Prague 6 Day Itinerary

Prague 6-Day Itinerary

Prague just doubled the price of its Airport Express bus, from 200 to 400 crowns round trip as of January 2026, and most visitors still do not know it. Skip it and take bus 119 to the Nádraží Veleslavín metro stop instead: it runs every five to ten minutes, costs a flat 40 crowns, and gets you into the city just as fast once you factor in waiting for the express to depart.

Day 1: Arrival & Old Town Exploration

  • Morning: Check in and get your bearings. Buy a 24-hour public transport ticket for around 120 crowns rather than the old-style paper Prague Card sold as a flat 100 crowns; that figure is outdated and the real multi-day sightseeing pass now runs well over a thousand crowns depending on validity, so compare it against just paying individual entrance fees before committing.
  • Afternoon: Old Town Square, the Astronomical Clock, and Tyn Church are the obvious first stop, but go early or late in the day, since the square gets uncomfortably packed with tour groups from mid-morning through late afternoon. Walk to the Jewish Quarter, Josefov, and see the Jewish Museum complex, Pinkas Synagogue, and the Old Jewish Cemetery, whose headstones are stacked in layers because the cemetery could not expand outward for centuries.
  • Dinner: A traditional Czech restaurant near Old Town serving proper goulash and roast pork with dumplings sets the tone for the week, but check your bill line by line before paying. Inflated tourist-zone bills with unrequested bread baskets or padded service charges are a well-documented problem right around this square specifically.
  • Tips: Pay in Czech koruna when a card terminal asks whether to charge you in crowns or your home currency. Always pick crowns; the “convenience” of home-currency billing is a worse exchange rate every time.

Day 2: Castle District

  • Morning: Take tram 22 or 23 up to Hradcany and Prague Castle. The main circuit ticket covering St. Vitus Cathedral, the Old Royal Palace, St. George’s Basilica, and Golden Lane runs 450 crowns for adults, with a discounted student and youth rate around 300 crowns. If you only want the cathedral’s tower for the view, that is a separate 200 crown ticket.
  • Lunch: A restaurant terrace in the castle district with a view back over the city rooftops is worth the slightly inflated prices for the setting alone.
  • Afternoon: Walk down through Petrin Hill rather than taking the funicular both ways; the descent through the orchards is one of the nicer quiet stretches of the whole trip. The Mirror Maze or Petrin Tower, a small-scale echo of the Eiffel Tower, are both worth an hour if you have not seen enough hilltop views yet that day.
  • Dinner: Eska, in the Karlin district rather than downtown, does a genuinely modern, ingredient-driven take on Czech cooking, and it is worth the tram ride out to a neighborhood most first-timers skip entirely.

Day 3: Art & Architecture Day

  • Morning: The National Gallery’s Veletrzni palac branch is the place for 20th and 21st century Czech and international art, a very different experience from the gothic-and-baroque overload of the previous two days. The Kampa Museum, tucked on an island in the Vltava, pairs well with it for modern Central European art in a much smaller, quieter space.
  • Lunch: A traditional Czech eatery on Dlouha street serving goulash and roast duck is a reliable, unfussy midday stop.
  • Afternoon: The Vrtba Garden is a small, often-overlooked Baroque terraced garden with one of the better skyline views in the city and a fraction of the crowds of the castle grounds above it. Walk across Charles Bridge, ideally before 9am or after sunset if you want photos without a wall of tour groups, and stop at the Kafka Museum on the Mala Strana side if the surreal, unsettling permanent exhibit appeals to you.
  • Dinner: A tasting-menu restaurant built around Czech tradition with a creative twist is the right call for a splurge night; book at least a few days ahead, since the good ones fill up fast in peak season.

Day 4: New Town & Riverside

  • Morning: The National Museum at the top of Wenceslas Square reopened its main historic building after a multi-year renovation and is worth the visit for the building itself as much as the collections. Wenceslas Square itself is more a broad boulevard than a traditional square, and worth walking end to end for the mix of grand 19th-century facades and modern shopfronts.
  • Lunch: Cafe Savoy, a genuinely historic Art Nouveau cafe near the National Theatre, does a strong lunch menu in a room with a spectacular painted ceiling.
  • Afternoon: A river cruise on the Vltava gives you Charles Bridge, the castle, and the Dancing House from water level, a different angle than any of the walking routes cover. The Dancing House itself, the Frank Gehry-designed “Fred and Ginger” building, is worth seeing up close even if you skip the rooftop bar inside.
  • Dinner: A modern Czech kitchen in a converted industrial space rounds out the day well.

Day 5: Day Trip to Kutna Hora or Cesky Krumlov

  • Morning: Kutna Hora is the easier half-day trip, about an hour by train from Prague’s main station, built around the Sedlec Ossuary, a small chapel decorated with the bones of an estimated forty thousand people, and the soaring gothic St. Barbara’s Church. Cesky Krumlov is the better full-day trip if you have the time, roughly two and a half to three hours each way by bus, built around a genuinely well-preserved medieval castle town on a bend of the Vltava.
  • My honest take: if you can only do one, pick Kutna Hora unless you are staying overnight in Cesky Krumlov, since the round-trip travel time to Krumlov eats most of a single day and the town rewards a slower, overnight pace far more than a rushed afternoon.
  • Lunch: Local Czech cuisine in whichever town you choose, both have solid, unpretentious options right off the main square.
  • Evening: Return to Prague and rest; both trips involve enough walking that a quiet dinner near your hotel is the right move.

Day 6: Farewell & Last Minutes

  • Morning/Afternoon: Use any remaining time for missed sights or souvenir shopping, and end at a specialty coffee shop for a slower final morning rather than another rushed attraction.
  • Lunch/Dinner: Return to whichever restaurant from the week left the strongest impression; repeat visits to a good spot beat squeezing in one more mediocre new one.
  • Departure: Check out and head to the airport, budgeting the same bus-119-plus-metro route in reverse rather than the pricier express bus.
  • Tips: Buy a 72-hour transport pass on arrival if you are staying the full week and moving around daily; at roughly 340 crowns it pays for itself over six days of trams, metro, and buses far more reliably than individual tickets, though note it does not cover the Airport Express line specifically.