No, but I am going in July. Please post your observations.
Arrived home, last evening, from the Great Czech Flood of '13, (will post some pics once my technologically inclined spouse sorts/files & discards).......some initial random thoughts:
- Prague, especially the Old Town, was crowded during rainy, cold, late May/early June.......warm & sunny July? I can only imagine!
The first Sunday we were there we got up
early, caught a tram/streetcar and were down at the Charles Bridge, (where we'd been part of the herd the previous day), at 05:00 a.m...........just as a tourist bar at one end of the bridge was letting out.....but we did have an almost empty bridge....and when we walked up to the Palace area there was pretty much just us.
- Graffiti...lots of it, but thankfully not around the old section.
- Transit system......we bought 30 day passes, (a good deal for us, even though we were only there for 12 days......we gave them to a young girl serving coffee at the airport as we were leaving....she was delighted).
Trams/streetcars, subway/Metro, excellent......we'd get on/get off on a whim, go here/go there, go back to the apartment for a break......unlimited trips with the pass, and not once were we asked to produce them.
Trains.....likewise excellent...did a few day trips, would have done more but for the weather, (on our penultimate day we cancelled a trip to one town we wanted to see when it was announced that they were evacuating people due to the flooding).
(An aside.....a male announcer at the main station, giving periodic updates in English, sounded
exactly like the old SNL Steve Martin/Dan Akyroyd "Wild and crazy guys" skit.)
Views......among others, we did the Petrin Observation Tower, (the funicular cost was covered by the transit pass, (ha, so we
did show them), but not the tower itself.......being 70 I asked for, and pretty much always got, the old fart's discount......my child bride, at 60, wasn't eligible).
Panoramic shots of the river/old town from the tower.
(We also went up the old Tower by the main square......get in line, hurry up and wait...and wait...and.....again, July I dunno.)
Our apartment wasn't in the old section, or even right downtown, but it was great, and easily accessible by public transit.
There's more, but that's all I can think of at the moment....still tired, (not much sleep the night before our early flight back........again, went from the apartment to the airport on public transit, using the passes we didn't have to show).