How Our City Created An Official Tourist Trap

it´s an amazing video because his way to explain the towers, daily menu, the good promotions with the App, I´d like him to taltk more about the food, maybe ingredients and the cooking;
In general terms I´m gonna visit Prague.

what is this flawed system? if you buy a ticket just place a bar that prevents tourist from going in unless validated, moreover it should be just a feed type scanner. the system was basically designed to scam people.

Garbage it’s not. Why aren’t they at the bottom gate checking tickets before people hop on. Seems like a scam to me. Buy a ticket at one machine, validate it at another then hop on. Seems like a trap to me.

I hate inspectors in prague, they are disgusting…

Having navigated this very situation myself and found it not so straight forward . The only people fined were tourists . So in respect to ticket inspection and fines this is by its very nature a tourist trap . The inspectors are incentivised to issue tickets . The actual experience was good but it’s ruined by this issue in my view . It’s a shame but in all cities there are these types of issue . Be it Rome , Prague or Barcelona 😊

Same general scam going on in the Paris metro system

Obviously a scam by a corrupt system which at best is enabling bad employees and at worse is in place to target specific individuals. Their system is intentionally convoluted for the express purpose of "fining" tourists and the fact that they need attendants for automated tickets proves this. But those attendants are in place as JUSTIFICATION for the fines - not to actually help people so that when they are down stairs they are "helping" people until they decide to go upstairs to start fining people.

Horrible!

I rode a cable car that looked exactly like this in Bern, Switzerland. It was completely free for us since our hotel provided us with a free "Bern welcome pass" public transport ticket

Is it possible they take those money and get it for themselves. Just wondering

I learned not to call the Czeck police as they will likely not help me.

WHY tf validating a ticket twice makes it invalid?! Who's thinking it's a good idea?!

I'll never visit prague.

I get quite anxious when I'm in a country that has limited English speaking. Just seeing this process, which doesn't seem to have any clear indication of the stamping process or how it works, would put me off even trying it.

Same situation here. Some tickets have to be validated, some tickets are valid immediately and only for a few hours and some are valid for an entire day. It's riddiculous that I have to explain this to strangers over and over again. If feel the EU should do something about ticket systems in public transport so if the tickets look the same, they follow the same rules. Maybe an icon/symbol set with according rules when to use them for ticket vendors would be enough.

The whole situation with the tickets is weird if he has to pay a fine because the tickets were not validated that means he was esentially riding the cablecar without a ticket, which then means he gets the tickets back because obviously he can still validate them and ride it a second time.

Because since the tickets were not validated they are still usable which is the whole reason why you have to pay a fine - you were basically riding without a ticket. Hence why it makes no sense to not give the tickets back to them. Also it most definitely is a rip off, they know tourists are going to make the mistake which is why ticket inspectors wait at the top. At the top they could also just take the tickets validate them for the tourists, explain the mistake and everyone goes on with their day or you know just make it so you can only get in by scanning a valid ticket making the job of the ticket inspectors unnecessary :D

Not surprised. Europeans ticket inspectors are 99% jackasses. Got into similar situation in German myself.

If the stupid inspectors didn't consider everybody a cheater by default, all they had to do was: "Ah, yes, you forgot, no problem, let's validate it here and now!"
BTW: Bratislava public transport has many similar and even worse stories - like inspectors in a bus from an airport waiting barely a few seconds and then jumping the tourits that first placed their luggage on the way back to the stamping machine. And they fine them. From what I've heard the interaction is even worse.

Seems to me that the entire country is waging war on tourists with a neverending number of scams.

why are they selling tickets that are not valid? this is nonsense same in Italy

Got stopped twice in Prague by these inspectors.

First time was inside the metro and they were checking each and every person's ticket.
Second time was clearly a try out to get tourists. I was heading to the airport by myself when I crossed a group of three inspector who were having a chat. When they saw me, one of them went straight to me asking for my ticket. Full crowd but I was the only one with a traveling bag and the only one they asked for a ticket. 100% no doubt they were focusing on getting tourists.

Good thing I was taught how to use the public transportation by a local to avoid getting caught in these tricky situations. Too bad most tourists are not that lucky.

Besides that, I loved Prague. Going to this park you showed was an amazing experience. I got there from the Prague Castle nearby it so I didn't use this transportation you showed (nor would, i prefer walking). From the castle I went to a monastery midway and I then I got to this park through the woods in there and then the tower, which is sooo much worth the visit. Such a lovely walk. So far, Prague has been the city I went that I enjoyed the most walking around. So much to see...

Same thing happened to my friend on the Prague metro, we all had validated tickets but he validated his ticket twice and had to pay like 50 euros

hey they are just keeping the city Kafkaesque, otherwise tourists would be disappointed.

Great video, thank you! We didn't ride it because the line was incredibly long and people had been waiting for more than 30 minutes. I agree, the entrance situation causes this.

A scam in Prague? You don't say.

SO because it's incentivized it IS a tourist trap lol...

What a stupid system !

Fucking kooks inspectors

Garbage. One more motive to stay away from that shity country.

people who work shitty jobs behaving shitty towards people. classic.

As the inspectors target honest tourist and the ticket validation system has some 'nuances' then yes, it is a tourist trap.

My blood boils.

Sleazy Europeans... what else would you expect?

What makes it a tourist trap is the various ways to pay, and the different ticket types. Why have options other than a single and day ticket both valid on the day of purchase? Is there really a reason to want or need to travel on it for 3 days?
I somewhat feel this is the case with most public transport systems throughout Europe. When you have various options for single, day 3 days 4 days 19 and a half days, then you add in zones. or different modes of transport. Especially when you just arrived and you do not know what you need or want. Then you finally buy the ticket only to find you would just use contactless which works it all out for you based on what you did that day.

Can anyone explain why they're selling invalid tickets then? Why isn't the ticket valid as soon as it's purchased?

i'm sorry but you say it's not a tourist trap but that situation is exactly what it is.
everything is made for tourists to make a mistake and give them a fine. it is a tourist trap.
if it was not basicaly interactions would go like this.
oh you're a tourist ok let me validate that ticket for you, just know you don't have to validate it again otherwise the ticket will become un-usable have a good day sir. and not you have to pay the fine then you'll get your ticket back. that is a scam.

There are many Organisations that prey on tourists. Maybe you have heard about the trap operated at Stanstead Airport train station in England. Tickets in London are mostly purchased by Tapping a Bank card at both ends of the journey - the machines calculate the cost and debits the card. Quick simple and accurate. Not at Stanstead. The railway company has dragged its feet and not installed card readers. When you look for the card reader you instead are confronted by revenue collectors who charge you the penalty fare for the journey - a lot more than the “Tap and Pay” fare - because you should have known that Tap and Pay is not available at Stanstead. As here in Prague there are notices in the London (start) end ticket purchase areas which (if you spot them among all the other notices) tell you. The revenue collectors are allegedly paid a cut of their takings. The appeals process is run by the railway company that hasn’t installed Tap and Pay. To complete the agony inflicted on the travellers they will also be penalised for-not “ Tapping out” at the end of their journey. This appeal goes to a different company and provides an unpleasant reminder of the messed up trip home from London.

All that crap for that train?

Classical Czech. I litteraly hear for the country only because of scams that the goverment organozes. Is anything else ever happening there?

This is the reason why I will never visit Prague... These workers and city authorities did an “excellent” advertisement of the city. People will now bypass both Prague and the Czech Republic.

ngl I'd just walk past the ticket inspectors and if they tried to stop me I'd just threaten with the police, calling them a scam artist.

Seems like I'll avoid going to Prague

I think this recording should force the government to fire the inspectors and avoid to hire them On any work for life.

They should be sign showing with a arrow where to buy tickets and where to validate it

I am disappointed in the Honest Guide. He pointed out the positive but trivialized the negative. An inspector's job is to find the cheaters but should not be paid extra when he/she finds one. This leads to legal extortion and abuse of power. There are obviously inspectors who know they can catch unwary tourists, and this is something the city should address. Never reward a public official for doing what he/she is employed to do. That just incentivizes corruption.

i must say that buying a ticket and then have to validate sound kinda retarded