# Is Malá Strana a Good Area to Stay in Prague? Map & Verdict

Verdict: Recommended. Book here without thinking about it.

Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-prague/mala-strana
Every Prague district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-prague.md

The castle side keeps the views and loses the crowd at 19:00, when the day trips go home. You pay for that, and you walk uphill for it.

Facts: 15 min walk to Old Town Square; 40 min to the airport; price €€€€; best for couples, sights, quiet, first-timers; lines A, 12, 20, 22, 23.

Malá Strana is the baroque quarter under Prague Castle, and it is the one central district that goes quiet at night. The day-trip coaches leave, Charles Bridge thins out, and you are left with lamplit lanes, the castle gardens and Petřín hill on your doorstep. Wikivoyage's own advice on where to sleep in Prague names this district and Staré Město and nothing else.

Two things to know before you book. It is steep - Nerudova and Úvoz climb to the castle and every walk back ends uphill - and it is small, so ordinary shops, supermarkets and non-tourist restaurants are thin on the ground. Crossing to Staré Město means Charles Bridge, which is a slow crush from 10:00 to 18:00; the tram or the Mánes bridge is faster on foot.

It suits couples, second visits and anyone who would rather pay for quiet than for square footage. It suits families and heavy luggage much less: the cobbles are the worst in the city and the hills are real.

What works:
- Charles Bridge and the castle gardens are five to ten minutes on foot
- Genuinely quiet after 19:00, unlike anywhere else in Praha 1
- Metro A at Malostranská and trams 12, 20, 22 along Újezd
- Petřín hill and the Kampa riverside are walkable before breakfast

What does not:
- Steep streets: every walk home from the river is uphill
- Few supermarkets or everyday shops, and restaurants near the bridge are priced for tourists
- Charles Bridge is a crowd crush most of the day, and it is your route into the Old Town
- Small hotel stock keeps rates high, and cheap rooms basically do not exist
- The cobbles and hills make it hard work with a pram or a wheeled suitcase

Hotels in Malá Strana: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D271%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1

## Other districts in Prague

- [Staré Město](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-prague/stare-mesto): Mixed. Everything you flew here for is inside a ten-minute walk, and so is every stag party in central Europe. Book it for two nights, not for a week.
- [Nové Město](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-prague/nove-mesto): Mixed. Three metro lines, ten minutes on foot to Old Town Square, and the two blocks around the main station that every guide tells you to leave by metro.
- [Vinohrady](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-prague/vinohrady): Recommended. Six minutes on metro A from the centre, half the room rate, and restaurants that fill up with Czechs on a Tuesday. The trade is that you commute.
- [Karlín](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-prague/karlin): Recommended. Flat, riverside and twenty minutes on foot to Old Town Square, rebuilt after the 2002 flood. Good beds, good food, and nothing at all to look at.
- [Žižkov](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-prague/zizkov): Mixed. The cheapest central beds in Prague and more pubs per head than anywhere. The core has no metro, it is a hill, and the two halves are not the same place.
- [Smíchov](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-prague/smichov): Mixed. Four-star rooms at three-star money, five minutes on metro B from the centre. The heart of the district is a shopping centre and a building site.