photo: PrahaIN.cz/Malaga, December 2023
Dozens of Prague families decided to spend the end of the year in Malaga, Spain. The editorial staff of PrahaIN.cz knows several of them. We spoke with them both in December, when they described the local events, and in January 2024.
If there’s one thing everyone agreed on, it was the high prices of accommodation, and especially food. If you decide to go to an average restaurant for lunch as a family, i.e. with two children, you will pay approximately 2,400 crowns for a regular meal without drinks.
But it’s not just lunch, but also breakfast and dinner. A number of Czech tourists thus practice the same customs that we have probably all come across in, for example, Croatia.
“We repeatedly saw Czechs in the center sitting on the beach with bread and pate, they even offered it to us,” revealed Pavel Syrovátka. “Yes, they had children, why not?” he said without hesitation.
He also admitted that although Spanish cuisine is excellent, he doesn’t know anyone who eats in restaurants every day. “When we went to Marbella (tourist resort in the coastal region of the Costa del Sol in the province of Malaga, note red)., so of course the structure of the Czechs is different there. You will meet there, for example, the presenter Hrdlička, who has apartments here, his partner, the tennis player Plíšková, who organizes an academy there, and others. It’s different there, but Malaga is definitely not for multimillionaires,” remarked Pavel Syrovátka.
Advent in Spain. Photo: PrahaIN.cz
Savings are being made
His wife Alena confirmed that Czechs skip restaurants and prefer to go to buy pastries, hams and cheeses. “We’ve been coming here for the eighth year, always at this time, and the change is visible here as well. We used to meet friends in a restaurant where we sat for several hours, now everyone has dinner ‘at home’ and then we go for a walk, the prices of food here are very high,” she described, adding that their family also prepares snacks instead of lunch entirely normally.
In Malaga in the last ten days, they encountered countless Czechs.
“There are really a lot of them here, certainly more than last year. They travel for warmth. Those who didn’t know it probably expected peace, but forget about that, there was traffic, noise, huge crowds of tourists,” she added. Photos from the city center also confirm her words.
Accommodation in the form of Airbnb has also become an integral part of the stay. “Otherwise there would be a handful of people here if they had to pay for hotels,” the family added.
January sea. Photo: PrahaIN.cz
2024-01-08 01:13:01
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