I stayed here for a business trip a while back. after a nice 10-15 minute walk from the train…read morestation, you're at the hotel! double bed rooms (yeah, I got a double bed room to myself...BALLER STATUS) are pretty big. large bathroom, tons of space to organize your stuff, a radio built into the headboard, and a TV. modest accommodations, but comfortable. the website says they have free Wifi too! the hotel was clean, and the staff was nice. it's a family-run establishment and they were friendly to us. told me where the town's bar was (first question) and where the pay phones were (second question). priorities, man, priorities. breakfast was included with our stay. nothing like a big European-style breakfast of cold cuts, cheese, pastries, chocolate, cereal, fruit, and other delicious stuff! I do recall that the staff would leave around 9-10 PM, and close the main entrance. thus you had to unlock - and remember to lock - the side door when you came back later than that. maybe you were in the bar down the street talking to random Swiss people who kept buying you drinks and you forgot that it was 1 AM and you had to meet your client at 7 for breakfast...oops! the keys were tack-welded to large keychains featuring the coats-of-arms of various local municipalities and cantons. you could, conceivably, use these as weaponry if you were in trouble, though I doubt there is much trouble in Laufen. check the website for the room options and pricing. I don't think there are other hotels in this town, and my company picked up the tab anyway, so I guess it is what it is... if I was in the area, paying my own way, I'd definitely consider lodging here.

Clean and comfortable hotel that is part of the Marriott chain. It is directly across the street…read morefrom the Wankdorf train station and only takes about two minutes to walk there. The hotel has a fancy hostel type vibe and amenities are limited like a hostel. You check in to your room at the bar. There are lounge areas to hang out and lockers in the lobby. Staff is bilingual and friendly. Rooms are small and minimalistic. No irons and no laundry machines or laundry services here. No meals are included but they serve food from the bar. There is a small convenience store near the entrance that has most essential supplies and food/drink. Beds are very firm and only a small pillow each. Not much space to move about the room. Overall, it's a great location to base out of if you're not planning to spend much time in your room and don't need any amenities typical of most other hotels in the Marriott chain.

Great hotel that is very stylish and the staff at the front desk are very friendly and helpful. Our…read moreroom was very modern with a large white cabinet filled with a fridge and coffee maker. The black bathroom was also cool but small. Next to the hotel is a convenient Coop market. This hotel is located in the heart of Bern.

In most of Europe, the air conditioning isn't that cold. Well, not in this hotel. It was the only…read morehotel in our trip were we slept comfortable and cool. It was a modern updated and very clean room. Close to train station. Its hard to convey how happy we were staying here!! If I could have given it six stars I could have! It's actually called Best Western Plus Hotel Bern.

Taking in the sights that Bern, Switzerland has to offer. Hotel Sorell Adore fit my needs. About a…read more3 minute walk to the train station. Conveniently located to most tourist spots. They provide a pass for public transportation, but most things are close enough to walk. The room was small but clean. As a solo traveler it met my needs. They provide water and a safe but no mini fridge. The bathroom was small but clean. The staff was friendly and courteous. The breakfast is with the room and it has a variety of meats, cheeses, jellies, coffee and more. Made fresh daily. Overall, I would recommend. I do not have anything negative to say, other than it's a bit pricey, but this is Switzerland.

I spent an evening in the Hotel Ador in Bern, while attending a conference there. The rooms are…read morevery nice I must say, extremely clean and very nicely arranged. They are quite small though (even if for us it was not a problem). Bathroom was also newly renovated and looked spotless. We also had breakfast and lunch there; breakfast was really great. Selection was wide and all the products were top brands (orange juice Michel and so on). Lunch however was weird: we got huge portions of un-understandable and not really tasty food. Hmm... Oh and very important: hotel is super close to the train station (maybe the closest hotel?), so that's a huge plus, Recommend!

Comfortable hotel located away from the city center. Just 15 minutes by S5 train and you are there…read more The hotel is a 1 minute walk as you leave the station. There is a mall with movie theater and exercise complex (pool usage included with room fee) attached. Rooms are comfortable with a little space in them. Typical European private bathroom with standup shower. Bed is very easy to fall asleep in. No USB ports in room so depend on outlets to power (adapter required for US plugs). Eight floors accessible by 2 elevators. Ate at the restaurant. Decent menu options with good service. There is also a bar onsite.

I'm not a travel expert, but I did stay at the Holiday Inn Westside in Bern during a November…read morefamily-of-3 vacation and we thought it was a comfortable hotel with a great value for the price. Our favorite aspects were the included free 3 hours at the adjacent Bernaqua indoor water park (within the Westside shopping mall, actually a wonderful way to relax after a long day of sightseeing), the train station directly across the street (with only an 8 minute ride into Old Bern), the deep bathtub (this may only be available in the executive rooms, not certain), the in-room Nespresso machine and packets of delicious Caotina, free high-speed internet, and the electric blackout shades on the window. Everything inside was new, clean, and modern, with the property having been built in 2008 and remodeled in 2017. FYI, this hotel & entertainment hub is about 1.5 hrs train ride from Lausanne or Basil or Zurich. As a home base for a family vacation spending a couple of days exploring Bern, this 8-story, 144-room hotel more than met our needs. Our 11 year old LOVED the water park (he thinks we need to go back to Switzerland just to visit Bernaqua http://www.westside.ch/en-GB/bernaqua again) and it was so convenient to have the indoor mall restaurants & grocery store available when we got in late on the first night. The train station and free shuttle service for the mall had cars leaving for downtown Bern just about every 2 minutes, so it was no problem at all to quickly get into the heart of Bern for all the site-seeing we wanted to do. Let me get the caveats out of the way: - We got a particularly great rate on a 7th floor King Executive Deluxe room with a view via my employer's corporate rate available for personal travel. Even if you don't regularly travel for work, it's worth checking your organization's travel portal to see if you can access something similar. Holiday Inn is part of the IHG network, so you may be able to work a credit card and/or other travel point system to get a good rate, too. - We didn't eat in the on-site Brasserie Bits&Bites restaurant https://www.brasseriebitsandbites.ch/english/bern or spend many hours in the hotel itself. We mainly used the space for sleeping & bathing (both of which were very comfortable). - We had the Swiss Pass for all our transportation needs during our trip, so we didn't use the free Bern Ticket travel pass https://www.bern.com/en/detail/bern-ticket-free-on-public-transport offered by the hotel. - Our room faced south toward the Bern Brünnen Westside train station and subsequent farmland, and I sleep with earplugs always, so we had no problem with noise. I've read reviews from others complaining about street noise in rooms on the north (A1 highway) side. Our only complaint, and it's a minor one, is that the electricity for the room turns off each time you leave the room (yay for being green and conserving energy). This makes difficult the charging of your electronic devices or reserve batteries while you're out (which you may need to do in preparation for your next day of travel). We probably could have inquired with the front desk about a solution for this (perhaps there's a dedicated outlet that doesn't shut off?), but it wasn't a big enough deal for us to complain. The hotel is situated near an agricultural area and we sometimes noticed the odor of fertilizer when we were outdoors, but there was nothing noticable inside our room. I'm known for having a bit of a hounddog's olfactory system, so your experience may vary. If you are unfamiliar with how to use a Nespresso machine with discs (as I was before staying in this hotel), here's a helpful reference: https://www.nespresso.com/pro/uk/en/pages/zenius-new#assistance (click on "Directions of Use") Interesting history of the Westside development and its design, plus maps & more info, at the following links: https://www.archdaily.com/101991/westside-bruennen-daniel-libeskind http://www.westside.ch/en-GB/home.aspx

What I thought was going to be a way to get a decent hotel and save like $15 turned into a complete…read morerip-off. There is no quality to this hostel, or "budget" hotel. It's a money grab at the patron's expense. The Ibis Budget is in the Ibis Hotel itself. There is a separate entrance. There is a separate breakfast bar. The entrance is clean and the staff is friendly. Right when we entered the room, things got wonky. The bunk bed we didn't request really stood out, but that was OK because at Ibis budget, you're getting ONE pillow per guest, and the extra bed provided the additional pillow. We cracked the window because it was warm in the room, and as far as we could tell there wasn't a thermometer to control the temperature. Not a joke. It's window regulated. We could see where maybe someone had left the window open and the water had gotten in and warped the wood and wall from where the water ran down to the floor. NOPE! It was a leak. It rained while we were there and we had to sleep in the warm room because we couldn't find a thermometer and we closed the window, but water got in and ran down the wall. There were literally two outlets. One was under the TV on the other side of the room, and one was by the sink. Neither was anywhere near the bed. Neither had USB ports. There was nothing by the beds. It was insane. Going to the bathroom. First, the door. It's not so much a door as it is particle board shaped like a sheet of plywood and hinged to the wall. Really! No doorknob. Just a latch on the outside to grab and pull the door open. Nothing on the inside. Not even a lock. No light switch, no vent, just a commode. The shower and sink are on the outside. The light is motion sensor activated. If you're in there and you bring your phone to pass the time, the light is going to cut out on you. And as an extra treat, if you get up in the middle of the night, you don't have the option of courtesy because that light's coming on. And with a four inch gap at the top and bottom of your plywood door, that light is gonna let everyone know your business. And it stays on for three to four minutes after you leave the bathroom. The shower has to be some seriously old plumbing. When someone in front of you uses the hot water, yours stays cold until they're done. When it turns hot... I'm sure you get it. They only give you the general body wash/shampoo. It had two pumps worth of soap left in it. We tried to get it replaced, but to no avail. Fortunately there was some by the sink. We used that. My girlfriend needed a hairdryer. We had to get one from the front desk and leave a 20 CHF deposit. I've never heard of anything like this. We can afford nice hotels, but choose to stay in the moderately priced ones. This budget hotel needed to be 80CHF for the quality, not just a few bucks cheaper than the regular hotel! It would only be fair and let the searcher know what they were looking at as far as where they were going to be for a few days. Someone was getting a really good laugh while they designed this place. But it was clean.

Super helpful staff Anoura was the best!!! And the hotel was perfect for our stay. Clean and…read moreaffordable :) also Mikaela was great too

Friendly staff allowed me to check in early at 11a, and as a guest of my friend who was still at…read morework. That alone deserved 5 stars! Room is clean and spacious but more important that it's well-ventilated with cool air in this unusually hot weather in Switzerland in late September! No skiing during this visit... Hotel is a couple minutes from the train station, which I took from Zurich as my hubby flew back solo to the U.S. I decided to stay over the weekend to meet up with a friend in Bern and she and I will meet up with my college friend tomorrow... Bed was a king but could be separated into two twins which we need and got. bathroom was clean and has nice aesthetics! Room has a small beverage fridge, coffee pot, and hotel sleepers, yay! Great option while in Bern! Lots of restaurants and shops surrounding the area as well made this hotel the most convenient, and welcoming staff was bonus! 4.5 rounding to 5 for great customer service and special accommodations!!!

This hotel was so centrally located--we couldn't have picked a better spot for our 1.5 days in…read moreBern. The friendly staff helped in so many ways--they gave us a great tourist map, stowed away our luggage after check out so that we could see the city unhindered. Gave us advice on tourist spots to go to. Best of all--the hotel is literally 1.5 blocks from the train station. You literally walk down a pedestrian only street and take an escalator down one floor to the indoor train station (Bern's mall-like gathering spot with restaurants and stores). What could be more convenient than that? Truly an awesome place to stay!

First to review?!?... Okay, I can get after this.... If you search on Trip Advisor you'll find…read moresome reviews from Americans... That's how we found this joint. Although by pure swank, and amenities this was not the finest hotel we stayed at during our brief tenure in some beautiful places (The Ritz in Geneva was super swank, but I had 100,000+ Marriott points I needed to use up, so I puts them to great use: https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-ritz-carlton-hotel-de-la-paix-geneva-gen%C3%A8ve?hrid=N2g-n_SVQE2gSa2coNsjMA&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct) When looking back this was probably my favorite hotel we stayed at. The elevators here are amazing. Stay here for the elevators alone. When riding the elevators you don't feel a thing. It's like sitting in your chair reading this review, super smooth and crisp, and the next thing you know you're on the 4th floor. The elevators in America are terrible. Hurkin' and jerkin' around, you nearly get whiplash and hurt yourself. The elevators in Germany and Switzerland are the best in the world. Smooth, and fresh, and clean. A young lady's voice recording in a very soothing voice speaks to you announcing the arrival of the next floor (in German), then the doors open. The whole time you don't feel a thing that's how smooth the ride is. Aside from the elevators, they have an awesome bar / restaurant / bar, bar in the lobby. I went to the bar a few times. Once when checking in, once when my girlfriend was in the shower, once after dinner for post dinner nightcap. The restaurant for breakfast? Oh yeah, also awesome. You can get a full English breakfast (which I did)... eggs, tomato, meat, coffee... Or you can get local... pastry tea, coffee, etc... The locale of this hotel is also Prime-Time. Bern is a super walkable city. You can walk to everything. Train station, bars, shopping, restaurants, sights, rivers, bridges. The room itself was also really good. Comfortable bed, the towels were really soft. Hotel staff super nice. They gave great recommendations on where to go eat, etc. If I came back to Bern, and would love to, I would stay here. You should stay here too.

My favorite part of the hotel was the lounge area and the bar. Room was clean and simple. Bed was…read morecomfy. Careful leaving your window open- pigeons may attempt to fly in. Staff were helpful with taxis, directions, and other suggestions. Did hear noises from other guests in the evening like the doors closing. Close to food and shopping.