Switzerland Guide
Solothurn
Accommodation
1 
Baseltor Hauptgasse 79 
032 622 34 22 
www.baseltor.ch Popular and friendly brasserie with just six ensuite rooms, all appealingly simple and fresh, and so generally snapped up well in advance. Worth booking for. Price: Fr.150-200
2 Kreuz Kreuzgasse 4 032 622 20 20 www.kreuzkultur.ch Rough-and-ready cooperative, offering shared-bath rooms – spartan and wood-floor creaky (newer rooms are upstairs) – plus discounts for stays beyond one night and free kitchen use. Price: Up to Fr.100
3 Krone Hauptgasse 64 032 626 44 44 www.hotelkrone-solothurn.ch Top choice in town, its Baroque decor preluding solidly comfortable traditional rooms in either Biedermeier or Louis XV style, with stout, tasteful furnishings and rooms at the back looking over the cathedral steps. Price: Fr.200–300
4 Zunfthaus zu Wirthen Hauptgasse 41 032 626 28 48 www.wirthen.ch An all-wood guildhouse with plasticky but spacious rooms, some ensuite, some not. Price: Fr.100-150
5 Jugendherberge (HI hostel) Landhausquai 23 032 623 17 06 www.youthhostel.ch One of the country's best hostels, modern steel-and-glass decor insinuated into a seventeenth-century building on the Old Town riverbank just west of the Kreuzackerbrücke. There's a wide choice of dorms (from Fr.29) and rooms with and without river views, and as well as all the usual services, including bike rental, they'll put together an inexpensive packed lunch for you. Opening time: March– NovPrice: Under Fr.100