Basel Youth Hostel Reviews

I booked an overnight stay in a single room with a washbasin - the price is currently 95 CHF + 4 tourist tax. I didn't stay in a hotel because I wanted to save money and Switzerland is much more expensive than Germany. The advantage of the youth hostel: the booking includes a Basel Card, which allows you to use all public transport for free. You also only pay 50% of the entrance fee to museums, etc. Another advantage: the location of the youth hostel is very central, but still quiet (only in terms of city life), in the old town very close to the Rhine. You can walk to the center. The area is idyllic. I had a room with windows on the opposite side of the Rhine, where it cooled down pleasantly at night despite it being a hot summer day. Another advantage: the breakfast is quite good, it is available from 6:00 a.m., and the coffee/cappuccino from the machine is of high quality. However, you have to pay CHF 4.00 for a cappuccino outside of breakfast times. A room without a shower/toilet with a washbasin is no problem because there are enough toilets and individual showers on the floor. And a good shower towel could be borrowed for CHF 3. The staff at the youth hostel were very friendly. Most of the other guests were not; my greeting in the hallway was often not returned. Now for the disadvantages, which outweighed the advantages for my needs: Firstly, the relative thin walls. Relative, because the building structure seems normal in this respect, but the behavior of other guests is inconsiderate. At the time I was staying there, there were many families with small children present, some of whom let their children scream uncontrollably (without there being any pain or argument) - the children scream partly because they enjoy screaming in the rooms, but also because the concrete corridors echo so nicely, and probably because the parents thought that everyone could let themselves go in a youth hostel. I didn't say anything to these families because I know from experience that it doesn't help and because I only stayed one night. But I did mention it to the staff, but nothing happened (it's probably pointless for them too). I visited Basel myself to see a lot of art, and I'm the kind of person who needs a guest room as a place to retreat to during the day before heading out again. The impressions of this interesting city are overwhelming. This youth hostel is not suitable for that. I could only sleep with earplugs, and even then it was restless. Unfortunately, you can't move into the room until 3 p.m. - after the long journey on a hot day, I would have liked to have been able to rest and freshen up a little earlier (but it would probably have been too loud to rest anyway). There are no hooks or anything similar in the room to hang up towels or clothes. The toilets are also