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Outings & Things to do in Basel |
 BCT would like to hear your recommendations on the best places to go with children in the Basel area (or further afield). Do you know a particularly great child-friendly restaurant, an attraction where your kids were spellbound, or just a place that you go all the time – would you be willing to share? Contact us to add your reviews. Here are a few of our favourite places to start you off: Basel Zoo www.zoobasel.ch
the Basel zoo is not only somewhere to go and look at exotic animals but also a lovely park with leafy green paths and places to stop and picnic. There are giraffes, elephants, bears, rhinos and all the other animals you would expect as well as an indoor aquarium (with snakes and bugs too). The Zoo restaurant is large and child friendly and every toilet facility has a changing table available to Dads too. Buggies are available at the main gate if you find your child gets fed up of walking. The yearly zoo-pass is very good value if you find yourself going there a few times a year and also takes the pressure off rushing round the whole place in one day (if the bears are hiding then you can come back and see them another day). Lange Erlen
at Lange Erlen you can walk, cycle, roller blade etc. down by the river Wiese – basically all the way to Germany if you want to. Take a picnic or visit the Lange Erlen restaurant. There is also a self-service restaurant but this is only open in the summer as the seating is all outdoors. There is an animal park at Lange Erlen with mostly native Swiss animals – deer, goats etc. which is free entrance although donations are encouraged. By the restaurant (across the road from the animal park) is a large playground and further on from the playground there is a mini-go-kart track – the cars take 2CHF coins but there is an operator who will give you change. The track is only open in the afternoons and when the weather is OK. The whole area gets very busy on sunny days in the school holidays so pick your time to go there – parking can be tricky too. Grün 80 (Green 80) – this is a large park in Münchenstein, connecting with the St. Jakob sports fields. There is a large self-service Migros restaurant which is also open on Sundays, as well as a more formal waited restaurant. The restaurant looks out onto the lake which has a fountain. You’ll often find remote control enthusiasts sailing their boats on the lake, taking care not to disturb the ducks and swans that also live there. There are two very well equipped playgrounds at Green 80 – both are big favourites with our kids and in good weather there is an old fashioned caroussel with horses. You can ride on a horse-drawn cart too. There are fixed BBQ places so in the summer take some wood and sausages and make a party. On windy days there is a great hill for flying a kite. Get there by the number 10 tram (or take the car, but be warned - on nice days the car park fills up quickly).
www.migrosbasel.ch/parkgruen
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