I totally feel Janek's anger, this is exactly why I refuse to use TikTok, full with stupid content (I admit there are very few good things). Most people are showoff without a brain...
Tiktok has its entertainment purposes and for me as a tiny travel vlogger it is good to use to post little snippets of content BUT it is definitely NOT a good info source haha
The challenges are just the worst too. Not to mention the "dances" that are literally bottom of the barrel stuff. But still, the number one reason to dump Tiktok is privacy. They're the worst sellers of data mined from your account. It's nuts. Not that FB etc. are any better, but still.
Getting wrong information whilst you are travelling is bad. Now imagine my job as a mortgage advisor when I get a client say "Well the guy from Tiktok said...." The same guy who has absolutely no financial qualifications? That guy? yeah...
Searching for travel advice is the worst nowadays since no matter the platform, it's so saturated with videos from influencers doing an "ultimate guide to [place] in 2023!" video and then it turns out to just be a glorified vlog of them just visiting all the top attractions on Tripadvisor and regurgitating everything they've been told about it uncritically. I wish every city had someone like you guys.
@@PradedaCech Plenty of guidebooks just contain places that have paid to be in there. They also become out of date very quickly - if I want to know the current price and opening hours of somewhere, then their website is going to be the best place to look. Also, online reviews can give you a less biased outlook on a place. Guidebooks are fine for getting basic ideas, but you still need to do proper research about the place you're visiting.
@@hannahk1306 Well, you know, we are both commenting on a video made by Praguers that is about people skipping guidebooks, and skipping websites, and going straight to Tiktok for "proper research". Guidebooks should be the base. For the most interesting stuff (for me anyway), guidebooks are pretty helpful even decades later. Even historic guidebooks can be useful to get a basic idea of old cities.
And the endless wasteland of ai generated blogs with the same 10 places The internet has just consistently been getting worse, it's starting to border on unusable
@@LuluTheCorgi thank you!! I say this all the time and get weird looks. We invented this really cool thing (internet) meant to connect people, help us more easily access up to date information etc… and what has it turned into? A monetized dumpster fire. Google a recipe, click a link to one that sounds good, it’s a blog! There are so many ads and smaller videos going it will take forever for the page to load, you try to scroll through the recipe but an affiliate ad pops up now you’ve touched it and you’re being redirected to some sponsors page when you just wanted to know how to make soup. Throw your phone in the garbage, capitalistic values have killed the internet.
I attempted to visit this 5 storey club about 10 years ago with a friend from Australia, who I was showing around. He really wanted to go inside so I asked the bouncer (in Czech) if there was a cover charge. The bouncer told me not to go inside. I asked why I'm not allowed inside. He just laughed and said I can come in but it's shit inside, only full of American and British tourists, and he only told me this because I spoke Czech. We decided to hit a local pub instead (which was my suggestion from the beginning) which was far more enjoyable.
@@Vanadium The building is heritage and already had five levels and is a bit of a noodle. The owners probably thought, may as well stack as many suckers on top of each other to maximise profit.
Especially American kids who never or first time visited European city and they think they know everything. Pretty sure they doesn't even know which country is it in but there they are spreading misinformation.
I totally agree with you that social media, especially Tik Tok, can provide misleading information. It's really important to cross-check from multiple sources, preferably the reliable ones.
@@Tedrousekit is right tho. Tiktok is legit brain rot with very good content sprinkled here and there. Sadly overall I avoid it because majority is just bad
I recently turned 36 and I believe there's a growing disconnect between us millenials and the new generation. We have seen and know a lot of things that the youngest generation thinks is new or unique or special. I look for information, read websites, reviews etc. It feels the youngest generation just goes off of hearsay from tiktok videos or shorts. With the short form content, there's no time to spend longer than a minute looking for information. Just swipe to the next video and the next and before you know it, you're an expert of (mis)information.
With that said, now imagine how us, that’s boomers, feel about the attention spans of the generations that followed us. We had to read books to learn something!
The thing is that they don't even watch the videos to the end because they have the attention span of a gnat. Not all, but A LOT tend not to read and get their knowledge from videos(without talking notes). So, information doesn't stick, they rely on their smart phones and generations get dumber and dumber. Now they even have chat gpt to do their homework . I swear to God "Idiocracy" was actually a true story written by a time traveler and given to Mike Judge.
@@KMarikwhoa whoa... We had an Almanac and an encyclopedia. "Look it up!" 😂😂😂 I used to hate that, but I see the difference now. I was born in 83, so I tend to relate more with gen x.
Sir, you have risen to the level of public service. Never went to Prague but, when I finally do, I know I will enjoy it 1000x more because of you. Thank you so much for all your good efforts.👍
Smoking indoors is something that I certainly don't miss. I was in Serbia last December, just a few months after indoor smoking had been banned in restaurants (but still not well-enforced), and I once asked to eat outside in the middle of winter to avoid the cigarette smoke. The restaurant happily accommodated.
@@erniesulovic4734 Yeah, freedom to get cancer (Serbia has one if not the highest cancer mortalities in Europe, as well as number of smokers) and blame whatever thing falls to your mind... but not smoking. And also buying the story that it's "personal freedom" and not the government in pockets of large tobacco companies. Smoking is not banned, there are some limitations which are very easily legally avoidable, and even the very lax regulation is not enforced. You'll find staff smoking in hospitals, even maternity wards.
@@WebWolf89 That sounds good to me and being an alternative therapist, luckily i know what causes cancer and how to heal it, so cancer isnt an issue for me 🙂
especially of the general "younger" public, who think that's a "nice social Media"... but then, they show only the intelligence of people in the "dark age" of the 13-14th century.
well the video isn't 100% accurate, you can go there, it's just you can't get as close...also, i went there a sunny weekend and it was full of people, everyone had jumped the gate. Maybe that;s changed in the past 4 years tho...
@@irondasgr Because it's an abandoned quarry, not a tourist spot with neat safe paths. There are CLIFFS. And people who climb over fences to visit a place tend not to be the most cautious people careful about where they're putting their feet in the first place. They're liable to keep pushing their luck... until they push too far.
Guys we are on our way home from Prague. I want to say that your videos made our visit a blast! Followed your guides on what to see, where to eat, to use trams etc etc.... Im really impressed. Svičkova na smetanĕ is life ❤❤❤❤❤
I agree with you. There are far too many people with zero life experience sharing their worthless opinions that are more often than not based on misinformation or preconception. At one time, you would have bought and read a travel guide such as Michelin or Fodor written by professionals who did their research and cared about their readership.
I think this is right in the sense that most of these people are just very young people on the first trip abroad. They're not worse than the earlier generation, they're just kids sharing their misconceptions. They saw a lot of absinthe stores, so there's a lot of absinthe stores. The square looked pretty big and they've never seen a town square before, so they thought it might be one of the biggest. I feel like young travellers have been making these errors forever. What's new is that in 1925, the twenty-year-olds getting lied to and having these misconceptions based on limited information were only writing their misinformation home to their family and friends, not making videos for the whole world to see.
@@vf1923 Travel guides date back to 19th century. People then used to mock tourists following religiously their steps and commenting from them. But actually I miss the context part these guides offer, and the 1925 20 y.o. used to be asked about context a lot. Currently reading a report of a guy that traveled to Germany in 28. It's mainly about political and historicak context. Read some of a 32 year old traveling in Italy back in 1867. Pretty interesting and very different from another 24 years old traveling there from another country: perspective is always a cultural matter. That said we have to give it to "very young" people that places aournd the world changed and the authenticity has been disappearing, locals can't afford living there when AirBnBs take all the space, events are made for tourists and do not reflect local traditions, everything has been dumbed down and filtered for tourists expectancies as a result of mass tourism needing operating standards.
What baffles me the most is according to statistics young generations use tik tok as their search engine... Like it is such a useless place because most people just lie or are stupid and just farm likes
I went to Prague a couple of years ago. Before the trip, we googled some clubs and all we got were some fake tourist clubs. Luckily met some locals who brought us with them to a huge club and there were no tourists. One of the best parties I went to.
I'm Czech and I have a friend who went to Budapest for the new year's. Yeah, he went to the most touristy spots he found on tiktok, and when I told him that tiktok was probably the last place where you will find actual good spots to visit and good advice, he just said that there were great multi story clubs or whatever the hell that I have less than zero interest in ever visiting. The fact that someone tried to offer them drugs on the street in english because they were the most obvious tourists probably says more than I ever could.
I would trust Janek to roast someone till they were visibly chargrilled lol P.S. TikTok is banned in India so I have to use Google to search things as a Gen Z individual. P.P.S. Please don’t say it’s some kind of social benefit because it’s straight up censorship.
@@pavelcalta5303 What do you mean it’s good for me? That’s censorship. Atleast give me the option to be on TikTok. It is addictive but isn’t social media like that in general?
@@pavelcalta5303it can be good for short memes for example, but it’s definitely not how it’s used, its one of humanity’s man-made trash holes, but unlike other ones like 4chan, children use it very frequently and everyone thinks it’s normal
You think that the Tiktoker might have confused Prague with Budapest with regard to the chain bridge? There is one in Budapest, Széchenyi Lánchíd, and they forgot where it was and decided to add one to Prague 🤷♂
Chain bridge, Charles bridge.. both start with C... Also, a lot of people do Prague-Vienna-Budapest in 1 trip and so maybe they visited both in the space of a couple of days and then recorded the voiceover when they got home.
Hey guys, I'm flying out to Prague tomorrow, to start a month-long travel journey across Central Europe, so this is ideal for some last minute planning! Always appreciate the great work you guys do 😊
The smoking ban was far before in Turkey, but the official situation and the unofficial situation can be very different. You cannot imagine how many loopholes people can find. The biggest being "the garden" or "outside area" where it's just one tent and a tiny opening on a glass roof, it's only open space on paper. Some places outright don't obey the ban, unless they spot an auditor or something.
This is the reason I never follow any of these so called "travel influencers" in social media - with the exception of Rick Steves, and of course you. The best advice are from the locals so I would rather listen to you.
I'm American and have been living in Germany for the past 15 years, mostly in areas popular with American tourists. In my opinion, Rick Steves primarily recommends tourist traps. One positive: the Rick Steves guides and website typically recommend one or two museums that most American tourists wouldn't find on their own. I do trust Janek and Honza, though. :)
@@beth12svist Yes, and 'never follow any' doesn't really allow for exceptions, right? There's plenty of ways to phrase that that don't start on a hyperbole/lie at the front of the sentence. Such as: I'm critical with choosing which travel influencers I follow, or "I follow only a few", etc. If you say "never any" then you say there's none, and never have been any.
I feel like a lot (not necessarily all) of TikTok is just people saying hey look what I discovered that nobody else has and how cool it is. Umm no sorry, you didn’t discover it, it’s been around for some time and you’re also not special and way too overconfident in what you think is accurate information. Glad to see Janek see the record straight. On a side note: I have much more respect for sanitation workers than these ne’er-do-well TikTok influencers.
I'm really late, but still, somebody might read this comment, so it's enough for me. Thank you for mentioning the robotic bartender "club". It was honestly my worst experience in Prague some years ago. I was literally harassed by the worker/owner there. He totally lost his mind on me because i asked him a question about the robot. Being an extroverted person, i wanted to be friendly. And what it got me was a screaming tantrum of a grown man who was insulting me and threw a drink in my face. I guess now that it was because i dared to ask him something and he thought i was onto him. Still got overcharged. I contemplated calling the police, however my friend was scared and just wanted to leave so I just decided to never look back again. I just left a really bad review on google. It really helps to have a local point out how scammy it is. Keep up the good work!
Imagine watching this and finding out you just got absolutely destroyed by Honza and Janek. XD I loved this idea so much and really helped shine a light on how we shouldn't just take what we see for granted. I'd love to see more "Travel Advice" influencers get roasted in future videos XD :)
Thanks for another entertaining feature, with good real information. I am happy that travel literature was my first intro to Prague when I visited the country for the first time in 1990. No Tik-Tok to confuse my common sense! 😂 Greetings, a non-alcoholic Dane who loves the entire Czech Republic. ❤
I worked in a bookstore, until recently, travel books were still popular when I worked there. But you could also tell those buying them (young and old) weren't really the tick tok crowd.
1:03 When I was in Prague, I've often heard Cerny Most and Zlicin over the speakers on the metro at every stop because they're the last stops of the lines. I even went to Zlicin and was in the shopping center there.
Ive been to Prague and my go-to for information was the "honest guide"! Because of you guys we had the best time and found some awsome little places to eat that the locals use. It was very cheap and i wish we could have stayed there longer. Who knows maybe we will go back someday.
This is why we don't watch Tiktok when we do research on new places to travel to. We have been to Prague in the past and plan on going back in December and we use Google, UA-cam and Trip Advisor long before we leave home. With all there is to see in Prague why would you spend any time to go to a crappy bar. Get away from the tourist traps in the Old Town Square and get in the outlying areas. This pretty much applies to almost every town we have visited in Europe. We travel to Europe 2 to 3 times a year. Tiktok is for instant gratification not for serious research.
I absoulety love your style, it is so refreshing to have someone (a local) being upfront and say their unfiltered opinion, regardless of how many tiktok kids will feel offended
I just went to Prague after 2 years watching your videos! I went to Havelská Koruna to try Svíčková, it was so legit goood! My only wish is to pass Janek and Honza during their filming, but of course I was out of luck!
I actually downloaded TikTok for 1 specific guy. He does fun videos on animal facts. I was going to name him but it hurt to provide advertisement for something online, this is even making me twitch! Face to face I have no issue but immortalized here - can’t do it! Hn, wonder if I dated myself….
It's sad to see the amount of spread tourist traps have given time in large cities. I imagine thirty years ago there were SIGNIFICANTLY less things pretending to be native to Czech and it hurts to know that we wont get to experience this beautiful country without the tourist traps.
You'd be surprised. The vast majority of tourists stick firmly to the tourist routes. You really don't have to wander very far to find bars and restaurants with fewer tourists and more Czechs.
Honestly even in the city centre just by diving into a less click-baity museum... I was playing guide around Czechia for a friend from NZ a year ago, and we went to the Museum of Decorative Arts (very much our cup of tea). There were some foreigners, yes, but I think actually even there, right next to the famous synagogues, most of the people visiting inside were Czech.
Good on you mate, keep exposing scams and calling out people on their bullshit. A lot of people are afraid to do so thinking it will make their country/town look bad, but everywhere is like that and it's best to be aware of the pitfalls so you can avoid them and have a great tourist visit and leave with a positive view of the good aspects of that place. Much respect from Australia!
I think they were, they just did not share it with millions on the internet with a smartphone. Like stupid people, there were always stupid people, they just could not reach so many other stupid people on the interwebs.
What Daniel said, plus in earlier times it was seriously expensive to travel. So that limited the amount of tourists in the first place (dumb or otherwise).
I visited Prague once in 2002 and because I am nerd who loves museums I was very happy that Prague had tons of museums. But it was huge disappontment to learn that most of those museums were really tiny, like one apartment in an apartment building. I hope this channel would tell more about the tiny museums if those are still a thing in Prague.
Have you been to national technology museum? It has a huge open space inside with steam engines, boats and planes. If you are looking for big I think that is the best we can do in PRague
TikTok is a joke! It is great for simple entertainment, but not for carefully crafted advice. I would absolutely love love love to see you do an HONEST review of my new Prague Night Guide, which took many months to put together covering every good night spot in Prague, from rooftops, date spots, cocktail bars, nightclubs and speakeasies. It is a massive video!
Janek I could feel your frustration watching the video myself, so much misinformation goes on TikTok (and any other social network that involves reels) spread by bloggers wannabes, and why that's gotta be always americans, I understand it's easy views but stop pretending to be tourist guides and leave it to people who actually have been living in those places. By the way thank you so much Janek, I've been in Prague in November and it surely is the most beautiful (in the very sense of the word) city I've visited in my life so far, your guides were super helpful
The thing with TikTok and Instagram reels is the short form nature of it is all about quantity over quality. Pump out a bs video 3x a day that regurgitates the stuff you saw the last person say. It's no coincidence they all talked about beer cheaper than water. Just regurgitating. I do miss the 50czk beers in city-center, but even then, how much are people paying for water?!
Water bottle in legit grocery shop can be as low as 0,2€ for a store brand or around 1€ for a name brand. The tourist traps Janek shown in the video can charge around 4€ for a single water bottle. In restaurants the government had to actually pass a law a few years back that they need to offer at least one non-alcoholic drink cheaper than a beer. And then it depends if the restaurant is a tourist one, local one or high-class one, but I'd say around 3€ for a 1l water carafe with lemon/fruits in mid-tier local restaurant.
I just came back from an amazing week in Prague and I wanna thank you for all your amazing tips, from public transport, to places to see, food to eat, money..wow I could go on!!!!!!! Your channel is AMAZING!!! I’m so glad I found it. You were honestly the best guide I could have asked for to visit Prague!!!!! Thank you so much for staying real and for genuinely wanting to help those who want to visit this incredible city!!! Until next time Prague 😍 I’m definitely coming back again!!!
I mean, I knew it was people saying literally whatever on TicTok (and many other places for that matter), but it's still fun as hell seeing you roasting these! And meanwhile, being very informative as well of course :D
Always when traveling to Czechia I travel from the Netherlands trough Germany and I often am amazed how many locations in Germany DONT take card's or have non functioning payment terminals. So if traveling in Germany: make sure you have plenty of euro's for things like restaurants, toilets. It's getting better, but Czechia is definitely a lot more card friendly. In Czechia it used to be: pin a lot on the first day of the holiday and pay everything in Czech crown, but now you can pay with almost any card at any shop.
Look, do you say self your answer why it is so. The Federal Republic of Germany have strong concurrency with DM - also we used it. Later, as the German government change to € (with a "country market" how is over 5 times bigger as our small country!) we use this! Our money was so good that some countries adopted it as 2nd concurrency too. 😂 Why we should use US credit cards or one of our over 400 bank debit cards - money what you can't see? In Czech Republic use own money how is not used at neighbor countries nor it is a strong money too. Then lives there only around 11 mio. people in this country - this 1/3 of people how vist Germany yearly as tourists! It is a good idea to use then digital money right? I self as German how like to travel and know that cards accepted in most countries is not the problem that you just use coins for this and that - it is more that *this is the once option* ! I just prefer service and restaurants what accept my idiotic card - and this more as McDonalds and KFC! Just ask if you go in - answer no mean a loud and hate "Okay, I want eat here after I read so many about your good food - but I not have 40€ in coins with me. Thanks for nothing." 😂 I known now so many, specially small shops, how accept your HSBC card too. Then coins back to bank account *costs* money since some years and then are the black market with fake coins - cards are more easy. 😮
@@OldLordSpeedy This makes like no sense at all. The value of your money, be it digital or paper fluctuates just the same. The Czech keep their money in their own currency on the bank anyway. The reason that Germany is so behind on the times is that Germany just doesn't invest in modernisation, like, at all. You can call it anything you want, but it's just bureaucratic desinterest into making things better.
to be fair, in 10:00 he said about town squares in Europe and you compared it to the list of town squares around the whole world. The outcome is still the same, but... ;)
What’s even more scary than this is that studies show that young people get their news almost exclusively from TikTok. This is why it’s more important than ever to have actual journalists out there. And why I’ll never use TikTok…
And once, it was a delicacy served under the name 'waterkonijn', or water rabbit, until it was made illegal because the water they were caught in was often too polluted for them to be suitable for consumption. 😅
I’m so happy that my wife and I visited Prague before the eventual swarms of TikTok’rs. Grateful to Janek & Honza guiding us through the country and beyond Old Town Square & the Prague tourist traps. Brno was fabulous and I have the honest guide to thank. - now to visit Brno during Christmas! ❤
I got you with the "tourist trap" but some things just sparkle curiosity on people so they go like the market or the beer spa, etc. I personally try and avoid most of not actually local things but i enjoy going into a restaurant or pub that maybe a little on the expensive side but near places i wanna visit from time to time. No everybody travels on a budget or to avoid tourists. I feel like your channel give so much information that are true and fair to say its the best channel on the topic.
When I went to Prague to Prague in 1990, it was stunning and safe and great. I went again in 2009 and it was awful. It's been taken over by criminals. Russian mafia I guess. My partner was drugged in a bar and I managed to get us out but it was scary stuff.
I have not traveled in a while because of health issues but I used to travel a lot and my biggest tip is to not use the internet for recommendations. Sure read up on the city, the trouble you can get in, local customs etc. but then just ask locals. Look for places that are not full of tourists but locals and talk to people. Don't be an asshole, be nice and you will get some great recommendations.
There are indeed a lot of people on TikTok that give horrible advice (but also plenty who are great). The worst thing for me is when people visit tulip fields in The Netherlands, they're running through the fields and tell their audiences to basically do the same: it's forbidden. These fields are private property and you're destroying the bulbs. Unless you have permission from a farmer you are never allowed to enter them. Or they come Amsterdam for two days and pretend like they are the best person to give advice and like they know everything about The Netherlands- and indeed post videos like 'hidden gem in Amsterdam', whereas 1. it's a tourist trap (stroopwafels for 13 euros a piece instead of buying one at the market for a few euros!) or 2. it's a completely different area. But in the case of The Netherlands, it's also the fault of a local tourism agency that created a new Amsterdam region- which is suddenly a pretty big part of the country. So now we have Amsterdam beach - which is actually Zandvoort aan Zee (30-minute train ride from Amsterdam), Amsterdam Castle - which is found in Muiden (+-40 minute train and busride from Amsterdam) and so on. No wonder tourists come to think that a lot of the country is Amsterdam.
Many years ago, I went to Prague with my girlfriend. This was long before you could use the Internet on your phone. Fortunately, the guy who worked at the hotel reception where we stayed was a cool young guy, so we asked him what to see, where to go, what to do in Prague and he recommended some cool places including a small restaurant with no tourists (except for us, I guess). It was so good and so affordable! He also told us about the Astronomical Clock but he said "Everyone loves it but to be honest, I don't know why". We went to see it and there was indeed a big crowd standing there, waiting for something to happen... Then the little animation happened and we looked at each other and laughed, thinking about what the hotel guy told us about it. Many, many years later, I found out about this UA-cam channel and around 3 years ago, I watched your video explaining the Astronomical Clock and how to read it. I wish you had made that video when you were like 12 years old (I guess you must have been around 12 in 2002 when I went there)!
One of the very, very many things I love about Janek is that he steadfastly resists the use of the inappropriately imposed and totally artificial name of 'Czechia' when speaking English. As a native speaker of English I could explain in length what I find wrong with Czechia but I won't bore you. Thank you Janek.
OK. I'll explain. I understand that English has become a lingua franca in much of the world. However, as a native speaker I feel sometimes that people forget that it is not an artificial language like Esperanto which does not particularly belong to anyone. It is first and foremost the language of its native speakers. It is up to use to decide which words to use officially in our language. I note also that these resolutions don't apply to speakers of other languages. Are Germans told to say 'die Tschechia'? Or the French 'la Tchéquia'? So when the Czech Republic insists on the name Czechia, and Turkey insists on being referred to as Türkiye, by people when speaking in English they forget they are trying to dictate to native speakers which words to use in their own language. It is no more appropriate for a Czech to tell me to use the word Czechia when speaking in my language than it would be for the British parliament to pass a resolution for Czechs to stop using the words Anglie and Velká Británie and replace them with for example Ingland or Grejt Brýtan when speaking in Czech amongst themselves. Same goes for Turkey. I will use Türkiye when speaking to fellow anglophones when they replace İngiltere with İngland when speaking Turkish amongst themselves. Neither Türkiye nor Czechia sound particularly natural to native speakers by the way. So basically it's the principle of non-native speakers imposing odd sounding vocabulary on native speakers. As I say, English is not an artificial language. It is not yours to change by resolutions.
But hasn't the country officially adopted the once-colloquial name "Česko"? If so, then "Czechia," however artificial a coinage in English, is the best one-word translation.
@@barrysteven5964 Němci říkají Tschechien, Poláci říkají Czechy (a ano, myslí tím i Moravu a Slezsko), i my říkáme Česko. Jednoslovné názvy pro náš stát existují i v jiných jazycích. A co se týká Anglie a Velké Británie, tak ani jedno z toho není název státu. Anglie je název jednoho z regionů, a Velká Británie je název ostrova. Celým názvem se ten stát česky jmenuje Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska. V běžné řeči mu ovšem tak nikdo neříká. Používá se zkrácený termín Spojené království.
Sadly not everywhere anymore. Since 2023 our country cancelled electronic records of sales and a lot of restaurant, pubs, markets went back to cash only to avoid taxes or fee from card payment. But yes in most of places you can use cards
I love how furious he is about those tiktokers, but also so understandable. I don't get how tourists or people visiting the town can make such wrong claims with so much confidence.
I'm just boggling at the "you need to pay to use the public restrooms" thing. :'D wonder how many people in an "emergency" just piss somewhere outside because they don't have change OR anything in the bank to pay the machines with... That's 100% how that would go here in North America - you'd just see people going "well fk it, I'll just do my business like the animals do" or else hold it till they get home, laws about public indecency and exposure/elimitating be damned.
To be fair a lot of restrooms are free but outside of the tourist/crowd places. Like supermarkets, gas stations, smaller train/bus stations, public building etc.
TikTok is like glamour. People will not show you their true self, their true experience, or how they truly feel. They separate self and self image online. That is why these tiktoks are horrible. I like this channel because he is honest and cares about all of Czech Republic. I will be there in 6 days to study at Charles University. Hopefully I see Janek roaming the streets so that I can say "Hi". I am extremely grateful to his videos!
I totally feel Janek's anger, this is exactly why I refuse to use TikTok, full with stupid content (I admit there are very few good things). Most people are showoff without a brain...
Sorry to say, but you are already stupid if you installed tiktok in you cellphone in first place.
Tiktok has its entertainment purposes and for me as a tiny travel vlogger it is good to use to post little snippets of content BUT it is definitely NOT a good info source haha
@@andyptv1996 Tiktok is a spy app for the CCP. By now, they know everything about you.
The challenges are just the worst too. Not to mention the "dances" that are literally bottom of the barrel stuff. But still, the number one reason to dump Tiktok is privacy. They're the worst sellers of data mined from your account. It's nuts. Not that FB etc. are any better, but still.
I so agree with Janek. TikTok is the worst.
Getting wrong information whilst you are travelling is bad.
Now imagine my job as a mortgage advisor when I get a client say "Well the guy from Tiktok said...."
The same guy who has absolutely no financial qualifications? That guy? yeah...
Hahaha yeah I deal with this sometimes as a lawyer. Clients come in and start asking about something they heard on TikTok and it is ALWAYS wrong.
I can only imagine what doctors must hear from their patients...
Searching for travel advice is the worst nowadays since no matter the platform, it's so saturated with videos from influencers doing an "ultimate guide to [place] in 2023!" video and then it turns out to just be a glorified vlog of them just visiting all the top attractions on Tripadvisor and regurgitating everything they've been told about it uncritically. I wish every city had someone like you guys.
"Platform", lol!
How about the paper-based platform of a proper guidebook?
Prague is popular, there is poised to be one even in your language!
@@PradedaCech Plenty of guidebooks just contain places that have paid to be in there. They also become out of date very quickly - if I want to know the current price and opening hours of somewhere, then their website is going to be the best place to look. Also, online reviews can give you a less biased outlook on a place.
Guidebooks are fine for getting basic ideas, but you still need to do proper research about the place you're visiting.
@@hannahk1306 Well, you know, we are both commenting on a video made by Praguers that is about people skipping guidebooks, and skipping websites, and going straight to Tiktok for "proper research".
Guidebooks should be the base.
For the most interesting stuff (for me anyway), guidebooks are pretty helpful even decades later. Even historic guidebooks can be useful to get a basic idea of old cities.
And the endless wasteland of ai generated blogs with the same 10 places
The internet has just consistently been getting worse, it's starting to border on unusable
@@LuluTheCorgi thank you!! I say this all the time and get weird looks. We invented this really cool thing (internet) meant to connect people, help us more easily access up to date information etc… and what has it turned into? A monetized dumpster fire. Google a recipe, click a link to one that sounds good, it’s a blog! There are so many ads and smaller videos going it will take forever for the page to load, you try to scroll through the recipe but an affiliate ad pops up now you’ve touched it and you’re being redirected to some sponsors page when you just wanted to know how to make soup. Throw your phone in the garbage, capitalistic values have killed the internet.
I attempted to visit this 5 storey club about 10 years ago with a friend from Australia, who I was showing around.
He really wanted to go inside so I asked the bouncer (in Czech) if there was a cover charge.
The bouncer told me not to go inside. I asked why I'm not allowed inside. He just laughed and said I can come in but it's shit inside, only full of American and British tourists, and he only told me this because I spoke Czech.
We decided to hit a local pub instead (which was my suggestion from the beginning) which was far more enjoyable.
Dude knew that you and your friend didn't deserve to be subjected to tourists from my country (I'm English ;p)
Is it something special to have a club with 5 levels ? Dunno most clubs I know have 3 levels and multiple floors. I know a club that got also 5 levels
@@Vanadium The building is heritage and already had five levels and is a bit of a noodle.
The owners probably thought, may as well stack as many suckers on top of each other to maximise profit.
That's why you never take advice from foreigners who'll never come back to said place again.
Especially American kids who never or first time visited European city and they think they know everything. Pretty sure they doesn't even know which country is it in but there they are spreading misinformation.
Or were never there in the first place and just want views
I totally agree with you that social media, especially Tik Tok, can provide misleading information. It's really important to cross-check from multiple sources, preferably the reliable ones.
Not a tourist, but the first days living in Prague have been nicer (and cheaper) avoiding the tourist traps you taught us
TikTok is cancer.
My grandmother used to say the same thing about the internet and her grandmother used to say the same thing about television. Think about it. 🤔
@@Tedrousek and few more grands used to say books are cancer as youngsters don't spend their day working.
Edit:grammar
@@Tedrousek this guy right here and many like him are the reason for the misinformation epidemic that plagues the world
@@Tedrousekit is right tho. Tiktok is legit brain rot with very good content sprinkled here and there. Sadly overall I avoid it because majority is just bad
@@Tedrousek Are you trying to say: "Somebody said X was Y and it wasn't true. Therefore Z cannot be Y." ?
I recently turned 36 and I believe there's a growing disconnect between us millenials and the new generation. We have seen and know a lot of things that the youngest generation thinks is new or unique or special. I look for information, read websites, reviews etc. It feels the youngest generation just goes off of hearsay from tiktok videos or shorts. With the short form content, there's no time to spend longer than a minute looking for information. Just swipe to the next video and the next and before you know it, you're an expert of (mis)information.
With that said, now imagine how us, that’s boomers, feel about the attention spans of the generations that followed us. We had to read books to learn something!
The thing is that they don't even watch the videos to the end because they have the attention span of a gnat. Not all, but A LOT tend not to read and get their knowledge from videos(without talking notes). So, information doesn't stick, they rely on their smart phones and generations get dumber and dumber. Now they even have chat gpt to do their homework . I swear to God "Idiocracy" was actually a true story written by a time traveler and given to Mike Judge.
No i am 24 and i am Not using tik tok at all. For Traveling i am wachting documentary’s or reading books. 😅
I know its going to blow your mind but kids still read books
@@KMarikwhoa whoa... We had an Almanac and an encyclopedia. "Look it up!" 😂😂😂 I used to hate that, but I see the difference now. I was born in 83, so I tend to relate more with gen x.
Sir, you have risen to the level of public service. Never went to Prague but, when I finally do, I know I will enjoy it 1000x more because of you. Thank you so much for all your good efforts.👍
Tiktokers have never been the brightest candles on the cake
No, but they are cunning narcissists.
Smoking indoors is something that I certainly don't miss. I was in Serbia last December, just a few months after indoor smoking had been banned in restaurants (but still not well-enforced), and I once asked to eat outside in the middle of winter to avoid the cigarette smoke. The restaurant happily accommodated.
You are a westerner pussy
Serbia still has one of those things unknown and lost to many other countries.....personal freedom :-)
@@erniesulovic4734 Yeah, freedom to get cancer (Serbia has one if not the highest cancer mortalities in Europe, as well as number of smokers) and blame whatever thing falls to your mind... but not smoking. And also buying the story that it's "personal freedom" and not the government in pockets of large tobacco companies.
Smoking is not banned, there are some limitations which are very easily legally avoidable, and even the very lax regulation is not enforced. You'll find staff smoking in hospitals, even maternity wards.
@@WebWolf89 That sounds good to me and being an alternative therapist, luckily i know what causes cancer and how to heal it, so cancer isnt an issue for me 🙂
@@erniesulovic4734you’re either trolling or really need to go out into reality. “I know how to heal cancer” okay buddy, we all believe you.
A fine display of the utter stupidity of the general public. Bravo. ❤
especially of the general "younger" public, who think that's a "nice social Media"... but then, they show only the intelligence of people in the "dark age" of the 13-14th century.
In my opinion, the guy who posted the recommendation to go to that forbidden quarry should face charges in a court of law.
*SHE* (Tiffany) and her followers might be taken care of by nature, so let's not waste the law's time & people's tax money. 🤷♂😂
well the video isn't 100% accurate, you can go there, it's just you can't get as close...also, i went there a sunny weekend and it was full of people, everyone had jumped the gate. Maybe that;s changed in the past 4 years tho...
@@JonZiegler6 why is it so dangerous though?
@@irondasgr Because it's an abandoned quarry, not a tourist spot with neat safe paths. There are CLIFFS. And people who climb over fences to visit a place tend not to be the most cautious people careful about where they're putting their feet in the first place. They're liable to keep pushing their luck... until they push too far.
Guys we are on our way home from Prague. I want to say that your videos made our visit a blast! Followed your guides on what to see, where to eat, to use trams etc etc.... Im really impressed. Svičkova na smetanĕ is life ❤❤❤❤❤
Agree. Our Svíčková na smetanĕ is the best.
hope you saw how to eat it and didnt wave dumplings in your hand😂
@@theoteddy9665 yep:)
řízek and guláš/buřguláš are too good, but svíčková is best
Agree, watched him also before going to Prague... He's local, can't miss ❤❤
I agree with you. There are far too many people with zero life experience sharing their worthless opinions that are more often than not based on misinformation or preconception. At one time, you would have bought and read a travel guide such as Michelin or Fodor written by professionals who did their research and cared about their readership.
I think this is right in the sense that most of these people are just very young people on the first trip abroad. They're not worse than the earlier generation, they're just kids sharing their misconceptions. They saw a lot of absinthe stores, so there's a lot of absinthe stores. The square looked pretty big and they've never seen a town square before, so they thought it might be one of the biggest. I feel like young travellers have been making these errors forever. What's new is that in 1925, the twenty-year-olds getting lied to and having these misconceptions based on limited information were only writing their misinformation home to their family and friends, not making videos for the whole world to see.
@@vf1923 Excellent way to put it!
@@vf1923 Travel guides date back to 19th century. People then used to mock tourists following religiously their steps and commenting from them. But actually I miss the context part these guides offer, and the 1925 20 y.o. used to be asked about context a lot. Currently reading a report of a guy that traveled to Germany in 28. It's mainly about political and historicak context. Read some of a 32 year old traveling in Italy back in 1867. Pretty interesting and very different from another 24 years old traveling there from another country: perspective is always a cultural matter. That said we have to give it to "very young" people that places aournd the world changed and the authenticity has been disappearing, locals can't afford living there when AirBnBs take all the space, events are made for tourists and do not reflect local traditions, everything has been dumbed down and filtered for tourists expectancies as a result of mass tourism needing operating standards.
Ah, TikTok is the perfect place to go to if you want the worst advice known to mankind...
In a robots voice with random subway surfers gameplay covering half the screen
Where else would you learn to commit crimes. Especially knowing that Tik Tok won't even ban people for posting it
Oh, ever seen YT channels Troom Troom or 5 minute crafts?
@@Gobra11 5 minutes crafts is crime in whole other genre.
What baffles me the most is according to statistics young generations use tik tok as their search engine... Like it is such a useless place because most people just lie or are stupid and just farm likes
There is an American Tiktoker who did the same in the UK. Then the actual people who lived there roasted her.
@sewwfffyhjijui , Audrey Peters.
I went to Prague a couple of years ago. Before the trip, we googled some clubs and all we got were some fake tourist clubs. Luckily met some locals who brought us with them to a huge club and there were no tourists. One of the best parties I went to.
If you really want experience things like local. Go with a local or ask him. It’s the easiest and best way.
Cross club is my favorite in Prague. Or maybe ever.
Well, sounds like there were at least 2 tourists...
That is how some horror movies start haaha. But yes qith travel comes risk. That is adventure
It was probably the guys from PartyHardcore or DrunkSexOrgy. Prague has all the best parties on pornhub haha
Living in Hungary and being in Budapest a lot I can only say: I feel your pain... 😄
I'm Czech and I have a friend who went to Budapest for the new year's. Yeah, he went to the most touristy spots he found on tiktok, and when I told him that tiktok was probably the last place where you will find actual good spots to visit and good advice, he just said that there were great multi story clubs or whatever the hell that I have less than zero interest in ever visiting.
The fact that someone tried to offer them drugs on the street in english because they were the most obvious tourists probably says more than I ever could.
@mach2223 yeah, happens, mostly those are fake drugs
I'm from The Netherlands and also see many lies and wrong information about Amsterdam.
I would trust Janek to roast someone till they were visibly chargrilled lol
P.S. TikTok is banned in India so I have to use Google to search things as a Gen Z individual.
P.P.S. Please don’t say it’s some kind of social benefit because it’s straight up censorship.
Man. Good for you. That thing is not good in any sense.
@@pavelcalta5303 What do you mean it’s good for me? That’s censorship. Atleast give me the option to be on TikTok. It is addictive but isn’t social media like that in general?
should be banned worldwide
@@pavelcalta5303it can be good for short memes for example, but it’s definitely not how it’s used, its one of humanity’s man-made trash holes, but unlike other ones like 4chan, children use it very frequently and everyone thinks it’s normal
Smart Indians.
You think that the Tiktoker might have confused Prague with Budapest with regard to the chain bridge? There is one in Budapest, Széchenyi Lánchíd, and they forgot where it was and decided to add one to Prague 🤷♂
Yeah they maybe made a mistake.
@@saiien2 Or they just figured "eh, it's all Austro-Hungary"... 😂😂
Chain bridge, Charles bridge.. both start with C... Also, a lot of people do Prague-Vienna-Budapest in 1 trip and so maybe they visited both in the space of a couple of days and then recorded the voiceover when they got home.
Hey guys, I'm flying out to Prague tomorrow, to start a month-long travel journey across Central Europe, so this is ideal for some last minute planning! Always appreciate the great work you guys do 😊
How was your time in Europe?
Hope you returned safely and had a decent fun.
I'm heading to Prague in May and your videos and the patreon maps are always really helpfull to me! Tks for sharing tons of great info with us!
Why the words tiktok and stupid are always used in the same sentence?
Well here is the answer.
This is why I don't use TikTok. It's just filled with garbage and utter stupidity
I have never been to your country, but when I come, I am rewatching all of your videos. You are awesome.
The smoking ban was far before in Turkey, but the official situation and the unofficial situation can be very different. You cannot imagine how many loopholes people can find. The biggest being "the garden" or "outside area" where it's just one tent and a tiny opening on a glass roof, it's only open space on paper. Some places outright don't obey the ban, unless they spot an auditor or something.
This is the reason I never follow any of these so called "travel influencers" in social media - with the exception of Rick Steves, and of course you. The best advice are from the locals so I would rather listen to you.
I'm American and have been living in Germany for the past 15 years, mostly in areas popular with American tourists. In my opinion, Rick Steves primarily recommends tourist traps. One positive: the Rick Steves guides and website typically recommend one or two museums that most American tourists wouldn't find on their own. I do trust Janek and Honza, though. :)
"I don't follow any travel influencers. Here is a list of travel influencers I follow:"
@@B3Band Do you understand what the word "exception" means?
@@beth12svist Yes, and 'never follow any' doesn't really allow for exceptions, right?
There's plenty of ways to phrase that that don't start on a hyperbole/lie at the front of the sentence. Such as: I'm critical with choosing which travel influencers I follow, or "I follow only a few", etc.
If you say "never any" then you say there's none, and never have been any.
@@nanderv They said "with the exception of" further in the long sentence. That's what I was referring to, that's all.
I came from Czech video just to see how much more was Janek roasting and he really pushed the pedal even more. Klobouček kluci. 🎩
I remember I had an amazing time in Prague thanks to your tips, greetings from Warsaw 👍
Thank you for bringing some reason and truth to these ridiculous TikToks 😄
I feel like a lot (not necessarily all) of TikTok is just people saying hey look what I discovered that nobody else has and how cool it is. Umm no sorry, you didn’t discover it, it’s been around for some time and you’re also not special and way too overconfident in what you think is accurate information. Glad to see Janek see the record straight. On a side note: I have much more respect for sanitation workers than these ne’er-do-well TikTok influencers.
ummmmmmmmmmmm
I'm really late, but still, somebody might read this comment, so it's enough for me. Thank you for mentioning the robotic bartender "club". It was honestly my worst experience in Prague some years ago. I was literally harassed by the worker/owner there. He totally lost his mind on me because i asked him a question about the robot. Being an extroverted person, i wanted to be friendly. And what it got me was a screaming tantrum of a grown man who was insulting me and threw a drink in my face. I guess now that it was because i dared to ask him something and he thought i was onto him. Still got overcharged. I contemplated calling the police, however my friend was scared and just wanted to leave so I just decided to never look back again. I just left a really bad review on google. It really helps to have a local point out how scammy it is. Keep up the good work!
When some people are forced to question themselves they lash out.
And their goal is to make you question yourself.
Imagine watching this and finding out you just got absolutely destroyed by Honza and Janek. XD I loved this idea so much and really helped shine a light on how we shouldn't just take what we see for granted. I'd love to see more "Travel Advice" influencers get roasted in future videos XD :)
Thanks for another entertaining feature, with good real information. I am happy that travel literature was my first intro to Prague when I visited the country for the first time in 1990. No Tik-Tok to confuse my common sense! 😂
Greetings, a non-alcoholic Dane who loves the entire Czech Republic. ❤
I worked in a bookstore, until recently, travel books were still popular when I worked there. But you could also tell those buying them (young and old) weren't really the tick tok crowd.
1:03 When I was in Prague, I've often heard Cerny Most and Zlicin over the speakers on the metro at every stop because they're the last stops of the lines. I even went to Zlicin and was in the shopping center there.
be glad that you survived 😀
Ive been to Prague and my go-to for information was the "honest guide"!
Because of you guys we had the best time and found some awsome little places to eat that the locals use. It was very cheap and i wish we could have stayed there longer. Who knows maybe we will go back someday.
100% agree. We had a great visit to Prague thanks to Honest Guide’s You Tube videos.
This is why we don't watch Tiktok when we do research on new places to travel to. We have been to Prague in the past and plan on going back in December and we use Google, UA-cam and Trip Advisor long before we leave home. With all there is to see in Prague why would you spend any time to go to a crappy bar. Get away from the tourist traps in the Old Town Square and get in the outlying areas. This pretty much applies to almost every town we have visited in Europe. We travel to Europe 2 to 3 times a year. Tiktok is for instant gratification not for serious research.
I absoulety love your style, it is so refreshing to have someone (a local) being upfront and say their unfiltered opinion, regardless of how many tiktok kids will feel offended
I just went to Prague after 2 years watching your videos! I went to Havelská Koruna to try Svíčková, it was so legit goood! My only wish is to pass Janek and Honza during their filming, but of course I was out of luck!
And that's why I don't use TikTok.... 🐑
I actually downloaded TikTok for 1 specific guy. He does fun videos on animal facts. I was going to name him but it hurt to provide advertisement for something online, this is even making me twitch! Face to face I have no issue but immortalized here - can’t do it! Hn, wonder if I dated myself….
It's sad to see the amount of spread tourist traps have given time in large cities. I imagine thirty years ago there were SIGNIFICANTLY less things pretending to be native to Czech and it hurts to know that we wont get to experience this beautiful country without the tourist traps.
Of course you can. Go anywhere outside of Prague city centre and voilà!
You'd be surprised. The vast majority of tourists stick firmly to the tourist routes. You really don't have to wander very far to find bars and restaurants with fewer tourists and more Czechs.
@@blotskiusually they just the next block over.
Honestly even in the city centre just by diving into a less click-baity museum... I was playing guide around Czechia for a friend from NZ a year ago, and we went to the Museum of Decorative Arts (very much our cup of tea). There were some foreigners, yes, but I think actually even there, right next to the famous synagogues, most of the people visiting inside were Czech.
Good on you mate, keep exposing scams and calling out people on their bullshit. A lot of people are afraid to do so thinking it will make their country/town look bad, but everywhere is like that and it's best to be aware of the pitfalls so you can avoid them and have a great tourist visit and leave with a positive view of the good aspects of that place. Much respect from Australia!
I visited Prague in autumn and i found your clips very helpful. Thanks, it was a very nice city to visit.
Prague Public transport is very well organized.
I wonder if people back then were also this ignorant or it's just our generation where self-research and awareness are just rare
I think they were, they just did not share it with millions on the internet with a smartphone.
Like stupid people, there were always stupid people, they just could not reach so many other stupid people on the interwebs.
We had to rely on our lonely planet and just ask people we met on the trip.
What Daniel said, plus in earlier times it was seriously expensive to travel. So that limited the amount of tourists in the first place (dumb or otherwise).
I love how honest and direct you are
I'd love to see a video about the clubs and nightlife in Prague its really hard to filter out all the tourist traps'
Good news! I just released a massive Prague nightlife guide, please enjoy
@amphibax what kind of music do you like?
We need people like you in every city - these guides (and scam videos) are simply AMAZING, thank you!
I visited Prague once in 2002 and because I am nerd who loves museums I was very happy that Prague had tons of museums. But it was huge disappontment to learn that most of those museums were really tiny, like one apartment in an apartment building. I hope this channel would tell more about the tiny museums if those are still a thing in Prague.
Have you been to national technology museum? It has a huge open space inside with steam engines, boats and planes. If you are looking for big I think that is the best we can do in PRague
Happy new year guys and thanks for this one, it really was fun 😊🙏🏻
i thought he was about to say, '' you are stupid cause you are from US" i see what he did there😂😂😂😂1:37
"Dont use public transport" is the worst travel advice for most countries 😭
Tik Tok never ceases to amaze me, but not in a GOOD way!
TikTok is a joke! It is great for simple entertainment, but not for carefully crafted advice. I would absolutely love love love to see you do an HONEST review of my new Prague Night Guide, which took many months to put together covering every good night spot in Prague, from rooftops, date spots, cocktail bars, nightclubs and speakeasies. It is a massive video!
haha! Love this! I wish I thought of this. You are a genius! hope you are well, waving hello from Canada!
Short videos TikTok or otherwise are the bane of society. They are like the dark ages for the internet.
I’ve never downloaded tik tok and never will! Love your channel.. Happy New Year! Prague is on my list for 2026! :)
"A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on" is a saying after all.
I’ve never heard that one, it’s really good!
To be fair, trespassing places where almost noone goes because people die there is an actual hidden gem if you survive
Janek I could feel your frustration watching the video myself, so much misinformation goes on TikTok (and any other social network that involves reels) spread by bloggers wannabes, and why that's gotta be always americans, I understand it's easy views but stop pretending to be tourist guides and leave it to people who actually have been living in those places. By the way thank you so much Janek, I've been in Prague in November and it surely is the most beautiful (in the very sense of the word) city I've visited in my life so far, your guides were super helpful
Uhh I think people are outraged at the fact that public bathrooms collect fees, not about payment methods...
Your heart, Janek! Your heart! 😂 Your content helped me a lot in my research for my trip last December. You’re awesome!
The thing with TikTok and Instagram reels is the short form nature of it is all about quantity over quality. Pump out a bs video 3x a day that regurgitates the stuff you saw the last person say. It's no coincidence they all talked about beer cheaper than water. Just regurgitating.
I do miss the 50czk beers in city-center, but even then, how much are people paying for water?!
Water bottle in legit grocery shop can be as low as 0,2€ for a store brand or around 1€ for a name brand. The tourist traps Janek shown in the video can charge around 4€ for a single water bottle.
In restaurants the government had to actually pass a law a few years back that they need to offer at least one non-alcoholic drink cheaper than a beer. And then it depends if the restaurant is a tourist one, local one or high-class one, but I'd say around 3€ for a 1l water carafe with lemon/fruits in mid-tier local restaurant.
I just came back from an amazing week in Prague and I wanna thank you for all your amazing tips, from public transport, to places to see, food to eat, money..wow I could go on!!!!!!! Your channel is AMAZING!!! I’m so glad I found it. You were honestly the best guide I could have asked for to visit Prague!!!!! Thank you so much for staying real and for genuinely wanting to help those who want to visit this incredible city!!! Until next time Prague 😍 I’m definitely coming back again!!!
“…it’s a quarry and it’s off limits because people die there”
Me having dark thoughts about these TikTokers
We relied on your UA-cam channel before our trip to Prague and it was the most informative yet fun content on Prague!
Thank you for roasting all of these Tiktoks!
the honest guide doesnt mess around. love these guys
You guys are awesome. ❤
I mean, I knew it was people saying literally whatever on TicTok (and many other places for that matter), but it's still fun as hell seeing you roasting these! And meanwhile, being very informative as well of course :D
"I've been to this place and it's a shit hole" 😂😂😂😂 exactly how I felt when I went to that club
Always when traveling to Czechia I travel from the Netherlands trough Germany and I often am amazed how many locations in Germany DONT take card's or have non functioning payment terminals. So if traveling in Germany: make sure you have plenty of euro's for things like restaurants, toilets. It's getting better, but Czechia is definitely a lot more card friendly.
In Czechia it used to be: pin a lot on the first day of the holiday and pay everything in Czech crown, but now you can pay with almost any card at any shop.
Look, do you say self your answer why it is so. The Federal Republic of Germany have strong concurrency with DM - also we used it. Later, as the German government change to € (with a "country market" how is over 5 times bigger as our small country!) we use this! Our money was so good that some countries adopted it as 2nd concurrency too. 😂 Why we should use US credit cards or one of our over 400 bank debit cards - money what you can't see?
In Czech Republic use own money how is not used at neighbor countries nor it is a strong money too. Then lives there only around 11 mio. people in this country - this 1/3 of people how vist Germany yearly as tourists! It is a good idea to use then digital money right?
I self as German how like to travel and know that cards accepted in most countries is not the problem that you just use coins for this and that - it is more that *this is the once option* ! I just prefer service and restaurants what accept my idiotic card - and this more as McDonalds and KFC! Just ask if you go in - answer no mean a loud and hate "Okay, I want eat here after I read so many about your good food - but I not have 40€ in coins with me. Thanks for nothing." 😂 I known now so many, specially small shops, how accept your HSBC card too. Then coins back to bank account *costs* money since some years and then are the black market with fake coins - cards are more easy. 😮
@@OldLordSpeedy This makes like no sense at all. The value of your money, be it digital or paper fluctuates just the same. The Czech keep their money in their own currency on the bank anyway.
The reason that Germany is so behind on the times is that Germany just doesn't invest in modernisation, like, at all. You can call it anything you want, but it's just bureaucratic desinterest into making things better.
Please do more of these, they’re great. 😃
to be fair, in 10:00 he said about town squares in Europe and you compared it to the list of town squares around the whole world. The outcome is still the same, but... ;)
What’s even more scary than this is that studies show that young people get their news almost exclusively from TikTok. This is why it’s more important than ever to have actual journalists out there. And why I’ll never use TikTok…
3:30 Fun Fact. The Dutch name for a Nutria actually is Beverrat, which meaning is exactly what it sounds like in English.
Yeah - and "Biberratte" or "Sumpfbiber" in German language. 😂
And once, it was a delicacy served under the name 'waterkonijn', or water rabbit, until it was made illegal because the water they were caught in was often too polluted for them to be suitable for consumption. 😅
I’m so happy that my wife and I visited Prague before the eventual swarms of TikTok’rs. Grateful to Janek & Honza guiding us through the country and beyond Old Town Square & the Prague tourist traps. Brno was fabulous and I have the honest guide to thank. - now to visit Brno during Christmas! ❤
Visited Prague during the New Year, was gutted not to spot Janek in the wild. lol
How to get to the Chain Bridge in Prague: go to the airport and fly 500km to Budapest.
Or take a direct train city centre to city centre :).
@@nanderv Eurocity
Haha, proud of you who tried to enter the chaotic and missinformated world of TikTok. Like that you give us more correct information :D
I got you with the "tourist trap" but some things just sparkle curiosity on people so they go like the market or the beer spa, etc. I personally try and avoid most of not actually local things but i enjoy going into a restaurant or pub that maybe a little on the expensive side but near places i wanna visit from time to time. No everybody travels on a budget or to avoid tourists. I feel like your channel give so much information that are true and fair to say its the best channel on the topic.
When I went to Prague to Prague in 1990, it was stunning and safe and great. I went again in 2009 and it was awful. It's been taken over by criminals. Russian mafia I guess. My partner was drugged in a bar and I managed to get us out but it was scary stuff.
Planning a visit next month and am so glad i found this channel 🙏
I have not traveled in a while because of health issues but I used to travel a lot and my biggest tip is to not use the internet for recommendations. Sure read up on the city, the trouble you can get in, local customs etc. but then just ask locals. Look for places that are not full of tourists but locals and talk to people. Don't be an asshole, be nice and you will get some great recommendations.
Using tiktok in general is bad enough, but using it for tips and tricks is just idiotic
There are indeed a lot of people on TikTok that give horrible advice (but also plenty who are great). The worst thing for me is when people visit tulip fields in The Netherlands, they're running through the fields and tell their audiences to basically do the same: it's forbidden. These fields are private property and you're destroying the bulbs. Unless you have permission from a farmer you are never allowed to enter them.
Or they come Amsterdam for two days and pretend like they are the best person to give advice and like they know everything about The Netherlands- and indeed post videos like 'hidden gem in Amsterdam', whereas 1. it's a tourist trap (stroopwafels for 13 euros a piece instead of buying one at the market for a few euros!) or 2. it's a completely different area.
But in the case of The Netherlands, it's also the fault of a local tourism agency that created a new Amsterdam region- which is suddenly a pretty big part of the country. So now we have Amsterdam beach - which is actually Zandvoort aan Zee (30-minute train ride from Amsterdam), Amsterdam Castle - which is found in Muiden (+-40 minute train and busride from Amsterdam) and so on. No wonder tourists come to think that a lot of the country is Amsterdam.
Maybe banning TikTok isn't a bad idea
Many years ago, I went to Prague with my girlfriend. This was long before you could use the Internet on your phone. Fortunately, the guy who worked at the hotel reception where we stayed was a cool young guy, so we asked him what to see, where to go, what to do in Prague and he recommended some cool places including a small restaurant with no tourists (except for us, I guess). It was so good and so affordable! He also told us about the Astronomical Clock but he said "Everyone loves it but to be honest, I don't know why". We went to see it and there was indeed a big crowd standing there, waiting for something to happen... Then the little animation happened and we looked at each other and laughed, thinking about what the hotel guy told us about it.
Many, many years later, I found out about this UA-cam channel and around 3 years ago, I watched your video explaining the Astronomical Clock and how to read it. I wish you had made that video when you were like 12 years old (I guess you must have been around 12 in 2002 when I went there)!
TikTok - the place where people with an attention span of 5 seconds and zero in-depth knowledge on basic things give advice to other such people...
I was going to skip over this when I read the title...but then I saw who posted it, the channel that quite literally improved my first trip to Prague!
One of the very, very many things I love about Janek is that he steadfastly resists the use of the inappropriately imposed and totally artificial name of 'Czechia' when speaking English. As a native speaker of English I could explain in length what I find wrong with Czechia but I won't bore you. Thank you Janek.
Explain it to us, then
Please explain, I would like to know. I don't have opinion, so you can sway me with yours if you have a good arguments.
OK. I'll explain. I understand that English has become a lingua franca in much of the world. However, as a native speaker I feel sometimes that people forget that it is not an artificial language like Esperanto which does not particularly belong to anyone. It is first and foremost the language of its native speakers. It is up to use to decide which words to use officially in our language. I note also that these resolutions don't apply to speakers of other languages. Are Germans told to say 'die Tschechia'? Or the French 'la Tchéquia'?
So when the Czech Republic insists on the name Czechia, and Turkey insists on being referred to as Türkiye, by people when speaking in English they forget they are trying to dictate to native speakers which words to use in their own language. It is no more appropriate for a Czech to tell me to use the word Czechia when speaking in my language than it would be for the British parliament to pass a resolution for Czechs to stop using the words Anglie and Velká Británie and replace them with for example Ingland or Grejt Brýtan when speaking in Czech amongst themselves. Same goes for Turkey. I will use Türkiye when speaking to fellow anglophones when they replace İngiltere with İngland when speaking Turkish amongst themselves. Neither Türkiye nor Czechia sound particularly natural to native speakers by the way.
So basically it's the principle of non-native speakers imposing odd sounding vocabulary on native speakers. As I say, English is not an artificial language. It is not yours to change by resolutions.
But hasn't the country officially adopted the once-colloquial name "Česko"? If so, then "Czechia," however artificial a coinage in English, is the best one-word translation.
@@barrysteven5964 Němci říkají Tschechien, Poláci říkají Czechy (a ano, myslí tím i Moravu a Slezsko), i my říkáme Česko. Jednoslovné názvy pro náš stát existují i v jiných jazycích. A co se týká Anglie a Velké Británie, tak ani jedno z toho není název státu. Anglie je název jednoho z regionů, a Velká Británie je název ostrova. Celým názvem se ten stát česky jmenuje Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska. V běžné řeči mu ovšem tak nikdo neříká. Používá se zkrácený termín Spojené království.
"Chain bridge" She might be talking about the bridge where people put those love locks.
The cash thing is so true, do they think Czechia is behind the times? I visited one pub that was cash only in 2022. Everywhere accepts card in Prague!
To be fair, some pubs only take cash - U Černeho vola, U Kocoura... And Cafe Louvre take cards but the tip needs to be in cash.
Sadly not everywhere anymore. Since 2023 our country cancelled electronic records of sales and a lot of restaurant, pubs, markets went back to cash only to avoid taxes or fee from card payment.
But yes in most of places you can use cards
Not everywhere. Was just there last week, and all the bathrooms were cash only.
I love how furious he is about those tiktokers, but also so understandable. I don't get how tourists or people visiting the town can make such wrong claims with so much confidence.
I'm just boggling at the "you need to pay to use the public restrooms" thing. :'D wonder how many people in an "emergency" just piss somewhere outside because they don't have change OR anything in the bank to pay the machines with... That's 100% how that would go here in North America - you'd just see people going "well fk it, I'll just do my business like the animals do" or else hold it till they get home, laws about public indecency and exposure/elimitating be damned.
To be fair a lot of restrooms are free but outside of the tourist/crowd places. Like supermarkets, gas stations, smaller train/bus stations, public building etc.
Well pissing in public is a crime in Czech republic and you can get pretty big fine for that if somebody will see you.
Cultural difference probably. The amount you have to pay is marginal.
TikTok is like glamour. People will not show you their true self, their true experience, or how they truly feel. They separate self and self image online. That is why these tiktoks are horrible. I like this channel because he is honest and cares about all of Czech Republic. I will be there in 6 days to study at Charles University. Hopefully I see Janek roaming the streets so that I can say "Hi". I am extremely grateful to his videos!
Spectacular video as always! Tell it like it is. People are so gullible, stupid and shallow. USA #1
Thank you for creating such guide!😊😊😊