Five Awesome Days in Prague

Introduction

In 2025, my wife, teenage son, and I took an awesome summer vacation to Central Europe. It’s essentially split up in to three parts – we spent the first 5 days in Prague and the surrounding area, then went to Salzburg Austria, then Grindelwald Switzerland. This split up allowed us to see and experience some of the best of central Europe, with enough variety to seem like 3 completely different vacations. I am going to do 3 separate posts for each part, since we did so much in each place.

I’ll do my best to describe and show what we did – with the itinerary, specific links, recommendations, highlights, what to avoid, etc.

How We Got Here

As this was the first part of our trip, we flew in to Prague – there are plenty of flights from around the world. We flew from Dulles in Washington DC, to Munich, then Munich to Prague, on Lufthansa on premium economy. Premium economy was a bit of a splurge, and it was really nice, especially for an overnight flight! But I am not sure I’d recommend it unless you have a lot of money to burn.

Day 1 – Arrival and Hotel

We landed in Prague at about 4PM local time, so we didn’t really do anything other than settle in and eat.

describe getting from airport to hotel

Show hotel on map and link to it

After we got to the hotel, we walked around the hotel, and got a better glimpse of the really cool Prague trams. Here is Malostranské náměstí, a tram hub that we used throughout our stay.

Day 2 – Prague Old Town

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Day 3 – Prague Mala Strana

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Day 4- Konopiste side trip, and Vltava River boat tour

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Day 5 – Cesky Krumlov day trip and going to Salzburg

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