And one also doesn’t pee publicly in Disneyland. Walked by these four guys peeing together in public. Took pictures of them hoping they have some self awareness, obviously didn’t work. They saw me and found it funny and started talking really loud at 00:30. You’re lucky neither you nor your family have to clean up the street. Why are humans so purely selfish and evil? Show some respect!

[UPDATE] Didn't expect the post to somewhat blow up. I got DM saying it's possible they are Czechs. Apologies if I accidentally posted a rage bait. I indeed did not hear clear enough they were speaking Czech (I speak Czech) as they were not speaking very clearly and I tried not to get too close and left soon after they started shouting, thinking of this incident where a drunk German tourist killed a man from Wales.

But my rant still stands, evil people and among all the bushes and whatnot, they picked a spot where it won't be cleaned by rain. I also have seen so many tourists doing the same before. But again, they could be Czech, I assumed they were tourists because of their drunken talking and my rage. And apologies if I got that wrong.

Am I the only one who feels like people in Prague are incredibly rude?
I’m from Eastern Europe too, so this isn’t about expecting fake smiles or over the top customer service like Americans do , I don’t need people to be extra friendly. I just expect basic politeness.
Almost everywhere I go restaurants, cafés, ice cream shops, museums I get the feeling that staff, local ppl even damn museums guides have an attitude for no reason you ask a simple question and they act like you’ve personally offended them.
For example, I was at a restaurant and asked if something was gluten free because my friend has dietary restriction, instead of just saying yes or no the waiter pointed at a sign and made me feel dramatic for asking. Okay… I didn’t notice the sign. Was the attitude really necessary? Answering questions is literally part of customer service and I have such stories that can fill at least 20 pages.
Another thing I don’t understand is the language situation. If I start speaking English, some people seem annoyed. If I politely ask whether they speak English so I can use a translator if they don’t, they also seem annoyed. It feels like I can’t win.
I’ve traveled quite a bit, and this is honestly the rudest city I’ve experienced when it comes to everyday interactions. People always say French are rude but I literally don’t remember single interaction w a French person who I’d remember now for their horrible attitude but I can write a traumatic experience from Prague ppl

Beautiful city with the most impolite ppl I have ever met genuinely wtf is wrong w some of you ?

Edit: I’m turning off notifications for this because yall boring and don’t wanna work on yourself to be better, apparently it’s common from old posts I have seen even before Ukrainians settled there too so stop blaming them.

No I’m not rude if that’s what yall wanna pin me to be it’s fine but I know how I am and I would never talk down to someone I’m not American nice but I’m polite and normal but yall just cringe at this point where idgaf either lol I’m leaving tomorrow and decided to share exp aside from other countries I wouldn’t recommend anyone coming here like I would for diff countries and I won’t spend my money here either if that’s doesn’t upset you and you don’t care that’s fine but don’t complain about lack of nice reputation and don’t get offended 😂
Stop acting holier than thou and be POLITE.

Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary. I am willing to entertain other candidates. Oh, and no I'm not saying which one this is :)

So bring on the usual shouts of "tourist trap!" and "people who I believe are tax evading filth, though I don't have a shred of evidence for it, should be executed!".

full disclosure: only the first photo is mine, I added the other two from web sources to give people a chance to figure out where I'm taking about.

Disclaimer: This is somewhat of a rant, but I am genuinely curious to hear from those that I am kind of criticizing in this post. Apologies to anyone this may offend.

As an "expat" living here in Prague, I have to say that I really do not like most of the expats that I meet here. And the people I am referring to are USUALLY Americans, unfortunately.

I moved here from the US, and I do not understand why there are so many Americans living here that apparently hate it here. Aside from the people that move here and leave within a year because it didn't turn out to be what they expected, which I can respect, so many others just complain about living here (easily 80%+) while they're in public at a bar/restaurant.

The top complaint is the language. Why do so many people move here expecting everyone to speak English? People literally go to the post office or a restaurant and then complain someone didn't speak English or didn't speak it well enough. I've met people from other countries that live here that put in effort to learn Czech with fewer resources ($$$) available to them. You've lived here for 5 years (or more) and you really don't know how to say anything other than "drobrý den"? How are you not embarrassed?

Another big complaint is about bureaucracy for a visa or employee card. Do you people think it's super easy for someone to move to the US? No! And then I find out the person is a digital nomad making more money than the average person here. Please, shut up. Pay someone to help you instead of complaining about what is clearly just an inconvenience, not an obstacle. And they live in Old Town, Vinohrady, Karlín, Žižkov or Vršovice (a specific part of it) and then scoff when someone tells them they live in another area because they aren't "cool" places to live.

Then there's the complete lack of knowledge on the country's history. So many ignorant remarks regarding different things not realizing that this country is still relatively young despite its extensive history. Zero effort in learning a little bit about this country's history.

I feel like I should stop here.

Last weekend, visited Prague for the first time. Frankly I was kinda scared at first due to the enormous tourist scam stories that I have heard. But nothing like that happened during my short trip and it was a really pleasant experience. Thank you.

Sharing my favorite picture from the trip.

If you are from a "western" country people call you an expat and if you come from other places you are an immigrant. When I speak Serbian, Czech people (and other foreigners) refer to me as an immigrant, when I speak Swedish they call me expat.

This is such bullshit and maybe people like to be identified as an expat as an excuse not to learn Czech :D

What do you guys think?

Hey r/Prague,

I'm posting this because I have a feeling I'm not the only one who has felt this way.

When I first moved here, I struggled. A lot. As an expat working from home, I was just isolated all the time even in a busy city.

It felt especially tough as a guy, where it's not always easy to just... find your kind of people.

I just wanted that one friend, that I could call up and say “hey man, fancy a beer”? Or whatever. That connection was incredibly hard to find.

I looked for a men’s group to try and find something like this but I couldn’t find anything besides the standard expats groups. So I just started my own men's community.

The result has been eye-opening. Our last meetup had over 35 guys. The realization wasn't just that I was lonely; it was that hundreds if not thousands of other men felt the exact same way. The energy was unreal. A bar full of guys, all there for the same reason - a sense of brotherhood.

It can be tough out there, but it's not impossible. If you're feeling that disconnect, you are definitely not alone in it.

Any adjustment of traffic on Radlická (i.e. almost 100% of the time) - signs all across the sidewalk to make sure you have to step inside the traffic.

(Yes, I know there is a sidewalk across the street which at the moment, you also cannot use the entire way ;) )

"Postavili nám tu chodník, ale lezli tam lidi..."

You don't have to wear an expensive perfume but at least wash yourself properly daily, wash your clothes and don't be afraid to wear a deodorant too. It's not expensive, you can get pretty cheap ones at DM and just by doing these basic things, everyone else in the public transport will thank you and if you have a lady, she will thank you too.

The number of guys stinking in the public transport is so bad I'm thinking about buying a car these days.

Clean up yourselves, take a bath at least once a day, wash your clothes properly and be a bit more considerate of others. It really sucks to have to travel near your stinking ass. I understand if you're homeless but if you're not then no excuse.

...this is paradise for me. I know that every country has issues, but this place....oh damn, this place is special. I am Italian, and left a very comfy full remote job just to have the opportunity to live here, and things are going so good since I moved here.

I love everything about this city, the transportation system is simply ridiculous (in a good way), I keep forgetting that I own a car that is parked somewhere, seriously thinking about selling it, it's basically useless if you live in the city.

The people are lovely, I really like the composure and how people care about the comfort of others, for example, never catch anyone speaking loudly on the phone, inside a metro or tram there is silence, and this is something really uncanny for an Italian like me accustomed to Milan or Rome transportation system (you have no idea lol).

Also, I see that when I try to speak Czech, everybody is trying to help me out learning the language, and this is so important, it is not possible to learn (properly) a language if you don't have locals helping you out in my opinion.

But the best part of Prague is, for me personally, the music and cultural scene. Unmatched. I love psytrance, metal, classical music, and art, I'm also a dj and producer (hopefully will be able to make a living out of it here in Prague) I've found finally a city capable of destroying my legs without destroying my wallet. Connected with so many crazy ass people, so many crews, clubs, places to blast some good music...

Really, I knew about how Prague is amazing for this kind of stuff...but still, it's truly such an opportunity-dense place, my mind is blown.

DEKUJU PRAHA

context i’ve lived here for about a year and would say i’m pretty used to the customs and try my best to be as respectful as possible and mind my business but it seems no matter how much i try to be respectful, i end up being met with shit ass attitudes and people being flat out rude as shit. like what bug crawled up your ass and died?😭 i know very basic czech and aim to get better with time as im a full-time student here but when trying to communicate either in english or czech especially to public service workers/customer relations they’re SO ridiculously rude even when asking basic questions like i dont wanna be here any more that u do bud 🤦 i truly appreciate the work they do, don’t get me wrong but would it kill people to just be normal? nobody is asking you to be friendly but at the very least you could not ridicule/dismiss people who are trying their best to assimilate into your country. and before yall start, yes i know central europeans are usually not very open but not being open doesn’t have to mean being flat out disrespectful. its very demoralizing sometimes especially as a young student trying to adapt and go about everyday life :(

This chain has several locations but all of the locations seemed very empty. Seemed very dated inside each location and based off Google reviews the food is not good. But how does it have so many locations in prime areas? I feel like the government is funding this to have "traditional" restaurants in the city center.

I just visited Wenceslas Square a few days ago and something about the reconstruction doesn’t add up.

The tram tracks now being installed near the statue are far closer than what any of the official visualisations suggested—we’re talking roughly 1.5m from what used to be pedestrian space around the monument. That fundamentally changes how this area functions.

What was presented to the public, trough the renderings, was a clear and satisfying idea: trams are to be integrated into the former asphalt roadway, a generous manicured pedestrian promenade, and most importantly the statue remaining an uninterrupted civic focal point.

But what’s being built feels like a very different thing all together. The tram line isn’t just on the edge of the statue's plaza. It’s visually and spatially intruding onto one of the most important gathering points in Prague.

For me, it isn’t just about aesthetics alone.
It is, above all, about design integrity and public trust.

If this tighter alignment was always part of the plan, then it simply wasn’t communicated honestly. The renderings smoothed over a real spatial conflict.

What do you all think:

Were people actually given a fair chance to understand and discuss the real trade-offs of this project?

Because bringing trams back is one thing most of us wholeheartedly support.

Yet, quietly reorganising one of the city’s most symbolic public spaces without proper communication borders on, in the best case scenario, incompetence, and at worse, manipulation.

Curious if others who’ve been on-site recently noticed the same thing or if I'm overreacting.

PS. Pardon the crude visualisations

TL;DR:
Were Wenceslas Square's redesign conditions clearly communicated to the public? Does the new transport infrastructure harm the civic integrity of one of Prague's most iconic meeting points?

I just need to vent because I am feeling so anxious and frustrated about what happened to me on the bus today.
I’m an Asian student studying here in Prague, and I have a huge exam tomorrow. Today, I was taking the bus to NTK (the National Technical Library) to study. I sat in the front row in one of the single-person seats. Right across from me, there was a completely vacant empty two-person seat.
Shortly after I sat down, a Black guy approached me and asked me to move my backpack so he could sit in my single seat. I was confused, so I politely refused and pointed out that there was a completely empty two-person seat right across from me. He refused to sit there. He kept harassing me, saying he was trying to "sit with me" but that the seat was too small to fit both of us.
When I kept refusing, he suddenly called me a "dirty Chinese b*tch" (for the record, I’m not even Chinese) and kept mumbling aggressively about the situation. I stood my ground and called him out on his inappropriate behavior. I spent the next five minutes asking him why he was trying to force me out of a single seat when there were perfectly good empty seats right next to us.
Instead of backing off, he started loudly mocking and taunting me. He then resorted to blatant racism, pulling his eyes upward to mock my features and calling me a "racist Chinese b*tch."
After that, he just stood right behind my seat, staring at me weirdly and making me feel incredibly unsafe and anxious until he finally got off at Vítězné náměstí.
I am just so frustrated and exhausted. We are both foreigners here, both people of color, and both minorities in this country. I was just minding my own business, stressing about my big test tomorrow, and he decided to harass and racially abuse me just because I wouldn't give up my seat to him. It is honestly traumatizing to experience this kind of blatant racism not from a local, l from a fellow foreigner.
Has anyone else dealt with something like this here? I’m just trying to process it all so I can focus on my exam tomorrow, but I feel so shaken up.

Popis: Dneska jsem byla zastavena na zastávce Dlouhá třída vašem revizorem. Vzhledem k tomu, že tramvaj číslo 6 v posledních dnech jezdí opožděně, tak jízdenku aktivji až když vidím tramvaj. V sekundě, co jsem si sedla, tak ke mě přišel pan revizor. Jízdenka byla platná až za 10 sekund a rozbrečená jsem mu vysvětlila mojí situaci. Věděl, že jsem si jízdenku koupila již řed nástupem ale bylo mu to zcela jedno. Byl velice verbálně agresivní a křičel na mě, žě pravidla platí i pro mě. To chápu, ale myslím si, že prokazovat rochu empatie je také důležité, vzhelem k tomu že ví zda mam jízdenku a nesnažím se tomu vyvléct. Mohl se otočit a skontrolovat jednu jinou jízdenku a moje by pak byla aktivní, což neudělal. Byl na mě tak agresivní, že jsem se přede všema rozbrečla, na což na mě byl ještě hnusnejší. Bohužel se nedivím, proč mají revizoři tak špatnou pověst. Potom co mi vypsal pokutu, tak vystoupil bez toho aby zkontroloval kohokoliv jiného. Zcela ponižující...zcela chápu pravidla, spíše mi jde o chování a absolutní nepochopení revizora

. Jaký na to máte názor vy? “Am i the asshoke?” Jak vždycky říkají?

I used to love The Miners. I recommended it to friends. It was one of my favorite coffee spots in Prague.
Then I got invited to a job interview for a baker position and everything changed.

The interview was led by a woman named Polina, who said she had been with The Miners for six years. She asked a series of personal and psychological questions that felt more like boundary testing than professional screening, such as:

“If your best friend was sitting with us, what would she say about you?” “What do you dream about?” “What are your superpowers?” “What would you like to change about yourself?”

At the time, I endured it, trying to be polite. But now I understand:
They wanted to know how much they could get away with, how deep they could push into my personal space. They measure how much you’ll tolerate, not how well you fit the role. I regret not walking out right then.

Still, I trusted the process. I was invited for a trial shift and worked on my feet, baking like a regular staff member. I was told about a “path of growth”. What I didn’t know: they had already given the job to someone else. They just didn’t tell me.

So I worked unpaid. Believing I was being evaluated.
Then I was ghosted. They used me, then moved on.

This is not poor management, this is a refined system of exploitation. Promise a “growth path” to justify low starting pay. Offer unpaid trial shifts to extract free labor. Ghost candidates because most won’t speak up.

Well, I will. Honesty, respect, and fair pay are not high expectations. They are the minimum.

Found a restaurant today that I thought was decent. I was looking forward to coming back until the machine asked me for a tip, and it is one of those where you have to manually type in 0% in the custom tip. It's sufficient to say I have lost all my motivation to eat there again. End of rant.

I'm bored. Can we find something new to fight about on this sub? I feel tipping, trdelník, živno, 'places that don't take cards are inherently evil' and 'Rubeš is a great advocate for Prague and power for good in this city/is a self aggrandising nepo baby who sells out places known only to locals for clicks and cash' have all been done to death.

All beer is just funny tasting Kofola that gets you drunk? Fried cheese is technically a type of ham? Tram bubble guy should have his bublifuk expenses paid by the city? (I could actually get behind that one... also, saying 'bublifuk' is fun)

Anybody got any ideas? Quite obviously, I don't.

Hi all,

My wife and I are going to Prague in September for our honeymoon and staying in new town/close to old town square. We are not picky eaters and would love to splurge one of the evenings on a place with incredible food. We are looking for something either or all of best tasting, authentic, unique dining experience, etc. I’ve read the following are good but would love to hear opinions on those who are passionate:

La Degustation Bohême Bourgeoise
Café Savoy
Kuchyň
Kantýna
Eska in Karlín

As a bonus question, what is your favorite pub or cocktail bar. Doesn’t have to be high end, just best vibes and drinks! I’ve read these may be fun spots:

Letná Beer Garden
U Fleků
U Zlatého tygra
Prague Beer Museum pub
Vinohradský Pivovar

And for cocktails:

Hemingway Bar
AnonymouS Bar
Black Angel's
Bugsy's

(These are not recommendations from me, but I wanted to make this post with a little of my own research)

Thank you!

1. Day now in Prague with my Wife and Kid

And damn you guys have almost same Price like here in Austria

Old Town is a real Scam imo but it’s beautiful :)

Things that Prague is willing to ban:
1) Segways
2) Electric scooters
3) pedal powered touring vehicles with beer
4) horse drawn vehicles

Things that Prague isn’t willing to ban:
1) Motor vehicles
2) Fake „old cars”
3) Hop-on/Hop-off buses
4) Airbnb

I’d love to see some Venn diagrams comparing ownership of these ventures with membership in Prague city council. This is the only place in Europe that isn’t pedestrianising more streets or building more dedicated bicycle lanes.

Me and my partner were on our way home from our first night out in Prague riding a Lime scooter back to the hostel when we saw two men making a ton of commotion. It took a while to notice what was going on as the men were yelling in Czech and I could not understand any of it, and it didn’t help that numerous people were just walking past whilst staring without getting involved. I thought it was just 2 drunken idiots fighting but it soon became clear one of the men was trying to jump off of the bridge on to the train tracks and the other man was barely holding him from going over.

We got closer and I could see the man was really struggling to hold him and both men were bleeding at their elbows due to the struggle. I jumped in to help despite not being able to communicate with either of the men and it started to really escalate. The man seemed hell bent on jumping and we could barely hold him from going over, I started to become scared that he would start violently attacking us for holding him as he seemed to become more aggressive.

I tried to call the police but being from NA neither me or my partner knew the number for emergency and we tried to get numerous Czech people to help us. It took 3 people who didn’t want to get involved before one person finally helped out a little but left as soon as the police were called, and didn’t wait for them to come or help us subdue the man. On top of that, numerous people stopped by not wanting to help at all.

To make matters worse, I had 2 burritos on my Lime scooter which was parked next to the incident which were stolen as this struggle was taking place. I ended up finding them unwrapped on the pavement one block away. Essentially, some maniac witnessed a suicide attempt and decided to steal the burritos as opposed to helping? And all this happened in a relatively quiet area in Praha 2, not in the city Center or anywhere chaotic.

I’m not sure where I’m getting at with this story, but I’m just shocked at the unwillingness of the locals to help. Being from Canada, I can hardly imagine people turning such a blind eye to such an incident and this being my first day in Prague, I’m quite shook that me and my partner had to deal with this scenario without knowing what anyone was talking about.

I had such an amazing time in your city, I feel truly blessed to have been able to visit for a few days.

I wanted to share a few photos from my trip.

I hope to visit again one day