Fodor's Prague: with the Best of the Czech Republic (Full-color Travel Guide) Paperback – April 29, 2014

Fodor’s is the gold standard. Found cool local spots to eat, saved money, and avoided touristy hell.Only way to go for a visit to a new city.

Book is compact and has all I need for my trip. I believe it is an excellent source of information.

We just returned from Prague and used Fodor's extensively to plan our trip and make site and restaurant selections. The Fodor's Choice recommendations were always spot on accurate and we found the recommended Lokal restaurant in Old Town to be an excellent choice for Czech food. We also purchased the Lonely Planet Guide to Prague and found that it was a terrific complement to the Fodor's Guide. Lonely Planet has excellent maps and good recommendations for beer gardens, vegetarian restaurants, and good value restaurants. If you use both guides together, you will have an awesome vacation in this beautiful medieval city!

Really like the Fodors choice where to eat selections

If you are upper middle income and you want to experience what your acquaintances have done, this may be the book you’re looking for. There are excellent sites listed that everyone should consider (I’ll cover some of the misses later). Fodor’s guides openly recommend the more upscale hotels and dining establishments along with traditional entertainment. Nothing wrong with that. If you are a budget traveler, look at Lonely Planet or Rough Guides.The hits:The walking map on p24 is one everyone ought to take to at least get to the Old Town Square. If you plan to tour the Old Town Hall and the Clementium, this is a full day, not a half day as the book suggests.I’ve been to most of the sites listed and described and they are very worth your time if you have an interest. On the way past the Baroque buildings, don’t forget to peek inside (you might find something that really excites you). If you have time for Troja palace, bring your camera for the Habsburg Hall- nothing like this anywhere else.I applaud Fodor’s list of day trips you can take outside of Prague. Train and bus transport is cheap and frequent almost door-to-door. Krivoklat castle is definitely worthwhile.Do try the local food, beer, and wine.The misses:Look inside St. Jacob, and the 2 St. Nicholas churches to see some awesome decor. They are all different.Moser glass is world famous (so are their prices) but the building is beautiful inside. For consumer prices and variety of designs, look in the stores just behind the Old Town Square in almost every direction (ceramics too). Russian owned stores carry souvenirs from Russia.Wallenstein Palace is not just a garden to visit. If you go on the weekend, it is open to the public. Used as the Senate chamber, the interior design is breath-taking.Half-day trips from Prague should have included Dobris chateau (palace). This is how a rich family lived and now special events are held here. Look up their website.Brno and Mikulov are described and are interesting. But if you are going to come this far, just a little further are much more one-of-a-kind attractions. Lednice and Valtice are 2 homes of the Lichtenstein family (the ones who own the country) which were confiscated by the post WW2 government. Their “garden” separates them by 5 MILES.If you want to see a castle unlike any other, that was never conquered, and has stood for over 500 years, then go to Pernstejn.Better than a day trip to Cesky Krumlov, is to stay there. Its small but takes more than a full day to experience it. While there, go to Hluboka and see another one-of-a-kind “castle-palace” that not even Disney could duplicate.If you do some research, you’ll see that you can improve on the suggestions in the book whether you are on a budget or not.

Because this was a very recent print, I figured this would be the best resource for my trip to Prague. I was wrong. A lot of the information in here was inaccurate (the Cafe Savoy is shown on the map at the wrong location and it incorrectly indicates the times of certain openings, including the astronomical clock). My friend had the Lonely Planet guide and it was infinitely better even though it had an older publishing date.

this will get you around Prague and you won't miss a sight. If you want to be educated and learn any significant history, this is not for you.