Popular European party city announces ban on bar crawls

It’s a destination loved by boozy Brits connected their stag dos — but present Prague is changing the rules successful an effort to pull a quieter benignant of visitor. 

In a bid to clamp down connected sound and disruption from drunken tourists, the Czech superior has banned organised pub crawls – wherever participants travel a usher from barroom to barroom – betwixt the hours of 10pm and 6am.

Jiri Posisil, 1 of Prague’s lawman mayors, told AFP the metropolis was ‘seeking a much cultured, wealthier tourist… not 1 who comes for a abbreviated clip lone to get drunk.’

The authoritative besides notes that guides ‘have ‘no objections to the prohibition astatine all’.

Outlining the measures, a papers published by Czech paper Ceske Noviny read: ‘Unreasonable depletion of intoxicant and disruptive behaviour associated with pub crawls tin make the content of a deficiency of sophistication successful the community. 

‘This tin person a antagonistic interaction connected the cognition of the assemblage by tourists, imaginable investors and the citizens themselves.’

Prague has been synonymous with stag and hen parties since it opened up to tourism successful the aboriginal 1990s, chiefly owed to cheaper alcohol and formation prices compared to different European countries.

In fact, brew is cheaper than h2o successful immoderate restaurants and pubs passim the UNESCO-listed centre. 

Vaclav Starek, caput of the Czech Association of Hotels and Restaurants, hailed the city’s decision, commenting: ‘Trips to the centre successful hunt of brew person been a occupation for section radical and for different tourists too.

‘I don’t deliberation this volition wounded our sales. Nobody volition beryllium banned from going to a pub, but these nightly organised pub crawls… are thing we would need.’

The city, on with Amsterdam, has already banned ‘beer bikes’ and, successful April, a Prague councillor called for a prohibition connected fancy formal outfits that ‘exceed mostly acceptable societal conventions’. 

In this proposal, councillor Bronislava Sitár Baboráková said that the outrageous costumes negatively impacted residents and highlighted the effect connected aged radical and children. 

Prague isn’t the lone destination cracking down either: past year, Amsterdam launched a run of ‘stay away’ adverts aimed astatine young British men aged 18-35, that warns of fines, hospitalisation, and a transgression grounds if they travel successful hunt of a ‘messy’ weekend. 

Earlier this year, restrictions connected drinking intoxicant were enactment successful spot successful the Balearic Islands. In fashionable enactment spots, including Magaluf successful Majorca and San Antonio successful Ibiza, the merchantability of intoxicant successful shops is banned betwixt 9.30pm and 8am. 

Hotels successful this country person besides cracked down connected excessive drinking by introducing alcoholic portion limits successful all-inclusive resorts. 

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