Dog Friendly City Guide: Prague, Czech Republic

At Lokál Dlouhááá in the Old Town, the bar runs for 69.78 metres, the beer comes from 12 tanks, and the dog under your bench gets a bowl of water. Prague is like that. Dogs come into its beer halls and its grand cafés, up Petřín Hill and across the lawns of Stromovka, and a dog on a lead and wearing a muzzle rides the city's trams, buses and metro for nothing. The rules are short and firm, and once you know them the city opens up. This guide is built from our own venue and walk data, the city's own tourism and transport pages and the Prague hotels we have assessed and ranked.

Getting There With a Dog

The Czech Republic follows the European Union's pet travel rules, set out in the EU's own Your Europe guide. Your dog must be microchipped before its rabies vaccination, must be at least 12 weeks old when that vaccination is given, and you then wait at least 21 days before travelling. Between EU countries the dog travels on its European pet passport. From outside the EU, the dog needs an animal health certificate issued by an official state vet in the country you leave from, no more than 10 days before the dog arrives, and you must enter through a designated travellers' point of entry. From most non-EU countries a rabies antibody blood test is also needed, with a three month wait after the sample is taken, so check your own country on that page before you book. You can travel with up to five pets. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs adds that any animal brought into the country must be identifiable by a chip or a tattoo, in its note for travellers with pets. Our guide to taking your dog abroad puts the paperwork in the order it has to be done.

Where to Stay

The hotel to know is the Alchymist Grand Hotel and Spa, ranked A and the best dog friendly hotel we have ranked in the city. It sits on Tržiště in Malá Strana, near Charles Bridge, in four former burghers' houses, the oldest of them the House by the Infant Jesus, and it has 46 rooms and suites in the Baroque style, the Alchymist Restaurant and the Ecsotica Spa down in the old Gothic vaults, with Balinese massage and a relaxation pool cut into the stone, according to the hotel's own site. The welcome for a dog is a full one. Most of the rooms take dogs, and dogs can join you in the bar, the restaurant and the lounge. A bed, bowls and free treats are waiting, the staff will point you to walks and can arrange a dog walker, there is no weight limit and no limit on how many dogs share your room, and a settled dog can stay in the room while you go out.

Across the river on Pařížská in the Old Town, Fairmont Golden Prague, ranked B, is a 320 room hotel with rooms looking over the river, the Old Town or the courtyard. Its own site describes brutalist grandeur and six restaurants and bars, among them Zlatá Praha and the rooftop Golden Eye, a spa whose treatment rooms open onto a garden, and the only indoor and outdoor pool in Prague. Dogs share a good deal of it: most rooms, the bar, the lounge and the terrace. The room comes with a dog bed and bowls, the concierge can arrange a dog walker and will send you to the walks nearby, there is no weight limit, and a dog can stay in the room while you are out.

Eat and Drink

Start in the Old Town at Lokál Dlouhááá on Dlouhá, the first and the longest of the Lokál beer halls. It pours Czech beer in Czech glass along that 69.78 metre bar to locals, regulars and visitors alike, the kitchen cooks Czech classics, and everyone sits at long benches, so book ahead because it fills. Our records have dogs welcome in the main hall with water bowls, and the Ambiente group that runs it says on its own magazine that its places are friendly to dogs, keep water bowls for them and count some among their regulars. It is open from 11am until midnight, and until 10pm on Sundays.

The same group runs Kantýna on Politických vězňů in the New Town, a restaurant and butcher's shop in one, with Jan Macík as head butcher and Jakub Hlávka as head chef. Dogs are welcome there too. It opens at 11.30am every day.

For coffee, cross to Malá Strana and Café Savoy on Vítězná, a café in the Viennese style and another Ambiente house, where dogs are allowed in the main seating area. It opens at 8am on weekdays and 9am at weekends and holidays, and stays open until 10pm.

Up on Letná, Café Letka on Letohradská is a neighbourhood café where dogs are regulars, a short walk from the park, with two sister places nearby, Letec espresso bar and Klub Letka. In Vinohrady, Løype Dogstore & Café on Budečská is a café and shop for dog owners, run by the Czech dog gear brand Løype, and its own page says you can bring your dog in sure that it will always be welcome. It serves espresso from Doubleshot and cake, and the shelves hold the brand's own kit, from a folding travel bowl to a silicone holder for poo bags that clips onto the lead. It is open from 11am to 7pm on weekdays and 10am to 4pm on Saturdays.

Walks and Parks

The walk to make first is Letná Park, the long green plain on the bluff above the Vltava. Prague City Tourism describes lawns, tall trees and long avenues of plane trees, and a view over the city that is at its best from the Hanavský Pavilion, a cast-iron building with a restaurant inside. The Metronome stands on the edge of the plain, and in the east of the park Letenský zámeček, a restaurant that has been serving Czech cooking for more than 150 years, sits beside the popular beer garden.

North of Letná, Stromovka, the Royal Game Reserve, began in the 13th century as a game reserve and is now what Prague City Tourism calls a sort of Prague Central Park: mature trees, water and grassy areas laced with trails. The city's tourism office lists it as a place where animals are welcome.

On the other side of the river, Petřín Hill rises over Malá Strana, a short walk from the Alchymist. It is one of the largest green areas in the city, and Prague City Tourism lists it, too, as a place where animals are welcome. Paths and benches with views run across its slopes, past the Rose Garden at the top, the Nebozízek garden and the Seminary Garden with more than 2,100 fruit trees, and the funicular saves the climb.

For history with your walk, Vyšehrad stands on a rocky promontory above the Vltava, a settlement founded in the middle of the 10th century and by legend the oldest seat of the Czech princes. Its park grounds hold the Romanesque Rotunda of St Martin, the Church of Sts Peter and Paul and the national cemetery at Slavín, the outdoor area is open all year, and the tourism office calls the views over the city stunning. In Vinohrady, Riegrovy sady is a park more than a hundred years old on what was once vineyard, with woodland corners, open meadows and unexpected views across Prague, and a classicist lookout from the 1820s that is now a restaurant.

Good to Know

The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs asks that every dog be kept on a lead in public spaces and that bigger dogs wear a muzzle. Prague's own bylaw on public greenery goes further: a dog may not run free in the gardens and parks on the city's list, and Letná, Stromovka, Petřín, Vyšehrad and Riegrovy sady are all on it, nor in the city's other green spaces, unless the landowner has marked out an area for it with a sign. On the metro, trams and buses the city's transport authority, PID, takes dogs only on a lead and wearing a muzzle, or small dogs in a closed carrier with a solid floor; according to its luggage and dogs page, valid from 1 January 2026, a leashed and muzzled dog rides free inside Prague and pays 25 CZK, or 23 CZK in the app, out in the surrounding region, while a carrier up to 25 by 45 by 70 cm travels free and a bigger one pays that same 25 CZK fare. Pack a muzzle even if your dog does not usually wear one. Book ahead at Lokál, which is busy. At the Alchymist the dog fee is 40 euros a night with no deposit. At Fairmont Golden Prague it is 35 euros per dog a night, two dogs may share a room, and the restaurant is kept for people, which the bar and the terrace make up for. Tell either hotel you are bringing a dog when you book.