Ice Pub Prague

As we head out again looking for dinner the kids bring up the Ice Pub again.  Marty and I know it is just a bar, essentially and is it really worth it?  The price was 8€ per adult which includes a drink in the pub.  Kids get in free.  So, Marty decides he doesn't really want to go but I'm, surprisingly given my hatred of being cold, am all game.  The kids and I enter and I pay the 8€ and the woman at the desk says "You know this is a bar, right?"  as she looks at the kids.  I said I know but they just want to see the ice. 

It is only 6pm. How crazy can a bar be at 6PM?  And we can only stay in the pub for 20 minutes.  I figured how much harm could happen in 20 minutes even if it was wild in there.

I shouldn't have worried at all. It was more like a Disneyland ride than anything else.  We had to wait in the "lobby" until the group that was currently in the Ice Pub was finished with their 20 minutes inside.  We were waiting with maybe 6 other people, mostly in their mid 20's.  Slowly more people joined us in the waiting room and when the current group came out of the Ice Pub they told us to suit up. 

They gave us each a silver poncho and some gloves.  We had to wait until the entire group of about 15 of us were suited up and then they ushered us into the Pub.  We walked through a huge door to a waiting area and then through another huge door.  It was not huge in fact I was shocked at just how small it was. 

There were disco lights and that metal flooring like at a ski resort so that it wasn't at all slippery.  It was cold but we just took the whole room in.  There was an ice throne (unfortunately none of the photos of the throne turned out) all the walls were about 1 foot deep with frozen items inside.  There was a wall of fruit and a wall of beer bottles.  There was a huge sculpture of a shark that came up and over the bar.  The bar was quite small and had bottles of alcohol frozen inside of them.  We each got a drink.  Mine with alcohol and the kids without. 

The glasses were made from ice.  Both kids were incredulous about the fact that they just threw the glasses away when we were finished. What a waste! I wish my photos had turned out better but every time I wanted to take a photo I had to take my gloves off and it was COLD.  Obviously.  We didn't really notice the time until there was just 3 minutes left of our 20 minutes.  I guess they kind of know how much time you can take at the ice pub.  When the 20 minutes were up we were ushered out the same way we came in to the lobby where another group was waiting to go in. 

Unique, yes.  But nothing compared to the Ice Hotel that Josie still desperately wants to visit.  We shall see.