Basel Warnings Or Dangers Tips by Myndo Top 5 Page for this destination

New Toilets - beware!

I was never really happy with Basels public toilets. I think it is most of the time better to go in the Restaurant or maybe bigger shops (most have toilets) or in the Cinema or wherever you are, than in these public ones, where - if you are unlucky- you can still find the needles of the drug addict that was in there before....
O.k. I am exaggerating, but as a Basler I am hardly attending these public places...

Now recently they build some new and mordern ones at the Barfuesserplatz. They are self cleaning and fully automatic.
Thats great!

And here comes the warning:
As I have heard, they have a Balance built in in the floor. This is to prevent two people going in at once ...

Now if you go in and happen to weigh more than - say 150kg, the doors will open shortly after closing, and a voice says: "only one person at once, please."
I suppose this can be embarrassing.

Beware of pick-pockets!

Basel is a very safe town and nothing ever happened to me, but there are some things that must be said:

Especially when there are many people together, there are always pick-pockets around.
So take care, especially in crowded trams and so.
Don?t wear your wallet in the back-pocket or the outer side of your hand-bags. Take care of your mobile-phones.
It?s like everywhere else.

The picture shows one of the oldest letter-boxes of basel, this one is located at the "Spalentor". The bird is a pigeon (of course) with a stamp in the beak.