Czechia with kids

The largest ancient castle complex in the world, with a cathedral, a lane of tiny houses and the changing of the guard. Thirty-five dollars.

Consistently ranked among the best zoos in the world, built across a hillside with a chairlift between levels. Twenty-three dollars.

A hall of aircraft, cars and locomotives hung and parked together, plus a mock coal mine. Twenty-eight dollars.

Puppets and figures glowing against a black stage, with no dialogue. Thirty-one dollars and a Prague speciality.

The other long-running black-light company, same price, same idea. Pick one.

A communist-era tower with giant sculpted babies crawling up the outside. Seventeen dollars and genuinely odd.

Seventeen dollars, which is half what the London branch costs.

Seventeen dollars and the most legible gallery here for a child.

Life under the regime, told through a classroom, a shop and an interrogation room. Seventeen dollars and sobering.

A private collection inside the castle complex, with Beethoven manuscripts. Nineteen dollars and far quieter than the rest of the hill.

Classical music in a baroque church in the Lesser Town. Thirty dollars and about an hour.

Illusions and tilted rooms, nineteen dollars. An hour, and the old town is exhausting for children.

A wooden 1930s tram running a hop-on loop of the centre. Twenty-two dollars and much more fun than the bus.

An hour on the river under Charles Bridge, twenty dollars. The cheapest good hour in the city.

Sixty attractions on one card. Worth the arithmetic on a three-day stay.

A medieval town wrapped in a river bend with a castle and a bear moat, three hours south. Ninety-nine dollars.

An ossuary decorated with the bones of forty thousand people. Extraordinary, and genuinely not for a younger child.

A spa town of colonnades and hot springs you drink from porcelain cups. A hundred and two dollars.