Taxi Service from Main Train Station in Prague

Here is a recommended transfer service from the airport:

https://livingprague.com/prague-transport/recommended-airport-transfer/

Info on using taxis from the airport:

https://livingprague.com/prague-transport/prague-taxis/

The Livingprague.com website is invaluable for planning your time there, and Jason's walking tours are excellent.

We have only ever caught the metro and trams from Prague central station to our accommodation. Is this an option for you?

I also suggest taking the tram or metro in Prague, instead of a taxi.

Above all do not use the station taxis, they are really the last bastion of the rip off taxis in Prague. Maybe try UBER or use a transfer company that will meet you at the station in the hall with your name on a sign.

Perhaps your hotel could arrange a taxi, and the driver will be waiting with a name card. We did this precovid, and it was great after the international flight. Safe travels.

Thanks to all who replied. We will take the Metro to our hotel (paying only the luggage charge) and avoid the sketchy taxi service. I will post another query shortly asking the best way to get from the Viking dock in Regensburg to the main train station. Once again thank you.

We used Uber. There is a special place that they meet you. It was fairly easy.

This is the warning directly from the 6th Edition, 2010, of the RS Prague book regarding arrival at the main train station and then getting downtown: "The biggest challenge is that the taxi drivers at the train station's run down "official" stand are a gang of no-neck mafia thugs who wait around to charge an arriving tourist five times the regular rate." Instructions then given to try to avoid this.

Just wondering, I have not looked at any later editions, and I always found this description amusing (also never averse to taking transit or walking and almost never ride cabs): is this warning and language still in effect?

Larry, I have the latest RS Prague book. He’s changed the language a bit:

Avoid the “official” taxi stand that’s marked inside the station:
These thugs routinely overcharge arriving tourists (and refuse to take
the locals, who know the going rate and can’t be fooled). Instead, to
get an honest cabbie . . .

So they have necks now..........but they're still thugs. Sounds about right.

AAA is excellent, reliable, and trustworthy. We are in Prague now (in the heat) and AAA has been a godsend. Concierge called them for us for trip to hotel near Republic Square. Once, however, they required cash, because we did not make a "reservation", i.e. not calling from hotel or in advance.