Shopping
Maps, souvenirs & postcards
Maps can be bought in the information centers or in the main train station. Souvenirs can be bought in the souvenir kiosks and tobacconists, as well as the postcards. And besides that, every attraction in the city has probably its own souvenir and postcard shop. The price of average postcard is about 5 – 15 CZK (0.15 – 0.5 €). The postal stamps can be bought in the post offices, stamp for 11 CZK stamp is enough for all coutries worldwide. Online map can be found here.
Information Center
Gočárova 1225
500 02 Hradec Králové
tel: +420 495 534 482
fax: +420 495 534 485
open hours: Mon – Fri 8:00-17:30
e-mail: icko@ic-hk.cz,
http://www.ic-hk.cz
Velké náměstí 165
500 01 Hradec Králové
tel/fax: +420 495 580 492
open hours: 8:00-12:00 12:30-16:30
e-mail: icko2@ic-hk.cz,
http://www.ic-hk.cz
Food and basic services
In the core of the city is a Tesco shopping center, which is connected to the main train and bus station by a shuttle traffic bus in spite of being only 3-minute walk away. Opening hours: Mon-Sat 8 AM – 8 PM, Sun 8 AM – 6 PM. It offers wide assortment of goods and there is a restaurant and a pizzeria. Then there are hundreds of other shops, groceries, boutiques, etc. all around the city, but they are mostly Tell-the-shop-assistant-what-you-want and not Cash-and-Carry, so there might be a language problem. The city is known for being overcrowded with supermarkets, but most of them are located on the edge of the city by the main roads. An exception makes the Futurum center, where you can find fashion boutiques, e.g. C&A, NewYorker, Benneton, Orsay, hairdresser’s, solarium, banks, mobile shops, restaurants, fastfoods, a cinema, jewellery, cosmetics, etc. Opening hours: daily 9 AM – 9 PM.
Foreign Press
Can be bought in the train station bulding, or in one of the shopping centers, or sometimes in the tobacco stores. Usually it is only in German and English, the newspaper in other languages are either not available or printed few days ago.
