Loket
Loket is a town in Sokolov District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

Loket is a town in Sokolov District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,000 inhabitants. The town proper is located on the Ohře River in the Slavkov Forest highland.
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Worth seeing in and around Loket
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Loket Castle
Loket Castle is a 12th-century Gothic castle in Loket in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It ls located on a massive rock, surrounded on three sides by the Ohře river.
100 m · castle in Czech Republic · Wikipedia
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Things to do
Rafting Trips. Rafting Ohre. Rafting trips and boat rental. 2-person canoes: 500-750 Kč; 4-person boats: 1,200-2,400Kč. Loket Summer Cultural Festival. End of July. Opera performances.
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Where to eat
Old Slavic Restaurant, Zámecká / Kostelní, 70. Authentic options.
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Getting to Loket
- Airports
- Karlovy Vary (KLV), 12 km · Václav Havel Prague (PRG), 108 km · Dresden (DRS), 127 km
- Prague → Loket119 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · Kč190–255
- České Budějovice → Loket89 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · Kč145–195
- Pardubice → Loket64 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · Kč115–150
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Loket
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Loket. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundA week ticket for 220 Kč also gives you a trip on the Diana funicular.
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