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Municipality in Bern, Switzerland
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Interlaken is a small city in the Bernese Highlands region of central Switzerland. Located between two alpine lakes (Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) and Lake Thun (Thunersee)), Interlaken is a popular base camp for outdoor sports and travel in the surrounding Bernese Oberland Alps. Interlaken itself is a superb holiday destination.
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This popular cave system features lit pathways leading through tunnels & chambers, plus a museum.
Boats traveling the Thunersee leave from Interlaken West. If you go all the way to Thun, you will see many cute towns and beautiful buildings/small castles on your way (Spiez, Oberhofen). There is also a castle in Thun. Boats travelling the Brienzersee leave from Interlaken Ost. The water in the Brienzersee is a beautiful shade of turquoise. The boat is free if you have the Swiss rail pass.
There is a company that makes night sledding trips every night. The cost is €74 and includes a Swiss cheese fondue dinner in a restaurant at the end of the sled run. There are no "fitness requirements" and bookings are necessary in advance.
A popular but touristy place for traditional Swiss dishes including fondue and raclette. It´s right next to Interlaken West train station.
Kang Chon Central also serves a range of delicious Korean dishes at reasonable prices, including a range of traditional Korean accompaniments with your meal. The staff are friendly and helpful, explaining any menu items that you may not be familiar with, and the ambience of the restaurant is very pleasant, especially on summer evenings.
Interlaken's best kept secret. Fantastic Thai food at very good prices keeps this little gem packed all day and night. Reservations are highly recommended for evening eating and take away is available.
An authentic Mexican food restaurant owned and operated by a gentleman who migrated from Mexico around 1984. Located on the street level of Hotel Blume in a street mall on the west side of town (Jungfraustr.), it is small, and very friendly. The staff will go above and beyond to help you celebrate birthdays and other events. Groups up to 25, and a bar that can seat about 10 more. Prices are quite high if you're used to paying for Mexican food in the USA, but considering everything is imported, it is understandable. All the best Mexican beers, and top notch Mexican cuisine.
If you want to save some money on any meals, you can buy the ingredients for making, for example, sandwiches at Coop or Migros (Coop opposite Interlaken Ost station, or both Coop and Migros near Interlaken West). For example, buying material for four sandwiches costs about Fr. 25, whereas an average entree at a restaurant in the area costs Fr. 20-25.
Grand Café Restaurant Schuh.
Young friendly hostel. Seems to be the hostel of Interlaken. Offers any and every extreme sport. Dorms, privates, and tents are available. Guest kitchen, restaurant, gift shop, coin laundry, and nightly movies. Also has Metro Bar underground, the most popular bar in Interlaken. Adheres to the city-wide noise curfew. Right around the corner is a grocery store for all your cooking needs.
formerly Lazy Falken
Freshly renovated dorm (2017) with a bar and shared kitchen.
Dorms and private rooms. Kitchen, laundry, including sheets, breakfast, free WLAN, free entry to public swimming pool and Minigolf, personal locker for each person, big garden with table tennis, soccer & billiards, free use of local busses, free parking facilities, movies available. Friendly staff who help you, answer your questions, give you advise for hiking or what to do, book for you adventure sports. No curfew!
Reception open from Daily 08:00–01:00. Young friendly hostel. Staff can help suggest hikes and will book activities. Dorms and private rooms. Bar, internet, laundry. Fr. 24-40
B&B bordering on family-operated hotel. Excellent location, very quiet part of west Interlaken, 5 minutes walk from anything touristy or otherwise, as well as grocery and Interlaken West train station. Run by JP & Veronica Müller-Lohner, a very friendly and accommodating couple, speak perfect English. Wireless internet available for Fr. 5. per day. Room prices are Fr. 90-160, apartment prices are Fr. 140-200. Breakfast daily for an additional Fr. 12 per person. Open all year.
Three star hotel 0.2 km from the railway station. Single room from Fr. 112, double room from Fr. 170 (as of 2009).
Four star hotel 500m from the railway station and 200 m to the resort center. Single room from Fr. 135, double room from Fr. 184 (as of low season 2009).
Offers 3-star self-catering holiday rentals outside of Interlaken with panoramic views of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau mountains and Lake Thun. Equipped kitchens, free wifi, free parking, flat-screen cable TV, pet friendly.
Located at 1,200 metres above sea level, the hotel offers 128 apartments and a large wellness area.
Reception open daily from 06:00 until 22:00, but you can ask about rooms in the restaurant until midnight. This nice little family-run hotel features a restaurant which seems to be quite a local hangout. The rooms are clean and the staff is friendly and attentive. Fr. 170-240 (breakfast included).
This is a hotel for the middle-aged traveller. It's rather expensive but offers tremendous service in a wonderful location, e.g. couples can spend a romantic and erotic night in the loveroom. The river-side rooms are the best.
Four star hotel 0.5 km from the railway station. Single room from Fr. 187, double room from Fr. 293 (as of low season 2009).
Interlaken is small enough to get around on foot or bike. Taxis are available from either train station and most hotels.
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