Prague's outskirts and our hotel

Just before midnight we checked in at Hotel Opatov (above) to stay in one of its 190 apartment styled rooms. We were lucky to stay here instead of in its neighbour, Opatov Twin, because it has lower standard, and the room was already prepaid so it wouldn't make any economic difference staying at the "original" Opatov. The lobby was fresh, but unfortunately the main entrance was under reconstruction, so we had to enter through a side door that was not so glamorous. The hotel claimed itself to be 3 star, but the corridors where very worn and noisy teenagers where smoking in the elevators.

Later the police came, because the teenagers where too noisy. We could hear them screaming and running from our room. There where several police cars, this night and the night after too! But our room on the 7th floor had views (of the commie district, but still…) and the room was very large - a luxury after staying at the shabby claustrophobic hostel in London earlier this summer. Actually it wasn't one room, it was 2 bedrooms with 4 beds that me and my girlfriend got for ourselves. A small TV, WC, shower and a phone was included in the room and the staff was nice. The breakfast was great and we could take as much as we wanted and whatever we wanted of food, bread, cookies etc for free!

Our large hotel room. This is just one of 2 rooms included in our "apartment".

When we woke up the next day I took this picture of the commie block district. In the far distance you can see the TV tower, Czech Republic's tallest structure.

Commie blocks and commie cars at Opatov in the grey outskirts near our hotel.

A closer look to Prague's 2 tallest buildings: City Tower (ECM Tower, right), 109m and 27 floors reached its full height in 1986 as the country's tallest building. It was meant to host the Czech radio, but was left incomplete and unoccupied. ECM is about to rebuild it as a mixed use complex. The building will also get a nice new glass façade. Empiria (left) from 1977, is currently the tallest used building in Czech Republic at 104m and 24 floors.

Views of outkirts on the eastbank south of the center: After going through the cemetary in Vysehrad, we saw this view from the rock that this part of Vysehrad is situated on. The view was a lot spectacular in reality, I must tell.

Also a very beautiful view from Vysehrad.