Go for a holiday!

Preface	The Holiday cottage	Other fine houses!	Book accommodation
Agencies	Camping	Car rentals	Skiing

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Preface

If you would like to experience that the Czech Republic is more than "Prague & Pick-Pockets", but a beautiful country with a kind population, it is a good idea to visit the countryside. It is a friendly country with a changing nature, and all of it is marked with coloured hiking routes covered by maps suited for as well hikers, bikers as car drivers. Maps are extremely cheap to buy, so there is no reason not to cover your area of interest.
Meanwhile, do not give up Prague, as it is a capital you will never finish - but that is common knowledge I suppose.
You may get a brief overview of the country at the Czech Tourist Authority.

Here you may see how to arrange your stay by the Internet.

My advice is to read guidebooks at home - and leave them there! Instead buy one on the spot, which ensures they are updated, and things do change rapidly in the republic these days. As always there is an exception:Lonely Planet Czech guide is the best all-round guide to the country. Use Bookfinder to get the best price.
Other books of interest I mention in the relevant context.

You may find a lot of tourist information at CZLIST's travel guide, a general portal.

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The holiday cottage

You may now rent the best holiday cottage of Bohemia directly by the owner
The image is from 2011

Inexpensive to you, just CZK10.000/EUR 300 per week and no hidden extras like local taxes, paying extra for firewood, gas and so on.
The cottage is situated in Vrbice, close to Rychnov and Kostelec nad Orlici as you may see at this overview map

We have lived there several times and suggest you also enjoy some more pictures of the cottage and its interior.

The house is ownde by the Lorenc family and you may contact the daughter in the family, Simona Bordes, to know if the cottage is vacant for the period you want accommodation. Yuo may write in English, French, German or Czech.

We have nothing to do with the rental of the cottage, but you are welcome to contact us if you have problems getting in touch with mr. Lorenc or if you want to learn more about the interior and surroundings of the cottage.
Our most recent visit was August 2011.

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Did the above-mentioned house not match what you are looking for?
Try Zars!

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Book hotels and other accommodation

If other accommodation is youth hostels have a look at Czech Youth Hostel Association.
If you look for accommodation in Prague, please look at the end of the Prague page where accommodation recommended to me is placed.
If you look for accommodation outside Prague, please look at the respective places on the Places outside Prague page where accommodation recommended to me is placed.

There are 2 tables:

Table 1 = Search engines
Table 2 = Castle hotels

Below are selections of sites, where you may book your accommodation directly
Most sites have a description as well as pictures and prices

Table 1, Search engines

InterBohemia On-line booking divided in regions. Covers also Slovakia and Hungary.	Cottages and pensions Try Chata-direkt, if you look for reasonable accommodation, for instance for your skiing holiday.
Athos Travel A portal for booking of accommodation (mostly hotels) in Prague. Nice and easy to use.	Hotels, pensions and alike in Prague Search engine for accommodation and online booking in Prague.
Eurobookings.com – Offers discount Czech Republic hotel reservations with no reservation fees, no cancellation fees and no payment in advance.	Tom's Travel Here you may find hotels and apartments in Prague and hotels in the other parts of the country. Has also an ultra-light Prague guide.
Gastro - Server Very aesthetic engine that also have restaurant guides and more.	Hotel.cz Search engine with a nice graphical set-up. The site is registered under several names so I assume that the ambitions are in top!
Pharos-Alpha Search engine covering the whole republic. Especially with hotels.	Discover Czech Offers hotel and appartment reservations plus more services to tourists.
Interacta Hotels mostly in Prague, Cesky Krumlov, Brno and Trebon. They offer a 10% discount on certain hotels if you book online.	Agentura Klic Yet another server with hotels. Have rather many hotels in the Krkonose region (skiing!).
Hotelbook Book hotels all over the country.	ATIS Not just hotels but also various arrangements as spa packages.
BohemiaNet Search engine based on regions. Nice pictures from the various areas.	Travelguide Merely a traveller's portal with camping sites, hotels and any kind of accommodation.
Hotelnet Yet another search engine with many hotels all over the country.	Hotels in Prague Easy online booking without any crap.

Table 2, Castle hotels

Castle Hotel Hubertus Close to Litomerice. Do stay away! I got a story that makes "Fawlty Towers" look as a decent place! And another one to confirm it.	HOTEL ZAMEK CEJKOVICE About 40 km southeast of Brno.
Hotel Zámek Stirin Situated about 25 km southeast of Prague.	Hotel Cerveny zamek Situated in Hradec nad Moravici, which is close to Opava.
Hotel Zamek Situated in Velká Bystrice a bit east of Olomouc.	ZÁMECKÝ HOTEL TREST Situated in Trest, which is close to Telc, east of Ceske Budejovice.
Hotel Maxmilián Not the best homepage but the hotel is situated by the castle of Loucen, a few km north of Nymburk.	Slotshotel Barta Placed in the famous spa town Marianske Lazne and is well suited for a spa holiday.
Zamecky hotel Situated by Nachod.

 

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Agencies

A few agencies accommodate cottages and other accommodation in the Czech Republic.
These below we have met on the net and know as serious.

JUBO reizen BV
Blasiusstraat 48
NL-1091 CT Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 46 22 933
Comment: An online catalogue containing as well pictures as prices.
First select a region on the click able map; second select a house in the wide selection, and third book the house online!
Highly recommended! We used the agency for our summer holiday in -99, -01 & -02.
At the moment just in Dutch but write in English, German or Dutch - or make a phone call. It is worth doing it!

Brostroem /Binggeli Travel
Borgeskov
DK-5800 Nyborg
Phone: +45 65 30 16 40
Fax: +45 65 31 20 99
Comment: Offers accommodation in Prague and Berlin, for groups also.
They print their own catalogue, which may be retrieved by e-mail; therefore it is always updated.

Novasol A/S
Soevej 2
DK-6792 Roemoe
Phone: +45 74 75 55 95
Fax: +45 74 75 55 56
Comment: Offers online booking.

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Camping

You may find your favourite camping site on one of these servers:

A general server in many languages is camp.cz. You find information on addresses, phone/fax number, size, season, price, facilities and more on the different sites. The information may also be found regionally.

A site recommended and visited by many Danes is Slavoj Camping by Litomerice.

Or try Camping Brozany, placed between Terezin and Prague. Online reservation is possible and the site is recommend by several visitors of InfoCzech.
Warning: I do advise you to turn your loud speakers off before you enter the (web) site!

If you want a site closer to Prague, you may have a closer look at Camping OASE Praha, which is about 5 km from the centre of Prague.

Other camping sites with a web site are:

Autokamp Orlice Is in Kostelec nad Orlici and get my warmest recommendation. We have camped there and liked it very much.	Rustic Camp is situated in Kneznice by road 35/E442 between Turnov og Jicin and is the former garden to a farm. We spent a night here in august -09 as the only not-Dutch people, which means the the sanitary facilities are top level. About a 100 meters away is a traditional cam site where it is convenient to eat and drink
Trio Camp Praha About 10 km from the centre.	Camping Sokol Praha Situated by Prague 9. Warning: Uses flash and sounds like a blue movie.
Camp Sokol Troja Still in Prague, by Troja, 5 km from the centre. Said to be dangerous because tents are placed too close to each other.	Sunny camp Praha By Prague 5, 500 m from a metro station. Open all year.
Camping OASE Praha, also about 5 km from the centre of Prague.	Rekreacní zarízení EDEN or in English Eden Holiday Centre lies in the Bohemian Paradise and is a campsite with small huts for rent. Who can resist a place with that name? A Danish visitor who also mentions that many other Danes visit the camp recommended it to me. You are hereby warned!
Camping Frymburk Found at the lovely Lake Lipno. Danish Mikkelsen family recommends the site and if that does not convince you to go there immediately, do look at the pictures taken by  the family.	AutoKemp Milovice Situated between  Hradec Kralove and Jicin is also recommended warmly by the (Danish) Mikkelsen family.
Autokemp Pudlák Close to Teplice is highly recommended by a Danish visitor.	Autokamp Sedmihorky We are in Cesky raj, the Bohemian Paradise, and the camp site looks very descent.
Autocamp ATC Merkur By Pasohlavky and lots of water. Situated east of Znojmo, south of Brno.	Camping Country, situated close to Znojmo, southwest to Brno. Nice site decorated with a thermometer!
Camping Roznov By Roznov pod Radhostem in the deep east of the republic.	Autokemp Pudlák Close to Teplice is highly recommended by a Danish visitor.
Camping Brozany By the river Ohre south of Terezín. Claims the sun always shines.	Autokempink Konopac Found by Hermanuv Mestek a little south of Pardubice, which always is worth a visit.
Eurocamp Lisci Farma In the Giant mountains by Vrchlabi. Has a lot of fun stuff to make every kid happy.	Autokemp Olsovec We are now in Moravia by the lake Olsovec, a popular fishing and water sports resort.

Do you know a site missing? Do send me the link and bring it to knowledge of more people.

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Skiing

The Czech Republic is a premium choice for skiing. There are a lot of places to select among, all with good pistes whether you prefer downhill, slalom, cross country or snowboard. Even driving a snow scooter is possible. Only reservation: Are you super skier for whom only very black pistes are an option do continue eastwards to the High Tatras in Slovakia, where a suitable place to accommodate is Tatranska Lomnica.

You get an overview over the Czech - and Slovak - mountain and skiing areas at czech-mountains.

Far the biggest skiing resort is Krkonose and it is here I recommend foreign tourists to go when I am asked, and no one has until now given me negative feedback on that advises.
It is easy to go there if you buy a complete package at a travel agency, but you may as well arrange the trip yourself. It is possible to rent all the necessary equipment on the spot.
The centres in Krkonose is Harrachov and Spindleruv Mlyn, and do have a closer look at Pavel Hilbert of whom I just have heard positive or Agentura Klic, which offers accommodation in the area.

All the year you can get information on the snow situation and the site also has links to web cams from the various winter sports resorts.

Also check HolidayInfo, they have a lot of useful information.

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Car rentals

I have not rented a car in the Czech Republic, so any feedback is very welcome!

Czechocar CS Rent a Car

National Car Rental

Vecar

Alimex

Dvorak

Or rent a car plus driver at either
ChauffeurCZ
or
Auto Kopriva, which sounds small and sympathetic