"Visiting Prague." Topic

We're visiting Prague next month and I'm wondering if there's any toy soldier shops to visit. I've found a few game stores online but am looking for somewhere that may have figures not readily available in the US.

Any restaurant Or museum recommendations would be helpful too.

Thanks
Dan

It's a lovely place. I don't know about model shops as I didn't look for any.

This is small and tucked away:
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Also, the old town and Jewish quarter is worth a look.
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This is useful to buy:
praguevisitorpass.eu

You can do day trips to here which was worthwhile:
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They use the Czech crown rather than the Euro as well.

Check out (joke included) the aircraft museum at Kbely.

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There is also a tank museum nearby.

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I always recommend the Alphonse Mucha Museum for people visiting Prague:

mucha.cz

The Prague Museum is a mainstay, but they beefed up material on the Prague Uprising last year for the 80th anniversary:

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And GameMat, a local terrain manufacturer, has a brick and mortar shop in Prague (the website looks like they're still around):

gamemat.eu/en

There's one something like Ogre's Cave. I don't remember what it's called in Czech. But that's okay, most of the people in the shops are used to tourists and expats with little to no Czech. It's been a minute, but when I was there people would speak English around the table when I was there and help me with how to order food and beer like a local.

There was also a guy and his wife(?) who came in with limited English, but they found two other guys with enough French to set up a game of 40K on another table. His companion seemed less then enthused about spending that amount of time in the shop.

There used to be a local wargames club held in a basement near the town centre. Most of the members were Brits but there was one American, called Sam funnily enough.

They might be on this forum.

It's been awhile but you'll have a great time. If you like beer it is ass good as anywhere in Germany and the food is generally great.

Feel free to defenestrate any obstreperous officials in the spirit of history.

For museums, I would definitely recommend the Army Museum Žižkov if you have any interest in military history. The Heydrich memorial is also supposed to be very worthwhile. If aviation is your thing, Kbely Aviation Museum might be another good option, depending on your travel dates.

On the food side, Prague is pretty hard to mess up, but I have seen good things about U Kalendů, The Eatery, and Next Door by Imperial.

If it were me, I would probably email the hobby shops ahead of time and ask whether they carry historicals or any local Czech figure lines, just to avoid spending too much vacation time chasing possibilities. Hope you find something good, and please report back if you discover a hidden gem.

You'll enjoy the trip, Dan. Prague is a friendly, interesting city. I wasn't looking for any shops when I was there- it was a side trip to see the palace and tank museums (which was closed on the day I went- <bleep> <bleep> <bleep> fn <bleep>).

You could also take the train down to Dresden, mate. It's about a three hour trip (each way), but is comfortable and a 1st class ticket was a reasonable price ( link ). Dresden has the Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr ( mhmbw.de ), a very impressive museum, and Dresden was a centre for making toys- including toy soldiers:
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If you do try the trip, but don't want to do the six hour round trip in one day, then the Intercity Dresden hotel is close to the Hauptbahnhof (easy walking distance), and is modern and clean (or it was in 2019).