Choosing
Choosing a Day Trip from Basel: Alps, Lucerne or Alsace
Mountains, lakes or French villages; train or van; how long the day runs, which fares carry a ticket, the passport days, group sizes and the season.
Basel Travel Guides
These are the long reads for the choices you make before you book one of the Basel Switzerland guided tours. Which day trip suits you? How does one day in the city run? Can you see it without a tour? What does each fare cost, and carry? And what is on at Christmas?
Start with choosing a day trip if you want to leave the city, and with one day in Basel if you do not. The blog answers single questions in fewer words.
Itinerary
One Day in Basel: The Old Town, the Rhine and a Museum
Where to start, a guided walk or your own, the free museum hour, crossing on a ferry, the river, the terrace at dusk, and a rainy-day and cruise-ship version.
On your own
Basel Without a Tour: Trams, Ferries and the Old Town
What the guest card covers, how the ferries work, the free museum hours, a self-guided loop, day trips by train, the rail pass, and when a guide pays.
Prices
Basel Tour Prices and What Each Fare Includes
What every fare costs and carries, from the Rhine cruise to the Jungfrau day: the ticket inside the fare, per person or per group, children and refunds.
Christmas
Basel at Christmas: Markets, Day Trips and Winter Tours
The market on Barfüsserplatz, the Christmas ferry, a chocolate walk in the cold, Colmar by train, three markets in a day, and what December weather does.
The sights are on things to do in the city, the trams and the tourist office on the visitor guide, and every tour on Basel Switzerland Tours.