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                <title>Hotel The Castle Steps</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[We stayed in this hotel recently and got a great room with a small balcony looking out onto a park. It was wonderfully clean. The room was in a different building as the reception (although the same street), but this was no problem. The staff seemed to all be from the USA and were always on hand and friendly.<br><br>When we booked we did not realise how central it was - just under the castle. However, the area was surprisingly peaceful at night.<br><br>I'm recommending it to all my friends.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Stay in hostels instead of hotels when in Prague!</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Very good tip how to save money for your stay in Prague - the advice is very simple: Sleep in a hostel instead of a hotel. The price for accommodation in hotels is far more expensive than in hostels and if you plan to be there just at night time, it is just a room with bed that you really need.<br><br>If you prefer to have your own bathroom there are a lot of hostels which offer rooms with private bathrooms and toilets. <br><br>Also, to save even more, look for accommodation not directly in the city centre.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Andel's Hotel and Hotel Tranzit in Prague</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Prague is one of the most beautiful European capitals. I travel here quite often for business. My last choice was Andel Hotel (four stars) which was designed by design studio Jestico + Whiles. I like the modern and clean style. I fall in love in this hotel. Opposite there is a shopping mall and good restaurants are also nearby. The services are great and they have multilingual friendly staff. They have a very fast internet connection too. <br><br>I have also stayed at Hotel Tranzit (four stars) which is situated at the airport area. You can book it just for a few hours and relax! Modern, clean and super services. I can recommend these two hotels.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Art Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Beautiful, stylish and the best hangover curing breakfast I've ever had... that could be because it included Buck's fizz in the buffet.<br><br>It's walking distance to the centre of the city but secluded enough within its diplomatic quarter to be quiet.]]></description>
                
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                <title>MI-PRAGUE hotels and apartments booking</title>
                
                <link>http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/13903</link>
                
                <description><![CDATA[We have just returned from a wonderful trip to Prague.  I would like to recommend <a target="_new" href="http://www.mi-prague.cz">www.mi-prague.cz</a> services, who helped us with our trip. They arranged for us all services -  hotel booking (we were offered great last minute price), transportation from the airport and back as well as sightseeing. They are  very friendly, reply fast and recommended lodging was excellent.  Hope we will come again!]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Castle Steps Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[We stayed here last month.  We were right in the centre, just next to the castle, and had lovely views over the Park and the city.  The people who helped us to our room all spoke English and did everything they could to make us feel welcome.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Green Lobster Hotel</title>
                
                <link>http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/10711</link>
                
                <description><![CDATA[This hotel was referenced in some article in the Guardian. It lived up to expectations. We had the Rudolf II room, which is featured on the website. <br><br>Large and spacious, with a superbly comfortable six-foot bed to help you relax after a day's walking around Prague. While not in the town centre, it is close to the castle, and plenty of restaurants nearby, if you can't face the walk back up the hill.]]></description>
                
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                <title>K + K Central Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Excellent service, great position and beautifully renovated art nouveau building.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Grand Hotel Europa</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A glorious, seen-better-days, art nouveau masterpiece amid the tourist tat of Wenceslas Square. The gound floor area is stunning and the pavement tables are a good place to people watch over a couple of cold ones, though a bit pricy for Prague. We stayed here in 2004 and got the room for less than £70 via a Czech website, so shop around. Though the rooms are in need of refurbishing this should not detract from the general ambience, or the central location. There is a metro station within yards and you are spoilt for choice with trams, including the night service. <br><br>The fast food kiosks all over Wenceslas Square are best avoided, a charming young lady gave me change for Kc100 when I gave her a Kc500 note, when I queried this she paid up without batting an eyelid, obviously not the first fat idiot from Gateshead she'd attempted to fleece.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Troja (the edited version!): combine metropolitan mania with rustic repose at low cost!</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Troja  Want to truly appreciate Prague? Want NOT to be stuck in a tourist trap? Think Troja! this beautiful garden suburb, home to the world's most demanding embassies has many beautiful pensions waiting to provide you a base so that you can make the best of both holiday worlds in Prague: (1) with tram, bus and metro services to which you the 12 minutes journey to the center every 5 minutes (if you don't want to walk by the dreamy Vltava river, you can make the most of the urban legends in the bustling center, and (2) when you want to wake up in rustic repose and spend a day reflecting on the beautiful things in life, you will find yourself surrounded by rolling vineyards, botanical gardens, one of the world's largest parks, the Vltava river not to mention villas to challenge any by Gandon &amp; Co. Check it out as your next Prague base - you really will find yourself in luxury for a fraction of the price of places in the centre: CZK800 per night being the usual (en suite) room rate; Enjoy!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Hotel security</title>
                
                <link>http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/9025</link>
                
                <description><![CDATA[Take care with your property in hotel breakfast rooms and restaurants. The hotel we stayed in had a card entry system but it didn't operate during the day, you could 'buzz in' or the door was open. Nobody looked up from Reception and there were no room number checks in the breakfast rooms. While we were there two ladies had their bags stolen while they were at the buffet. The breakfast rooms were in the basement and had a secure feel but anybody could wander around and the thieves did!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Palace Hotel</title>
                
                <link>http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3140</link>
                
                <description><![CDATA[A 1920's style 5 star hotel. Whilst not a super modern, plush place, it has maintained a certain old world charm and has quite possible the most gorgeous bedrooms I've stayed in yet. We went on my wife's birthday last year and the day we arrived there was a bottle of champagne for her and on the actual day of her birthday they gave us the most exquisite cake imaginable. And they're very friendly!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Inexpensive private accommodation</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Trough this office near Old Town Square one can find inexpensive accomodation in the city centre, which is difficult to get hold of otherwise. Staff speak English, Italian and German and one can get a private apartment from local people renting out for about 20 GBP per person per night, payment is cash only and GBP notes are accepted. The standard is comparable to a three star hotel. I strongly recommmend this opportunity, as it is value for money and the staff are always very nice and helpful.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Riverside Hotel / Gwesty'r Riverside</title>
                
                <link>http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3070</link>
                
                <description><![CDATA[A stylish hotel in a great location. It's in an historic building with a contempory interior, professional service, tasty and varied breakfasts and a cosy bar.  Gwesty ffasiynol mewn lleoliad cyfleus. Adeilad hanesyddol ond un sy'n fodern tu fewn. Gwasanaeth ysblenydd, detholiad o frecwasts blasus o safon uchel a bar cartrefol.]]></description>
                
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                <title>U Pava (At the Peacock)</title>
                
                <link>http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3059</link>
                
                <description><![CDATA[Medium-sized hotel with good rooms and facilities at very reasonable price, but the greatest thing is the view from many of the rooms up towards Hradcany Castle.  Good position on the West side of Charles Bridge.  Didn't try the restaurant, but it's supposed to be good.]]></description>
                
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