Hotel D - Basel

Excellent service. Great location. Friendly staff. Clean and comfortable. Not fancy but easy and enjoyable. ||We stayed for three nights and enjoyed Basel. The architecture was interesting but the people watching was our biggest joy. The hotel is ideally located to enjoy the city. The front desk staff could not have been more gracious.||I highly recommend Hotel D.

Perfect hotel in central location. Reception staff very attentive. Room was spotless. Room 606 was the junior room and had a balcony with nice views of the street below and the Rhine. Breakfast was included and very nice selection of cereals, fruits and cooked breakfast.

The Hotel was great , comfortable, quiet & friendly. The location was perfect for our Viking cruise! We stay in Basel for 3 days. We took the tram, bus and walked all over Basel. The restaurants and cafes, and the farmers' market were just a few blocks away where we had our coffee and croissant every morning. You can easily walk to the Viking port from the hotel in 10 mins. We highly recommend Hotel D!

Excellent stay, large and clean rooms, very close to the city center, and they provided me a free Basel pass for 3 days. The room was already available at 12.15 hrs. Tram and bus stop is at the front of the hotel entrance, with very frequent stops. The breakfast room is quite small but very enjoyable.

Excellent hotel. The room was well appointed and spacious. The bed was comfortable although the duvet was too hot even with the window open and it was wasn’t that hot outside. Very quiet, so quiet that we wondered if there was anybody else in the hotel. Even the traffic noise was minimal. The staff were friendly and helpful. We didn’t take the breakfast because it seemed overpriced at CHF 26. There are plenty of cafes close by that have excellent coffee and pastries for a good continental breakfast.

Very nice hotel with a great location to the Old Town area of Basel and the dock area, as we were going on a river boat cruise up the Rhine River. You walk out the the hotel and you are right in the Old Town of Basel, that is how convenient this Hotel is. The rooms were very clean and spacious. The breakfast in the hotel was very good and the staff was helpful in informing us about places to go. There are also some very good restaurants close by the hotel.|If you are planning to go a river boat cruise, I would highly recommend stay at Hotel D.

The hotel is in an excellent position, very close to the beautiful river Rhine and approximately 5 mins to the old town. Lots of restaurants close by.||Our room was on the 5th floor, spacious and bright with two double windows. Tea/coffee, kettle, fridge and safety deposit box. Comfy large bed, A/C not the best, the room didn’t cool down to a satisfactory level. Very quiet considering the location. Excellent shower and soft bath towels, lighting in the bathroom could be improved as it was quite dark.||Good quality buffet style breakfast with a varied selection of hot and cold food served in the bright lobby area.||No bar or outside seating.||Staff were professional, the whole hotel was spotless.

Our executive room was awesome! Nice view, very spacious and well appointed. The location is perfect. Walking distance to everything we wanted to see in Basel. Loved the breakfast too! Our friends were in a smaller room without a view and they were disappointed.

One might want to mute the sound on the computer before opening the hotel link, or be faced with some hideous musak. That aside it is truly a non-cheesy experience staying at the Hotel D. HD calls itself a 'design hotel', and that would seem to be accurate. The lounge adjacent to check-in is all clean lines and tasteful yet cheerful colors. I enjoyed an espresso while leafing through a copy of Gala after a long afternoon of hoofing around town. (Did you know that Seal has moved on from Heidi and that Prince Albert of Monaco is being upstaged in the 'class' department by his nephew? It's all there in Gala!) I absolutely loved the standard-sized room we stayed in facing the back of the hotel (read: no street noise). The room was 'klein aber fein'. The bed was firm, the shower was like a water fall pouring from the ceiling, and all was tastefully decorated. The hubs felt like he was wasting water using the shower, and took the shortest showers possible out of guilt. The TV had, as one could imagine, German, Swiss, French, and Italian channels. The BBC was also available, and I think we were able to catch a re-run of Graham Norton. The gym, tidy yet small, has one stationary bike, one stair machine, and one treadmill. I went early enough in the morning to do a little sweating, so I didn't not have any competition for the machine I wanted to use. We skipped breakfast (not included), and braved the streets for our fare. I'll share a pretty rockin' brunch spot we found out toward the German border in a soon-to-be-written post. On both check-in and check-out we dealt with the same young woman who was friendly yet professional. I forgot to mention that Hotel D is located approx. one street over from the Rhein, and, on a sunny day, that's right where one wants to be!

This is one of the nicest small hotel in Basel. Yes, if you want to have a grand hotel with grand entrance and grand pool etc to impress your in-laws, this hotel is not for you. But, for business traveller or family, this hotel is very nice. Service is great. They always smile. The room is not big but elegant and modern. The shower .... ahhh the best.

I had a wonderful stay at Hotel D. I came there for business and since the hotel is very well located in town, it was very easy for me to move around. The staff was very welcoming and helpful, they advised me on how to get to places and where to eat in town. The rooms were perfect, very clean, brand new, with a large comfortable bed. The bathroom had an italian shower and I was especially happy to find organic beauty products for the shower. They even had a charity box at the reception for an organization called Pro Natura. I'm very attentive to details like that because I work for an NGO and I like going to places which 'cares'. Overall it was a memorable stay, next time I am in Basel I will make sure to come back. This is my second stay already.

Cute little very clean boutique hotel in a great location. Everybody is friendly and helpful. The only issue I had was when I went to bed there was a long hair in the sheets. Not mine. I told manager when I checked out and showed her a photo which she asked to have it emailed to her. I thought maybe because of that they might not charge me for the Pringles I ate in the middle of the night. No such luck. The breakfast was very nice.

Very nice small hotel in Basel. Only stayed here one night but enjoyed the very clean, but small, modern room. Close to the river and shopping areas. I would gladly stay here again on our return. Very helpful front desk staff as well.

We booked a 3 night stay with friends prior to catching a Rhine cruise and were very pleased with Hotel D American travelers tend to have different expectations so understand this is Europe modern boutique hotel in every sense of the word. Rooms are typically smallish; we were glad we had upgraded to a junior suite. Again, not a 'suite' in the American sense but larger, and Room 605 was on the top floor with a lovely partial view of the river and a sweeping view of city surrounds, really awesome. Furnishing is upscale 'IKEA-ish, and designed with Swiss efficiency and practicality. The bed was amazing, so appreciated after 12 hours of travel from California. The bath was spacious and beautifully appointed. Bonus points for heated towel rack, rain shower, and L'Occitane Bath products (no hair conditioner, no face cloths). Conditioner was no biggie, I travel with my own, but face cloths were sorely missed. A couple of ticks off for no in room coffee making (room service is not a feature here), but there is a mini bar featuring wine and spirits, and Pringles (go figure!) for snacks. Tap water is crystal clear, but small drinking glasses necessitated a trip to Co-Op (a very cool market/deli a short walk) for 6 packs of water for room and day tripping. Let me emphasize that the location is directly across the street from the Rhine, unparalleled for walking to the Marketplatz, museums, and all places of interest. The bus and trolley system is modern and extensive - not user friendly unless you're Swiss - no English translations - but we figured it out eventually and the city is so beautiful getting lost is not a waste of time. Final comment on hotel front staff - so sweet and friendly and helpful, they made our stay even more pleasurable. Continental breakfast is available for 24chf, but there seems to be bakery cafes on every block, each more yummy than the last for breakfast selections and espresso and smoothies, so venture out. PS: bring comfortable sturdy shoes because you will walk your butt off in Basel

The staff was very accommodating and they did everything they could to make my 10 day stay go well. The hotel is clean, in great shape and very modern. The location was great and located close to the Rhein River. The workout facility had one of everything you need. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because I am from the U.S. and I am used to more accommodations such as room service and in room movies. I would definitely stay there again on my next trip to Basel.

I booked Hotel D because it is a convenient location for the meetings I have set up in Basel. I usually stay in the Ramada. Hotel D is a small, boutique style hotel. The kind I would normally not think about for business. In fact, the hotel is delightful and in the heart of the city. My room is spacious by European standards, well equipped, and has a view from the window of a nice higgle-dee-piggle-dee side road. There's no restaurant at the hotel but an excellent restaurant across the road with fine food and a lovely view over the river. There is also a variety of restaurant in walking distance. The hotel staff are casual, professional, and friendly. I arrived a little late, but the check in was quick & easy, and I got excellent advice for dinner. I came down late for breakfast, but they accommodated me cheerfully. I made my booking the same day and took a discounted “special”. The discounted price was low for European cities.