Basel City Guide - Getting Around

Like most Swiss cities Basel has an excellent public transport network that operates frequent and reliable services throughout the urban and suburban areas. Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB) (tel: (061) 685 1414; website: www.bvb.ch) operates the city's many trams and buses. There are 10 tramlines and many more bus lines, and both buses and trams run every 6-7 minutes during the day and every 15 minutes late in the evening. Day cards and three-day tickets are available. As a supplement to the public transport network there are four ferries crossing the Rhine between the city's bridges. They are operated by the Basel Ferry Association (tel: (061) 692 7173; website: www.faehri.ch), and they travel across the river without a motor, propelled only by the force of the current.

There are several taxi companies in Basel, and it is never hard to get hold of a taxi. Companies include Taxi Zentrale AG (tel: (061) 222 2222), 33er taxi AG (tel: (061) 333 3333) and Taxiphon-Genossenschaft Basel (tel: (061) 444 4444).

Car rental is offered by Avis (tel: (061) 325 2840; website: www.avis.ch), Europcar (tel: (061) 325 2903/4; website: www.europcar.ch), Hertz (tel: (061) 325 2780; website: www.hertz.ch), National-Alamo (tel: (061) 325 1743; website: www.nationalcar.com or www.alamo.com) and Sixt (tel: (061) 325 1540/1; website: www.sixt.ch).

Bicycles can be hired from Rent A Bike (tel: (051) 229 2345; website: www.rentabike.ch) at the SSB railway station.