Czech Republic travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Czech Republic, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Czech Republic: Prague, Český Krumlov, Karlovy Vary, Brno & South Moravia.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Routine vaccinations up to date
- Tick-borne encephalitis if you plan to walk in forests between spring and autumn
Emergency number
112, or 155 for an ambulance
Care for visitors
Excellent and cheap
EU/EEA and Swiss visitors are treated on the same terms as residents with an EHIC or GHIC card; UK visitors use a GHIC. Everyone else pays, and travel insurance is worth having for the repatriation cover rather than the treatment.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
The guides in Czech Republic
PragueCzech RepublicGothic spires, cheap beer, and a river running through it
Český KrumlovCzech RepublicA castle above a river bend, a town inside the loop, and almost nothing in it built after 1600
Karlovy VaryCzech RepublicA spa town in a wooded gorge, where you walk the colonnades drinking hot mineral water from a porcelain cup
Brno & South MoraviaCzech RepublicThe Czech second city, functionalist and unbothered, with the country’s wine country on its doorstep