After my little tirade on "the Little Versailles", a similar thing happened at the Prague Castle. Prague is a wonderful city but in the 7 years since I have been here it seems it has become quite the tourist attraction, and places are charging accordingly. Last time I was at Prague castle I saw most of it and dont remember having to pay to get in. This time you could get a 'long visit' or 'short visit' ticket, the difference being the number of things you can see. So we decided to get the short visit one, which cost 200K or about $11.50 AUD, not really a lot. That got us in to the cathedral which is inside the castle and a few surrounding churches. The cathedral is well worth a look with some spectacular stain glass windows. The rest however is a different story. It was almost like an after thought, "we have charged to get in so we should put some token extra things in". Unfortunately you cant just get a cathedral ticket though. If you do go to see the extra things like St someone (cant remember his name) Basilica, you are not allowed to take photos. Unlike the Little Versailles, you will not be shot, you just need to pay a little extra for a photo "licence", 50K or about $2.50. My thought is, let's not buy it and say we did. It seemed to work because there were people in all the buildings who I assume would be to check and make sure noone is taking 'illegal' photos, but noone stopped me.
Then we tried to climb the tower of the cathedral because there is a great view from there, but no, that is extra, another 100K. If you want to go to see the "Story of Prague Castle" guess what, its extra. I think the castle authorities have seen tourists coming and are charging extra for everything now. Capitalist scum!
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