Celebrated all over the world, Halloween has become a do-not-miss occasion for partying also in the Czech republic and every year there are plenty of activities and parties going on in the city to entertain locals, expats and tourists.

Let´go through some ideas for the upcoming Halloween celebration.

What we all know about Halloween:

1- trick-or-treating, children love it (and I guess parents, too!).

2- costume parties. We all love them, but the question is always the same every year: what will be my costume? No time to think about it? No worries, Prague has been opening many costumes shops to help you prepare for the Halloween night. This holiday is definetly here to stay!

Here is a list of few costume shops where you can buy, rent or simply get some inspiration for your home-made one.

HALLOWEEN STORE/COSTUME RENTAL PRAGUE
www.halloween-store.cz (costume shop)
www.pujcovna-kostymu.com (costume rental)

MEGA COSTUME STORE AND RENTAL
www.ptakoviny-karneval.cz (costume shop)
www.mega-pujcovna-kostymu.cz (costume rental) 

COSTUME SHOP/RENTAL MUZEUM
www.carnival-shop.cz (costume shop)
www.pujcovnakostymupraha.com (costume rental)
 
COSTUME SHOP HOLEŠOVICE
www.ptakoviny-praha.cz 
 




3- decorating, craving pumpkins into Jack-o´lanterns or something else

Here are some suggestions where to buy pumpkins in Prague and outside the city

Big stores like Tesco, Albert, Tesco and Interspar have plenty of pumpkin to choose among. Prices depend on size, but we can estimate it between 60 - 300 CZK.

Farmers´markets around the city might have very nice ones for nice prices, too. Between 40 - 200 kc deoending on size.

A small farm in East Bohemia is known and called Pumpkin World. Give it a try if you are on the way

Bykos is a place near Beroun, about 40 km out of Prague and the owner of this place sells pumpkins and promise to deliver them. It sounds good, ah!

Try also in the flowers´shop, they might hide some pumpkins too..


 Children decoration idea
 Children decoration idea
Home decoration idea












 
4- watching Horror Movies

Family friendly movies? Here we are with some classic: Corpse Bride, It´s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, The Halloween Tree, Frankenweenie, etc.

Horror movies? The Pumpkin Craver, Trick´r Treat, Jack-O, Night od Demons, etc.

Comedy movies? The Addams Family, Young Frankenstein, Scary Movie, etc.


5- Kids-friendly Halloween in Prague

Halloween Pumpkin Carving - 26th October starting from 2 p.m.
Venue: Kulturni a Rodinne centrum CoByDup o.s.
Žacléřská , Prague
Nearest metro: Letnany


pumpking carving, decoration, competition, pumkin masks, lantern procession

Halloween in Prague Botanical Garden - Troja  31st October from 3 p.m.
Venue: Botanical garden in Troja
witches, ghosts, pumpkins and a mystic atmosphere..
Prepare your Jack´o-lantern and participate to the parade at 6 p.m.!

6- theme-partying around the city

Here is a big chapter of today new post. Prague offers a pretty rich selections of parties around the city, good to know the  offer before making the choice. So here we go with some suggestions:

MECCAWEEN - the scariest Halloween in Prague
October 25-26th
Venue: Mecca Club


FUSION= no confusion/Halloween Edition
October 31st
Venue: 360 Lounge bar

M1 Lounge - HALLOWEEN HAUNTED HOUSE 2013
October 31st - November 2nd
Venue: M1 lounge


HARD ROCK CAFE: PSYCHOBILLY & ROCKABILLY HALLOWEEN
Live music performance of The MOONSHINE HOWLERS band followed by DJane Rocka´s video show!
October 26th
Venue: Hard Rock cafe

Searching for more events around? Have a look at the numerous portals of nightlife and events in Prague. Expats.cz and PragueEventCalendar can give you many suggestions how to spend your Halloween scary time in Prague.

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It has started yesterday and of course we could not miss it. So, we took our nice autumn coat, umbrella - you never know it is always tricky the weather lately - stopped for a svarak to go (hot wine) - it is finally time for it, probably the best part of the winter to come - and we headed to the city to enjoy light installations.

It was just the first day and the city is packed with events, performance and visual exhibitions to follow and enjoy.

Here is the map of all them, which you can also download to your mobile.

MAP OF INSTALLATIONS

We walked thought the center and Old Town Square where you can find the Installation of the cube..

I have been noticing that creating the TOP 5 of something is very entertaining our staffs in the hotel and in the offices. Friday seems to be the perfect day to open the survey and this week it cames in my mind to talk about Czech music.

Music is aprt of the culture of any country but who of you knows anything about Czech music? No more excuses here we have a special TOP  elaborated by our 5 Prague Hotels and its staff and the staff from the Management and Reservation department in the Prague headquarter:

- Hotel Tyl
- Hotel Raffaello
- Hotel Residence Mala Strana
- Residence Green Lobster
- Residence Bijou de Prague
- Garzotto Hotels & Resorts headquarter

Some pictures of the first list of songs we collected and the first work on that...it seems to be tough, here :] It has been a long work in progress. There have been fights, discussions, argues but we got to the final 5...






















It took at least 4 hours to have the final list of TOP 5 Czech songs and here we want to share them with you and if you have any other ones, please post it like a comment. We would like to know which is your TOP 5 or you favourite Czech songs.


Thanks and enjoy it! And dont forget to add your comments or your favourote song below.

Autumn has arrived and with it its own seasonal goodies, colours and chill atmosphere.

No doubt that both Prague and Marianske Lazne get some wonderful colours and the nature around looks pretty stunning.
 

Have a look to what our chef Gustav - Head Chef in Ristorante Rigoletto in Hotel Continental - has prepared for you. The Autumn Special Menu is available everyday for all the season, ask our restaurant staff to recommend you something and enjoy it...dobrou chut!

Our personal suggestion? Mmmm considering that we have been obviously tasted all of this...
I would definetly recommend the Venison Pate with Onion Marmelade followed by the Pumpkin Soup with sour cream - I personally love the taste if pumpkin.
As main dish I would go for the Wild Boar with red cabbage and apple, very autumn style and very tasty. To conclude happily, our Gustav is a master in desserts that's why I will never say no to any of them, but if I really had to choose and suggest...simple but with grea effect the evergreen Butter Apple pie with curd. If you are coming twice to Restaurant Rigoletto then do not miss the Pear Poached in wine with caramel decoration - a beautiful composition and so much good to the palate..