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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:57:42 -0700, "Steve Cain"
wrote: We used this online booking service on our trip. They meet and greet you and even at your request escort you to the airport ATM which is in a counterintuitive position on the level above arrivals. Got an expat driver from San Diego. Very interesting. s http://www.prague-airport-shuttle.com/ Great, and thanks very much. That may be the best option for us. -- Ken Blake Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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Frank Clarke wrote:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:31:55 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: My wife and I will land in the Prague airport in November. We will need to get from there to the Old Town Hilton Hotel. I've read some dire warnings about taxi drivers who cheat their passengers, so I'd appreciate any recommendations as to how we should get transportation to our hotel. AAA Taxi. Look for the signs all over the airport. I think AAA taxi are not allowed on airport premises.. but a little way out. so look outside for their parking place and walk a few metres. normally, you have to call them. but sure they are correct and honest. In any case, there are shuttle buses and many type of transport cheaper than the normal pirate taxes. They charge 650 cronws.. for yr info. the town is about 12 kms away |
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Derek McBryde wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:31:55 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: My wife and I will land in the Prague airport in November. We will need to get from there to the Old Town Hilton Hotel. I've read some dire warnings about taxi drivers who cheat their passengers, so I'd appreciate any recommendations as to how we should get transportation to our hotel. It is fairly easy to get from the airport via public transport but sometimes it is worth paying for a taxi or car to save you lugging bags around with you. That's certainly why a taxi gets my vote, every time! I've learned to travel much lighter than I did on my first trip to Europe, but at the end of a long overseas flight I really don't want to struggle with my luggage and public transportation in a country where I have no fluency in the language! Especially Czech, which may be slightly easier than Hungarian, but where the "phonetics" in most phrase-books insure (as in Hungarian ones) that one will NOT be understood by the natives. |
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Ken Blake wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:05:06 +0000, Andy Davidson wrote: On 10/03/2010 01:31, Ken Blake wrote: My wife and I will land in the Prague airport in November. We will need to get from there to the Old Town Hilton Hotel. I've read some dire warnings about taxi drivers who cheat their passengers, so I'd appreciate any recommendations as to how we should get transportation to our hotel. I don't recall being cheated on a recent business trip to Prague, in fact I found it a friendly city, but I tended to use the Metro to get everywhere. The bus #119 links the Airport to the underground network via Dejvická station. Otherwise, you can pay in advance for a taxi, at an official stand in the Arrivals hall, I think the cost was ~500 CZK - about 20 Euros (I think you can even pay in Euros, but my mind is starting to go hazy). Thanks very much. That paying in advance choice sounds like a great one! At least, if you ARE cheated, it will be by officialdom, not free enterprise. ;-) |
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:20:46 +0100, "tile"
wrote: Frank Clarke wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:31:55 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: My wife and I will land in the Prague airport in November. We will need to get from there to the Old Town Hilton Hotel. I've read some dire warnings about taxi drivers who cheat their passengers, so I'd appreciate any recommendations as to how we should get transportation to our hotel. AAA Taxi. Look for the signs all over the airport. I think AAA taxi are not allowed on airport premises.. but a little way out. so look outside for their parking place and walk a few metres. normally, you have to call them. but sure they are correct and honest. In any case, there are shuttle buses and many type of transport cheaper than the normal pirate taxes. They charge 650 cronws.. for yr info. the town is about 12 kms away Thanks. -- Ken Blake Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:41:37 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote: ... in a country where I have no fluency in the language! Especially Czech, which may be slightly easier than Hungarian, but where the "phonetics" in most phrase-books insure (as in Hungarian ones) that one will NOT be understood by the natives. On the other hand, I have yet to meet a Czech in Praha that couldn't speak enough English to meet American/British travellers more than half-way. They may exist out in the hinterlands, but there aren't any in Prague. And an Englisch-sprecher who can manage "dobry den" will get a smile every time. (change Arabic number to Roman numeral to email) |
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On 10/03/2010 9:21 PM, Runge11 wrote:
Yawn. FOAD. -- JohnT |
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Jack wrote on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:56:04 +0000:
[Czech Republic] I was always fascinated at how the measures of beer varied. I never got a glass filled up to the mark and I'm sure the "locals" got bigger quantities. Had I been able to speak some of the language I would have questioned it. As it seemed to happen everywhere, I never felt I was being deliberately ripped off and took it as just part of the experience of being in another culture. The beer was good! I think this is just a way of dealing with froth. Czech pub taps seem designed to produce far more of it than you get anywhere else, so their beer mugs have more built-in ullage. I seem to remember that there was a mark on the glass that indicated a true pint in England. In Scotland, the rather messier top of the glass was the mark. -- James Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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Martin wrote on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:25:30 +0100:
Jack wrote on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:56:04 +0000: [Czech Republic] I was always fascinated at how the measures of beer varied. I never got a glass filled up to the mark and I'm sure the "locals" got bigger quantities. Had I been able to speak some of the language I would have questioned it. As it seemed to happen everywhere, I never felt I was being deliberately ripped off and took it as just part of the experience of being in another culture. The beer was good! I think this is just a way of dealing with froth. Czech pub taps seem designed to produce far more of it than you get anywhere else, so their beer mugs have more built-in ullage. I seem to remember that there was a mark on the glass that indicated a true pint in England. In Scotland, the rather messier top of the glass was the mark. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pint_glass Wow! Complicated! -- James Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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