The modern Karlovy Vary Airport stands just four miles southeast of the city of Karlovy Vary, in the northwest of the Czech Republic. The new futuristic tubular passenger terminal building is a local landmark, its metallic form dominating the leafy rolling western Bohemian countryside. Visitors who hire a car at this small regional airport find that is a short drive from the major I/6 highway into the historic spa city of Karlovy Vary itself. The airport itself stands alongside the sleepy village of Olšova Vratá and the Karlovy Vary Golf Resort, a luxury hotel, restaurant and 18-hole course.
With a hire car from the airport, it's easy to explore Karlovy Vary, which is known as ‘Karlsbad' in German. You'll find the historic centre stands at the meeting of two river valleys amid woods and hills. It's an attractive spot that has been luring wealthy visitors for centuries to enjoy the spas fed by hundreds of natural hot springs. Today it's a centre for all sorts of weird and wonderful water-based therapies and treatments. Discover grand 19th-century spa hotels and restaurants, baroque churches, an opera house as well as the relaxed riverside cafes and bars. And it's great walking territory too, thanks to all those woods, hills and rivers.
