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8.5

4,016 reviews

Essential by Dorint Basel City

Essential by Dorint Basel City

Schönaustraße 10, Basel, 4058, Switzerland

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Restaurant

Business center

Free wifi

Room service

Fitness center

Air conditioning

Bar

Sun deck

Essential by Dorint Basel City

Welcome to the vibrant city of Basel, Switzerland, where the Essential by Dorint Basel City Hotel awaits your arrival. This stylish 4-star hotel is located just 1.4mi from the city center, offering a convenient and lively location for your stay. With over 4000 reviews, this hotel is a traveler's favorite, providing excellent service and comfort at a starting price of $149.

Upon arrival, you'll be greeted by a 24-hour front desk and a friendly staff ready to cater to your needs. The hotel offers a range of amenities to enhance your stay, including a fitness center, a restaurant, and a bar for those relaxing evenings. The soundproof rooms ensure a peaceful night's sleep, and the free Wi-Fi allows you to stay connected throughout your stay. In the morning, start your day with a delicious breakfast provided by the hotel.

Whether you're visiting for business or pleasure, the Essential by Dorint Basel City Hotel has everything you need for a memorable stay. Explore the city's rich culture and stunning architecture, or simply relax on the hotel's sun deck and terrace. With its convenient location, excellent amenities, and rave reviews, this hotel is the perfect choice for your stay in Basel.

Hungry after a long day of exploring? Look no further than Côté Jardin, the on-site restaurant at Essential by Dorint Basel City Hotel. This restaurant offers a delightful culinary experience, serving a variety of local and international cuisines. Indulge in delicious dishes prepared with fresh, locally sourced ingredients, perfectly complemented by a selection of fine wines. Whether you're a food enthusiast or simply looking for a satisfying meal, Côté Jardin is sure to impress with its delectable menu and cozy ambiance.

When it comes to payment options, you'll be pleased to know that the hotel accepts cash as well as major credit cards. So whether you prefer to pay with Visa, American Express, Mastercard, or Maestro, you have the flexibility to choose your preferred method of payment. This convenience ensures a hassle-free experience during your stay, allowing you to focus on enjoying all that Basel has to offer.

Now, let's explore the variety of room types available at Essential by Dorint Basel City Hotel. From the cozy Essential Single Room, perfect for solo travelers, to the spacious Apartment, ideal for families or groups of friends, there's a room to suit every need. Each room is thoughtfully designed to provide maximum comfort and includes amenities such as free Wi-Fi, soundproofing, and comfortable beds. So whether you're traveling alone, with a partner, or with family, you can rest assured knowing that your accommodation needs will be met at this charming hotel in Basel.

With its pet-friendly policy, on-site restaurant, convenient payment options, and a range of room types to choose from, Essential by Dorint Basel City Hotel truly has everything you need for a memorable stay in Basel. So why wait? Book your stay now and experience the perfect blend of comfort and convenience in this vibrant Swiss city.

Closest airports

EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg

3.6mi

Bern Airport

45.4mi

Zurich Airport

45.6mi

Most popular amenities

Restaurant

Business center

Free wifi

Room service

Fitness center

Air conditioning

Bar

Sun deck

Private entrance

Terrace

Soundproof rooms

24-hour front desk

Non-smoking rooms

Wheelchair accessible

Kitchenware

Kitchenette

Garden view

Elevator

Garden

Bathtub

Upper floors accessible by elevator

Free toiletries

Soundproof

Rooms

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Queen/Double Room

1 Queen Size Bed

195 sqft

Flat-screen TV

Tea/Coffee maker

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Stay in our Essential Double Room, a spacious, smoke-free haven boasting a city view and featuring a private bathroom, flat-screen TV, air conditioning, and a cozy sitting area. With a queen size bed and a double bed, it comfortably accommodates 2 adults and 1 child.

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Superior, Queen/Double

1 Queen Size Bed

195 sqft

Minibar

Flat-screen TV

Tea/Coffee maker

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Step into our Superior Double Room, a spacious and inviting haven for couples and small families. With a queen and double bed, a private bathroom, minibar, and flat-screen TV, you'll have everything you need to relax and unwind while enjoying a delightful garden view.

Essential Single Room in Essential by Dorint Basel City

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Twin Room, Single Use

1 Twin Bed

150 sqft

Garden view

Private Bathroom

Private entrance

Coffee machine

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Experience comfort and tranquility in our Essential Single Room, featuring a delightful garden view, private entrance, and a cozy twin bed. Enjoy modern amenities such as air conditioning, a flat-screen TV, and free toiletries, ensuring a relaxed stay.

Essential Triple Room in Essential by Dorint Basel City

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Triple Room

1 Twin Bed

1 Queen Size Bed

195 sqft

City view

Private Bathroom

Private entrance

Flat-screen TV

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Experience the perfect blend of comfort and convenience in our Essential Triple Room. This spacious room offers a stunning city view, private entrance, and top-notch amenities such as a flat-screen TV, air conditioning, and tea/coffee maker. Additionally, enjoy the privacy and tranquility with soundproof features, ensuring a peaceful stay.

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Comfort, Double/2 Single

1 Double Bed

Flat-screen TV

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Comfort includes either a double bed 131-150 width or 2 single beds 80-130 width plus cable tv and safe.

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Double, Double/2 Single

1 Double Bed

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Standard includes either a double bed 131-150 width or 2 single beds 80-130 width.

Superior Double Room in Essential by Dorint Basel City

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Superior

1 Queen Size Bed

1 Double Bed

195 sqft

Garden view

Private Bathroom

Private entrance

Minibar

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Superior

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Room - 1 Bed

150 sqft

Flat-screen TV

Tea/Coffee maker

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Providing free toiletries, this single room includes a private bathroom with a walk-in shower, a hairdryer and slippers. The air-conditioned single room provides a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, a private entrance, soundproof walls, a tea and coffee maker as well as garden views. The unit offers 1 bed.

Essential Double Room in Essential by Dorint Basel City

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Double Room

1 Queen Size Bed

1 Double Bed

195 sqft

City view

Private Bathroom

Private entrance

Flat-screen TV

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Room - 2 Double

2 Double Beds

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Two Double Beds

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Run of House

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Room Run Of House

Apartment, Triple, Sofa Bed

1 Sofa Bed

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Guest reviews

8.5

4,016 reviews

Categories of assessments

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Comfort

Location

Facilities

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Value for money

WiFi quality

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Featured reviews:

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Natasha

10

September 2023

Everything. Beginning from the first impression - the very beautiful and colorful lobby, the bar, the very kind, professional and helpful stuff, that also arranged for me earlier entrance in the room as scheduled, since I arrived really early in the city and asked if there is any possibility for that. You can also leave your luggage there. The room - same as in the photos, big enough for me, cute and stylish, very clean. I liked the glasses for water, the quality of the liquid soap, shower gel and body lotion in the bathroom. The bed and pillows were comfortable. And to finish with the restaurant where the breakfast was served - very, very beautiful, with big windows and view of a garden. The breakfast offer was miscellaneous. I would sort it in the direction to 5* hotel - really good decorations that drew my attention and everything was tasty. Very nice dessert too. To mention that the location is quite central, one could get on foot, if wants to have a little walk, but the connection to public transport was very good only 2 min to bus and tram, that are really frequent. You get a city card in the hotel with which you don't pay for the tickets and to 50% off for visiting museums. I'd definitely stay again in this hotel! .

Everything perfect.

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Annemarie

9.1

August 2023

Nice room, feels spacious. Good desk for work. Plenty of options for breakfast

There was no kettle, just a coffee maker that you can use to boil water, but the tea cups don't fit well beneath the machine, so it's a bit of a hassle to make tea. A kettle would be better! It's a bit of a walk from Basel Bad. If you can choose between staying on the Swiss side or German side of the city, it's better to stay at the Swiss side, because the German side is poorer, has more bums walking around. So the location of this hotel isn't perfect but it's safe enough though, I stayed together with my boyfriend but I would stay by myself as a female alone too.

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Anna

8.2

August 2023

Room 310 * very nice and friendly staff * good location * bus stop almost opposite the hotel * nice size of room, and bathroom * conformable bed * delicious, fresh breakfast (warm and cold food, a lot of choices, good quality, good for vegetarians as well) * free water in the room and at the reception * gym/fitness

* tea/coffee maker Water container full of dust. Really looks like no one used this fancy maker long time and it was dirty inside. Also, the tray for sugar etc. was dirty. Even the shelve where the equipment was lying on was covered by dust. Probably housekeeping presume that this part of the room is still "clean". Isn't clean at all! For 4* hotel this shouldn't happen. I discovered it at 22:00, after whole day of travelling and exploring the city so I was too tired to go to the reception and report it. Next day, during the check out I told the staff about it and they offered me a cup of tea for freeAnyway, instead 10 score, the hotel has got 8 because of that.

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Emir

10

May 2023

Very good room, with a view on to the garden. Great thing is socket with different shapes, so you dont need to use any switch. Bed is very confortable, and room si clean. Mini bar is free of charge if you want to use it. Inside a min bar are some soda, water, and beer. Breakfast is very good, enough choice for eating usualy or sweet breakfast, diferent type of juices (orange, multivitamin, grape...), coffee as you wish (machiato, expresso, long, short, with milk..). Stuff is very polite and so kind, ready to help you at any time. Location is good, close enough to old town. Anyway if you dont like to walk, you can rent a bike in hotel and drive around a city. All city is bike friendly city so I highly recommend to rent a bike and go to sightseen witha a bike. Bycicle is electrical so even an older quests could drive it. Great hotel, great experience, definitely I will use this hotel again.

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Anissa

9.1

April 2023

Top position, easy to reach all city areas with bus and tram. There are also a couple of good Asian restaurants close to the hotel - Nua - the dumpling spirit & Boo Klybeck. We have been there to take part to the famous Basel carnival, the staff at the reception has given us all needed information. There is also the possibility to have breakfast at 3AM before going to the morgenstreich. Excellent breakfast buffet, there is everything you wish and the quality is very good. Rooms are clean and comfortable.

We were 2 people and asked to have dinner at the restaurant, but we have been told that they were waiting for a big group (that was enjoying the apero at the bar). There was space for us and time to cook 2 burgers before the big group would have moved to the restaurant....but thanks to this we discovered nice restaurant in the neighbourhood.

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Emmanouil

9.1

May 2023

We really enjoyed our comfortable and quiet room, especially after we were informed that we have a free upgrade. Maybe the upgrade was moving us to garden view which was great as the room was very quiet. Next morning, the breakfast was very tasty, with big variety and fresh products.

It was difficult to find parking around the hotel and 25 CHF/night is quite expensive to leave it at the hotel parking.

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Kader

9.1

June 2023

Polite and helpful staff, clean and comfortable room. Tea and coffee options ana a bottle of water were provided in the room. Basel Card that provides free access to the public transport and discounts in city attractions imbecomes quite handy.

The room size was a bit small. The location is generally good, but not the top for Basel city. It takes 15 minutes of walking to Basel Bad Bahnhof, and about 30 minutes to Basel SBB. However, public transport may be convenient. I preferred to walk.

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Mona252

10

October 2022

Breakfast was awesome, with great coffee and lots of selection for even the fussy eater. It's 7-10 am though, even on weekends so I would recommend prolonging it to 11 am on Saturday/Sunday, but this is more a business hotel than family. Our Apartment room was fantastic. Huge beds, very comfy pillows, and bedding. Huge bathroom and blackout curtains. I slept like a baby. The coffee in the room was great, and the fridge and all types of kitchenware, you can't go wrong. Daily cleaning was superb. The towels weren't very fluffy but now I am nitpicking. Overall, we got a great deal on the hotel I booked 9 months ago, and it's definitely worth the splurge if you want comfort with family. Bus #30 gets you to Bahnhof in 10 mins and #50 gets you to the airport in 20. Overall, this place was perfect for our stay. Tip: there is a great Indian restaurant around the corner that is cheap, called Chickpea.

Nothing.

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Onur

8.2

September 2022

The breakfast selection was nice. The staff is very helpful. Location is quite convenient to access the public transport or walking to the city. I was glad to find that the hotels provide guest cards for free public transport and other discounts for nearby attractions.

Parking is difficult around the hotel. The room was supposed to have a kitchenette. However, the microwave was not working and the maintenance staff did not manage to fix it during our stay. At some point all appliances stopped working due to having no power in kitchenette which unfortunately caused the food in the fridge to go bad.

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Massimiliano

10

May 2023

Friendly staff, clean and very spacious room. Well decorated, too, as a bonus. The breakfast was fantastic, lots of choice of literally anything you would want from a continental breakfast. The highlight was a free "Basel card" for the duration of our stay which allowed us to use public transport for free, as well as accessing museums at half price during our stay. Generous breakfast time (7 to 11) with just as welcome late checkout at midday.

Points of Interest Around Essential by Dorint Basel City

Airports

EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg

3.6mi

Bern Airport

45.4mi

Zurich Airport

45.6mi

Restaurants

Côté Jardin

Cuisines

  • Local
  • International

Amenities of Essential by Dorint Basel City

Restaurant

Business center

Free wifi

Room service

Fitness center

Air conditioning

Bar

Sun deck

Private entrance

Terrace

Soundproof rooms

24-hour front desk

Non-smoking rooms

Wheelchair accessible

Kitchenware

Kitchenette

Garden view

Elevator

Garden

Bathtub

Upper floors accessible by elevator

Free toiletries

Soundproof

Stay rules - Essential by Dorint Basel City

  • Check-in / Check-out

  • Pets

  • Internet

  • Age restrictions

  • Curfew

  • Parking

  • Reservations

  • Children and beds

  • Cards accepted at this property

Frequently Asked Questions - Essential by Dorint Basel City

Can I bring my pet to Essential by Dorint Basel City?

Yes, you can stay with your pet at Essential by Dorint Basel City hotel. However, please note that charges may apply for bringing your pet along.

What's the check-in and check-out schedule at Essential by Dorint Basel City?

The designated check-in period at Essential by Dorint Basel City begins at 03:00 PM. As for check-out, it's before 12:00 PM.

Does Essential by Dorint Basel City provide free parking options?

Yes, there is parking available at the Essential by Dorint Basel City. The parking is private and located on-site. However, please note that parking charges may apply and it is not possible to make a reservation for parking.

What are the rates at Essential by Dorint Basel City?

The entry-level price at Essential by Dorint Basel City is $149. These rates are subject to change based on room selection and travel dates. Kindly input your dates to view current rates.

What are the room types available at Essential by Dorint Basel City?

The hotel offers several room types including Superior Double Rooms, Essential Single Rooms, Essential Double Rooms, Essential Triple Rooms, and Apartments. Smoking is not allowed in any of the rooms. The room sizes range from 151 sqft to 377 sqft. The rooms can accommodate 1-4 adults and 0-3 children depending on the room type. The bed sizes vary and include twin beds, queen size beds, and double beds.

Where can guests find entertainment in Essential by Dorint Basel City?

Guests at the Essential by Dorint Basel City can spend their time enjoying a variety of leisure amenities. The hotel features a bar where guests can relax and unwind, as well as a fitness center for those who want to stay active. There is also a sun deck available for guests to soak up the sun and enjoy the outdoors.

For guests looking to stay productive, the hotel also offers a business center where they can catch up on work or take care of any necessary tasks.

Those looking for outdoor activities can take advantage of the hotel's bicycle rental, as well as opportunities for cycling and hiking in the surrounding area.

When it comes to dining options, guests can enjoy a meal at the on-site restaurant, Côté Jardin, which offers a menu featuring local and international cuisines.

Are there restaurants located within Essential by Dorint Basel City?

Yes, the hotel has a restaurant called Côté Jardin. The restaurant offers local and international cuisine.

Does Essential by Dorint Basel City accept credit cards?

Yes, Essential by Dorint Basel City accepts credit cards such as Visa, American Express, Mastercard, and Maestro. Cash is also accepted as a payment method.