Vienna - very popular, very commercial but beautiful
Budapest - beautiful, but most people just go to Vienna instead, even Hungarians
Szeged - nothing to write home about
Debrecen - nothing to write home about
Pécs - beautiful
Zagreb - beautiful scenery and location
Hamburg - nothing to write home about, but I’ve been to it in over a decade
Leipzig - I did not like it, but it was the whole city
Krakow - holy shit this place is gorgeous, but I’m willing to bet it got commercialized a lot in recent years. I’d be willing to give it a another go.
Brno - this place is an absolute banger. The main square is closed to traffic except for the rickety festive tram going through during waning daylight hours. But as soon as the sun sets, it’s a non-stop party of going from one Most bodega to the next with your reusable mug.
I am biased because I lived in Brno for 8 years. But Brno all the way. I have been in Vienna, Dresden, Krakow, Prague and Brno is just best of them all in every way in the recent years.
Krakow is a lovely city to visit any time. You can see distinct periods in architecture. A beautiful medieval core and castle. USSR tenements, Modern “Western” Ikea and Starbucks scattered about and a countryside that would not look out of place in The Witcher III. (CD Project Red being Polish)
I concur. I have fond memories of that city. I’ve visited there at the height of couch surfing and “free walking tours” tourism, hopping from one commie block lodging to the next with nothing but spare underwear in my backpack. Was well worth the 11hr bus ride from Budapest.
As someone who’s been to a few:
I am biased because I lived in Brno for 8 years. But Brno all the way. I have been in Vienna, Dresden, Krakow, Prague and Brno is just best of them all in every way in the recent years.
Krakow is a lovely city to visit any time. You can see distinct periods in architecture. A beautiful medieval core and castle. USSR tenements, Modern “Western” Ikea and Starbucks scattered about and a countryside that would not look out of place in The Witcher III. (CD Project Red being Polish)
Bars and restaurants to die for.
A++ experience. Would do again.
I concur. I have fond memories of that city. I’ve visited there at the height of couch surfing and “free walking tours” tourism, hopping from one commie block lodging to the next with nothing but spare underwear in my backpack. Was well worth the 11hr bus ride from Budapest.
Have you been to the “official” one in front of the City Hall or the one in the red-light district? The latter can certainly be an experience.