4 guides, each rated 1 to 5 with the reason — and two lists per place, where you are comfortable and where to pay attention. Nowhere is called dangerous; the specific thing is what helps.
Very safe for violent crime. The main threats are financial: rigged exchange booths, taxi overcharging (use Bolt or Uber), and inflated bar bills in the Old Town. Pickpockets work Charles Bridge and tram 22.
Comfortable: Vinohrady · Malá Strana · Letná · Karlín
Wenceslas Square — at night, for strip-club touts and taxi overcharging
Trams 22 and 9, worked by pickpockets between the castle and the centre
Any exchange booth in the Old Town — the rates are a scam, and the good ones are on Kaprova
Very safe. Cobbles, steep lanes and the river are the hazards, and the town is small enough that a summer afternoon is genuinely crowded to the point of shuffling.
Comfortable: the old town · the castle · the river bank · Latrán
the cobbles and the steep lanes — worn smooth and slippery in rain
the river when it is high — the rafting stops for a reason, and the weirs hold a swimmer under
the afternoon crush in summer — the main street is genuinely shoulder to shoulder
Very safe. The spring water is drunk hot from a spouted cup and is a laxative in quantity, which nobody mentions until it is too late. The gorge roads are narrow and the pavements in the spa quarter are shared with cars.
Comfortable: the colonnades · the spa quarter · Diana · the Tepla river path
drinking a lot of the spring water — it is a laxative in quantity and nobody warns you
the narrow pavements in the gorge — shared with cars in places
the change shops — the worst rates in the country are on this promenade
Very safe. The main station area is scruffy at night in the ordinary way; nothing else here wants attention.
Comfortable: the centre · Veveří · Zábrdovice by day · Špilberk · the Moravian wine villages
the main station area at night — scruffy in the ordinary way
the tram tracks on a bicycle — they are the right width to catch a wheel
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