About this route
Route overview
The cradle of pilsner for the world in one comfortable day with a private chauffeur — Pilsen, where in 1842 Josef Groll brewed the first pale pilsner, today the mother of all the pilsners consumed in 90 countries. Standard plan: 9:30 hotel pickup in Prague, 11:00 arrival in Pilsen (110 km via D5 motorway, about 1 h 30). Pilsner Urquell Brewery tour 2 h with a licensed guide: the historic 1842 buildings founded by Pilsen burghers in response to the weak local beer, the Brewery Gate (the company symbol since 1892), the old brewhouse with copper kettles, the 1930 bottling plant, the Brewing Museum with original machinery, the underground brewery cellars — 9 km of tunnels under central Pilsen at 7 degrees C year-round, where the fresh pilsner matures in oak wooden barrels — TASTING OF UNFILTERED PILSNER straight from the barrel (the classic pale pilsner, unfiltered, 4.4 percent, with an unrepeatable flavour that never reaches bottles). 13:30 lunch at Na Spilce restaurant on the brewery grounds — the largest Czech pub with 550 seats, regional cuisine (svickova, vepro-knedlo-zelo, goulash, Pilsen pork knuckle, of course Pilsner Urquell tank fresh from the brewery). 14:30 transfer to Pilsen Old Town (1 km, 10 min). 14:45 walk through the Old Town 1.5 h: Namesti Republiky Square (one of the largest medieval squares in the country, 193 m), St Bartholomew Cathedral (late Gothic 13th century — with the tallest church tower in the country at 103 m, the panorama from the tower for an extra ticket, the Bartholomew bell from 1681 weighing 4.5 tonnes), the Renaissance Town Hall from 1554, the Great Synagogue of Pilsen (19th-century neo-Renaissance, the third largest in Europe). 16:30 return to Prague (110 km, about 1 h 30). EUR 520 Mercedes E-Class. Service runs 24/7 with flight tracking if pickup is at PRG.