remarkable (happened twice in my life) or run around me for several hours every five minutes with some rew quest. If it's a problem for them and they make me feel unwelcomed because of it, it's unprofesional, their only interest is to get unchecked income and they deserve negative review. Tipping is nonsense in this country and it started to be "obligatory" mostly because tourist from countries with less social security net set it as a norm and they slowly rise the level of acceptable tip as well. Thank you, but no.
WOW! thanks.
Going to Prague next week!! I already got my tickets for the Castle Tour whit you! Yay!!! 😊😊
Another nice video, thank you.
A true success and you deserve a raise😊 well done 👍
I learned a lot from your videos and I enjoy your humor. It is very entertaining. Thank you.
very useful guide! Well done! One of the best guides around!
Please do more food reviews! I love those ones!
Great Stuff!!!! I think that if you don’t mind a little cooler weather just before or just after tourist season can be a great experience. Put on a jacket and have a great time! PLUS!!! All the travel tips from RPG’s are still in play. Thanks RPG’s
Canadian here... this was very helpful. Thank you for all of these tips.
Great episode like always 😌 I return to Prague Tuesday! I’m super excited!!!
"Oh, you like it rough" HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. I'll keep that in mind when I make my first visit in May.
Hi. This is so helpful! Looking forward to our trip (with a 4 yo) to Prague in May. Any pointers to remember cor the travel in May?
Where is that bench you're sitting on on the 2:03 minute mark?
We were in Prague in April 2022 and loved it!! It was nice that being old had a benefit in that I could ride public transportation for free. :) One day around noon were were walking around old town and saw a large crowd gathered, we walked over and it was the astronomical clock. Loved your video and unique presentation style.
I'm watching your channel recently bc will visit Prague in a few weeks, great to learn the tips now 😂
This is so great. Please make more videos like this!
One mistake that many tourists make when they discover how little beer costs is that they have 5 pints in an evening... They should have 10 😀
🤣😂👍😊
I visited Prague in 2004 with my art college. The bridge was empty. Back then there were tourists but I think a quarter of the amount. Great video
so funny! 😂 You definitely deserve a raise! Thanks for the Video! 🙏👍
Veri gut - very helpful guide tips with nice Czech humor :)
hehe I'm on my way back home from Prague and just shocked how expensive the city became 😢
LOVE this helpful video! I visited old town for the first time earlier this year. I can't wait to go back again!
Thanks! Great advice I shall follow😄
You are hysterical )) thank you for putting an effort and making it fun to watch.
when i went only used the transport system from the airport to my hotel and just walked around the city
Ok secret inside information. I resisted telliing of this but.... Cafe Mozart is level 2 directly opposite the old clock. I wont give details except it was the best experience I had in Europe. it was 1/4 the price of the cafes on ground level. I have tears in my eyes remembering how for 2 hours I got to have amazing company and had a table directly in front of the clock. 1000/10.
Will be visiting Prague this Christmas.🎉 your videos help me a lot understand and taste beforehand this beautiful city. Already in love with locals in Prague 🥰 Keep it up!
I’ll also be there this Christmas, or rather New Year’s :)
@@Jamhands9hey! Any plans or ideas for New year's Eve? Is it necessary to book a place in advance? I read that many restaurants work only until 11 pm. And bar are not making reservations in advance and rely on passing by people
@@alinamuzafarova4884 I have an 11 year old so we’ll be at our hotel that night. There are some NYE dinner cruises!
I'm coming to Prague for 6 days soon. I can't wait
We're thinking of going next fall. Would love to hear your experiences
I’m going late December and want to visit the hiking outside of the area to the bohemian Switzerland border. Also go south to see an amazing castle and town, can you recommend positive guides please?
I was in Prague a few months ago, and got in a lift with you but was too shy to say lol.... so silly😂
Thanks for great advice thanks for sharing
Hello any suggestions about what brand sim card should I use in Czech ? I will visit Prague soon 😊
Thanks again Valerika!
I am in Prague for Christmas and it is really cold 😢 i bought 3 day tickets for public transportation but i don't regret it. It is impossible for me to walk for 20-30 minustes under heavy rain so i use public transport. It would be really nice to walk in summer... But don't forgot to check weather and plan everything according to it, there is a warning for storm right now. So i am planning a looong brunch in a nice cafe and check the weather in the afternoon if it will allow me to go to the castle. 😂 Thank you very much for your videos, they helped me a lot. ❤
Thank you very much for your videos! I've watched a bunch of them already and all of them are super useful! I plan to come from Uzbekistan for a New Years eve. I know it must be a very busy time but hopefully I'll get most of it.
So please, if there are any suggestions which restaurant to book or how to spend new year in a most enjoyable way I'll really appreciate ❤
I have a bike ride route planned that goes from Berlin to Prague. Maybe someday I will do it. Visiting Prague is on my bucket list.
Nice védico. Crazy and creative again. I love it. I need your advice to travel from Prague to Sarajevo. I have 2 days in Prague for fun and 6 days in Sarajevo. Thank you in advance. I am a New Yorker and I am scared of flights 😂
lovely dress
This is a wonderful channel. Thank you!
Hi Valerie, it's a brlliant video and nice scenic spots Prague, could you tell ususally how long visitor would stay in Prague? what do you recommmend places around Prague? we are planning an around 14 days trip at mid europe. hhx. for your sharing. :)
😂😂😂😂 Brilliant, but your absolutely right Prague is sooo beautiful and easy to walk around why would you do anything else 😊. You would miss all the beautiful architecture etc. Everywhere we decided to have a coffee, meal etc we found the Czech people very friendly and professional, it was the tourist we saw and found being extremely rude to the Czech people🤨. Will definitely be back at some point guys👍
I visited Prague from 10. to 13.10.23. It is an awesome city and i will come back to Prague next year! Thank you RealPragueGuides for an amazing video. 🇳🇴🇨🇿
I love the Prague Hotline!!
Totally agree ❤beautiful Prague deserve time
I'll be there for New Years Eve! from Montana USA.
Will also be there then! Wisconsin here
I got to the rotating head 1 DAY! after it was "closed" 😆
Thanks for all the cool tips. 👍😊🇮🇪
I have never stepped outside the borders of my country. Will you ever come to look at the Grand Canyon? Don't get too close to the edge.
very helpfull advice.
You are just frigging hilarious ...
ı am going to visit Prague in 18th april so ı am curious about what ı need to wear in my 1 week pague trip . ı will be happy if you guys have suggestions for me !
2:55 On foot* sorry as an English teacher I couldn't resist, but great video :)
Thanks!
Now the Grand Canyon is something grand to make fun of. On the way down. Before you hit bottom. Then you begin to take it serious.
In prague just now went into small shop tried to charge 200ck for bottle of coke zero left quick
Thank you. How do you recommend to give tip while paying with card?
Just visited there a few days ago. So you're saying that for goulash (guláš) one shouldn't spend less than 500 Czk? I had two goulash plates each for around 300 Czk and I thought they were great. Maybe my palette isn't refined enough to appreciate good goulash.
Very helpful video and absolutely love your sense of humor 😄❤️
I'm Czech and I disagree about the tipping. It's really not mandatory 10% as you said.
Hi, this is camera guy Václav. I am also Czech and I disagree. Valery didn’t say it’s mandatory. She said “if you liked the service”. This is standard. We can obviously disagree. But even Pohlreich talks about it here: cnn.iprima.cz/restaurace-nemaji-duvod-zlevnovat-mini-pohlreich-uroven-gastronomie-se-ale-zlepsila-433964
For two days and a half I've already walked 70+ km here in Prague . 😂 Beautiful city . Another 2 days and a half to go . 😂
I was doing always a lot of research when I started traveling, I had plan for everything, tickets for everything, I knew exactly where everything is on a map, but after few years of traveling like that, you will get bored by that, so I don't care about research that much now, so it's more punk traveling now and it's even more fun. Like how to get from a train station to your hotel? I don't care, there must be a way. 🙂 But ofcourse it very depends on what country it is, when it's Poland or something close to us, I know there is always a way how to get somewhere by public transportation, you can just ask someone, but in some other countries, you really have to do some research or you will get stucked in middle of nothing. 😀
And authentic Czech restaurant is totaly the same as authentic Austrian restaurant, when I visited Vienna, I didn't like that too much there, but some things made me happy, like using coasters under beer and counting amount of beers by marks on paper. 😀
Went to Prague last year for a second time. Indeed two full days are not enough to enjoy everything, but more reason to go back again :) I laughed out loud about the authentic restaurant part. I never understood people who "want to get an experience like a local".... no, seriously you don't. People think we live in the instagram world, and then get shocked when us central-eastern europeans just want to down a shot of Becherovka/Pálinka and eat our Guláš/Pörkölt in peace as we stare at the table cloth trying to forget the hard days work :D
Thank you for your comment. We laughed out loud at “staring at the table cloth”
I plan to visit prague next months; how to contact u guys for enjoying the experience of walk tour
Hi. See our website www.tours-prague.eu
Nice
I go to Prague in the summer my dad has a house there
Been there, but, budapest better vibe some how. Mowabilyty whit 3day tiket, cheaper, warmer.
Been to both and prague has a 3 day tram ticket and is a lot cheaper 😅
I can attest to the "don't jump in front of the tram" advice!
It was unintentional on my part- I saw the tram coming, but I severely misjudged how fast he was driving that tram! He fired an angry blast of bell ringing at me, and I honestly thought he was going to run me over, but I got out of the way as fast as I could and escaped with only a huge amount of embarrassment.
In fact, if I ever met that driver, I would buy him a pilsner and offer him my sincerest apologies!
hahaha loved the authentic Czech restaurant one... been living here for 12 years now and this is one of my first shock when arriving thinking that I would get great service... well... you can... try to speak some Czech, a nice thank you helps out a lot but if you go to a local restaurant and keep hammering them in English, well expect not much help... made me want to learn the language more.
I would say that it very changed in last years with new generation of people working in services, they mostly speak at least some English and they know that beying rude is not ok. But even when you speak English, you have to know that in Czech culture, we greet and say thank you all the time and you can't skip this even when you enter shop or something, many foreigners don't know this and yes, when you don't greet, they can be very rude to you, like you can't even imagine how rude, because to greet and say thank you is considered as basic good manner here, in the past, kids were sometimes even slapped by parents on public for not saying hello, so this is really important. But in some other culture, they don't say hello and thank you at all, which cause a lot of problems. For example a lot of ukrainian refugees have problems because of that and they wrongly think that we are rude to them, but it's because they don't say hello when they enter a shop or something. I noticed the same thing in Latvia, when I was saying hello and thank you all the time, they were staring at me like if I was an idiot.
Also another similar cultural conflicts - when you accidentaly touch someone in public transportation or you accidentaly hit someone in a line in shop, you have to always say sorry, like ALWAYS, when you don't do that, it's gonna be really bad for you.
It's not that complicated to follow few basic rules, but ofcourse, most of tourists don't know about these rules like to let people leave tram first and then you can enter and then they say we are rude when some pensioner starts yelling to them.
@@Pidalin totally agree with you... Tourist staying in the city center will be ok but anyone travelling here should just take your time to lean some basic words like Dobre den which was my first words here when I arrived and just that part helped me so much to get better service, such a small thing,...
@@Pidalin In which universe people don't know that they have to greet, say thank you and how do you get on the tram? Have you all gone crazy?
@@chrisviklund After twelve years, you might as well be able to spell it correctly.
@@tigroussibirak8006 In some countries (like Iceland for example), they don't do that and it's just part of their culture.
Kutna Hora- would you say that is a reasonable day trip? Please.
Yes, definitely. It’s only 50 minutes by train. Take a direct train from Hlavni Nadrazi, it goes I think every 2 hours
Do I need cash or card or both?
Furthermore,in brief what they do are things that should not be done,until it's getting deeper and deeper... and that even the simplest thing they had to do (and that they always did wrong),turn into nothing.
That's cause they invented their selves some patterns.
I’m of half Czech, half Polish ancestry. For some reason, your comment on the “rough” authentic restaurants made me think of my grandparents and smile. They looked and sounded like places my grandparents would have preferred. Ha! Looking forward to visiting both Czechia and Poland in the near future.
This channel is the funniest Prague Guides channel on youtube!!! Hahahahah!! Okay, its the funniest Guide to anything on youtube. I skipped this video when it came out because I expected a boring what not to do, but I had no idea it was going to feature the prague tourist hotline!!!! hahaha!!! This girl has such a great sense of humor, its almost sad she doesn't have more viewers. Maybe if Prague had more attractions than just a wierd outdoor clock, this girl would get the views she deserves
I really wonder how incredibly stupid a person must be to be able to write that "Maybe if Prague had more attractions than just a wierd outdoor clock, this girl would get the views she deserves".
But I understand if you couldn't find anything else in Prague but clocks and you call them weird, then this video can satisfy your intellect.
Man muss sich auch nicht „alles“ bei einem Besuch ansehen, man darf sicher im Jahr darauf wiederkommen.😊
Dann hat man viel Zeit, die Stadt zu geniesen
Is it possible to see Valery with Janek in a joint episode?
Fajn video. I jako Brňák tyto typy oceňuji...i když se do Práglu následujících pár let nechytám. Třeba ten o chození pěšky...já měl za to, že krtkem je to nejlepší.
Good job Valérie. You're a talent. I like how you always talk about the Czech Republic. Bravo. 👍💯🔥🔥❤️❤️🌹🌹
I will be forever haunted by the memory of me not tipping the waiter that served me and my family when they came for a visit. He was really nice, my parents gave me money and left for a smoke so that I (a person living in the Czech Republic) pay the bill. I don't know what's gotten into me but I didn't tip him and out bill was more than a 1000czk, I felt bad almost immediately after leaving the place but didn't have the guts to go back.. I was stupid and I'm still really sorry about it :(
Don't worry, I am a local and really we usually do not tip, just round the amount up by CZK10,-
I know the tip is more common in the tourists areas since the waiters got used to it, well that is not a standard how it works here. You definitely do not have to tip.
@@bohuslavkanovsky4345 yeah, I don't usually tip either, but yeah it was a tourist area, the bill was quite big and the waiter was nice, I just didn't tip and I still don't know why :(
I usually tip now when I'm in a good mood and the servers talk to me :D
I just got back from 10 days there and that was not enough, need atleast 1 month.
She's a cutie and I enjoy her videos.
Yep, she's an intelligent, attractive, bright personable young lady. As an Old Fart however, it's hard to resist the temptation to try to reach through the screen and scrub some of the excess paint off at times. 😉😊
when you say "A lot of people are confused about tipping" do you mean a lot of Americans are confused about tipping?" We are jus stupid, uneducated or intentionally ignorant. Many if not most of the Central and Eastern European cities I stay in have a choice of "Service included" or not required. As a resident of the NY Metro area, I always carefully and generously (by local standard) tip. The food is usually excellent and the service excellent. The wait staff deserves to be treated like the professional that they are
I was there for 6 days, and it still wasn't enough to see all I wanted to see.
Great tips ... ohhh, you too get the 10% when I am satisfied ????
II like Chinese Food
I returned from Prague on Tuesday, however, my trip was over shadowed by the sad death of the young Slovak opera star Patrícia Janečková at the age of 25.
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Authentic means rough--hilarious.
That AUTHENTIC CZECH RESTAURANT reminds me of..
Few times nice clean smooth looking people, some even with children, asked for restaurant in german, a language I don't speak and I understand only few words.
They said something like: "Entschuldige, wo ist GER GER GER beisel GER GER GER? So I knew that first words mean "Excuse me, where is..." and "Pajzl" means realy dirty kind of pub in czech language (yeah, we has some history with Germans). So I've send them to closest of dirty places I know wondering, why they pull even children to place where it smells and people smoke.
Just later I found that in austrian german 'Beisel' means just 'Restaurant'. So... yeah. Sorry dear Austrian family, I didn't do it on purpose. I just ment that you mean it. I even asked twice: Pajzl?! So I've tried! :D
- Sorry from Pražan
hold on, did the snail say "yeah"?
I should have watched this video before I visited Prague. Literally all the thing she said are all the things I thought after my visit.
I bought dozens of tickets before hand via online, and thought it was a good deal, until I visited the city and realized it wasn't. But I still had a great time there, so it doesn't really matter. But if you are planning to go there, don't make the same mistakes as me.
BTW, unless it's like big concert or opera, you don't need to buy those music concert that take place in church ahead of time, they sell those tickets on the spot, on the day of concert, and sometimes they give you discount as well (the man who was selling the ticket offered me 50% discount on that day of concert because I went to music concert day before, and he saw me there).
Another mistake I made in Prague was buying all those tickets only for the good view, like buying ticket for zizkov tower, clock tower, river cruising...etc. I am not saying those sight wasn't worth it, but there are plenty of free options as well, and I didn't had to go to all of them. For example, national museum has awesome view, prague castle, and Lobkowicz museum also has nice view as well. Of course you have to pay to enter those places (except prague castle, unless you want to enter churches and exhibitions), but you also get to enjoy the museum. Also I realized this later, but you don't have to pay for zizkov tower, if you are going to the restaurant that's right below the observatory. So there's many way to enjoy the view of prague without paying for all those tickets. But my favorite viewing spot in Prague would be Vysherad. Entire park is like a balcony above the city, and there're plenty of benches where you can sit, eat and relax. Also it's free (unless you want to enter museums like prague castle). Moreover, anywhere you take photo is like instagram spot in Prague, so you really don't need to look for the places to take photo.
No information on your TH-cam site to indicate where you are from. But the slightly odd use of English in this post strongly suggests that you learned it in the same school as the young lady fronting this video? 😉
@@theoztreecrasher2647 I'm not from europe, but I learned my english from the internet. So yes, I propbably learned my English from same place as Valery
@@grf411 😉😊👍👍
Prague is a beautiful city to visit. Even the neighboring towns. It is incredible how much they have to see and experience. Having said that, the notion of not tipping is just plain rude and unacceptable ANYWHERE. Also, going to Prague thinking you are going to see all in1-2 days is simply fool hardy and perhaps should not be travelling at all. Thank you Valery for a great video as usual.🌹🙏👌
That's not true. Not tipping is absolutely acceptable in many places. What's considered cheap is when you are paying with cash, and instead of at least rounding up, you wait for them to give you back some spar change. That's kinda rude, but not tipping? Nah, this is not the US.
Yes, waiters should be paid a living wage. It is not expected to tip in my country because they are paid a living wage. It is the greed of the US class system which makes the clients fit the bill and still it is uncertain for the waiters if there is no customers.
If the service is great, the waiter is working really hard, has a genuine, pleasant feeling to them that has added to my mood, I do tip all the same and also at high end places which require a lot of skills from waiters but it shouldn't be a given that you have to pay every waiter's wage.