I’m a huge fan of most city cards. I absolutely loved using them in London, Dublin and Hawaii.

However, I have also found the Amsterdam one to be pretty useless, unless you just want to go to a ton of museums.

With that in mind, I think it’s a good idea to always do a little research before buying any kind of city pass.

One of the awesome things about the Prague Card website is that it has a calculator that let’s you figure out whether or not you’re saving enough with the card.

Another thing I love about City Cards is the fact that if I’m going somewhere I know nothing about, then I can just pick plans based off the attractions offered on the card, rather than doing a ton of research.

I know, sometimes the research is part of the fun of traveling, in the case of this trip to Prague, I felt weirdly overwhelmed and was all about just getting the card.

Prague is a fairly walkable city, but if you want to see some areas and not just spend all day walking to them, you probably want to use the trams and subways. My cousin and I walked everywhere the first day and after that we made an effort to figure out the public transport system.

The Prague Card comes with a travel pass that covers subways (the metro), trams, busses, river ferries, and the Petrin Hill funicular.

Now, to be honest, we didn’t get checked for our ticket once in four days in Prague. The way they check for tickets is an actual person walks through and can ask for your ticket. Not only did we not get checked, but we never saw a single person checking anyone.

That being said, ya know, be honest and buy a ticket. One day costs 110 CZK, three days cost 310 CZK.

You can check the most up to date currency conversions here. I also recommend downloading a free app like Currency Converter before heading abroad.

To start, my cousin and I both looked through the attractions offered on the card and picked what we’d like to do:

• Charles Bridge Museum – Free – Saved 170 CZK
• Prague Historical City Tour – Free – Saved 400 CZK
• Prague Castle Tour B – Free – Saved 250 CZK
• Prague Concert  – 50% Off – Saved 245 CZK
• Petrin Mirror Maze – Free – Saved 90 CZK
• Petrin Observation Tower – Free – Saved 150 CZK
• Museum of the Senses – 20% Off – Saved 58 CZK
• Zizkov Tower –Saved 28% – Saved 70 CZK
• Old Town and Underground Walking Tour After Dark – 50% Off – Saved 250 CZK
• Ghost Tour – 40% Off –Saved 148 CZK
• Troja Chateau – Free –120 CZK
• Total: 2261 CZK  ($99.69 USD)

We decided on a 3 day card, which costs 1810 CZK ($79.80 USD), so it looked like we were doing pretty good.

Once we were actually in Prague, we did the following:

• Charles Bridge Museum – Free – Saved 170 CZK
• Prague Castle Tour B – Free – Saved 250 CZK
• Prague Concert  – 50% Off – Saved 245 CZK
• Petrin Mirror Maze – Free – Saved 90 CZK
• Petrin Observation Tower – Free – Saved 150 CZK
• Museum of the Senses – 20% Off – Saved 58 CZK
• Old Town and Underground Walking Tour After Dark – 50% Off – Saved 250 CZK
• Powder Tower – Free – 100 CZK
• Prague Venice Cruise – Free – 340 CZK
• Zizkov Tower –Saved 28% – Saved 70 CZK
• Total: 2033 CZK ($89.64 USD)

So overall, it was worth the cost for us.

It’s also worth noting that we not only generally slept in until around 9 or 10 AM, but we would also go out to a leisurely breakfast each morning, so really, most of our sightseeing started around 11 AM/noon.

While we really liked this pace, I have definitely also gone on vacations where we squeezed every available sightseeing moment out of the trip. You could easily hit at least one, if not more, spots in that time if you’re an early riser.

For example, we both really wanted to go to the Zizkov Television Tower because it had all these pictures of these giant ridiculous babies crawling up it.

SPOILER: THE BABIES HAVE BEEN SOLD TO SOME AMERICAN AND AREN’T THERE ANYMORE.

This upset us greatly. But anyway… if we’d actually gotten up a little earlier that day, we could’ve also hit the Jewish Cemetery and several other spots around the Tower.

There are some things on the card that we did that I could’ve skipped – like the Museum of Senses, but my cousin really wanted to go, and it was raining and cold that day, so overall, not the worst thing. And we did get a lot of cool, weird pictures.

Also, if you have the card, totally go to the Petrin Mirror Maze. If you don’t have the card, absolutely skip that thing. It takes about three minutes to walk through and isn’t very interesting.

We both loved the Prague Venice Cruise and the Castle. I really recommend going to one of the classical music concerts. We both enjoyed the one at the Castle.

The underground walking tour was really not all that great and we could’ve happily skipped it in retrospect and we were both kind of disappointed we never made it to the Historical City Tour.

The Prague City Card has a lot of discounted attractions as opposed to free, which always makes me a little leery when buying the Card. I like to know that I’ve budgeted for the things I want to see and now I’m set when I buy a City Card and that’s just not true with this one.

That being said, we did still come out ahead with these cards, and they certainly did provide some guidance on figuring out what to do, even after deviating from our original goals, so I have to say it was worth it.

A Few Other Sightseeing Suggestions

We went to dinner and a show one night at a place called U Pavouka. I had somehow overlooked the Czeck Folklore Show with Dinner on the Prague Card.

Personally, I wish we had gone to that instead.

U Pavouka was a dinner show in a really neat old restaurant in the heart of the city and the fire spinning finale is actually very cool, but the food is really not great and the show is a little lackluster. They do have unlimited beer and wine if that’s your thing, but since it wasn’t mine and my cousin’s, that didn’t do much for us.

I would pretty much call it the epitome of a tourist trap. The atmosphere is worth checking out, but you could just go eat lunch there during your trip. For 1190 CZK, there are a lot of other places I would’ve rather gone.

I’m torn between telling you to run to or away from The Chocolate Museum.

Hands down, weirdest museum I’ve ever been in. Sometimes the exhibit is about chocolate and sometimes it’s definitely not. We went in on the rainy day and I literally can’t even with the weirdness of the place. So, for me, I kind of loved it. For others, they may not.

If you do go to the Chocolate Museum, absolutely do the Wax Museum add-on. It was genuinely pretty cool because there’s an entire section of wax displays of Czeck folklore stories and they’re interactive so you can take cool pictures with a lot of them.

I do not recommend going into the Dr. Faust room, hiding behind the desk and waiting for your cousin to come in so you can scare the crap out of her, because the next person who walks in the room might not be your cousin and they might think you’re nuts.

They also have the most ridiculous looking Donald Trump that was pretty amazing.

If you go to Petrin Hill, absolutely check out the Magical Grotto of some exceptionally strange art. It cost 70 CZK and was worth every penny. Very pretty. Super weird. It’s down by the midway stop of the Funicular.

Side note to the Magical Grotto: So I checked out some reviews too to try to find the price we paid again before writing this and a TON of female solo travelers wrote not to go here along. My cousin and I had zero issues with the young guy who was working the door, but I just felt like with that many reviews saying things felt off by that many women, I should mention it here too.

Prague also has a lot of great jazz clubs. We went to Jazz Club Ungelt on our last night and really enjoyed the band performing there.

If you’re thinking of visiting Prague, my lasting impression of the city is that it’s beautiful on the outside and super weird on the inside.