Portrait

Anyone who drops in at the Youth Hostel Solothurn can experience a thing or two! And you can take "dropping in" literally - the Aare cycle route leads right past the youth hostel. The hostel is worth visiting just to look at the modern steel and glass construction within the historic "Am Land" customs house. In the evening, the (old) town just round the corner draws you into its dreamy narrow streets, cosy pubs and legendary range of cultural and leisure activities for the young and young at heart.

A young house in old clothes
Once upon a time it was a historic 17th-century house serving the people of Solothurn as a trading and customs house, a warehouse, a theatre and finally as a schoolhouse. A modern steel and glass construction was put into the house and it was opened as a youth hostel in 1994. The architecture highlights the separate areas for sleeping, recreation and seminars. The bedrooms, for example, are little houses within a house - forget the sleeping bag, you'll dream the Nordic way here.

Getting here

	From SBB station on foot in 5 minutes, over the Kreuzacker bridge and left into Landhausquai.
	No parking space by the hostel.
	(approx. 600m from Solothurn Railway Station, from the nearest bus stop ‘Postplatz’ 300m to the Youth Hostel) From Solothurn Railway Station, take the No. 1 bus in the direction of Oberdorf (2 minutes), and alight at the stop ‘Postplatz’. All buses provide wheelchair access. From here continue for around 300m along the embankment (downstream) on the Landhausquai until you reach the Youth Hostel. The Youth Hostel does not have any parking spaces.