Training camps for sport groups in ECHTERNACH

The sports hall will be available again from 15.07.2023. For bookings, please contact the youth hostel.

Training camp at the sports youth hostel Echternach

Keen to boost your team’s spirit?
Need to prepare for a competition?
Or do you simply want to spend a couple of sporting days?

Whether you organise a training camp or you need a preparation for a competition, a good team spirit is necessary for every success. For what can even the best individual talents achieve if they do not play successfully together as a team? Furthermore, new cooperative partnerships and shared perspectives can emerge. The sports youth hostel in Echternach provides a professional, motivating and advantageous training environment, whilst affording you opportunities to discover natural and cultural highlights as well. It is situated directly at the border of the lake of Echternach and has a fully equipped sports hall as well as an indoor climbing wall with a height of 14m. Just near the youth hostel you will find 2 beach volleyball fields, a trampoline and bungy trampoline parc and a high ropes course. The sports and conference rooms are free of charge for all groups which book half or full board.

Sports criteria

• sport possibilities in the youth hostel or the immediate vicinity
• sport-related facilities, meeting rooms and material storage rooms
• single or twin rooms upon request for trainers and leaders
• booking service for sport facilities
• towel service
• recreational opportunities as well as sports and teambuilding programmes for groups
• consideration of catering requests:  healthy sports nutrition, flexible meal times, regional products
• group menus, buffets, barbecues, coffee breaks
• renting of sports material
• Luggage transport

Accommodation and facilities

The youth hostel boasts a dining room for 100 people, a cafeteria with terrace, two conference rooms with view onto the lake for 50 people, two meeting rooms for 12 people and two lounges. It is situated right by Echternach Lake and has an equipped sports complex as well as a 14 m high indoor climbing wall.  118 beds are available in rooms from 2 to 6 beds, each of which has its own sanitary facilities. The sport and conference rooms are made available to you free of charge when you stay overnight with half or full board.

Place and location

Situated by Echternach Lake, the youth hostel is just 15 minutes from the town centre on foot.  A bicycle garage, and bus and car parking places are available on the hostel grounds.

Sport possibilities

The youth hostel is a genuine sport, activity and recreation centre.  It is situated in the middle of the recreation centre with an artificial lake.  The following sports can be enjoyed in the youth hostel and the vicinity:

• Table tennis
• Volleyball
• Beach volleyball
• Basketball
• Handball
• Indoor football
• Badminton
• Martial arts
• Racing bike
• Mountain bike​

Other recreational opportunities

St. Willibrordus Basilica and Abbey Museum, pedestrian zone with numerous outdoor cafés, pubs and shops, a trampoline park and high rope garden on the “Adventure Island,” numerous walking and cycling paths, geocache, miniature golf, cinema, children’s playground, etc.