The hotel is on the top 3 floors of a multi-complex. Nothing luxurious but good value for a clean spacious room, breakfast included with 3 drinks from the minibar. The entrance to the hotel is not obvious - look for the glass door next to the house-number and mailboxes - on the door it says in black letters "Hotel Rezeption". Enter and take the elevator to the 6th floor for the hotel reception. The hotel is an architectural / design disaster but if you follow the signs you'll make it to the reception and your room. Corridors and staircases are dimly lit until you press on one of the light switches with a small orange lamp on it.
A day pass for all public transport for one zone (for the Tri-zone) costs EUR 6 per person. If you stay in Maximilian Hotel, take Bus 16 on Hauptstrasse to Rathaus (about 5 min) and change to Bus 55 to Basel Claraplatz, or take Bus 55 to the opposite direction to visit the Vitra museum. Note that the Vitra museum gives a fine architectural tour through the buildings on their site (i.e. Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando etc.) but do not expect any spectacular exhibitions of their chairs until December 2009 when their new building is ready.
Tram 11 in Basel takes you to the breath-taking Schaulager.
Shops in Basel operate in CHF. They do accept EUR but will only give changes in CHF back.
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