Casinos In Basel Switzerland
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The Grand Casino Basel is located on the way to the Euro Airport Basel and is set only a few minutes from the city centre.

Casinos In Basel Switzerland

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The Grand Casino Basel is an architectural jewel, who become red at night thanks many lights. Only 5 Only 5 minutes from downtown Basel, you'll find in this large cube featuring a diverse gaming offer with more than 300 slot machines and 13 table games.

You can comfortably reach us from anywhere and we also offer a free and guarded car park for the duration of your stay.

ARRIVING BY CAR

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Our casino is located just a few hundred meters from the border to France and Germany. A motorway exit is also in the immediate vicinity.

Approaching from Switzerland or Germany, take the motorway A2/A3 in the direction of France/Euro Airport. Then take the “Basel-EuroAirport” exit followed by a left turn and then continue on toward Euro Airport. After you took the turn and face forward, you will see the red building (illuminated at night even). Take a left turn then at the roundabout and curve around the casino and the immediately adjacent Airport Hotel Basel to reach the car park.

Arriving from France, simply take the motorway A25 via the motorway toll Basel/Saint-Louis. Exit at “Basel-Kannenfeld” and turn left. After about 200 meters, you will arrive at an intersection, where you need to take another left. Following that, you are already driving in the direction of the red building – our casino. Take a right turn at the roundabout and circumvent the casino and the immediately adjacent Airport Hotel Basel to reach the car park.

Should you still be uncertain, then use the route planner by Google-Maps by clicking the map at the top.

TAKE THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM STRAIGHT TO THE DOOR STEP

Bus line 50 (the airport bus) stops right outside the casino in both directions. The corresponding bus stop is called “Friedrich-Miescher-Strasse”. By the way, the airport bus runs from train station Basel SBB/ Basel SNCF to the Euro Airport – and back. Depending on traffic, the bus ride from the station takes about 10 minutes and about half as long from the airport, so 5 minutes.

If your train passes through Basel Badischer Station, disembark there and switch to tram line 6 heading towards Allschwil and get off at the stop “Schifflände” (about 7 minutes). There you need to take the bus no. 36 towards Kleinhüningen to the bus stop “Im Wasenboden” (about 7 minutes) and then take the bus no. 50 towards Euro Airport (about 2 minutes).

From the St. Johann Station, you can also take bus no. 50 from “Im Wasenboden” towards the airport – or simply walk to us.

Would you like to have more information on the public transport in Basel or even on the exact connection times? You will find assistance on the website of the Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB) and their Online timetable.

LIMOUSINE SERVICE

You would like to really elegantly drive up in a limousine? Not a problem – we will organize that for you!

Reserve your special entrance by calling +41 (0)61 327 20 20 (during our office hours) or send an email to Limousine service

Switzerland is one of the most attractive European territories and allures millions of visitors every year mainly with its diverse landscape, prepossessing attractions, and astounding activities. This Central European country is home to both manmade and natural attractions, including the Alps, Zoo Basel, Bärengraben (Berne Bear exhibit), the Rhine Falls, Gotthard Base Tunnel, the Swiss National Museum, the Zytglogge clock tower in Bern, the international finance city of Zürich, the Pilatus mountain, and a wealth of others.

Besides, the country is well-known throughout the world for its numerous ski resorts, Swiss watches, money-related industries, hiking trails, and – of course – chocolate. When combined with its gambling industry, we have a splendid country.

List of Casinos in Switzerland

Below is a list of all casinos currently operating in the regions of Switzerland.

Casinò Bad Ragaz
Casinò Barriere Courrendlin (Jura)
Casinò Barrière Montreux
Casinò Barrière Fribourg
Casinò Davos
Casinò de Crans-Montana
Casinò du Lac Genève
Casinò Interlaken at Congress Center Kursaal
Casinò Lugano
Casinò Partouche Crans-Montana
Casinò St. Moritz
Grand Casinò Admiral Mendrisio
Grand Casinò Baden
Grand Casinò Basel
Grand Casinò Bern at Kursaal Hotel
Grand Casinò Locarno
Grand Casinò Luzern (Lucerne)
Swiss Casinòs Pfaffikon Zürichsee
Swiss Casinòs Schaffhausen
Swiss Casinòs St. Gallen at Radisson Blu
Swiss Casinòs Zürich

History of Casinos in Country

Gambling has quite a history in Switzerland. The first gambling activities took place as far back as the era of the Roman Empire. At the time, games of chance were generally illegal, with an exception during festive periods. The general ban was as a result of many problem gamblers in the country at the time, who would lose their entire fortune on games of chance. This illegal, but occasionally, the legal system continued until the Middle Ages.

This was when many games of chance attained a new level of popularity. Despite the popularity, the authorities put a ban on these games for moral, religious, and social reasons. In fact, the ban was serious to an extent that Swiss gamblers were being alienated in their habitat. In the 16th century, French reformer John Calvin, during a Reformation in 1547, preached against gambling with gold, silver, or any other high-value item but neutral on low-stakes gambling.

As with other European territories, the 18th century saw the lottery being developed fragmentarily throughout the country. However, the authorities gave an affirmative response to lottery games run for charity and other charitable purposes but for-profit lotteries were equally denied. Despite the denial, for-profit lotteries still existed illegally in the country and the authorities were struggling to completely suppress illegal gambling.

A successful prohibition of gambling houses (more like casinos) came through in the 19th century based on the claim that gambling made people lazy and discourage work. Therefore, gambling became a threat to social stability and a ban was validated in 1874 – although the 26 cantons of Switzerland respected it differently (most applied the ban incoherently). In 1881, Casinò Barrière de Montreux opened strategically on the shores of Lake Geneva as the first casino in Switzerland.

Soon enough, in 1920 and 1928, the very first and second votes on the legislation and regulation of gambling took place. At the time, gambling was tackled by more than half of the population based on immorality and the aforementioned prohibition of gambling houses and strict regulation of lotteries were still intact.

On June 8, 1923, the Federal Act on Lotteries and Commercial Betting (and its parallel Ordinance) was approved. Similarly, in 1929, the Federal Act on Gambling Houses was approved. Both enforced strict regulations on lotteries and gambling houses respectively.

The first Act restricted the operation of lotteries to certain cantons and a great percentage of their revenues must be used for social developments in their respective cantons, not the Confederation. The second Act permitted the operation of gambling houses in certain cantons but only to effectively attract tourists.
Another vote took place in 1993, and this was when the legislation of gambling took a positive turn in Switzerland.

The Swiss Federal Council conceived the creation of casinos t

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