Maps of Prague

Václav Havel airport Prague Ruzyně

Prague international airport with code PRG is located in the district Ruzyně and lies about 17 km north-west from the city centre. It was opened in 1937 and grew up to one of the biggest airports in the middle and eastern Europe. The airport becomes quite busy these days so there are ideas to build a new airport north of Prague in Vodochody to serve low cost companies. The airport was renamed to Václav Havel airport in 2012 after the former president of Czech republic.

How to get from Prague airport to city centre

Airport is quite far from the city centre but easily reachable using public transport that can take you there in about 30 minutes. You can catch a taxi or use some paid shuttle bus to the hotel if you want but bare in mind that it is usually quite expensive and you can do the same with the normal public transport ticket for less than two euros.

Bus stations are right in front of the hall of airport and you can catch here these buses:

• bus no. 119 - this is best choice because it goes straight in the direction to the city centre along the Evropská street and ends at metro station Nádraží Veleslavín where you can change for the green metro line A, it takes about 20 minutes from airport to Veleslavín and then 10 minutes to centre by metro
• bus AE (Airport express) - direct line going every half an hour to the main railroad station, you need to buy special ticket
• bus no. 100 - goes to Zličín metro station which is the end of yellow line B, it takes approximately 15 minutes
• bus no. 191 - heads to metro station Anděl located on yellow line B, takes about 50 minutes
• bus no. 510 - this bus goes during the night in intervals of one hour, leave it after 13 minutes at station Divoká Šárka and change for the night tram no.51 that goes to the centre