Transportation – Arriving & Departing (Prague)

I. By Plane
Prague’s Ruzyne Airport
Tel. 220-113-314, www.prg.aero or www.csl.cz
Is located 19km (12 miles) west of the city center.
Prague Airport ranks among the most modern ones in Europe.

Getting Downtown
You can make your way from the airport to your hotel by:

Private Airport Pick Up
- Most convenient airport – hotel transportation.
- A driver holding a sign with your name on it and standing at the arrival gate will wait for you.
- Book your private airport-hotel transportation here.

Official Airport Taxis
- Line up in front of the arrivals terminal. The Volkswagen Passats queued directly outside the terminal’s main exit all belong to the same company.
- Negotiate the fare in advance and have it written down.
- Expect to pay about 700Kc to 800Kc for the 20 or so minutes to the city center.
- If you want to save money, find other travelers to share the expense.

CEDAZ Airport Shuttle
- Tel. 220-114-296, www.aas.cz/cedaz
- Cedaz Operates an airport shuttle bus from the airport to námestí Republiky in central Prague.
- It leaves the airport daily every 30 minutes from 5:30am to 9:30pm and stops near the námestí Republiky metro station.
- The shuttle costs 90Kc for the 30-minute trip.

City Bus
- Even cheaper is city bus no. 119, which takes passengers from the bus stop at the right of the airport exit to the Dejvická metro station, green line A (and back).
- The bus/metro combo costs 26Kc, but the bus makes many stops.
- Travel time, airport – city center (bus and metro), is about 40 minutes.

II. By Train
- Passengers traveling to Prague by train typically arrive at one of two central stations: – Hlavní nádrazí (Main Station) or Nádrazí Holesovice (Holesovice Station).
- Both are on line C of the metro systém and offer a number of services, including money exchange, a post office, and a luggage-storage area.

Hlavní nádrazí (Main Railway Station)
- Wilsonova trída, Praha 2 (tel. 224-614-071), is the grander and more popular station which also means more pickpockets are making their living here.
- Built in 1909, this once beautiful Art Nouveau structure was one of the city’s beloved architectural gems before it was connected to a darkly modern dispatch hall in the mid-1970s.
- From the train platform, you’ll walk down a flight of stairs and through a tunnel before arriving in the ground-level main hall, which contains ticket windows, a useful Prague Information Service office that sells city maps and dispenses information, and restrooms.

CD Center
- Tel. 840-112-113, www.cd.cz, run by the Czech Railways.
- It provides domestic and international train information as well as currency exchange.
- Open daily 7 to 11am, 11:30am to 2pm, and 2:30 to 5:45pm.
- Visa and MasterCard are accepted.
- An information window is open 3:15am to 12:40am
(the train station is closed 1-3am).

Luggage Room
The station’s basement holds a left-luggage counter: open 24 hours and charges 30Kc per bag per day. The lockers aren’t secure and should be avoided.

Leaving the Train Station
- After you leave the modern terminal hall, a 5-minute walk to the left puts you at the top of Wenceslas Square and 15 minutes by foot from Old Town Square.
- Metro line C connects the station easily to the other two subway lines and the rest of the city.
- Metro trains depart from the lower level, and tickets, costing 20Kc to 26Kc, are available from the newsstand near the metro entrance.
- Gouging taxi drivers line up outside the station and are plentiful throughout the day and night but are not recommended.

Nádrazí Holešovice
- Partyzánská at Vrbenského, Praha 7 (tel. 224-615-865), Prague’s second train station, is usually the terminus for trains from Berlin and other points north.
- Although it’s not as centrally located as the main station, its more manageable size and location at the end of metro line C make it almost as convenient.

III. By Bus
The Central Bus Station-Florenc
- Krizíkova 4-6, Praha 8, Tel. 900-144-444 for timetable info,
- A few blocks north of the main train station.
- Most local and long-distance buses arrive here.
- The adjacent Florenc metro station is on both lines B and C.
- Florenc station is relatively small and doesn’t have many visitor services.