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Best Bern Hostels for Social Travelers

All three viable Bern hostels run a social scene, but the energy is different at each. Hostel 77's bar opens at 5 pm and the inner-courtyard sun terrace doubles as the warm-up venue from May to September. Bern Backpackers Glocke runs nightly English-language film screenings on the lounge TV plus a free-rice-and-pasta kitchen that turns dinner into a seven-table conversation. Bern Youth Hostel has a real garden with outdoor chess and morris boards plus a music box and table-tennis room — the social model is daytime board-game and evening table-football, not bar-and-pub-crawl. None of them match the 50-bed-Krakow-party-hostel model, which is a feature, not a bug, in expensive, polite, early-closing Bern.

◉ Ranking · 3 picks
  1. 01Hostel 77 Bern€42
  2. 02Bern Backpackers Hotel Glocke€50
  3. 03Bern Youth Hostel€48
§ 01 — Traveler's take
“Reviewers across the three hostels mention different social moments. Hostel 77's reviewers cite 'made friends in the bar' and 'the sun terrace was the spot every afternoon'. Bern Backpackers Glocke's reviewers cite 'cooked dinner with strangers in the kitchen' and 'the movie nights brought everyone into the lounge'. Bern Youth Hostel's reviewers cite 'the garden chess board was a nice touch' and 'family-friendly atmosphere'. Common note: none of these are loud-party experiences — Bern's hostel social scene runs at conversation volume.”
§ 02 — The ranked list

Our Top 3 Picks

Hostel 77 Bern
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★ 8.92,191 reviews€42/night

Hostel 77 Bern

Hostel 77 Bern sits at Morillonstrasse 77 in the residential Mattenhof-Marzili pocket south-west of the Old Town — 7 minutes to the Marzili public baths and the Aare river, 20 minutes on foot or 8 minutes on tram 9 to Bundesplatz. 8.9 over 2,191 Booking reviews, the highest-rated hostel in Bern, with a sun terrace, garden, bar, indoor games room and bicycle parking that make it the slow-traveler base in the federal capital.

  • Highest-rated hostel in Bern (8.9 over 2,191 reviews)
  • Sun terrace, garden and bar with 7 min walk to the Aare
  • Free Bern Ticket transit pass for every guest
  • Family rooms and indoor/outdoor play areas — group-and-slow-traveler friendly
Bern Backpackers Hotel Glocke
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★ 8.53,071 reviews€50/night

Bern Backpackers Hotel Glocke

Bern Backpackers Hotel Glocke sits in a historic building on Rathausgasse 75, exactly 100 metres from the Zytglogge clock tower inside the UNESCO Old Town arcades. 8.5 over 3,071 Booking reviews, location score 9.6 — the highest in Bern — with a fully equipped self-catering kitchen, a shared living room, and a 10-minute walk to the train station. The Old Town hostel for travelers who want every sight on their doorstep.

  • 100 m from the Zytglogge clock tower (9.6 location score)
  • Fully equipped guest kitchen with free rice and pasta on the staples shelf
  • Historic arcade building inside the UNESCO Old Town
  • Free luggage storage and Bern Ticket transit pass for every guest
Bern Youth Hostel
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★ 8.52,646 reviews€48/night

Bern Youth Hostel

Bern Youth Hostel sits at Weihergasse 4 in the quiet Mattenhof-Weissenbühl garden quarter directly behind the Swiss Federal Parliament — 5 minutes from the Aare river and the Marzili public baths, 7 minutes from Bundesplatz. 8.5 over 2,646 reviews, fully refurbished and reopened in April 2018, with a quiet garden, a varied breakfast buffet and the included Bern Ticket — the best mix of central location and residential calm in the federal capital.

  • 5 min walk to the Aare river and the Marzili public baths
  • Refurbished and reopened in April 2018 (newest hostel building in Bern)
  • Real garden with outdoor chess, morris boards and terrace seating
  • Oktogon hammam directly across Weihergasse — the only hostel-doorstep spa in Bern
§ 03 — Tips

Tips for Choosing a Hostel with Social Events in Bern

Tip Nº 01

Time your dinner for 6:30-7 pm in the Glocke kitchen — that's when the staples-shelf usage peaks and you'll naturally fall into a conversation with whoever else is cooking. Bring something to share (a bottle of wine, a salad) if you want to accelerate the meeting.

Tip Nº 02

Hostel 77's inner-courtyard sun terrace gets the late-afternoon sun from May to September. Aim for a 5 pm beer at the on-site bar and grab one of the courtyard tables. Most evenings someone is heading to Marzili for a 7 pm Aare swim — easy to tag along.

Tip Nº 03

Bern Youth Hostel's outdoor chess board is a 2018-refurb feature that travellers cite specifically — pull it out at 4 pm and someone usually joins within 15 minutes. The music box and table-tennis room are the wet-weather backup.

Tip Nº 04

Walk to Reitschule (Schützenmatte, near the train station) in a group of 3+ — it's the alternative cultural centre with cheap drinks and live punk/alternative gigs, but the area can feel druggy at night and group walking neutralizes that. Tuesday is jazz night, Friday-Saturday is the loud-band slot.

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