Pilsen has two completely different undergrounds and English pages routinely merge them. Under the Old Town lies a medieval cellar system of about 13 kilometres, cut into the sandstone from the end of the 13th century to the 18th; roughly 800 metres of it are walkable on a guided circuit at about 10 °C. A kilometre and a half east, beneath the Pilsner Urquell brewery, run nine kilometres of fermenting cellars at about 5 °C where unfiltered beer is drawn straight from an oak barrel – reachable only on the brewery tour, which is a separate ticket at a separate address. This page puts the historical underground first, prices the 2026 tickets in koruna and dollars, and names the month the place is shut that the operator's own site does not mention.
- TicketsTickets are sold online at prazdrojvisit.cz, where you pick both a time and a tour language, or at the desk inside the Brewery Museum at Veleslavínova 58/6.
- Price250 CZK (about $11.77) – Historical underground, adult
- OpenThe historical underground opens only for fixed guided departures listed in the operator's online calendar.
- Best timeNot January: the historical underground is shut for its annual maintenance.
- ClaustrophobiaThe circuit runs through narrow hand-cut sandstone passages and in places you have to duck, which is why helmets are compulsory.
Four places under Pilsen, compared
Plzeňské historické podzemí (the historical underground)
The underground museum proper: about 800 metres of circuit through a medieval cellar labyrinth beneath the single block bounded by Perlová, Veleslavínova, Rooseveltova and Pražská. It starts in the lednice, the old ice cellar, where everyone is handed a helmet, passes some 20 wells and soakaways, threads the keyhole-shaped klíčová chodba and finishes in the cellars of the water tower on Pražská at the reconstructed water wheel.
About 10 °C all year, 5 to 8 metres below the Old Town, helmets compulsory, maximum 20 people. Tours in Czech, English and German. Visitors over 18 get a beer at the end. On a few dates a year the special tour “Tajemství skrytých chodeb” opens newly cleared sections for 280 CZK – Czech only, 10 people.
250 CZK adult (about $11.77), reduced 200 CZK, family 2+2 720 CZK, children 3–6 50 CZK (09/2026)
The Pilsner Urquell brewery cellars
Nine kilometres of fermenting and lagering cellars hand-cut into the sandstone under the brewery from 1842 onwards, for bottom-fermented brewing. They cannot be booked on their own: they are the closing section of the full brewery tour, which first takes in the bottling plant, the historic and modern brewhouses and the raw-materials display. Down in the cellar, unfiltered and unpasteurised Pilsner Urquell is drawn straight from an oak barrel – 0.3 l a head, included in the price.
Only about +5 °C down here, colder than the historical underground. Up to 40 people per departure. The tasting is included but from 18 only; younger visitors walk the cellars and get nothing to drink. Building work makes the tour non-accessible from 13 April 2026.
430 CZK adult (about $20.25), reduced 345 CZK, family 2+2 1,240 CZK, children 3–6 50 CZK (09/2026)
Water tower and Masné krámy (Vodárenská věž a Masné krámy)
The prismatic water tower on Pražská, also called the Black Tower, is the best-preserved structure of its kind in Bohemia; Pilsen's waterworks is first recorded in writing in 1532, and the tower fed the wells on the market square until the late 19th century. Its lowest storey is now a fixed part of the underground route – this is where the circuit ends. Facing it stands Masné krámy, the meat market of 1392, a three-aisled Gothic market hall that is today an exhibition space of the West Bohemian Gallery.
This is where the reconstruction of the roughly seven-metre wooden water wheel from the 16th-century waterworks stands. The upper floors of the tower are in other use and are not part of the underground tour.
The water tower cellar is covered by the 250 CZK underground ticket; Masné krámy as a gallery charges its own admission (09/2026)
Pivovarské muzeum (the Brewery Museum)
The museum occupies a 15th-century brewing-rights house at Veleslavínova 58/6 and doubles as the ticket desk and entrance for the historical underground; the two parts of the building are connected below ground. Inside are a Gothic malt house, a stretch of the town wall with its historic outer-ward chamber, two storeys of vaulted cellars and a collection of beer vessels and bottles.
The only part of the ensemble you can walk without a guide and without a fixed time slot – the app is available in English and German. Not wheelchair accessible.
150 CZK adult (about $7.06), reduced 120 CZK, children 3–6 50 CZK, family 410 CZK (09/2026)
Tickets and prices
Tickets are sold online at prazdrojvisit.cz, where you pick both a time and a tour language, or at the desk inside the Brewery Museum at Veleslavínova 58/6. Because a tour takes no more than 20 people, booking online is the safe option – and the only reliable way to get a specific English departure rather than whatever is running when you turn up. Groups of 15 or more book through reservations@asahibeer.cz.
Official prices
- Historical underground, adult250 CZK (about $11.77)
- Historical underground, reduced (ages 6–15, students to 26, from 65, visitors with disabilities)200 CZK (about $9.42)
- Historical underground, family (2 adults + 2 children)720 CZK (about $33.90)
- Historical underground, children aged 3–650 CZK (about $2.35)
- Special tour “Plzeňské podzemí: Tajemství skrytých chodeb” (Czech only, a handful of dates, maximum 10 people)280 CZK (about $13.18)
- Pilsner Urquell brewery tour, adult (includes the cellars and the tasting)430 CZK (about $20.25)
- Pilsner Urquell brewery tour, reduced (under 15, students, seniors)345 CZK (about $16.24)
- Pilsner Urquell brewery tour, family (2 adults + 2 children)1,240 CZK (about $58.39)
- Pilsner Urquell brewery tour, children aged 3–650 CZK (about $2.35)
- Brewery Museum, adult150 CZK (about $7.06)
- Brewery Museum, reduced (6–15, students, seniors)120 CZK (about $5.65)
- Brewery Museum, family410 CZK (about $19.31)
- Gambrinus brewery tour (above ground, for comparison)290 CZK (about $13.65)
- Underground plus brewery tour, one adult doing both on the same day680 CZK (about $32.02)
- Gift voucher for the underground tour in the official Prazdroj e-shop€10.27 including VAT (about $11.77), valid one year
- Rychtářka multi-storey car park, Truhlářská 520 CZK per hour weekdays 7:00–19:00 (about $0.94), maximum 100 CZK per 12 hours (about $4.71); half that at night and at weekends
- Exchange rate behind every dollar figure on this page$1 = 21.238 CZK, Czech National Bank rate for 18 September 2026
As of 09/2026 · source and direct booking: prazdrojvisit.cz/en/tours/historical-plzen-underground-tour
When everything is sold out
The bottleneck is not the queue, it is the group size: 20 people per underground departure, and only 10 on the Czech-language special tour. At weekends and through the summer individual slots go before the day. The brewery tour is more forgiving at 40 people per departure.
Tours and tickets for underground Pilsen
Booking direct is normally cheapest: 250 CZK (about $11.77) for the historical underground and 430 CZK (about $20.25) for the brewery tour, with no language supplement for an English guide. A reseller earns its keep when the English slot you want has gone from the operator's calendar, when underground, brewery and a city walk come bundled with one meeting point, or when Pilsen is booked as a day trip from Prague with transfer – then one price replaces the train and two separate bookings. Read the description for which underground you are buying: several listings sold under the word underground are the brewery cellars, not the medieval city cellars, and no offer covers both.
Pilsen: Pilsner Urquell Brewery Tour with Beer Tasting
Pilsen: Historic Underground Tour with a Can of Beer
Pilsen: Brewery Museum Entrance with a Can of Beer
Day trip to Pilsner Urquell brewery and Bohemian glassworks
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Private Tour to Pilsner Urquell from Prague
Day trip to Pilsner Urquell brewery
Private Pilsen & Pilsner Urquell Brewery Tour Prague
Pilsner brewery tour incl beer tasting & Czech town Pilsen
Prague: Karlštejn,Koneprusy cawes,Zbiroh,Pilsen Brewery Tour
Pilsen: Private Day Trip with Brewery & Beer Museum
Booked through GetYourGuide (affiliate link, advertising). Most offers can be cancelled free of charge up to 24 hours ahead. Prices as of 20 September 2026.
Opening hours and best time
The historical underground opens only for fixed guided departures listed in the operator's online calendar. In high season it runs daily from 10:00 to 18:00. The thing to plan around: the underground closes completely in January for its annual maintenance shutdown. The operator does not say so – its English page states the site is open all year apart from 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January – but VisitPlzeň sells the 2026 season as 1 February to 31 December, the city of Pilsen names the annual January shutdown outright, and the national tourism portal Kudy z nudy lists February to December. When it reopens in February the timetable is thin: daily 11:00 to 15:40, with departures at 11:00, 13:40 and 15:40 only. The brewery tour and the Brewery Museum run all year with the same holiday exceptions, and the museum sits in the same building as the underground ticket desk.
When it is quietest
Not January: the historical underground is shut for its annual maintenance. February restarts with only three departures a day (11:00, 13:40, 15:40), and from spring the daily 10:00–18:00 timetable applies. The best of it is a weekday in May, June or September – smaller groups, easier English slots, and 10 °C underground feels like relief rather than a shock. If you are doing both undergrounds in a day, take the historical circuit in the morning and the brewery in the afternoon, so the day ends with unfiltered beer from the oak barrel rather than an hour in a 5-degree fermenting cellar.
Who it suits
With children
Good from about school age: everyone is issued a helmet, the route passes some 20 wells and soakaways, squeezes through the keyhole-shaped passage the Czechs call klíčová chodba, and ends at the reconstructed water wheel. An hour at 10 °C is long for smaller children. Ages 3 to 6 pay 50 CZK.
Minimum age
Children under 3 are not admitted for safety reasons, neither to the historical underground nor to the brewery cellars. The tasting at the end of the brewery tour and the beer handed out after the underground tour are both from 18.
Wheelchair
Not suitable. The operator states plainly that the underground tour is not wheelchair accessible, and the same goes for the Brewery Museum and the brewery cellars. For the brewery tour Prazdroj adds that building work makes it non-accessible from 13 April 2026.
Pushchair
Not possible underground – narrow passages, some of them very low, plus steps and thresholds. Pushchairs stay above ground, and the operator says there is no luggage storage.
Dogs
Not allowed, in the historical underground, the Brewery Museum or the brewery.
Claustrophobia
The circuit runs through narrow hand-cut sandstone passages and in places you have to duck, which is why helmets are compulsory. Anyone who reacts badly to tight spaces will do better in the wide brewery cellars than here.
What to wear
Dress warmly even in August. The operator gives about +10 °C underground all year and recommends warmer clothing and sturdy closed shoes. The brewery fermenting cellars are colder still at about +5 °C, so a jacket is not optional there even if it is 30 degrees outside. The floor is damp in places.
Photography
The operator's visitor rules publish no photography ban; what they do ban is animals and children under three. Between the weak lighting and the helmet on your head, phone photos underground are difficult anyway.
Getting there
By public transport
Most international visitors arrive through Václav Havel Airport Prague, about 90 km east. From the terminals, bus 100 runs to Zličín, and coaches to Pilsen leave from there – no trip into central Prague needed. From the centre of Prague the Západní Express takes about 1 hour 15 minutes hourly into Plzeň hlavní nádraží, and FlixBus and RegioJet coaches run roughly every hour in about the same time, which makes Pilsen one of the easiest day trips in Czechia. From Germany there is a through train: the alex RE 25 runs Munich Hbf – Landshut – Regensburg – Schwandorf – Cham – Furth im Wald – Domažlice – Plzeň in a good two and a half to three hours, on a timetable valid from 14 December 2025 to 12 December 2026; from Nuremberg you change at Schwandorf, and coaches also run Nuremberg to Pilsen, about 170 km in roughly two and a half hours. From Pilsen's main station it is around ten minutes on foot to the brewery and about twenty into the Old Town; trams 1, 2, 13 and 28 stop at Hlavní nádraží/Prazdroj.
By car
From Germany the road is the D5 motorway (Nuremberg – Waidhaus – Pilsen); Czech motorways need an electronic vignette, bought online before you cross. In the Old Town the Rychtářka car park at Truhlářská 5 is the practical answer: 447 spaces, open around the clock, linked to the Old Town by a footbridge. Weekdays 7:00–19:00 it costs 20 CZK an hour (about $0.94), capped at 100 CZK per 12 hours (about $4.71); evenings, nights and weekends are half that. Veleslavínova itself has only pay-and-display machines and three disabled bays.
From the nearest city
Pilsen sits about 90 km south-west of Prague on the line towards Bavaria, so it works as a day trip in either direction: the alex on the Prague–Munich run calls at Pilsen without a change, and the Západní Express does the Prague leg in about 75 minutes. Both underground entrances are in the centre – Veleslavínova 58/6 for the historical underground, U Prazdroje 64/7 for the brewery – and a little over a kilometre apart on foot.
Tips for your visit
- Fix the time and the language online before you travel. Only 20 people go on each departure and English slots are thinner than Czech ones – turning up at the desk and hoping for an English guide often fails.
- Check the month: January is closed. In the shoulder season do not plan a late-afternoon visit either, because in February the last departure is already at 15:40.
- Bring a layer even in August. 10 °C underground and about 5 °C in the brewery cellars: a jacket belongs in the day bag or the second half of the tour is miserable.
- Wear proper closed shoes. The sandstone floor is damp and uneven in places, and the operator specifically advises against sandals.
- Both undergrounds fit into one day: the historical circuit in Veleslavínova in the morning, the brewery tour at U Prazdroje in the afternoon. The two entrances are a little over a kilometre apart across the Old Town. Budget 680 CZK (about $32.02) for an adult and about three hours of tour time.
- The Brewery Museum in the same building fills the wait before an underground departure – same ticket desk, no second walk.
- Travel light. The operator states there is no luggage storage; suitcases stay at the hotel or in the lockers at the main station.
- Driving in, use the Rychtářka car park rather than the street: 20 CZK an hour on weekdays, 100 CZK maximum for twelve hours, and a footbridge puts you in the Old Town in a few minutes.
- If it is mummified bodies you came for, they are 40 km south in Klatovy, not in Pilsen.
What the internet gets wrong
The operator Plzeňský Prazdroj gives the complex as over 13 kilometres, the regional paper Plzeňský deník measured 13.2 km, and Czech Wikipedia also says 13 km. The larger figures are older estimates from before the passages were surveyed systematically, and the Czech tourist board has kept “almost 20 km” in circulation in English ever since.
Pilsen has no catacombs. Nobody was ever buried down here. The system is made of well chambers, storage and ice cellars, house-brewery fermenting rooms and escape passages, cut between the end of the 13th century and the 18th. The nearest real catacombs with mummified bodies are the Klatovy catacombs, a Baroque Jesuit crypt about 40 km south – 150 CZK for an adult, a different town and a different trip.
The underground shuts for the whole of January for its annual maintenance. The city of Pilsen names the annual January shutdown, VisitPlzeň sells the 2026 season as 1 February to 31 December, and Kudy z nudy lists February to December. February then reopens on a reduced timetable – three departures a day at 11:00, 13:40 and 15:40. This is the one error on this page that can cost you the visit.
The operator gives 5 to 7 metres for the visitor route and Plzeňský deník 5 to 8. The 12 metres is the depth of the wells the route passes, not of the passages you walk in. Radio Prague International, the origin of much of the English wording, has carried the 9–12 m figure since 2010.
the operator states about +10 °C in the visitor route, all year. The 5 to 6 degrees belongs to the brewery's fermenting cellars – a different system, a different ticket. Whichever figure you believe, you need a jacket.
All out of date. In 2026 the historical underground is 250 CZK for an adult (about $11.77), 200 CZK reduced, 720 CZK for a family of 2+2 and 50 CZK for children aged 3 to 6. The brewery tour is 430 CZK, not the 380 CZK still quoted. No language supplement is charged for an English tour.
You cannot. Access is with a guide only, at the times in the online booking calendar, 20 people maximum, and helmets are issued in the ice cellar at the start and stay on for the whole hour. The only part of the complex you can walk unguided is the Brewery Museum in the same building. Nor can you walk “the 20 km”: the circuit is about 800 metres under one block, and the rest of the system is backfilled, consolidated or closed.
The beer part is right, the geography is not, and the two undergrounds are being run together. The brewery's nine kilometres of cellars sit under the brewery at U Prazdroje 64/7 and are nowhere near 50 metres down; the historical underground is a separate site under the Old Town at Veleslavínova 58/6, 5 to 8 metres deep, with its own 250 CZK ticket. Buying the brewery tour does not get you into the historical underground, and buying the underground ticket does not get you the barrel.
A century late. Pilsen was founded in 1295 and the cellars were cut from the end of the 13th century onwards, which the operator, the city and Czech Wikipedia all state. The 14th century is when the digging was already well under way, not when it began.
History in brief
- Pilsen was founded as a royal town in 1295. The first houses on the planned Old Town grid brought the first cellars, wells and connecting passages with them.
- Digging went on for roughly five centuries: from the end of the 13th to the 18th, townspeople cut their cellars into the soft sandstone, in places on two or three levels stacked above one another. The operator's own survey finds as little as 20 to 50 centimetres of sandstone between two levels.
- The cellars were never used for burial. They were storerooms, ice cellars, fermenting rooms for the house breweries, well chambers for the water supply, and in wartime a refuge for the townspeople.
- The municipal waterworks is first recorded in 1532; the water tower on Pražská pumped water to the wells on the market square until the late 19th century, and its lowest storey is part of the visitor route today.
- Masné krámy, the three-aisled Gothic meat market on the same street, was built in 1392, served as a meat market into the 1950s and was rebuilt in neo-Gothic form in 1856.
- In 1842 the Burghers' Brewery began brewing by bottom fermentation. Nine kilometres of cellars were driven by hand into the rock beneath the brewery site for the long cold storage it needed – a second, entirely separate underground system.
- In May 1985 the historical underground was opened to the public for the first time; in 2009 Plzeňský Prazdroj took over the route and tied it to the Brewery Museum.
- In May 2025 the site marked 40 years of public operation by opening “Tajemství skrytých chodeb”, an additional route through sections previously closed off, which has run on a few dates a year since.
Frequent questions
How much does the Pilsen underground cost in 2026?
An adult ticket for the historical underground is 250 CZK, about $11.77 at the Czech National Bank rate for 18 September 2026 ($1 = 21.238 CZK). Reduced entry – children 6 to 15, students under 26, visitors from 65 and people with disabilities – is 200 CZK (about $9.42), a family ticket for two adults and two children is 720 CZK (about $33.90), and children aged 3 to 6 pay 50 CZK. An English-language tour costs no extra. Figures of 150 or 190 CZK, or “from $7”, still circulating on travel blogs are years out of date.
Are the tours in English?
Yes. The operator lists Czech, English and German for the historical underground, the Brewery Museum and the brewery tour alike – which is the practical difference from Prague, where German is hard to get and even English is limited. English departures are fewer than Czech ones and appear date by date in the online calendar, so book the slot rather than turning up. There is no audio guide in the underground itself; for the Brewery Museum the operator offers the SmartGuide app in English.
How long does the Pilsen underground tour take and how far do you walk?
About 60 minutes and roughly 800 metres. The route runs 5 to 8 metres below the Old Town under a single block, bounded by Perlová, Veleslavínova, Rooseveltova and Pražská, and ends in the cellars of the water tower on Pražská.
Can you walk all 13 kilometres of cellars?
No. The operator gives the whole system as over 13 kilometres and the visitor circuit as about 800 metres. Everything else is backfilled, consolidated or closed off. On a handful of dates a year the special tour “Tajemství skrytých chodeb” opens extra sections – 280 CZK, Czech only, ten people at a time. English pages that promise 20 kilometres are quoting an unsurveyed estimate and would not let you walk it either.
Can you visit Pilsen's underground without a tour?
No. Access is guided only, at the fixed times in the operator's online calendar, with a maximum of 20 people per departure, and helmets are compulsory from the ice cellar at the start. The one part of the complex you can go through on your own is the Brewery Museum in the same building, with or without the SmartGuide app.
Is the Pilsen underground open in January?
No. It closes for the whole of January for annual maintenance. The operator's own site does not say so – it lists only 24 to 26 December and 1 January as closed days – but the city of Pilsen names the annual January shutdown, VisitPlzeň sells the 2026 season as 1 February to 31 December, and Kudy z nudy lists February to December. When it reopens in February there are only three departures a day, at 11:00, 13:40 and 15:40.
How cold is it down there and what should I wear?
About 10 °C in the historical underground all year, and only about 5 °C in the brewery's fermenting cellars. The operator recommends warmer clothing and sturdy closed shoes, because the sandstone floor is damp in places. A jacket belongs in the day bag even in August. The “+6 °C” quoted on several English blogs comes from older city releases, and “10–12 °C” is somebody's guess.
Do you need a helmet?
Yes. Every visitor is handed one at the start of the route in the old ice cellar and keeps it on for the whole tour. Some passages are low enough that you have to duck.
Is the Pilsner Urquell brewery tour the same as the historical underground?
No, and this is the most common mix-up in English. Two separate sites, two addresses, two tickets. The historical underground lies beneath the Old Town at Veleslavínova 58/6: 250 CZK, about 800 metres, 60 minutes, 10 °C. The brewery's nine kilometres of fermenting cellars lie under the brewery at U Prazdroje 64/7 at about 5 °C and can only be reached on the 430 CZK brewery tour, which runs 100 minutes and ends with unfiltered beer from an oak barrel. Book one and you have not seen the other.
Is the beer included in the price?
On the brewery tour, yes: 0.3 litres of unfiltered, unpasteurised Pilsner Urquell drawn from an oak barrel in the cellar is part of the 430 CZK ticket, from 18 only. Visitors over 18 also get a beer after the underground tour; the operator now describes a can to take away, while older official texts describe a voucher, the pivenka, for 0.3 l in selected Pilsen pubs.
Is the Pilsen underground worth it if you have already done Prague?
Yes, because it is a different thing. Prague's Old Town was not dug out – the ground was raised and the Romanesque ground floors became cellars. Pilsen's townspeople genuinely cut their cellars into sandstone over five centuries, on two or three stacked levels, with wells 12 metres deep on the route. It is also the Czech city underground where you can book a tour in English or German without hunting, and it is an hour and a quarter from Prague by train.
How do you get to Pilsen from Prague?
The Západní Express runs hourly from central Prague to Plzeň hlavní nádraží in about 1 hour 15 minutes, and FlixBus and RegioJet coaches take roughly an hour. Coming straight from Václav Havel Airport, take bus 100 to Zličín and pick up a Pilsen coach there rather than going into the city first. From the main station it is about twenty minutes on foot to the Old Town, or trams 1, 2, 13 and 28. From Germany, the alex RE 25 runs through from Munich in a good two and a half to three hours; from Nuremberg you change at Schwandorf, or take a coach, about 170 km in roughly two and a half hours.
Is it suitable for children?
For school-age children, yes – helmets, wells, narrow passages and the big wooden water wheel at the end land well. Children under 3 are not admitted at all for safety reasons. For smaller children an hour at 10 °C is long, and pushchairs will not work because of the steps and thresholds. Ages 3 to 6 pay 50 CZK.
Is the underground wheelchair accessible?
No. The operator states that neither the underground tour nor the Brewery Museum is wheelchair accessible, and the brewery tour is not accessible either from 13 April 2026 because of building work. There are three disabled parking bays on Veleslavínova.
Do you need to book in advance?
It is strongly advisable. A departure takes at most 20 people, and at weekends and through the summer individual times go before the day. If you want an English tour you should book online anyway, because English slots are limited and only appear in the live calendar. Otherwise the desk inside the Brewery Museum at Veleslavínova 58/6 sells on the day; groups of 15 or more go through reservations@asahibeer.cz.
Sources
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- www.prazdrojvisit.cz/en/tours/historical-plzen-underground-tour/ – Operator, English: 250 CZK, 60 minutes, route approximately 800 metres, 5 to 7 metres deep, around +10 °C, languages CZ–DE–EN, capacity 20 people, no children under 3, not wheelchair accessible, groups over 15 via reservations@asahibeer.cz, and the statement that the site is open all year apart from 24–26 December and 1 January
- www.prazdrojvisit.cz/en/tours/pilsen-historical-underground-tour – Content of the underground tour: about 20 historic wells, the seven-metre oak water wheel, bicycle racks, parking advice, group booking
- www.prazdrojvisit.cz/prohlidky/prohlidka-plzenskeho-historickeh… – Operator, Czech: total length of the cellars “over 13 kilometres”, 800 m route, 5–7 m depth, 60 minutes, +10 °C, capacity 20, not wheelchair accessible
- www.prazdrojvisit.cz/cs/tours/plzenske-podzemi-tajemstvi-skryty… – Special tour “Tajemství skrytých chodeb”: 280 CZK, 60 minutes, Czech only, dates 16–18 October and 27–29 November, maximum 10 people, +10 °C
- www.prazdrojvisit.cz/en/tours/pilsner-urquell-brewery-tour – Brewery tour: 430 CZK, 100 minutes, CZ/DE/EN, 9 km of cellars, about +5 °C, 0.3 l unfiltered and unpasteurised beer from the oak barrel, 18 and over, maximum 40 people, not wheelchair accessible from 13 April 2026, U Prazdroje 64/7
- www.prazdrojvisit.cz/en/tours/brewery-museum-tour – Brewery Museum: 150 CZK, 60 minutes, CZ/DE/EN, combinable with the underground in the same building, all year apart from 24–26 December and 1 January, not wheelchair accessible
- www.prazdrojvisit.cz/de/besichtigungen/ – Overview of tours with prices: Pilsner Urquell brewery 430 CZK/100 min, historical cellars 250 CZK/60 min, Brewery Museum 150 CZK/60 min, Gambrinus 290 CZK/120 min
- www.visitplzen.eu/en/events/guided-tours/tours-of-the-pilsen-hi… – Price band 250 / 200 / 720 / 50 CZK, booking window 1 February to 31 December 2026, Christmas closures, no admission under 3
- www.visitplzen.eu/en/visit-pilsen/sights/historical-underground/ – Tourist board, English: “almost 20 km” of passages, 800 m walkable, 9–12 m below street level, about 12 °C, originally around 360 wells, helmets compulsory, construction from the end of the 13th century – source of the 20 km and 9–12 m claims in English
- www.visitplzen.eu/en/visit-pilsen/pilsen-for-children/historica… – Same tourist board, children's page: “nearly 20 km of passageways”, “around 12°C (54°F)”, “Daily 10:00–18:00” with no mention of the January closure, adults 250 CZK and reduced 200 CZK
- www.visitplzen.eu/en/useful-information/travelling-to-pilsen/ – Getting to Pilsen: Západní Express hourly from central Prague in about 1 hour 15 minutes, FlixBus hourly in about 1 hour, bus 100 from Václav Havel Airport to Zličín and on by coach, taxi from the airport about 2,000 CZK, alternative airports Nuremberg, Munich and Karlovy Vary
- www.visitplzen.eu/en/visit-pilsen/the-best-of-pilsen/pilsner-ur… – Brewery: prices 430 / 345 / 1,240 / 50 CZK, 9 km of hand-cut cellars, address U Prazdroje 7, tram lines 1, 2, 13, 28
- www.prazdroj.cz/tip-na-vylet-unikatni-plzenske-historicke-podze… – Operator press release of 13 May 2025: 40 years of public operation, new route “Tajemství skrytých chodeb”, complex of 13 km, 20 wells and soakaways, dug from the end of the 13th to the 18th century, 15th-century brewing-rights house
- www.prazdroj.cz/tip-na-vylet-unikatni-plzenske-historicke-podze… – Operator announcement of 3 February 2025: reopening on 1 February, daily 10:00–18:00, 13 km, up to three cellar levels, 16th-century water tower, ice cellar, the pivenka voucher for 0.3 l
- plzen.eu/o-meste/aktuality/aktuality-z-mesta/plzenske-historick… – City of Pilsen, 15 February 2024: the annual maintenance shutdown in January, then daily 10:00–18:00, route over 800 m, helmets compulsory, the older temperature figure of “about 6 degrees”, depth given as 9–12 m
- www.kudyznudy.cz/aktivity/plzenske-historicke-podzemi – National tourism portal: closed in January, February to December 10:00–18:00, prices 250 / 200 / 720 / 50 CZK with the reduction categories defined, just under 800 m, about 20 wells, the pivenka
- www.kudyznudy.cz/aktuality/specialni-prohlidky-plzenskeho-histo… – Reopening after the January shutdown: February timetable 11:00–15:40 with departures at 11:00, 13:40 and 15:40, 800 m, 5–7 m depth, around +10 °C all year, 250 CZK
- plzensky.denik.cz/zpravy_region/tajemne-plzen-podzemi-skryva-la… – Regional newspaper, 24 February 2023: total length 13.2 km, visitor route just under 1 km, depth 5–8 m, two cellar levels with only 20–50 cm of sandstone between them, wells about 12 m deep, helmets in the ice cellar, public since May 1985, operated by Plzeňský Prazdroj since 2009, the keyhole-shaped passage
- cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plze%C5%88sk%C3%A9_historick%C3%A9_podzem%C3%AD – 13 km of passages, about 800 m visitor route, cellars on two to three levels, created from the end of the 13th to the 18th century, use as storage, fermenting and ice cellars and as refuge, 16th-century water station with the water-wheel reconstruction
- cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vod%C3%A1rensk%C3%A1_v%C4%9B%C5%BE_(Plze%C5%88) – Water tower on Pražská: waterworks first recorded in writing in 1532, five-storey tower with a pyramid roof, supplied the market-square wells into the late 19th century, lowest storey now part of the underground route
- api.cnb.cz/cnbapi/exrates/daily?date=2026-09-18&lang=EN – Czech National Bank reference rate for 18 September 2026: $1 = 21.238 CZK (€1 = 24.340 CZK) – the basis of every dollar figure on this page
- eshop.prazdroj.cz/en/tour-of-plzen-s-historic-underground-90094614 – Official gift voucher for the underground tour: €10.27 including VAT (about $11.77), valid one year, transferable
- www.laenderbahn.com/alex/en/streckennetz/re-25-muenchen-hbf-pra… – alex RE 25: calling pattern Munich Hbf – Landshut – Regensburg – Schwandorf – Cham – Furth im Wald – Domažlice – Plzeň hlavní nádraží, timetable valid 14 December 2025 to 12 December 2026, engineering work with replacement buses on some sections
- www.parkingplzen.cz/cz/parkovaci-domy/parkovaci-dum-rychtarka/ – Rychtářka car park, Truhlářská 5: 447 spaces, open around the clock, weekdays 7:00–19:00 at 20 CZK per hour or a maximum of 100 CZK per 12 hours, 10 CZK per hour at night and at weekends, footbridge into the Old Town
- www.katakomby.cz/en/prohlidky/vstupne-a-oteviraci-doba/ – Klatovy catacombs: circuit I 150 CZK, reduced 110 CZK, family 390 CZK; May to September daily 9:00–18:00, October to April weekdays 11:00–16:30
- www.hornickyspolekstribro.cz/strana/hornicky-skanzen/ – Stříbro mining open-air museum with the mouth of the royal Prokop adit and a 325 m museum mine railway on the Mže
- www.inyourpocket.com/plzen/pilsen-historical-underground_77685v – Source for the English claim of a “nearly 20-kilometre labyrinth of corridors and cellars”, and for English tours at 11:20 and 14:20 in July and August
- plzenguide.com/pilsen-historical-underground.html – Source for the claims that “the total length of Pilsen underground is 15 kilometres” and “17.5 kilometres under 246 houses”, that the route runs “10 meters below Plzeň old town”, that it is “typically around 10-12° Celsius”, and that the site is “open from January to December: 10 am - 6 pm”
- fromplacetoplace.travel/czech-republic/plzen/plzen-historical-u… – Source for the claims that the corridors are “up to 20 kilometers long”, that the tour goes “almost 12 meters underground”, for the outdated 150 CZK adult price and for year-round opening hours with no January closure
- www.visitplzenskykraj.eu/clanky-en/pilsen-historical-underground – Regional tourist board, English: source for the claims that the underground has been built “since the 14th century” and has “a length of 20 km”
- evendo.com/locations/czechia/plzen/landmark/historic-undergroun… – Source for a plain Monday-to-Sunday 10:00–18:00 listing with no January closure and for the suggestion that visitors merely “consider joining a guided tour”
- theabroadguide.com/pilsen-historic-underground-tour-with-a-glas… – Source for the claims that the underground is “around +6°C” and that the tour costs “$8.55 per person”
- theczechiaguide.com/pilsen-historic-underground-tour-with-a-gla… – Source for the claims that the underground is “around +6°C” and that the tour costs “From $7”
- www.packing-up-the-pieces.com/pilsner-urquell-brewery-tour-opti… – Source for the outdated prices of 380 CZK for the brewery tour and 190 CZK for the historical underground, for the tasting being placed “50 meters below ground” and for the claim that the brewery tour covers “over 60 ice rooms”
- www.getyourguide.com/plzen-l41578/underground-catacombs-cemeter… – Source for underground Pilsen being filed commercially under “Underground, catacombs & cemeteries”, although the city has no catacombs
- deutsch.radio.cz/durch-den-schluesselgang-zum-tresor-das-unteri… – Origin of the deviating figures that spread into English coverage (19 km of passages, 9–12 m depth, report of 13 November 2010); also explains the keyhole cross-section of the passages and the strongroom chambers with traces of heavy oak doors