Trips & Tours
Basel Tours
Basel Tourism offers a number of tours of Basel. These tours are usually scheduled daily and IFTA congress participants may reserve the tours and pay for them through Basel Tourism’s office.
There is a calendar for each tour. When you click on the link for a specific guided tour, you will see a calendar function when you scroll down. You can then select your requested date. After the description of each tour the time of it is noted. Here are the tours of the city:
Stories of Basel’s old townGuided tour through Basel’s old town. This traditional tour offers visitors and locals alike a close-up view of Basel. We will guide you through narrow alleyways and secluded squares, past impressive buildings and lively and vivid cityscapes, experiencing what has shaped the city and given it its unique character.
Here is the link which includes a description, conditions, pictures and booking link: https://www.basel.com/en/Media/Offers/Stories-of-Basel-s-Old-Town
Discovery trip in a vintage tram
Guided tour through Basel in a vintage tram.
Here is the link including description, conditions, pictures and booking link: https://www.basel.com/en/Media/Offers/Discovery-trip-in-a-vintage-tram
Basel City Tour Bus
BaselCityTour offers informative and entertaining bus tours around the city centre. The two-and-a-half-hour tour takes you past Spalentor, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum Tinguely, the Roche Tower, Messe Basel (exhibition square) and the Dreiländereck (Tri-border Point).
Here is the link including description, conditions, pictures and booking link: https://www.basel.com/en/Media/Offers/BaselCityTour-the-sightseeing-bus-in-Basel
Guided tour of the town hall
During our tour of the impressive rooms of parliament and the cantonal government, we will give you more information about the canton's political history and the current situation. Here is the link including description, conditions, pictures and booking link: https://www.basel.com/en/Media/Offers/Guided-tour-of-the-Town-Hall
Guided Day Trips from Zurich to the Alps
If you wish to discover the Swiss mountains on a day trip out of Zurich, here are a variety of tours to many different sites.
These tours start close to the main train station in Zurich. There are regular direct train connections from Basel to Zurich and it only takes one hour to get from one city to the other.
