The best fashion and gift stores Prague

Timetable

Most stores are open Monday to Friday until 7pm, with no break for lunch. Some smaller stores open on Saturday mornings.

In tourist areas, or if the store is tourist-oriented, the doors also open on Sundays, but with shorter opening hours, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or only on Sunday mornings.

In the city center, at the height of the tourist season, you'll find souvenir and craft stores open 7 days a week. In the Jewish quarter, synagogues and shops are closed on Saturdays.

The large shopping centers of Flora and Nové Smíchov in Prague close only for a few hours at night. They are open 7 days a week, from 8am to midnight.

Budget & Tips

Life in the Czech Republic is generally less expensive than in France, but Prague remains a tourist capital, where prices often tend to soar. Staying local won't break the bank, but food stores, particularly those selling Italian cheese, wine and charcuterie, can be very expensive. Downtown markets, which have become very touristy, have also seen their prices rise in recent years. When it comes to electronics and fashion, don't expect to save any money - it's often even more expensive than in France! So try to stay as local as possible, so you can be pampered without breaking the bank!

Sales

There are no regulations on sales in the Czech Republic, so you'll find them just about everywhere and in every season. So, as a visitor, you'll have a hard time deciding whether it's really worthwhile or not.

What's very local

Of course, you need to have the means, but Bohemian crystal is the star of souvenirs to bring back from Prague. For a more modest budget, you can fall back on wooden toys, the result of a long tradition of craftsmanship, and their derivatives, puppets. Kretk, the "little mole" of our childhood cartoons, is also the subject of many derivative products: cuddly toys, puzzles, figurines... Museum stores also offer a fine range of themed souvenirs: Art Nouveau with the Mucha Museum, literature with the Kafka Museum..

Tourist traps

Crystal, precisely, is one of the worst tourist catchers in Prague. Go to high-end boutiques like Moser and nowhere else. Anything you pay elsewhere will be cheaper but still far too expensive and for an extremely poor quality. Might as well go free and pay dearly, but so that the quality is there!