HI - St. Moritz - Bad Hostel in St. Moritz … The guide book did warn that St Moritz Bad is where you'll be staying if you've yet to make your first million. Sure enough this is where the youth hostel is, St Moritz Dorf is where the action is, along with the expensive hotels, expensive bars, expensive shops and expensive just about everything. There is a regular bus from the station and St Moritz Dorf (get off at the Hotel Sonne and its 5min walk), though it stops running around 9pm. You're not totally out on a limb here, there are a few bars and restaurants within walking distance.
The hostel reception sells some basic provisions. Travellers arriving outside the busy periods are advised to check reception hours.
This is a modern hostel with 2 2 bed en-suite rooms, 20 2 bed rooms with basins and 37 4 bed rooms with basins. The rooms are spacious and include luggage lockers.
The hostel also has various games, TV and video, internet, laundry facilities and a ski and waxing room.
Breakfast is available as well as lunch or…
Chasa Plaz Hostel in Sta. Maria im Muenstertal … Run by a very nice owner/innkeeper who lives around the corner from the hostel and also lets a few B&B rooms in her house. Hostel is in a very old building with a great atmosphere. It has a good kitchen facility that costs a few francs extra. Groceries nearby. Cool old wood paneled dining room with lots of character. Clean sheets included in rate. Not much we could see to do in town it was very quiet, but a good stop on the way between Switzerland and Bolzano. (Note if you are travelling to nearby Malles, Italy, to catch the train into Merano there is no cash machine at the new train station (as of 7/2005) to buy euros, and they don't take Swiss francs! You'll have to walk up into town to find one, so buy them before you arrive.)
Jugendherberge Arosa Hostel in Arosa … This is the worst youth hostel I have stayed in, ever. It hardly has any windows. My dormitory had one narrow, high level window, which opened to a corridor. The dining room also has more of those intriguing high-level windows (too high to be opened or closed or to look through them). The ski storage room is in the basement and it doesn't have any windows, so imagine the smell with a lot of sweaty ski and snowboard boots left in there. The showers are coin-operated, which is as inconvenient as you can imagine and then some. The shower room hardly has anything to hang one's clothes or a towel from, and, you guessed it, it doesn't have windows, so there is a serious buildup of steam as soon as several people use the showers.
The worst of all, however, is the food. I deeply regret having ordered dinner, which they serve all at once in big communal trays. Very sociable it may be, but it means you MUST be punctual for dinner or else your food will be cold, look highly unappetizing or…
Jugendherberge Pontresina Hostel in Pontresina … Jugendherberge Pontresina is an HI Hostel which offers the usual minimum HI standards. Since it's located in Switzerland, you can imagine the top quality of its services. Reception personnel are very nice and they speak several languages. They are also always available and at your disposal to…
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