Czech Stay Atlas
Where do you want to wake up?
Find a place, not just a room.
We are a small atlas of places to stay in Czechia, written by people who like slow weekends. Start with a landscape, a region or a feeling, and we will help you find a good base.
Czechia on one map
Eleven landscapes, each quiet in its own way. Point at a region, or reach it with the Tab key, and open its guide.
Map of regions
Hover over a region or select it with the Tab key
Czechia on one map
Eleven tourist areas. Each leads to an editorial guide with Stay DNA, a map and practical information.
All regionsRegions
Where each signpost leads, in one sentence.
- South BohemiaA land of fishponds, Renaissance towns and low horizons. A flat centre for cycling, the Novohradské hory to the south and Šumava to the west.
- ŠumavaThe country’s largest national park (685 km²): upland plateaus, peat bogs and glacial lakes. Lipno, the largest body of water in Czechia, lies to the south-east.
- KrkonošeThe highest mountains in Czechia (the Giant Mountains) and the oldest national park (1963). Ski resorts in winter, ridge walks and mountain huts in summer.
- Bohemian ParadiseSandstone rock towns, castles on rocks and short distances. Český ráj is the oldest protected landscape area in Czechia (1955).
- Bohemian SwitzerlandA sandstone national park (České Švýcarsko) on the Saxon border. Pravčická brána is described as the largest natural sandstone arch in Europe.
- PragueA historic centre on the UNESCO list since 1992. Where to stay so that you experience Prague rather than just walk through it.
- VysočinaGentle uplands between Bohemia and Moravia. Three UNESCO sites, the Žďárské vrchy hills and plenty of room for doing nothing.
- South MoraviaVineyards, wine cellars, the Pálava hills and the Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape. The warmest corner of the country and the shortest way from table to bike.
- BeskydyThe forested ridges of Moravian Wallachia, timber architecture and Lysá hora. The largest protected landscape area in Czechia.
- JeseníkyThe harshest climate in Czechia, Praděd and three spa towns in one valley. Far from everything, and empty for that reason.
- Karlovy Vary regionKarlovy Vary, Mariánské Lázně and Františkovy Lázně: three towns in the serial UNESCO site The Great Spa Towns of Europe (2021).
Our home ground
Třeboň and its fishponds
Třeboň434 m above sea level
Flat land between the Rožmberk and Svět fishponds, where since the late 15th century the landscape has been built from dams and canals. We know it best, so it has the most pages: where to sleep, the spa, cycling, children, dogs, rain.
Stay DNA: Třeboň
- Nature
- 9/10
- Cycling
- 10/10
- Wellness
- 8/10
- Family
- 8/10
- Food
- 7/10
- Nightlife
- 4/10
- Peace
- 9/10
- Dogs
- 8/10
- Car-free
- 7/10
Postcards for this weekend
Short trips with a plan ready. On a phone, swipe sideways.
Ways to spend the night
Ten kinds of accommodation, what to expect and what to ask before you book.
- Chalupa (country cottage)A village house adapted for holidays. Often an original house in a village, with neighbours and a garden.
- Chata (holiday cabin)A building put up purely for recreation, often in a cabin settlement by the water or in the woods.
- Guesthouse (penzion)Under the official classification, 5 to 20 rooms with services comparable to a hotel, but no restaurant.
- ApartmentA self-contained unit with a kitchenette. Anything from a flat in town to an apartment building in the mountains.
- HotelAt least 10 rooms and services including meals. Five star classes under Hotelstars.
- GlampingCamping with comfort: furnished tents, shepherd’s huts, treehouses or houses on the water.
- Farm stayA stay on a working farm with animals, sometimes helping out. Also known as agritourism.
- Wellness hotelA hotel with a pool, saunas and treatments. Unlike a spa: no doctor and no treatment plan.
- Log house (roubenka)A house built of horizontal timber beams joined at the corners. Typical of the mountains and foothills.
- Tiny houseA small, fully equipped house of roughly 10–20 m². Often on its own in the landscape.
Field notes
- Field notesHolidays from the station: five places in Czechia you can reach without a carNot every destination is a struggle without a car. Here are five places where you step off the train and the weekend can begin.
- Field notesThe landscape of two skies: why the sky appears twice around TřeboňAround Třeboň there is more water than hills. When the wind drops, the whole sky is mirrored in the fishponds and suddenly the landscape has two skies.
- Field notesTřeboň carp: a protected name older than the EUCarp from the Třeboň area enjoys the same kind of protection in the European Union as many famous cheeses and hams. And Czechoslovakia was already protecting its name in 1974.
- Třeboň · FishpondsThe fishponds around Třeboň: Rožmberk, Svět, Opatovický, Velký TisýThe fishponds of the Třeboň area are not nature. They are structures: dams, outlets and kilometres of canals built by fishpond engineers from the late 15th century onwards. That is why they show so clearly how a landscape works.
- Stay Atlas · TypesChata or chalupa: what’s the difference and which to rentEven native Czech speakers mix these two words up. But for choosing a stay the difference is real: a chalupa is a house in a village, a chata is a building put up for recreation – often in the woods, by the water and without neighbours.
- Stay Atlas · TypesHow spa accommodation works in Czechia: treatment, self-paying, wellnessCzechia has dozens of officially designated spa towns providing spa care. But staying at a spa does not only mean being treated. Here is how to find your way around the system.
Planning a trip?
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