Prague's Department of Taxes, Fees and Prices recorded 70 complaints about excessive metered-taxi fares across the 21 days in October when the city had no maximum fare. Sixty-nine complainants were foreign tourists and one was a Czech citizen. The highest sum on the list is 9,955 crowns (£341.04). That complaint gives neither a pickup nor a destination.
Sterling is the Czech National Bank rate for 6 November 2026, 29.190 crowns to £1, to the nearest penny.
What the list records
The Chamber of Taxi Operators published the table. Each row gives the reported payment, the pickup, the destination and who complained. Prague City Hall has confirmed that the list is genuine. The rows are passenger complaints, not findings that every fare was unlawful.
Of the 70 entries, 43 name Václav Havel Airport at one end. A journey from the city centre to the airport is recorded at 7,560 crowns (£258.99). A journey to Na Františku Hospital is recorded at €320, which is 7,790.40 crowns (£266.89) at the same day's rate of 24.345 crowns to €1.
The chamber steps back
Štěpán Hradečný, a vice-president of the Chamber of Taxi Operators, wrote on Facebook:
"Some of them really did not hold back. I will not hold back either, and I will not go on making a fool of myself for free. With immediate effect I am stopping all my work for the Chamber, until the drivers who put these rates on come forward themselves and sign a declaration on their honour that they will use only sensible rates in future. Otherwise they can keep driving in Prague at the regulated rates, and you can do the paperwork yourselves."
What the sum does not prove
A fare above the old maximum is not, by itself, a breach of a pricing rule that was not in force. Any other question turns on the particular journey, including what the passenger was told and how the payment was calculated.
Spokesman Vít Hofman placed the complaints in the period without price regulation. With no city ceiling, the market was the only regulator. The city has since put a maximum fare back on metered taxis.