Nov 10 2011
Nonstop in Prague
Prague is growing city, and although you can’t compare it with big never sleeping cities like New York, London, Paris, Shanghai and others, Prague is becoming never sleeping city too offering various nonstop services.
The biggest never stopping place is Prague airport. It works 24 hours daily and flights to many international directions are available. Airport offers services nonstop also, like exchange money, taxi, shuttle transfers and non-stop shuttle buses, nonstop parking and - non-stop presence of a parking lot employee.
Nonstop services include weekends and public holidays. In Prague you will find nonstop Prague hotels and find a nonstop exchange service, which accepts American express, visa and MasterCard credit cards, in the hotel reception, check in and check out at any time, bars that are open nonstop, police, fire emergency, pharmacy and emergency operating 24 hours. You can even find auto service, car rentals, locksmith, exchange money offices, shops with food and others working at any time of the day. Walking in Prague you will often see the words “non-stop” and “herna” that are synonymous; that are places slot machines and gambling addicts playing and drinking there.
Non-stop or night emergency medical centers exist in Prague like in all large cities and can be called by telephone. There are pharmacies with night and weekend service. Visitors to the Czech Republic should have insurance in case of illness or accident, since medical service is provided against compensation.
Nonstop pharmacies you can find by the following addresses:
PRAHA 1, Palackého 5 - Lékárna Palackého,
PRAHA 2, Belgická 37 - Lékárna u sv. Ludmily,
PRAHA 4, Vídeňská 800 – Lékárna (Thomayerova Hospital),
PRAHA 5, Štefánikova 6 - Lékárna Anděl, PRAHA 5, V Úvalu 84 - Ústavní lékárna Motol (University Hospital Motol),
PRAHA 6, Vítězné nám. 13 - Lékárna Berytos,
PRAHA 7, Fr. Křížka 22 - Lékárna Letná,
PRAHA 8, Budínova 2 – Lékárna (areál FN Bulovka),
PRAHA 10, Plaňanská 1 - Lékárna Malešice.
For emergency you can call phone 112, Ambulance service phone 155, Fire emergency phone 150, Police phone 158, Municipal police phone 156, Emergency road service phone 1230, 1240 – and they all operate nonstop and will help you with your problems.
Non stop exchange office in Prague you can find in the transit section of Prague airport, ATM and additional currency exchange offices in the North terminal. Others are in the city center in Václavské nám. 29, Prague 1, Václavské nám. 21 (OD Debenhams), Prague 1, Rytířská 12, Prague 1, Karlova 3, Prague 1, Karlova 10, Prague 1.
All main taxi companies in Prague offer 24 hours service. You can call any time and order taxi cab. Nonstop shops and nonstop gas stations are everywhere in Prague though concentrated near airport and big railway stations, but anyway every neighborhood has ‘Nonstop’-shops where people buy food and nonstop gas stations with mini shops.