Very nice train station indeed! Cool shops and connects to many other sites in Switzerland!read more

This is an excellent train station right in the city center. Basel is a great city known for its…read moreworld class art museums and also their pharmacies companies like Roche and Novartis. Anyway, there's plenty of retail shops in the train station from Migros (one of the staple groceries in Switzerland, but they don't sell alcohol), to Laderach Swiss chocolate, to a really good beer shop I think it's called World of Beers and you guessed it they have a really top notch selection of international beers!

Easy station to navigate and helpful info desk!…read more Main ticket office in Hall Nord (or...enter front of station and go to your right). SUPER helpful and patient ticket agents with great English. Got the exact ticket I wanted (time, single seat, 1st class). Quick service. Food, magazines, beverages, etc. available. Taxi stand at the far south end of the front of the station.

Main Railway Station [Strasbourg, France]…read more We hopped off here in Strasbourg and explored for a day trip. As soon as we entered the central station it was like whoa! wow! It was huge and seeing the entire building from the outside made me even marvel more of the size of this thing. The station is the main station in Strasbourg and one of the main stations in France. I've not tried any of the services it had to offer but it looks really busy and everything looks so modern inside with a nice modern canopy. We explored the city of Strasbourg. Everyone goes to Paris but it was a beautiful place in Strasbourg and a memorable experience. Review #4068

We landed in Zurich and stayed one night there. The next day we moved to Basel which is where the…read moreRhine River Cruise begins in Switzerland. I booked both hotels on line and even though I inputted Basel, once we were ready to change hotels I found out that our hotel was actually in Lorrach which was in Germany. Hey! What? Fortunately the reviews comforted me since previous cruise goers also stayed in that town and it wasn't too far away and very easy to get to. This station was directly across the street from our hotel. Awesome! The big plus was our hotel gave us transportation vouchers we could use to get back to Basel the next morning. The best and worst of it? The station had an elevator from the station platform to the street level. Always travel light...we never learn. If it had been any other day but Sunday, I would have been an ecstatic camper. Why? Take a walk into the town... keep walking and you see so many charming photo ops. There are LOTS of really nice quality clothing stores and even better SHOE stores with really nice and comfy styles and colors. Only hitch? ALL the stores are closed on Sunday. DANG! The huge and packer ice cream, dessert cafe was open. Who knew people here loved ice cream in all shapes and sizes at 4:30 in the afternoon? The one woman who spoke English told us there was a good Greek Restaurant which would be open at 5 pm. She pointed down the street to the awning. Yes, we had a nice dinner and an even yummier baklava then returned to the hotel in darkness. Thank goodness for this tiny German train station which afforded us safe and easy transportation plus a wonderful window shopping experience

Yelp Review 2026 #50:…read more Zürich Hauptbanhof connects Zürich to the airport, and to other parts of Switzerland. It's pretty big but east to navigate. There's a board where you can see the schedule and what platform each train is leaving from. There are restaurants, cafes, convenience stores, and chocolate shops at the station. I can't speak on restrooms since I didn't use them but every restroom I've used in Switzerland has been clean. Outside the Hauptbanhof, there are buses, taxis, and trams to connect you if you're staying somewhere away from this station. But there are hotels within walking distance from here. I've taken trains to/ from Zürich Hauptbanhof in the afternoon, early morning and at night and I felt safe regardless of the time of day.

Omg is this a train station or a mall?? We were in Switzerland on a Sunday for a layover. Since…read morealot of shops are closed on Sunday, Zurich HB was recommended as a stop on our city tour. We were pleasantly surprised and glad we made the stop. First of all it is very clean, they have an array of shops, restaurants, even grocery stores that were open. We tried 2 cafes, Migos, a candy shop, Laderach Choc and the gift shop.

Colmar is a beautiful little city with a beautiful little train station. We spent about an hour…read morethere before a train ride to Strasbourg, and while I would not recommend arriving that early with small children (we were walking from our hotel and didn't want to get caught in the rain), it was an attractive place to pass some time. The exterior was storybook lovely, with a long red brick facade and a prominent clocktower with a green shingled roof. There were a lot of trees fronting the entrance that were decorated for Christmas. My three-year-old and I took a walk around the promenade out front, and it was pretty scenic. There's nothing to do inside the station but wait, so plan to get in and get out if possible. The walk to or from old town is only about fifteen minutes. It makes sense to take the train to Colmar, and worth admiring the train station while you're there.

We arrived here by (slow) train from Basel for two days of exploring Colmar. This is definitely not…read morea large station compared to Basel (massive) or Strasbourg (large) but it's bigger than some of the stations we stopped at on the way here. Easy to navigate with good signage, lifts, escalator. There is a bus stop outside and a taxi stand. We walked the three blocks to our AirBNB. Colmar has one of the larger Marchés de Noël (aka Christmas markets) complete with a massive Ferris wheel. There are plenty of other things to see in this lovely town in one of France's many wine regions. [Review 21168 overall - 88 in France - 131 of 2024.]

Railway station [Kehl, Germany]…read more Took the train from Kehl to Strasbourg, France. Kehl is a town in southwestern Germany. We conveniently parked our car at a public lot and headed to the waiting area for our railcar. The train crosses the Rhine into France and there were no passport or border controls applied but we brought them anyway, just in case. The trains operate between 30-mins to an hour. It was easy access to nearby cities such as Strasbourg in France, where we ventured for the day. This is actually nice to just be able to hop on trains and, all of a sudden, you're in a different country! The trains are clean and no traces of graffiti or vandalism which was nice to see. This was an enjoyable and convenient transit experience for me as a first timer. Review #4066