Booking frenzy for ESAF 2025: Glarus already has Schwing fever

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It will be almost 19 months before the Federal Wrestling and Alpine Festival begins. From August 29, 2025, Glarus will be in an absolute state of emergency for three days. 400,000 visitors are expected for the event, ten times more than the population of the canton of Glarus. The small canton’s infrastructure will be stretched to its limits. This also applies to the hotel industry.

Book with happiness

If you want to stay overnight on site during ESAF 2025, it is better to arrange this sooner rather than later. Even if tickets for the big party aren’t available yet, there are plenty of wrestling fans who are already securing their seats – regardless of whether they have a ticket in August 2025 or not.

The offers for the last weekend of August 2025 have already been thinned out on the common booking portals, although offers from private individuals are constantly being added, which are not exactly budget-friendly. But there are alternatives. Parking spaces for campers or campers. There are also civil defense facilities or gymnasiums equipped with mattresses. And there is a lot of demand for these overnight accommodation options.

Hurry to campsites

A total of 21,000 sleeping places can be booked via the portal on the ESAF homepage. The rush to these places was enormous. In the first weeks, bookings were received for 3,500 beds, confirms Fridolin Hösli, director of Tourismus Glarnerland. Camper pitches with electricity are already fully booked.

Hösli was not surprised by this haste. “We examined the booking behavior via the online platform at ESAF 2022 Pratteln in advance and were able to properly estimate what we could expect.” The crowds have now decreased, but accommodation is still booked every day. ESAF fever has arrived in Glarnerland.

Source : Blick