A WHOLE NEW GAME IN PRAGUE // Czech capital takes off on tourism's fast track

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: June 7, 1992| Author: | Copyright information

PRAGUE McDonald's has just arrived to sell its Big Macs in Prague. American Express has opened a spanking-new, full-service office at a prime Wenceslas Square address. Club Med is setting up shop in the Czech capital to market sun and fun.

You can order a pizza (respectably close to Chicago standards) delivered to your hotel by the American Hospitality Center. Or feast on caviar and truffles at the French-run U Maliru restaurant, where dinner for two may approach $200 plus wine.

You can dance the night away in the cellar of a former monastery at a drop-dead disco named Hell (in Czech, ...

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