Stag and hen do warning as popular European city bans pub crawls

Local politicians hope to banish drunken tourists

A popular destination for stag and hen parties has banned organised pub crawls in a bid to stop drunken tourists. Councillors in Prague hope the move will bring more 'cultured' travellers to the Czech capital.

It comes after the city had more than 113,000 visitors in the first three months of this year alone. Sex shows are part of the entertainment on offer making it a hotspot for revellers to celebrate their last single holiday, The Mirror reports.

However this may change as city officials are cracking down by imposing a ban on organised drinking tours between 10pm and 6am, which will be enforced by police. Jiri Pospisil, one of Prague’s deputy mayors, said the city was “seeking a more cultured, wealthier tourist – not one who comes for a short time to get drunk”.

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Vaclav Starek, Head of the Czech Association of Hotels and Restaurants, added: "Nobody will be banned from going to a pub but these nightly organised pub crawls... are nothing we would need.”

The decision has been called "a populist move to cover up the city management’s inability to address real issues, such as the lack of municipal police officers," by excursion organiser Prague Pub Crawl.

Beer bikes are also banned from the city in a measure reflected in other popular European cities such as Amsterdam, Munich and Budapest.

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