Welcome to Backpackers Villa in Interlaken.
Backpackers Villa is the right place for you if you consider yourself young or young at heart or if you’d like to stay with us together with your family and kids.

You can book a private room for three, four or up to seven people together as a group of friends or family. If you are looking for a good night’s sleep and fast wifi, but want to keep it as budget saving as possible, you can book a single dorm bed in 6/7 bed dorms shared with other travellers.

You can “book now” for up to 6 people. In case you are more travelling together please send an email. Thanks.

Either way you have plenty of social space available in the hostel. Use our well equipped self catering kitchen to cook, eat and chat. There is plenty of space to play and chat with other travellers. We have table tennis indoor and outdoor, as well as a pool billiards table in the large garden, which you can also enjoy and chill with the view of the snow capped Alpine tops.

For ideas on excursions and activities in and around Interlaken, you can talk to us at reception. We are happy to help.

We are an international team from 16 nations all around the world. On a daily basis we live the experience of our guests: people from all kinds of backgrounds and origins work together and shape their lives together. As a team we offer you authentic and personal advice. You ll be ready for your unique Interlaken experience.

We have been awarded the HOSCAR for “best hostel Switzerland” many times and just this year “second best in Europe”, which makes us happy and is our motivation to keep up and get better at what we love: providing a temporary home, a place, where you would like to stay on a little during your travels. Hoscars are based on guest reviews on hostelworld.com.

Welcome to Backpackers Villa in Interlaken!

At Backpackers Villa we take sustainability seriously and organise our daily lives as environmentally conscious as possible – for our guests, our team and our shared future.

Since 2009 we have been using solar energy to heat our water and in 2017 we added photo voltaic panels to another part of the roof, which now allows us to produce some of our own electricity. In addition, we have installed heat exchangers in all public showers in the public showers, which use hot waste water to preheat fresh water. This also helps us to reduce the carbon footprint of each guest. joulia.com

For many years, we have been offering electric charging stations for both our guests and the local population. We are constantly upgrading our facilities so that you too can fully charge your car at a reasonable speed.

Both buildings have automatic ventilation systems, which not only raise the standard of the rooms but also improve the energy balance.

In this way, we are implementing what our 1997 mission statement sets out: ‘Through our everyday ecological actions, we are committed to preserving creation while putting people at the centre.’

 

In 2011, Backpackers Villa became the first hostel in Switzerland to be climate neutral. Since then, we have been offsetting the CO₂ emissions that we are unable to reduce to zero despite all our efforts with myclimate.org myclimate.org.

Projects at home and abroad are reducing CO₂ emissions in real terms and are enabling us to support sustainable development.

In recent years, we have supported various projects:
mobisol provides light where it is needed and was previously not possible – one of many projects by myclimate.org

We are delighted that Wäscheperle Interlaken – our long-standing laundry partner – has been awarded the Thun Social Star for employing people with disabilities. We congratulate them and are delighted to have a partner in Wäscheperle that does good! Thank you very much.

We have decided to give only one towel for free, for an exchange we charge CHF 5.- per piece. We have tried to explain and educate for a long time. Washing/Laundry has high impact on sustainability and the environment. And the incredible natural environment we enjoy in Interlaken, is the precise reason why all our guests and you are coming to stay. This is one aspect where everyone of us can easily contribute to a more sustainable way of living or travelling. Only with the introduction of a charge have we managed to bring down the number of changes to a sustainable level.

Many thanks to everyone who takes the time to write us a review, on whatever platform.

TripAdvisor “Certificate of Excellence”

HOSCAR: Best hostel in Switzerland for many years (the award is based exclusively on guest ratings from Hostelworld – the largest booking engine for hostel beds)