# Is Nové Město a Good Area to Stay in Prague? Map & Verdict

Verdict: Mixed. Fine for some travellers, wrong for others.

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

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.

Facts: 10 min walk to Old Town Square; 40 min to the airport; price €€€; best for first-timers, business trips, sights, nightlife; lines A, B, C, 3, 9, 14, 22.
Safety: Mixed after dark. Vrchlického sady, the park in front of Hlavní nádraží, and the bottom end of Wenceslas Square collect drunks, dealers and touts after midnight. Leave the station by metro rather than walking across the park.

Nové Město is not new - it is Charles IV's fourteenth-century extension, and it wraps around the Old Town from Náměstí republiky down to Vyšehrad. Wenceslas Square is its spine. On paper it is the best-connected address in Prague: metro A, B and C all stop inside it, night trams meet at Lazarská, and Old Town Square is a ten-minute walk from most of it for noticeably less money than Staré Město charges.

The problem is concentrated and easy to avoid if you know about it. The lower end of Wenceslas Square is clip joints, strip clubs and men handing out flyers, and the park in front of Hlavní nádraží two blocks east is where Prague's street drinking and dealing collects. Touts inside the station sell rooms; taxi drivers at the official-looking rank outside quote 1,760 Kč for a ride across the centre. None of this is dangerous so much as relentless.

Book a street off the square - around Národní třída, Karlovo náměstí or the university quarter - and you get the transport and the walk without the flyers. Book the square itself, or anything advertised as "steps from the main station", and you get all of it.

What works:
- All three metro lines stop inside the district, which nowhere else manages
- Ten minutes on foot to Old Town Square, at lower rates than Staré Město
- Night trams all meet at Lazarská, so 03:00 is not a taxi problem
- The airport bus and every long-distance train arrive here
- Real streets with offices, shops and Czech lunch places rather than souvenirs

What does not:
- Lower Wenceslas Square is strip clubs, clip joints and flyer touts after dark
- The park in front of Hlavní nádraží is the one place in Prague to avoid at night
- Taxis at the main station rank quote around 1,760 Kč for a trip inside the centre
- It is a big district: an address here can be ten minutes or thirty from the sights
- Office blocks mean whole streets are dead in the evening and on Sundays

Hotels in Nové Město: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D3255%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.
- [Malá Strana](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-prague/mala-strana): Recommended. 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.
- [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.