Yoummi – the catering option from Swiss Youth Hostels 

• All prices exclusive of taxes CHF 3.– per person/night, including VAT.
• The Hostel Card Standard is included in the price of accommodation and is valid from the day of arrival to the day of departure.
• You have the option of purchasing a Hostel Card Premium and benefit from cheaper accommodation prices in all Swiss youth Hostels. More information about the Hostel Card Premium
• Groups (minimum of 10 people) are advised to buy a Hostel Card Premium (personal: CHF 55.– / non-personal: CHF 99.–)
• Find our children's prices on the family page. 
• Group rates for children ages 2 to 5 years, a flat rate of CHF 15.–; from ages 6 to 12 years, accommodation prices / group prices apply
• Accommodation of dogs on request CHF 15. – per dog and night, without food
• Car park per night CHF 10.–
• Voluntary CO2-Compensation CHF 0.30
• Rates are subject to change
• All rates in CHF

Barrier-free stay

The garden seating area is paved with composite stones.

Barrier-free accommodation

16 rooms of Rapperswil-Jona Youth Hostel offer barrier-free access.

The ramp has a slope of 4 %.

The building has a lift linking the floors.

• The width of the corridor in front of the elevator is 200 cm
• The width of the elevator door is 80 cm
• Elevator width: 105 cm
• Elevator depth: 200 cm

The room door width is 84 cm.

Barrier-free bathroom

A combined disability-friendly shower/WC is located on the first floor. In addition, a barrier-free toilet is located on the ground floor.

The bathroom dimensions are:

• Width of bathroom door: 90 cm
• Shower seat
• Shower handle

Barrier-free journey

By train / by foot

• Rapperswil Station: approx 2km
• Jona Station: approx. 1.6km
• Bus stop ‘Busskirchstrasse’: approx. 700m

From Rapperswil Süd Railway Station, take the No. 911 bus to the stop ‘Busskirchstrasse’ (low-floor buses). Wheel around 50 back to the roundabout, then turn left into Busskirchstrasse. After approx. 300 metres Busskirchstrasse becomes Blaubrunnenstrasse. Continue along this road for a further 200 metres, and then turn right into Hessenhofweg. The Youth Hostel is located around 80 metres along on the right-hand side.

By car

The youth hostel has chargeable, wheelchair-accessible car parking spaces. Distance to the main entrance: approx. 20m. Please ensure you make an advance reservation. We will be pleased to make the disabled car parking space available free of charge for holders of an official blue disabled person’s parking permit.

Useful information

Links for public transport

• Swiss Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Barrier-free public transport (website only in German and French)
• Swiss Railways (SBB): Travel with reduced mobility
• Navigation Zürich

Taxi

• Tixi Rapperswil-Jona
  Frau Andrea Schneider
  Pius Rickenmannstrasse 33
  8640 Rapperswil
  Phone: +41 55 210 90 91
  Telephone manned Mon - Fri from 9 - 11 am (answering machine at other times)
  Taxies should be booked by 11 am at the latest, preferably 1 - 2 days in advance
• AA-Rosen-Taxi
  Hurdnerstrasse 118
  8640 Hurden
  Phone: +41 55 420 26 26

Closest pharmacy

approx. 2km

• Topwell-Apotheke
  Molkereistrasse 10
  8645 Jona
  Phone: +41 55 225 41 41

Offers

• Holzbrücke Seedamm-Weg, route no. 849
• Pfäffikersee-Rundweg, route no. 890
• Obersee-Uferweg, route no. 973
• Knies Kinderzoo is accessible with wheel chairs
• Tourism inclusive

Supporting the OK:GO initiative

Swiss Youth Hostels is part of the OK:GO initiative. This initiative aims to ensure that every tourism provider in Switzerland offers information about the accessibility of its services to the public. Learn more about the initiative here.

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