Can you see all of Prague Castle in a day?
No…but you can see a lot.
There are two types of tickets available; a short-tour ticket or a long-tour ticket.
We bought the later and added the extremely worthwhile audio-guide, which is a must-do!
The historic information is told in an interesting, succinct yet compelling way. And a mega-perk of renting the audio-guide is you do not have to stand in line to enter St. Vitus Chapel.
Since St. Vitus Chapel is considered the most important in Prague there are always massive queues and many, many people.
Here is your choice – Get ready to Stand for Hours or Rent the Audio -Guide and walk right in? No Brainer!
So after we had spent six hours on the Castle grounds, our pace had definitely slowed. The Prague Castle is the 2nd largest Castle in the world. Even at a brisk pace it takes over an hour to cross the grounds, (and our calf muscles will vouch for it.)
In the Royal Palace, we were in the last phase of our battle with yet another long, steep and winding staircase. We were about to take our last descending step out when a woman assuming we spoke English asked in a snippy tone, “Is there anything to see up there?”
The poor woman was sweating profusely. She looked like she was about to die of exhaustion. Although her eyes pleaded ‘save me this hike’ we just couldn’t do it.
“Go slowly.” was all we said.
She rolled her eyes. Flustered, she barely uttered the words, “come on,” to her granddaughter.
I don’t want to know the words she muttered about us.