Need English Speaking Guide to Horsovsky Tyn

We plan to visit in spring of 2010 and would like to be in touch with an English Speaking family or guide.

Thank you very much

Sharyn Herian

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Perhaps you can clarify why you need an English speaking guide? The castle website is in English and offers several guide tours. Perhaps the best would be to drop them an email. Or do you need help to get to Horsovsky Tyn?

http://www.horsovsky-tyn.cz/guide-tours/

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Thank you for your reply. Yes, we will need to know how to get there from Prague. I see it on a google map. So we would take a bus, train, or rent a car?. Are there online telephone books I could also search?

Any help is appreciated, thank you

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Bus%26amp;train connections are to be checked here: www.idos.cz (for English use the appropriate button). Schedules for 2010 are not on-line yet, you have to wait until December. In general: Bus is faster and involves less changes. While train involves 2 of them and takes more than 3,5 hours, bus takes about 2,5-3 hrs. and involves only one change in Pilsen (which is BTW worth visiting itself), or there are even several direct buses.

Be it imaginable from %26quot;other system areas%26quot; or not, public transport in central Europe is something what could be well described as %26quot;freedom-giving.%26quot; With very few exceptions one need not to reserve anything. I might get an idea to travel somewhere in the next hour, and with 99% probability I would do it without any problems. Most people even can%26#39;t imagine the case of not being transported. Plenty of seats available, no (standard) tickes restricted to specific train, most of the country covered and so on.

What I would do, is to use a direct bus (not Fri afternoon nor Sun afternoon), and just come to the bus station about 30 minutes (maybe 45 min. if you would be really worried) before. Tickets are paid to the driver, should not cost more than about 200 CZK (say $13).

If you don%26#39;t like buses (well, there is some general lack of information especially in english, including about where you are, and not much space), the direct comfortable train from Prague to Domazlice (about 2,5 hours) is your way to go. From there it is about 10 miles more, so you can use some local bus for that part (in front of the station building) or even a taxi. Maybe to include some short visit of Domazlice (english.domazlice.info/about-domazlice/) with lunch or so could be interesting, if you had some time.

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You might actually be better off hiring a car and staying overnight.

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Including the time and hassle of picking it somewhere up and giving back, driving in Prague (and to be honest all of the CZ-type of %26quot;wild-east roads%26quot;)? Not to speak about the price (taxi from Domazlice would be about ten times or more cheaper option for about the same time)?

The idea of staying overnight is good for sure, but to hire the car is worth only in case of randomly prospecting the countryside in the middle of nowhere, here or there, 4 different castles per day or so. I%26#39;m not trying to say that would be a bad idea at all, but if the request is to go from Prague (city centre I guess) to Horsovsky Tyn and back (that or another day, doesn%26#39;t matter), the best is PT although one could drive it slightly faster (not counting the %26quot;starting and ending%26quot; time).