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Nightlife of Interlaken

The Merchants in Interlaken know the key to maintain the razzle-dazzle of the city for coming back of visitor. The Interlaken boasts the highest per-capita night rates among the Switzerland’s cities. The town's business is so transient -- composed mostly of short-term visitors on their way to somewhere else -- the clientele of any particular bar or club is likely to change virtually every week. You'll usually find a drinking buddy in the folksy, amiably kitschy Victoria Bar in the town's stateliest hotel, the Victoria-Jungfrau, Höheweg 41. The Sternen Bar, set amid a cluster of shops on the all-pedestrian precinct of Jungfraustrasse, is the closest thing to a big-city wine bar in Interlaken, complete with the requisite platters of food and an alpine version of daytime soap-opera intrigue. Access to virtually every disco in Interlaken costs 7F ($4.55) on Friday and Saturday nights, and is free every other night. Things begin happening a bit earlier than you might expect -- many are rocking by 11pm. Despite its allegiance to the music coming out of London and Los Angeles, Interlaken also places a lot of emphasis on folklore and alpine schmaltz. The Casino/Kursaal, Höheweg at Strandbadstrasse (tel. 033/827-61-00), is the venue for the dinner-and-entertainment Swiss Folklore Show, a somewhat self-conscious duplication of the quirks and yodels that made alpine Switzerland so unique. Interlaken's most intense doses of folk schmaltz take the form of the Tellfreilichtspiele, a secular version of a Teutonic morality play that's presented in an open-air amphitheater in Interlaken's suburb of Matten, a village en route to Grindelwald reached after a brisk 15-minute walk from Interlaken's center.

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