Is Prague still relatively cheap?

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

Compared to western europe, that is.

[Jeoh]

The beer certainly is.

[Aurora]

what about absinthe?

[Sam_b]

Depends for what.

Beer is relatively cheep, but not as much as it used to be. At an exchange rate of approximately 29 Koruna to the pound, a lot of places will be between 30-35 for a half litre of Gambrinus or whatever in pubs (My local it was 20, but that was out of the city centre), though its significantly cheaper if you buy it in supermarkets. Absinthe is much dearer.

Transport is excellent and very cheap, especially if you can get a student ticket. For food, I would compare it as being only slightly cheaper than in the UK for a lot of supermarket products. Overall though it isn't too bad. Drop me a PM or something if you need any specifics.

[F9]

Samy!? You are in Praque:blink:?I thought you were in Scotland:confused:

[Sam_b]

I am in Scotland, but because of my bougeois academia :lol: I usually spend a good few months of the year in the Czech Republic. I'll be back to Prague in the middle of July and i'm due in Budapest at the beginning of August.

[Tyrlop]

there is a good communist late-night bar in Northern Prague its called Prace, I recommend you got there, they have pictures of Lenin and Stalin on the wall.

[F9]

I am in Scotland, but because of my bougeois academia :lol: I usually spend a good few months of the year in the Czech Republic. I'll be back to Prague in the middle of July and i'm due in Budapest at the beginning of August.

Cooool, so you are from Czech?(or im still missing things?:lol:)

[Dr Mindbender]

my bougeois academia :lol: .

Stop lying, you are just 'bougeois' (whatever that is) full stop. :lol:



Cooool, so you are from Czech?(or im still missing things?http://www.revleft.com/vb/prague-still-relatively-t136560/revleft/smilies2/laugh.gif)

I believe he is Scottish but his privileged upbringing allows him to galavant around Eastern Europe at point of fancy unlike the rest of us scumbag commoners.



I'll be back to Prague in the middle of July and i'm due in Budapest at the beginning of August.

Thats quite an itinerary. I'm lucky if i get out of the country once every 5 years. So tell me, I take it you'll be travelling business class with hot towels, the gourmet menu and a bottle of vintage chardonnay?

[Dr Mindbender]

there is a good communist late-night bar in Northern Prague its called Prace, I recommend you got there, they have pictures of Lenin and Stalin on the wall.

theres a vodka bar in Manchester with hammer and sickle decor in the windows but its no more 'communist' because of it.

[praxis1966]

So tell me, I take it you'll be travelling business class with hot towels, the gourmet menu and a bottle of vintage chardonnay?

Probably not. Chardonnay spoils quickly, so aging it wouldn't be a good idea. Unless, of course, you're using the word vintage in the sense that it has a bottling year printed on the label, in which case 'vintage' would be absolutely no indication of quality.

So ha, who's the bourgeois asshole now? Oh, wait, that would be me. nm

Anyway, I hear there's a brothel in Prague that's free as long as you sign a release consenting to a webcast of you doing your business. Is that cheap enough for you?

[Devrim]

a lot of places will be between 30-35 for a half litre of Gambrinus or whatever in pubs (My local it was 20, but that was out of the city centre),

I lived in the Czech Republic about three years ago, and was used to paying 12 for a beer, and twenty in 'nicer' places. I never came across anywhere that charged 30. Maybe I went to the wrong sort of places.

Devrim

[Sam_b]

I lived in the Czech Republic about three years ago, and was used to paying 12 for a beer, and twenty in 'nicer' places. I never came across anywhere that charged 30. Maybe I went to the wrong sort of places.


Was that outside of Prague though? If so, that would explain it.

[Dr Mindbender]

Anyway, I hear there's a brothel in Prague that's free as long as you sign a release consenting to a webcast of you doing your business. Is that cheap enough for you?

Awesome, and in later years it comes back to bite you in the arse when your future wife/girlfriend, in laws or boss sees it on the internet.

The fact that you know this place is worrying.

[Devrim]

Was that outside of Prague though? If so, that would explain it.

I lived in Mlada Boleslav, but it is only 48kms from Prague and I spent a lot of time there. I remember beer costing 22Kr at the most.

Devrim

[Tyrlop]

theres a vodka bar in Manchester with hammer and sickle decor in the windows but its no more 'communist' because of it.
Well but that bar is not called, LABOUR? LIke the one in Prague, Prace means Labour. Čest práci is communist greeting from soviet thymes, and it means something like: good labour, or keep working!

[Sam_b]

Prace was the name of the Trade Unionist paper in Czechoslovakia, if I remember correctly. It was one of the most daring in its criticisms of the regime during the Prague Spring.

[Sam_b]

I lived in Mlada Boleslav, but it is only 48kms from Prague and I spent a lot of time there. I remember beer costing 22Kr at the most.


I mean I could easily be wrong. As far as i'm aware thats the usual price at least around Jiziho z podebrad where I do a fair bit of drinking from time to time.

[praxis1966]

Awesome, and in later years it comes back to bite you in the arse when your future wife/girlfriend, in laws or boss sees it on the internet.

The fact that you know this place is worrying.

Two things. First, I only mentioned it in jest. I wasn't seriously trying to encourage him going. But it's good to know you're so literal, I promise I won't ever joke with you about anything ever again. Second, and I don't know if you guys even have the channel where you are (I'm only guessing Britain), but there's a program on G4 (used to be called TechTV, before that ZDTV if I'm not mistaken) that deals with technology and the way it affects sex. They once did a spot on that brothel, which is the only reason I've even heard of it (I've never been to Europe, let alone the Prague or anyplace else in the Czech Republic!). Fact is it's been so long since I saw the program that I can't remember what the place is even called.

[Jeoh]

Awesome, and in later years it comes back to bite you in the arse when your future wife/girlfriend, in laws or boss sees it on the internet.

The fact that you know this place is worrying.

On the other hand you could masturbate to yourself having sex.