Youthhostel Zermatt
This hostel has modern dorms, sunny terrace and first-rate facilities.
This hostel has modern dorms, sunny terrace and first-rate facilities.
About 1.5km west of the centre of town you’ll find Stein am Rhein’s pleasant hostel, some two minutes from the beach. Seven of the rooms are doubles.
Adrenalin junkies hail Balmer’s for its fun frat-house vibe. These party-mad digs offer beer-garden happy hours, wrap lunches, a pumping bar with DJs, and chill-out hammocks for nursing your hangover...
Facing the Aare River and handy for Interlaken Ost train station, this campsite and hostel duo offer first-class facilities including a kitchen, laundry and wi-fi. You can rent bikes and kayaks here.
This lodge recently spruced up a little. Expect rock-bottom rates, a noisy bar below and chip-shop smells throughout.
It's hard to believe this is a hostel. Interior design is bold, striking and innovative...
One of Switzerland’s best-looking hostels, this has grey slate floors, earth-red walls and top-quality materials. Members of Hostelling International pay about 20% less...
Plum in a leafy residential location, this five-storey building feels like a friendly boarding house. Clean, simple rooms have lots of white and a smattering of modern art, plus there’s a kitchen. Parking costs Sfr10 per day.
Budget beds are gold-dust rare in St Moritz, but you’ll find one at this hostel edging the forest. The four-bed dorms and doubles are quiet and clean. There’s a kiosk, games room and laundrette.
This old pile of a mansion has clean, modern bathrooms. The bulk of dorms have six to 10 beds, although they also have a single and a double. Set in leafy grounds, it’s 15 minutes by foot west of the train station, or take bus 6 to Hallenbad.
Between the train station and the lake, this Swiss Backpackers hostel resembles an American motel with its small dorms – just three to six beds in each. Reception is in the bistro bar, which cooks food and brews wonderful organic beer.
Could this be backpacker heaven? Right on the lake, this is a soulful place to crash with art-slung walls, bubbly staff, a well-equipped kitchen and immaculate dorms with balconies. It’s a 15-minute walk southeast of the station.
This hostel won’t bowl you over with personality, but dorms are bright and clean, and facilities include a garden, games room and bike rental.
Easy on the eyes and wallet, this hotel is in a quiet residential area 10 minutes’ walk from the Old Town. Rooms are simple, light and spotlessly clean, and there are cheaper rooms with shared bathroom...
Converted from a factory, this independent hostel has cheerful, colour-coded eight-bed dorms and more sedate doubles and family rooms. It has a crisp feel, and for a little more you can get yourself a king-size bed...
Funny Farm is halfway between a squat and an island shipwreck. The ramshackle art-nouveau house, surrounded by makeshift bars and a swimming pool, is patrolled by Spliff, the lovably dopey St Bernard...
Central, clean and welcoming digs. Dorm buildings resemble military barracks, but the facilities are comfortably above par with a bistro, shared kitchen, TV lounge, games room and free internet.
Not only a happening bar where live music is the order of the day, this place also has nine simple but cheerful rooms with a gleaming white cleanliness. Showers and a phone are in the corridor...
Hurrah! Finally there’s a backpacker gem in Chur’s buzzy Welschdörfli district. JBN offers spacious dorms, glammed up with original photography and quirky touches like dog’s-backside coat hangers...
One of Switzerland’s most contemporary hostels, this centuries-old building by the river is a striking mix of glass, stainless steel and raw concrete...
Sonnenhof is a slick combination of ultramodern chalet and elegant art nouveau villa. Dorms are immaculate, and some have balconies with Jungfrau views...
Overlooking the lake, this chalet-style hostel is a decent budget pick, though some dorms are impersonally large. Still, the superb views, garden and barbecue area make up for the mass snoring sessions.
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