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Prague: Great Free Pocket Travel Guide by Flashbooking Online Booking

  • Posted on November 20, 2009 at 11:14 pm


Flashbooking is a growing cheap hostel Prague and hotels directory specializing in budget accommodation for independent travellers, students, adventurous backpackers, international volunteers, families and all the ones that travel on a budget.

Those who love travelling light, those with a sense for adventure, those who love flexibility in their trips, those who like meeting locals and travelling slow and low. . . those are Flashbooking happy travellers!

Flashbooking accommodation database is easily available online and comes completed with all relevant information about youth hostel and hotel location and map, description, services, hostel contacts, customer ratings, six pictures and updated prices inclusive of taxes and services together with instant real availability.

Having the reservation final price is also convenient as it does give the transparency our users pretend while booking. Having the final total amount of your booking means you do not have to worry about other extra surprises! Flashbooking cheap lodging solutions are all available for online bookings and divided by Countries.

Travellers have free access to the updated list of Europe hostels and budget hotels, North and South America hostels, Caribbean and Central America hostels as well as for Asia cheap accommodations, Oceania youth hostels and Africa hostels. Flashbooking’s happy travellers can book their rooms and beds not only in cheap hotels or youth hostels but also consider other budget accommodations in Bed and Breakfast, Guesthouses, Campsites, apartments, farm houses and much more.

Flashbooking chose to provide backpackers, students and families with a list of budget selected and independent accommodations worldwide, mostly run by locals, in order to promote an alternative tourism respectful of cultures and different societies.

For this and other reasons Flashbooking is becoming a recognized source of information and services for who loves creating a trip by him/herself and book bed nights securely online. In fact, thanks to a secure server certified SSL provided by Thawte (the global certificate authority) www. flashbooking. com is able to guarantee instantly confirmed and secure online reservations.

Thawte is a system which encrypts all the processed data and guarantees that this will not be read, used or modified by other parties. Confirmed online bookings mean that your holiday is just a click away, that you can get all the information needed to book online, that you can save time and money!

Recently added a new free customer service online at travellers disposal to suggest the perfect accommodation for their trip and voyages. The Skype account ‘Flashbooking Customercare’ gives more assistance also in the booking process for all our travellers and backpackers needs.

Other reasons to chose Flashbooking? Flashbooking helps you saving money with a special promotion that allows travellers to earn money and credits of 1,5 euros by inviting other friends to subscribe and receive the monthly newsletter, rich of information about hostel and hotel deals. For each friend that sings up, our travellers get 1,50 euros: it is possible to earn up to 40 euros! These credits are immediately registered in the user’s personal online account ‘My Booking’ and at the reach of 40 euros they are automatically deducted to pay your online hostel reservations !

With the monthly newsletter, Flashbooking puts at travellers’ and partner hostels’ free disposal some useful information tools as pocket travel guides of the top world cities: the Amsterdam City guide, the London City guide, the Barcelona City guide, the Paris City guide, the Rome City guide, the Florence City guide, and the freshly issued Prague City guide!

In general, these guides have been written for giving the essential information about the most visited cities in the world and in particular for any traveller or first-time visitor. For a short visit, a week-end, a city break, these free pocket guides are useful printable and downloadable tools available online.

The free City pocket guide of the Czech Capital contains, in just 9 printable pages, all the essential information and very good suggestions divided by areas: Prague New City and Prague Old city, the Jewish quarter (Josephov), the Malastrana district and the Castle. Prague is renown for wooden toys, crystal products, flea markets and Christmas markets, Wenceslas Square and museums, Art Galleries, breweries and beers and cheap lodgings, classic itineraries in the Boemian countryside and a lot more to make a visit worth wise. Free for anyone who wish to book and go and rich of colour pictures, the Prague Travel Pocket Guide is at backpackers disposal in Flashbooking. com! For Flashbooking users and travellers that might have a personal website or a travel blog, or even manage a youth hostel or a hotel accommodation, and are interested in the travel city guides, the pocket guides can be collected and put at your visitors’ disposal.

In the Prague City guide students, families and backpackers can get a large selection of cheap or low cost accommodation with plenty of low cost solutions in budget youth hostels, Prague bed and breakfast, guesthouses, cheap hotel deals.

Our travellers are also our good partners as they help us either giving their ratings of some accommodations, lodgings, BandB, youth hostels and budget small hotels where they personally stayed, either enlarging the hostel offer by reporting some new contacts.

Flashbooking policy tends to privilege small and family-run hotels in order to promote an alternative tourism respectful of cultures and different societies.

So mates, we are looking forward to finding you THE budget accommodation that meets your needs and pocket for your next trip!

Prague, Eastern Europes Jewel

  • Posted on November 20, 2009 at 5:41 pm


Weather is still cold in Prague. It is good time for short, calm and romantic walks around this beautiful city. If you are cold, go inside some gallery or exhibition hall or just have a coffee in some cafe, tea room, bar or restaurant and watch the city behind the window.
At night you could visit an opera, listen some classical music concert or see some black light theatre performance.
Czech cuisine is typically central European, with German, Austrian, Polish and Hungarian influences.
The standard meal, offered in just about every restaurant is knedlo, vepro, zelo.
It is bread dumpling, sauerkraut and roast pork. You should taste it while you are there.
Pedestrianised Staru Measto is a safe bet, though. Feel free to crane your neck while walking around its blackened Gothic churches, pubs and townhouses.
The only thing likely to flatten you here is a pack of beautiful young things headed off for a night of clubbing. In few other places in the world, except possibly Russia, are the newly on the go so eager to snap up status items and then put them on public display.
Invariably good for a laugh, You may swear you have just stumbled into a fashion shoot for Cosmopolitan or GQ when you run into one of these impossibly good looking bon vivants.
Fortunately the city`s signature architecture is not yielding so quickly to the more livable and efficient glass and steel shopping malls and offices.
Theyre popping up, of course, but the old centre of town, with its timeless, even melancholy feel, will probably never surrender fully to the free market.
Or, as one hack recently put it , and it was one who actually produces books, rather than just tossing concepts about in pubs with the rest of us, the citys not really so tragic. There are many that have suffered far worse fates from centuries of occupation in this part of Europe.
Rather, Prague has a gravity. Readers of Kafka would certainly agree to that.
While attractions across much of the Czech Republic are closed or keep limited hours outside the summer season, Prague caters for visitors all year round.
Periods when the tourist crush is especially oppressive include the Easter and Christmas New Year holidays, as well as May and June.
Many Czechs go on holiday in July and August, during which time the supply of bottom end accommodation actually increases, as student hostels are opened to visitors.
If you can put up with the cold and the periodic smog alerts during weather inversions, hotel space is plentiful in winter outside Christmas & New Year and Prague is gorgeous under a mantle of snow.

Vacations in Prague

  • Posted on November 20, 2009 at 2:13 am


This world is full of beautiful places and it is very difficult to see all of them mainly due to constraints of finance and time. As such, it is important to choose some of the best places that you can conveniently see and among these places, Prague deserves a prominent place.   Prague lies in the heart of Europe and its attributes include a wonderful history, a dazzling scenario, breathtaking architecture, and an atmosphere full of mystery and stunning aura. You are surrounded by culture everywhere as you visit the rich museums and galleries, and see the awe-inspiring architecture. You will get immersed in the music that pervades the air and has been there for many centuries.   Prague Christmas Festival Season And Christmas Markets   Prague is particularly more attractive during the Christmas season as the Christmas markets allure everyone from young to old. Tourists from different parts of the world, especially from the European countries such as England, Italy, Germany and Russia can be seen everywhere visiting the markets and buying what they like. These markets normally start four Saturdays before Christmas Eve (24th December) and are open on all days of the week till the beginning of January. Although the temperatures fall considerably during this period and it is very cold, the markets do brisk business and visitors also strike good bargains. The items that are available include holiday items, traditional Christmas decorations, crafts, and gift items.   Apart from Prague Christmas ornaments, you can find a wide array of glass jewelry, Czech wooden toys, ceramic beer mugs, scarves, and scented candles.     There is plenty to eat and drink in the form of traditional food items, grog, hot wine, and warm honey liquor. The food items are made fresh right in front of you and you might not get such delicious food elsewhere. Everywhere you go, you will hear Christmas carols and you will really feel immersed in the Prague Christmas spirit. Beautiful illuminations add a sparkle to the markets at night. There are about seventy to eighty stands on the Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square selling Czech souvenirs and Christmas items and this market is very popular. There are many other Prague Christmas markets throughout the city. The most spectacular sight is of the Christmas tree appearing majestic against a dark gothic skyline. It is erected in the Old Town Square and is illuminated at night by a blaze of lights. New Year Eve Celebrations Spending Prague New Year Eve is a wonderful experience that you have to experience to believe. It seems that the entire city is having a party time as people throng the restaurants, river boats, clubs, and bars to their full capacities. When midnight approaches, spectacular fireworks can be seen by the revelers who occupy every inch of space in the famous squares and the river banks. People enjoy Prague New Year’s Eve in various ways as some take pleasure in wining and dining throughout the night at any of the restaurants and others crave for quiet romantic candle light dinners. There are others who opt for partying in a club or music bar. Prague Sightseeing There are so many wonderful Prague sightseeing places that you would need at least three days to enjoy all the sights and the absolutely enchanting atmosphere. If you wish to see the other interesting places outside Prague you would need additional time. So, the next time you are planning a holiday with your family, Prague should be your first choice as it offers the best at the minimum cost.

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