Czech Republic

Arriving by Plane.

The main airport in the Czech Republic is Prague. This is situated approximately 10km from the City Centre, and is accessible via a regular bus service and short metro ride (see the section on public transport in Prague for details of this). This airport has both normal and economy flights from all over Europe, and to a limited extent the rest of the world. The national airline CSA offer suprisingly reasonable flights to many capitals and regional airports in Europe. In addition Smartwings is a budget airline based at Prague airport which flies to a dozen European capitals. A number of budget airlines based in other countries run flights to Prague, particularly Easyjet from various European hubs, Jet 2 from Leeds and Manchester in the UK, and Fly Globespan from Scotland.

Arriving By Train.

Several international routes run through the Czech republic. The most important of these are the following

• Prague is on the main route for the Eurocity trains from Hamburg and Berlin in Germany to Bratislava in Slovakia and Budapest in Hungary. Prague is approximately 5 hours from Berlin and Bratislava on this train, and 7 hours from Budapest. Breclav, at the other end of the country is 9 hours from Berlin and 1 hour from Bratislava.
• Cesky Draahy (the Czech national railway company), run trains from Prague via Cesky Budevice (Budvar in German), and via Breclav in the east of the country to Vienna several time a day. It is possible to save some money on this journey by catching a local train from Vienna to Breclav, and then buying a ticket for the EC trains from here to Prague.
• PKP the Polish national railway run a daily train from Budapest to Katowice and Warsaw which calls at Breclav in the east of the Czech republic
• A Euronight service runs from Prague to Krakow in the south of Poland
. This train has an extremely bad reputation for theft.

Many international trains to Prague only run to Holesovice station, 3 metro stops to the north of Prague Hlavni Nadrazi (central station). The best place to get timetable and price information about these trains is the Deutsche Bahn website.

Arriving By Coach.

Eurolines run coaches to the Czech republic from various locations in Europe.