Jailhotel Lowengraben Lucerne, Switzerland - Discount Jailhotel Lowengraben in Lucerne

Located in the old town in Lucerne, about 10 minutes walk from the station on a quiet side street

• Centrally located
• 80km to the nearest airport: ZRH
• 1km to the nearest station: LUCERNE
• 3 minute walk to nearest bus stop

Rooms are all converted cells with many original features such as the bars on the windows and the heavy, wooden cell doors. The doors have been converted and guests are given a code to enter the room. Facilities have been built inside the rooms in separate cubicles. Apart from this, the style is simple, yet comfortable. The rooms are very basic, as they would have been previously, with no television or telephones. As the hotel has been fully restored to its former "glory" the rooms are in exceptional condition, though they are small in size.

• 4 double rooms with shower
• 3 quad rooms with shower
• 25 twin rooms with shower
• 18 triple rooms with shower
• Single rooms
• Rooms with facilities for disabled persons
• Non-smoking rooms
• Voltage: 220v

The restaurant serves a variety of dishes and doubles as a bar in the evenings. Also, there is a separate restaurant serving Asian food at reasonable prices. The trendy bar at the front of the hotel is very popular with the young people of Lucern and, in the summer, opens out into the street.

The exterior is in keeping with the surrounding buildings, unimposing and historical. The bars are still on the windows. The lobby is small with a very original reception desk, which seems to be enclosed in its own small cell. This gives a lasting first impression. The lobby is empty apart from the reception desk and is fairly dark, in keeping with the theme of the hotel.

This is Switzerland's first prison hotel and was in use as a prison until autumn 1998. It is a fun, youth-orientated hotel and comes highly recommended for those who like to try something different .

• Small sized lobby
• Earliest check-in at 15 :00
• Disabled facilities
• Coach drop off
• Other facilities: N/A