Casa Italia - Prague, Czech Republic     

Casa Italia may be a good find for about $10 USD per night but anything above that is horribly overpaying. I really wish I had taken photos of the place since the photos on their web site are EXTREMELY misleading. The shower is literally dug into the wall, is small, and you can smell the mold. There is no bed sheets - some sort of a wrapping that I am sure is not changed often is substituted. The "included" breakfast is mostly a few candy bars, couple slices of bread (not toasted) and cold coffee. The room was always cold - amazingly enough it was colder in the room that outside! I was there for 7 nights and my room was only cleaned once. The only good thing about this place is that its near the Metro and Tram and you can walk to the center in about 20 minutes. But there are lots of other hotels within the same area. I was REALLY sorry to have been stuck with them and vowed to never pre-pay for a hotel again.

Stayed with my husband and two children, the apartment had grotty cloths over all of the windows or the blinds were closed, upon opening them we were looking out into building sites. The apartment was therefore dark and dimly lit. The decor was changing rooms gone mad with crazy colours and every paint effect known to man. The gas pipe work in the bathroom gave us real cause for concern, the rooms had not been thoroughly cleaned, there were 16 empty beer bottles in the cooker and a pair of mens underpants stuffed behind the radiator. The bedding was clean but the builders started work at 6.30am and stopped at 7pm. On the last night the owner and his family had a car door slamming festival in the courtyard beneath our window followed by unloading lots of electrical equipment from his car, very noisily for 45 minutes- all at 1am!! The saviour of our trip was the beautiful city of Prague, around 30 minutes walk away. We had breakfast at the wonderful Coffee Lounge near the Metro and fortified ourselves on 50p bottles of Lager!! The area was a bit rough at night and not central. I would not recommend this, we booked through Hotelopia, I presumed that they would have good standards, when I complained upon my return they didn't even reply. I won't use them again. I would recomment staying in the Old Town or Little Quarter and would happily return to this friendly city.