How can you get to Prague inexpensively from Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities of Russia? Fly direct, with a stopover or on low-cost airlines? We studied all the methods and flew to Prague ourselves. Conclusions and advice - in our review.
The capital of the Czech Republic is one of the most popular destinations for foreign travel among Russians. Great demand also gives rise to a good supply: many airlines operate flights on this route from various cities of Russia, so it is quite easy to fly to Prague inexpensively - high competition keeps prices at a very low level. In this review, I will tell you how you can get to Prague in the cheapest way - there are many options, you can choose the most convenient one for you.
Direct flights to Prague
You can get to Prague by direct flights from many cities of Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa, Samara, Novosibirsk. Inexpensive direct flights can be found with Czech Airlines, Aeroflot, Smart Wings, S7, Ural Airlines and others - round-trip tickets usually cost from 14,000 rubles.
Examples of cheap tickets for direct flights to Prague from Moscow and Kazan, which can be found on Skyscanner:
Is it cheaper to fly to the Czech Republic with transfers
It is cheaper to get to Prague from Moscow and St. Petersburg with transfers. From other cities in Russia - not always, Czech Airlines often offer direct flights to Prague at a good price.
For example, it is very cheap to fly to Prague from Moscow and SPb available on Air Serbia flights with connections in Belgrade or on Aegean flights with connections in Athens. During the sales period, inexpensive tickets to Prague can be found at airBaltic with connections in Riga - for example, from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Minsk. If you wish, you can buy tickets with a long connection and go for a walk into the city. However, departure and arrival times on budget flights are often inconvenient.
When buying cheap tickets to Prague, be careful - check if free baggage is included.
You can see the prices for flights to Prague from all cities of Russia on this page.
An example of very cheap tickets to Prague from Moscow found on Aviasales:
Last Minute Hotels in Prague
It is possible to cheaply get to Prague from Moscow and other cities on a last minute tour. Sometimes they are even cheaper than air tickets. Don't believe me? See an example: a week in Prague for 10 thousand rubles per person. Find out about cheap tours in the news section on our website.
The tour price includes: direct flight, accommodation, transfer, insurance and meals of your choice.
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We fly to Prague cheaply as part of a euro tour
Traveling in Europe is very cheap - for 10-30 euros you can easily fly from one country to another. Many low-cost airlines fly to the Czech Republic, so you can cheaply get to Prague from different cities in Europe. How do you like tickets for 700 rubles (one way) from Venice to Prague? Or from Paris for 1,700 rubles? And from Cologne for 2,400 rubles? There are many offers at such prices.
Conclusion: it is more profitable to visit several European cities at once in one trip than to fly to each city separately.
Our experience: as part of the euro tour in November 2017, we flew to Prague from Brussels for only 15 euros.
From which cities are there cheap flights to Prague? See the list on this page >>
Is it cheap or expensive to have a rest in the Czech Republic? Read our overview of prices in Prague for food, hotels, transport and entertainment - in it we calculate how much a trip to Prague for two people costs.
We fly to Prague on a low-cost airline
From Moscow
Some low-cost airlines fly from Russia to Europe. WizzAir - from Moscow to Budapest. "Victory" - from Moscow to Bratislava, Milan, Cologne. Other airlines also have promotions and cheap tickets to Europe.
There are two options to get there:
- Try to find cheap flights from your city to Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Munich, Dresden, Berlin. We arrive there, and get to Prague by bus for 10-15 euros. The other way around is the same.
- Find cheap tickets to the city from which low-cost airlines fly to Prague for a penny (see above). For example, we fly "Pobeda" from Moscow to Cologne or Milan, and from them to Prague for 20-30 euros.
Do not forget that the rules of low-cost airlines provide for free transportation of hand luggage only, and you need to pay extra for luggage, if any. So fly light - it's cheap and convenient! We do it ourselves.
Our experience... It was expensive to fly from Prague to Moscow on the dates we needed. But there were cheap air tickets from Bratislava - we bought them (1900 rubles). From Prague we got to Vienna by bus (12 euros, 4 hours), saw the capital of Austria, drove to Bratislava (5 euros, 1.5 hours), spent the night, walked around the city, flew to Moscow. Expenses - 3100 rubles. Saved and visited two more European capitals!
From St. Petersburg
Cheap flights to Prague are possible from the airports of Helsinki (Norwegian) and Riga (airBaltic). This option is suitable for those who live in St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Leningrad region. Tickets for direct flights of low-cost airlines start at 50 euros one way. With the current high euro exchange rate, this way to get to Prague will be profitable only if you can buy tickets for the promotion with a good discount. In other cases, for the same money, you can fly directly from St. Petersburg.
It is inexpensive to get to these cities by buses and trains. You can read more about this budget travel scheme in this article.
Finding tickets for flights from European low-cost airlines is easy on Skyscanner.
Conclusions: the cheapest way to fly to Prague
- Muscovites and for residents of nearby cities, the easiest way is to wait for promotions and discounts and fly to the Czech Republic from the capital's airports. If there are no cheap tickets, but there is a desire to see other European cities, then you can fly to another city in Europe, from which you can inexpensively fly or get to Prague.
- For residents of St. Petersburg and North-West Russia first it is worth checking if there are cheap tickets from Pulkovo. If they are not there, then those who want to save money can get to Helsinki, Riga or Moscow and fly to the Czech Republic from there.
- Residents of other cities of Russia first, you should check if you can fly to Prague inexpensively from your own or nearby cities. If there are no options, then it makes sense to look for cheap tickets from the capital's airports, and get to Moscow by train, bus or plane. An alternative option is to check if there are inexpensive tickets from your city to other cities in Europe, from which you can then easily, quickly and cheaply get to Prague.
How to find accommodation in Prague
Look for hotels at the best price on Roomguru.ru - it compares the prices of various booking systems and finds the best one. On the service, you can find many excellent hotels in the very center of Prague at a good price: for example, rooms in the design four-star Elite Hotel Prague cost only 38 euros, and a night in the Pushkin apartments - from 49 euros. Read on for a selection of the best yet affordable hotels in the center of Prague.
Find out: How to book hotels cheaper.
Sometimes it is cheaper and more comfortable to rent an apartment in Prague - follow the link for a list of the best, in our opinion, apartments. We stayed in Prague both in hotels and in apartments. Look for interesting accommodation on the popular Airbnb service.
