Switzerland Guide
Luzern
Nightlife
1 Penthouse Pilatusstrasse 29 Rooftop bar with big views and bigger sofas.
2 Boa Geissensteinring 41 
www.boaluzern.ch Arts and culture centre with a range of interesting events and music nights. Opening time: Mid-Aug to June
3 Jazz Kantine Grabenstrasse 8 www.jsl.ch/kantine Happening Old Town café-bar beside Luzern's jazz school, with DJs and live music (not only jazz) in the basement on weekends.
4 
Rathaus Brauerei Unter der Egg www.rathausbrauerei.ch Wonderful echoing cross-vaulted beerhall below the Rathaus, where young enthusiastic drinkers come to sample a range of powerful, self-brewed beers.
5 Schüür Tribschenstrasse 1 www.schuur.ch Daytime bar with cheap weekday lunches which after dark becomes a frenetic venue for excellent live music (Fri & Sat until 4am).
6 Sedel Near the HI hostel www.sedel.ch A former women's prison outside the city, which now hosts noisy punkish/industrial bands and DJ nights at the weekend, with a kind of community-squat atmosphere during the week as bands practise in the graffitied cells.
7 St Magdalena Eisengasse 5 www.magdalena.ch Universally known as the Magdi-Bar, with a crowded ground-floor bar and a more sociable upstairs, although everything gets more and more raucous as the night veers wildly on.
8 Wärchhof Werkhofstrasse 11 www.waerchhof.ch Tiny co-op-run dive in an industrial area south of the station, with loud bands, DJs and alternative-style happenings for a college-age crowd.