Plane 2Train. How to get from Prague Airport to Hradec Králové Guidebook by ESN Buddy System HK

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1 2017 Plane 2Train How to get from Prague Airport to Hradec Králové Guidebook by ESN Buddy System HK

2 How to get from Prague Airport to Hradec Králové Guidebook by ESN Buddy System HK Don t Panic! There are more ways how to get from the airport to your new temporary home city. This document explains the easiest one. Easy Airport Express Bus Adventurous City bus Cheap City bus Train Underground Underground Train Bus Fast Taxi More info about Taxi from Foreigners.cz you can check here: or you can write an hradec@foreigners.cz

3 At the Airport Prague Airport is the most important international airport in the Czech Republic and the biggest airport among the new EU member states. This international air hub yearly services between 11 and 12 million passengers. Your journey starts at Prague Airport, sometimes called as Letiste Vaclava Havla. This airport has two terminal buildings. For non-schengen flights, Terminal 1 is used, while Terminal 2 is used for chengen flights. From both buildings, you can take a special bus called Airport Express, providing direct interconnection of air, rail and urban mass transit. This bus will take you fastest way to the Main Railway station ( Praha Hlavni Nadrazi ). You can buy a ticket directly to Hradec Králové from ČD kiosk there they can sell you ticket for Airport Express and train together. Just find kiosk with ČD logo and say, that you want ticket to Hradec Králové. The price should be around 150CZK and you don t have to buy a ticket in the AE bus and then at the train station separately. But the kiosk is not working during the night, so if you will need to buy a ticket at the train station, you can read below, how to do it. Please leave the building and find a bus stop. This bus stop will have a sign AE. The bus departs every 30 minutes and it takes around 50 minutes to get to the Main Railway station. You can buy ticket only directly from the driver. The cost is 60 CZK, luggages are free of charge. You can pay only in CZK, so please change some money at the Terminal building. Airport Express bus departures Terminál 1 Terminál 2 05:30 06:00 06:30 07:00 07:30 08:00 08:30 09:00 09:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18:00 18:30 19:00 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00 05:32 06:02 06:32 07:02 07:32 08:02 08:32 09:02 09:32 10:02 10:32 11:02 11:32 12:02 12:32 13:02 13:32 14:02 14:32 15:02 15:32 16:02 16:32 17:02 17:32 18:02 18:32 19:02 19:32 20:02 20:32 21:02 Ticket available from the driver. Access through the front door only.

4 At the railway station The main railway station was originally opened in 1871 by Franz Joseph 1. of Austria. Fanta s building is Art Nouveau station building built in The station itself was newly reconstructed in It will take around 50 minutes to get to the Main Railway station ( Praha Hlavní nadrazi ) by Airport Express bus. It is the last stop and it is situated in front of Fanta's building ( Fantova budova ). Please enter the building, go downstairs and find a place called ČD centrum. Here you can buy your ticket. You can see the bus stop at Google street view right here: From Prague to HK train departures train No. 05:11 R941 06:11 R921 07:11 R943 08:11 R923 09:11 R945 10:11 R925 12:11 R927 13:11 R947 use to find almost every possible train or bus (at the bottom, you can switch to English) train No. 14:11 R929 15:11 R935 16:11 R931 17:11 R949 18:11 R951 19:11 R953 20:11 R955 22:11 R957 Find a window with sign Domestic lines ( Vnitrostátní jízdenky ) and wait in a row. Your task is to ask for a single ticket to Hradec Králové [hradets kra:love:]. The cost is 100 CZK.

5 After you bought a ticket, it's time to check information board with departure times. You can get oriented by train numbers, which is the first information from left side on the information board. Please make sure, that the train you choose is going via Hradec Kralove hl.n. The journey from Prague railway station to Hradec Kralove takes about 1h 40min. After you reach Hradec Králové, don't forget to leave the train. :-) You need to check a platform number, which is the second information from right side. The last on the right is delay time, don't panic if your train is delayed, just wait, it s pretty common. Now, if you have time, you can just take a walk around. Please avoid going too far to a park in front of the building. It is very dangerous area widely called Sherwood, for it's criminal reputation. Also anywhere you are, please keep your luggage with you at all time and beware of pickpockets. When it's time, go through an underground passage to your platform. To get there, follow blue signs Nástupiště (Platform). Remember, your destination is Hradec Králové. COSTS Airport Express 60 CZK Train 100 CZK. 160 CZK You can find more information about traveling in Prague at

6 Plane2Train 2017 How to get from Prague airport to Hradec Králové Guidebook by ESN Buddy System HK Made in 2011 by Jan Vulc from ESN Buddy System HK Feel free to download, share and use this work under conditions of Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivates Creative common license CC BY-NC-ND Last revision by Jana Sedláková