After four months of renovation, Czech Railways (České dráhy) has unveiled a vastly expanded ČD Lounge at Praha hlavní nádraží. Capacity has jumped from 24 to 76 seats and, for the first time, travellers will find a quiet business zone with semi-private booths, plentiful power sockets and high-speed Wi-Fi.
The refreshed space—clad in Czech-made furniture and a living moss wall—offers complimentary barista-quality coffee, soft drinks and snacks. Families receive board games and children’s books, while premium newspapers stream via the lounge’s QR portal. Access rules remain unchanged: first-class ticket-holders, IN-100 card users, pregnant women, passengers with children under ten and holders of disability IDs may enter free of charge; second-class passengers with seat reservations pay a nominal fee.
Travellers coming from outside the Schengen Area can also streamline their journey before they ever board the train: VisaHQ’s Czech Republic hub (https://www.visahq.com/czech-republic/) explains visa exemptions, processes online applications and even offers door-to-door passport courier services—handy for business guests who plan to land, hop on a Railjet and head straight into the revamped lounge.
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For corporate travellers the upgrade brings the station experience closer to airport standards, enabling pre-meeting calls or document edits in a quieter environment. The lounge sits directly above platforms 3–4, shaving connection times for those transferring between long-distance EuroCity services and Prague’s suburban trains.
České dráhy spent CZK 5 million on the project and says Brno and Olomouc lounges will be refurbished next. The company is also trialling a QR-code entry system that will let passengers unlock the lounge gate with an e-ticket on their phone, useful for last-minute itinerary changes.
Travel buyers with high rail-spend should revisit supplier agreements: access to ČD Lounges can be bundled into corporate rail cards, potentially offsetting airport-lounge subscriptions for short Prague–Ostrava day trips.
The refreshed space—clad in Czech-made furniture and a living moss wall—offers complimentary barista-quality coffee, soft drinks and snacks. Families receive board games and children’s books, while premium newspapers stream via the lounge’s QR portal. Access rules remain unchanged: first-class ticket-holders, IN-100 card users, pregnant women, passengers with children under ten and holders of disability IDs may enter free of charge; second-class passengers with seat reservations pay a nominal fee.
Travellers coming from outside the Schengen Area can also streamline their journey before they ever board the train: VisaHQ’s Czech Republic hub (https://www.visahq.com/czech-republic/) explains visa exemptions, processes online applications and even offers door-to-door passport courier services—handy for business guests who plan to land, hop on a Railjet and head straight into the revamped lounge.
For corporate travellers the upgrade brings the station experience closer to airport standards, enabling pre-meeting calls or document edits in a quieter environment. The lounge sits directly above platforms 3–4, shaving connection times for those transferring between long-distance EuroCity services and Prague’s suburban trains.
České dráhy spent CZK 5 million on the project and says Brno and Olomouc lounges will be refurbished next. The company is also trialling a QR-code entry system that will let passengers unlock the lounge gate with an e-ticket on their phone, useful for last-minute itinerary changes.
Travel buyers with high rail-spend should revisit supplier agreements: access to ČD Lounges can be bundled into corporate rail cards, potentially offsetting airport-lounge subscriptions for short Prague–Ostrava day trips.
