Despite the decrease of the anti-epidemic system PES, tourists have yet to start visiting Prague and certain hoteliers have decided to respond to the coronavirus epidemic on their own terms. Offers for long-term renting of hotel rooms that would otherwise stay empty seem to be on the rise. These include rooms situated on Wenceslas Square or in the greater area of the city centre. Smaller low-cost apartments, as well as those on the larger side, have been available for rent. Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the cost of rent in the capital city has consistently decreased by a few percentage points, nonetheless, accommodation in Prague still ranks as the most expensive nationwide and accommodation availability continues to be a topic widely discussed by Prague politicians for several years. Hotel chains that have started with long-term renting are bound to shake up the real estate market. During a time when a number of hoteliers have been spending the past few months counting their losses, others, for example, Czech Inn Hotels, have turned to long-term renting. 500 of their rooms have been repurposed for long-term renting, approximately 200 of which have already become occupied. Tourists aren’t returning any time soon According to...
Lots of holiday shoppers are buying gifts online to avoid the crowds this year, but what about buying a Christmas tree from the web? If you want to fill your home with a Christmas tree this year without having to push in queues and unnecessarily expose yourself to the risk of infection, you can visit chcistromek.cz. The site allows you to choose your dream tree from the comfort and safety of your home and have it delivered to your door anywhere in Prague. There’s an option to add goodies to your order, which will help fulfill the Christmas wishes of children from children’s homes. On their website, you will find a wide selection of premium Normandy fir trees from a family farm in Denmark, which are each carefully photographed and have their own name. A novel idea, but in a way magical. After all, Christmas should be full of stories. “It’s funny that some customers are buying trees according to the names of their partners or children because they also receive a kind of birth certificate of the tree with the name from us,” says one of Chcistromek’s representatives. Thanks to the cooperation with the non-profit organization Radost dětem, you...
A hotel in central Prague is preparing to battle insurance company Generali Česká pojišťovna who has refused to honour their insurance policy. Well-known real estate developer Jean-Francois Ott signed a new comprehensive insurance for Hotel Smetana back in November 2019 including a separate policy covering business interruption, which he assumed, back in March, when the government closed all hotels to halt the spread of coronavirus would be covered by the insurance company. Now, Generali is claiming that Covid is not a valid insurance claim. In addition to refusing to pay the money for the claim, the insurer also terminated the hotel’s half-year-old contract. Generali offered them a new one for the same price however with less coverage, but only on the condition that the clauses from the policy, the hotel claimed, will be removed in the new policy. The feud is now likely to be settled in court. Hotel manager Stefan Radstrom said that one of the reasons they chose Generali was that it was the only one that accepted interruption insurance in the contract, which covers risks not caused by the hotel management. He continued: “Our intention from the beginning was to protect ourselves from events that interrupt business...
Has there ever been a better time to learn new skills and pick up new hobbies? Cooking allows you to not only maximize the ingredients you’ve stocked up in your kitchen but also helps diversify your meals so that you’re not just eating the same dish every night. Pocha Restaurant in Prague will offer a free online cooking workshop on December 12th. You will get a free meal kit and cook together with the chef online through zoom. “We want to encourage other communities in Prague that are also spreading the Korean culture here in the Czech Republic, to participate in the event – we would like them to give a small introduction of themselves during the online cooking class,” says one of Pocha owners. “Our initial plan was to do a one-to-one cooking class but due to the pandemic situation, we had to change the event into an online cooking class. The cooking class will be held in four different time frames. From 11 am-12 pm Jaeyuk bokkeum, 1 pm-2 pm Bulgogi, from 3 pm to 4 pm a vegetable pancake, from 5 pm to 6 pm Bibimbap.” The event is hosted by the Korean Embassy and the Korean...
The exhibition Českoland, invented by graphic designer and satirist Tomáš Břínek, also known under pseudonym TMBK, is reopening in the underground of Hotel Pyramida in Prague after a 2-month break. Visitors can expect to see Andrej Babiš in a jail cell, listen to fortunes told by oracle Jolanda, or experience the iconic “bába pod kořenem” incident first-hand. The exhibition will be open to the public until the 31st of December. Preparation for the exhibition began in winter of last year when the internet’s comedy legend who goes by the pseudonym TMBK launched a fundraiser for its realization on Hithit.cz site, where he managed to raise almost 1.5 million CZK. The motto of the fundraising is “The more we raise, the nicer a prison we build for Andrej.” Not only did they fulfill every last word of this promise, but they also managed to create a number of other bizarre installations of the widest variety. “Look out for statues, reliefs, moving figurines, collages, videos, holograms, and naive silliness. Its featured personalities, including Zeman, could be both offended and flattered. It’s a big deal,” an enthusiastic TMBK describes. The exhibition is taking place in the underground spaces of the Orea Hotel Pyramida...
On Monday, 7 December 2020, the mayor of Prague Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates) will take part in POLITICO 28, an annual ranking of the people with the greatest impact on politics and policy-making in Europe. Among the winners in three different categories, there are also the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán, the French President Emmanuel Macron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the writer J. K. Rowling. The winners of each category will be announced at noon today (Monday, December 7th), as well as the general winner, the most influential European of 2020. “The POLITICO 28 is our guide to the most influential people in Europe to watch in 2021,” said Stephan Faris, enterprise editor at POLITICO, who led the project. “The only criteria is relevance – but that doesn’t mean the list doesn’t contain any surprises. Power in Europe is scattered among a large number of offices and institutions. It’s also constantly in flux, as new players flex their muscles, strike up unlikely alliances or stumble and fall.” The ranking is divided into three categories: Doers: The leaders whose train of energy and affect — or inaction — will drive...
Czech police found several restaurants and bars that were open after 22:00 this Friday, violating the government order. Health Minister Jan Blatny labeled this behavior as “unacceptable” and “irresponsible”. According to Blatny, “the Czech Republic is on the border between the third and fourth PES level, and if the situation worsens, there is a risk that restaurants and bars will have to close again”. “The exact number of violations, as well as how exactly the measures were violated, will become known only after the weekend,” said a spokeswoman for the Czech police, Kateryna Rendlova. “Unfortunately, some restaurant and club operators are very irresponsible. In many cases, police officers found catering establishments that were open after 22:00. Club owners closed their facilities after a police warning only to reopen once law enforcement left the scene.” On Friday, the Health Minister described the epidemic situation as “very fragile”. “I don’t want to scare our citizens, but we are still on the borderline between the third and fourth level.” In October, Prague officers discovered dozens of people beneath a restaurant on Vodičková Street. The restaurant was found to be closing its front doors and moving the clientele downstairs once the curfew kicked in...
Over the weekend, police stopped a man in Prague 10 who violated a night curfew. Later on, they found out he had a container with the word ořechy (nuts) in his bag, but instead of dried fruit, he had several hundred grams of meth inside. The police patrol spotted the suspicious man in Granátnická Street (Prague-Štěrboholy) just before three o’clock in the morning. “They asked him why he was not respecting the night curfew restriction,” said police spokesman Jan Daněk. A few minutes later, police found a plastic jar in his bag, but the contents had nothing to do with nuts. Inside police officers found 358 grams of meth with a purity of 77 percent. “The man still tried to dump the jar full of drugs, but the police prevented it. The 36-year-old man ended up in the police station,” Daněk added. He can now face up to ten years in prison for illicit handling of narcotics and psychotropic substances.
The creators of this store revisit the great Czech classics of wooden toys by bringing them up to date with more contemporary colours, shapes, or options. Some parts of Prague are untouched by globalization. You need a sharp eye if you’re walking on Milady Horákové street in art district Letná (Prague 7). Among the varied mixture of shops, stop at the toy shop with the catchy name Hugo Chodí Bos (Hugo walks barefoot). The local brand offers toys as they were designed before 1989. The toys are authentic copies of originals and have a very strong Czechoslovak visual identity. The color combination, the unique shape, and the choice of material capture the aesthetic of the past exactly. Most of these popular toys were in every household. Generations of adults are usually really excited to see them again. They are made by the most talented designers are timeless and could serve as interesting objects to own. The variety you can find there includes but is not limited to classic wooden toys (pull toys, stacking toys, puzzles, etc.), tin toys (wind-up toys, cars, mountain cable cars), lovely illustrated books, paper toys including decorative mobiles, children’s suitcases, and collectable toys (e.g. Frida and Vincent Van Gogh...
The coronavirus pandemic forced to close Primark’s stores and branches across Europe and postponed the opening in Prague in the fall. On Thursday, the Irish chain confirmed the opening of its first store on Wenceslas Square will take place “early next year”. “We will publish more information next week, including a specific opening date,” said Kateřina Outlá from the Grayling agency, which represents Primark in the Czech Republic. Czechs have long been waiting for the store to open. There was even a bus tour devoted to transporting Czech shoppers to the nearest Primark in Dresden, Germany. “The business that originates in Prague will be the flagship of Central and Eastern Europe. Customers from Bohemia and Moravia, who have been going to Dresden, Linz, and Vienna until now, will start going to Prague because it will be a huge branch, which will be located in an interesting place and in a new building in the very center of Prague,” Jan Kotrbáček from the real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield, a partner of Primark in the Czech Republic, said. Primark sells everything from baby and kids clothes to women and men’s apparel, homewares, accessories, beauty products, and confectionery. Much of what they sell is...
Pierpaolo Riccio loves the doors of Prague. So much so, that he set up an Instagram account to start sharing their exquisite designs and rich history with the world. Two years after its launch, Riccio has released Best Prague Door’s 2021 calendar; a selection of 12 unique doors which have survived from the Romanesque to Modernist era. The door that inspired Riccio to start his small business is nestled in Nusle, Prague 4. It borders the entrance to a palace built-in 1904-1904, a few years after Nusle become an independent town. Building similar to this one, mostly made in a Neo-Renaissance style, were demolished at the end of the nineteenth century to give way to the construction of apartments, but this one survived. Its design is a grand as the history; two giant statues guard the entrances with Ukeles in hand. “These are typical of Neo-classicism because the classical style represents two musicians,” Riccio explains. The shapes covering their outfits are reminiscent of alchemy, masonry and secret societies. Many citizens of Nusle belonged to secrets society and that fact is visible in the building facades.” To celebrate the inspiration it gave, this door now adorns the month of June, Riccio’s birth...
A Czech Christmas ornament maker has added tiny masks to the country’s traditional golden pigs, which are said to arrive in the homes of good children who fast before Christmas Eve’s family feast. The glass ornaments which can be hung from a Christmas tree have proved incredibly popular. OZDOBAcz company owner Romana Juklova said they decided to mask the pigs in September to reflect how Czechs are adapting for Christmas this year. “We used to add bows and flowers to them and this year, we added a face mask… We hope that next year we can decorate them a bit more cheerfully.” According to custom, the pigs bring good luck and happiness. The masked pig ornaments have proved so popular, Juklova said, that they are making little else. “They have become a massive hit,” she said. “Now we are not doing anything else apart from making the piglets in face masks.”
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