Is the Prague Visitor Pass worth it? The sums for 48, 72 and 120 hours, and when it does not pay back

💡 The Short Version: The Prague Visitor Pass is 2,700 CZK for 48 hours, 3,300 CZK for 72 and 3,900 CZK for 120 for an adult. It includes public transport and one visit to each of more than 70 sights, including the Castle, the Old Town Hall, the Jewish Museum and Petřín. At the sights’ door prices it pays back at about five of the dearest sights in 48 hours, seven in 72 and eight in 120. A trip built on the Castle, the Old Town Hall, the Jewish Museum and Petřín costs less without it. The pass is hours from activation, each site once, and the Jewish Museum is closed on Saturdays. Or book a tour: GetYourGuide’s Official City Pass with Public Transportad (from £95.43) is Prague City Tourism’s own listing of the pass.

What the pass includes

Prices and rules are from the pass’s own website and FAQ, converted at about CZK 28.8 to the pound. Students are aged 15 to 25 and show student ID; children are aged 6 to 14 and show ID. In March 2025 the adult prices were 2,400, 3,000 and 3,600 CZK.

• Transport: metro, trams, buses, trolleybuses, ferries, the Petřín funicular and the Airport Express bus. The pass says the Airport Express is covered; its single fare is 200 CZK.
• Sights, each once: Prague Castle’s Main circuit, the Old Town Hall with its priority lane and lift, the Clementinum, the Jewish Museum’s synagogues and cemetery, Petřín Tower and the Mirror Maze, the Old Town and Lesser Town Bridge Towers, the Powder Gate, St Nicholas Bell Tower, Lobkowicz Palace, Prague Zoo, the Žižkov TV Tower, Vyšehrad basilica and casemates, the Pilsner Urquell Experience and the Charles Bridge Museum.
• Boats: the Prague Venice cruise, Prague Boats sightseeing cruises and River Boats’ one-hour cruise are free. River Boats’ dinner cruise is discounted.
• Guided walks, free once each: Old Town and the Jewish Town, Charles Bridge and Lesser Town, the Medieval Underground, the Prague Castle District and Prague’s communist past.
• Vintage tram 42: a 24-hour ticket for the historic tram.
• Discount only: the Great South Tower of St Vitus Cathedral is half price.
• How you use it: show the active pass at each ticket office and collect a ticket, which you keep. There is no limit on sights a day, and each site is once only.

A Škoda 15T tram on line 18. Photo: Honza Groh (Jagro), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

How to buy and start it

• Buy: on the pass’s website, in its app, or at a point of sale. GetYourGuide lists the same pass from £95.43, about 2,750 CZK against 2,700 CZK for the 48-hour pass, and Prague City Tourism is the listed provider.
• Pass or e-pass: a physical card, activated by staff at an outlet, or an electronic pass activated in the app. The app also works as a guide.
• Activate when you arrive. The hours run from activation and cannot be shortened. If you set a start time, you can change it until the pass is active. An unactivated pass lasts a year, and an activated one is not refundable.
• Not transferable. You can extend a pass only by buying another one.

What the pass leaves out, and where it needs care

• The National Museum is not on the pass’s list.
• Mondays and Saturdays: some sights close on Mondays, and the Jewish Museum is closed on Saturdays and Jewish holidays, so a 48-hour pass that includes a Saturday loses that sight.
• Each site once. A longer pass buys more hours of transport and more time to fit sights in, not repeat visits.
• The Clementinum is on the list, and its own tours are limited and released every Monday for the following two weeks. The Old Town Hall and Astronomical Clock guide has the details.
• The Great South Tower is half price, not free.

Old Town Square, with the Church of Our Lady before Týn and the Jan Hus Memorial. Photo: Sergey Ashmarin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The sums

Sights at the operators’ adult door prices. The cruise is GetYourGuide’s Prague Boats price of about 440 CZK, because the Prague Steamboats cruise is not on the pass. Transport is counted at PID’s app prices (Prague public transport has the fares): 140 CZK for 24 hours and 340 CZK for 72 hours, so 280 CZK for two days and 620 CZK for five.

The pass breaks even once the sights cost the amount below, with transport counted as above.

Who it does not suit

• A first visit built on the Castle, the Old Town Hall, the Jewish Museum and Petřín. Those four cost 1,800 CZK, and the pass costs 2,700 to 3,900.
• A stay with a Saturday in it, because the Jewish Museum is the dearest sight on the list above and is shut that day.
• Readers who mostly walk and sit in cafés. A 72-hour PID ticket is 340 CZK, and the pass costs 3,300.
• Children under 6 and adults over 65. The pass’s FAQ says most sights and public transport are free or discounted for them, so they pay less at the door.

When it is worth it

• Buy the 72-hour pass if you will pay for seven or more of the sights above, or a mix that adds up to 2,960 CZK of door prices, and you will ride public transport.
• Buy the 120-hour pass only for a stay with a full list of paid sights over five days, including the dearest ones: it needs about 3,280 CZK of sights.
• Skip it for one or two paid sights a day, for a short stay, or for a plan with the Castle, the clock, the Jewish Museum and Petřín as the only paid entries.
• Check the closing days first: the Jewish Museum is shut on Saturdays and some museums on Mondays, while Prague Castle, the Charles Bridge towers and Petřín are open every day.

Another pass: the CoolPass

Prague: CoolPass with Access to 90+ Attractionsad (from £61.34, 4.1 stars from 4,096 reviews) is a separate product for one to six days. Its list takes in Prague Castle, the Jewish Museum, the National Museum and Prague Zoo, a two-hour bus tour and two river cruises, and its listed benefits do not mention public transport, the Old Town Hall, Petřín Tower or the bridge towers. Free cancellation.

For the sights the pass covers, see Prague Castle tickets, the Jewish Quarter tickets guide, the Old Town Hall and Astronomical Clock guide, the Petřín Tower and funicular guide, the Charles Bridge towers guide and Vltava river cruises compared. The pass covers the Airport Express: Prague airport to the city centre compares it with trolleybus 59 and the metro, and Prague public transport has the PID fares to run the sums against. For the rest of the city’s bookings, see what to book before you go in Prague. 3 days in Prague and Prague in one day build the plan round the bookings. The Pilsner Urquell Experience in the sums is covered in Prague beer tours. For the evenings and the days out of town, see classical concerts in Prague, where to eat in Prague and day trips from Prague, and where to stay in Prague compares the areas by how you reach them.