My friends and I booked our accommodation here on the Internet from home by using the site www.visitprague.cz. We were pleased to find upon our arrival, that despite our fears, it was not a dodgy Internet scam and we did have rooms! In general the hotel was very clean and well kept and the staff not unfriendly but slightly stern; you'll find this a lot in the city. It seemed to be a popular place and there were a lot of guests from a variety of different European countries staying there.

Zizkov is not exactly the nicest area in Prague but the hotel is just 10 or 15 minutes walk from two metro stations, Hlavni Nadrazi (downhill) and Flora (uphill but you can get the tram from the Lipanska stop), so it's really simple to get into the city centre. In a way this gives you a chance to visit parts of the city you would otherwise not have seen. Another bonus is that because you're so close to the Zizkov TV tower (that spaceship like thing that will spoil all your photos) you don't have to look at it all the time.

There are quite a few nice places to eat very nearby. Mailsi, on Lipanska, is a Pakistani restaurant which we found to be very reasonably priced and nicely decorated, especially if you like tropical fish tanks! U Radnice, at the opposite end of Lipanska, is a pub which serves good traditional Czech food and you won't find many tourists in there.

If you do stay in Zizkov, try to make time to go up Televizni Vysilac, the TV tower. It costs 120kc for adults (£2.65/$4) or 60kc for children and is definitely worth a visit. We went in the evening and the views of the city lights in the darkness below were great.

Hotel Kafka is a perfectly adequate place to stay, with helpful staff and is a good option if you're on a bit of a budget and don't mind not being right in the city centre.