# Is Žižkov 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/zizkov
Every Prague district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-prague.md

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.

Facts: 25 min walk to Old Town Square; 50 min to the airport; price €€; best for budget, nightlife, solo travellers; lines A, 5, 9, 15, 26.

Žižkov is the old working-class quarter on the hill east of the main station, and it splits in two. The upper end around Jiřího z Poděbrad is cafés, the farmers' market and flats that cost real money. The lower end around Husitská is pawn shops, cheap bars and hostels. Both are Žižkov, and a booking site will not tell you which one you are looking at.

The money is the reason to come: dorm beds from about 275 Kč and doubles from roughly 38 EUR, which is half of Staré Město for a walk of about 25 minutes. The bars are the other reason - the district claims more of them per head than anywhere in the world, and they are Czech pubs rather than tourist ones.

Two practical warnings. The heart of Žižkov has no metro at all: line A clips the edges at Flora, Želivského and Jiřího z Poděbrad, and the middle is served by trams 5, 9, 15 and 26. And it is called Žižkov hill for a reason - the walk home from the centre climbs the whole way. Check your address against a tram stop before you book.

What works:
- Dorm beds from about 275 Kč and doubles from roughly 38 EUR, the cheapest central rates
- Czech pubs rather than tourist bars, at Czech prices, on nearly every corner
- Trams 5, 9, 15 and 26 run through the core, and night trams keep running
- Vítkov hill and the TV tower give you the views without the entrance queue
- About 25 minutes on foot to Old Town Square, downhill on the way in

What does not:
- The core has no metro station: line A only touches the edges of the district
- Lower Žižkov around Husitská is pawn shops and cheap bars, not cafés
- It is a steep hill and the walk back from the centre climbs all of it
- Party hostels mean noise, and the hotel stock is old and mostly unrenovated
- The upper and lower ends differ so much that the district name tells you nothing

Hotels in Žižkov: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D3206%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.
- [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.
- [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.