Drink from the toilet, Prague Central Station tells all night passengers. You won’t buy anything here after 11 pm – G.cz
Disrespect for night passengers
Although it seems that the Central Station in Prague in Wilsonova Street is one of the largest and “most worldly” in this country, it is unfortunately true. After all, just look at the level of service it offers in the evening. As soon as the lamps go out and the hour hand reaches eleven o’clock in the evening, all life in the Central Station building, which has dozens of shops, will end very quickly. Global chains and local stores will close immediately, which means that all of you who are going somewhere in the evening and have not properly supplied before are simply unlucky. The station staff will then just shrug absently at your questions. It is not only the author’s experience, but unfortunately also many other people who were thirsty at night, but they did not even find an ordinary drinking machine in the whole huge building. This will be explained by the following negative reviews from Mr. Hajner, which you can find publicly on the Internet.
They evaluate Prague’s main railway station very negatively. The environment is tidy and clean, but if the traveler arrives at the station at night, he has absolutely no possibility of refreshments. This is perhaps the only Czech railway station I know where there is no vending machine for tea, coffee, other drinks or snacks. You can probably drink only from the tap on the toilet … Unfortunately, this very bad approach of the Central Station to the passenger is understood when the first ordinary buffet opens at half past five in the morning and offers ordinary tea for 63 CZK, so it is an effort to support extremely overpriced operators of dubious qualities. If I can, I will avoid the main railway station and I recommend it to everyone, “Mr. Petr Hajner described his experience 8 months ago. Probably no one read his complaint, because nothing has changed since then. Unfortunately, the author of the article also encountered a similar experience.
Mr. Hajner was not the only one who did not find the level of service at the Central Station in Prague, as Mr. Rožka’s complaint convinced us. “After 10 pm, it is not even possible to get water in the vending machine. Absolutely appalling services compared to the West, where you have at least a vending machine on every platform in the evening. You really won’t find anything in the capital and at the Central Station. So we thank SŽ for the excellent management of the railways, they travel better now, “Mr. Rožek complained seven months ago. “I understand that no company at the station will be open at 4 in the morning, but he would like to place at least one vending machine with water and a baguette,” Mr. Žáček also complained.
And you will find a whole lot of such complaints in the reviews about the Central Station in Prague. For most people who are bothered by the level of service at the station, a mere vending machine in the building would be enough, where they could refresh themselves while waiting for the train. But the building manager apparently learned of this second torture in a sadistic exercise or a concentration camp movie, so he decided to let his passengers suffer for several hours.
Yes, this is a beautiful train station that we could be proud of, but the question remains, why is everyone treating people like dogs in the evenings? Well, you can easily give your dog a bowl of water, because he may be thirsty. But people who are waiting at the Central Station in Prague probably don’t know that.
And how to get out of it? Bomb the e-mails and messages of the Central Station in Prague and explain to them that any village station anywhere in the country has a vending machine, so it doesn’t make sense that the largest station in the country will let you thirst. The question is, where is the problem? Shouldn’t Mayor Hrib, for example, deal with this? Feel free to write to him, because even this is a problem that is currently burning us.
The author of the article is a dehydrated and hungry passenger who could not buy anything to drink on the train, so he had to endure a 100-kilometer dry ride.
Resources:
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praha_hlavn%C3%AD_nádraž%C3%AD
https://www.mapaobchodu.cz/mesto/praha/nakupni-centra/hlavni-nadrazi-praha/