My husband got a job in Basel and so we used these apartments (although you cannot really call them that), as a temporary measure until we found an apartment.
The rooms are basic and quite small. In the time we were there, they cleaned our room just the once and I had to take our trash down and do our own recycling; which isn't something you really welcome when you are new to a city. Incidentally, you can take your recycling to supermarkets like Denners, Coops and Migros.
The beds are typically Swiss and seem hard if you're used to a nice, soft mattress. There is a shower room/wc and there is coffee making machine, but we took a travel kettle. There was no room to actually prepare any food, with the only available surface taken up with the kettle, etc., so ultimately, you end up with crumbs everywhere, the smell of rubbish, which after a few days definitely got on my nerves!
There is a restaurant downstairs, which we didn't use so cannot comment on that. There is a supermarket round the corner and just to your left out of the apartments, there is a little shop that does the basics and also fresh rolls, etc.
There is a laundry in the basement. If I remember correctly, there was no charge to use it.
You can purchase wi fi internet from reception
The reception staff were polite.
It is quite expensive in Basel to eat out and I don't think you get the best value for money by eating in a restaurant. 20CHF for pasta with a tomato sauce is fairly typical. If you're new to Switzerland, you will even find places like McDonalds and Burger King more expensive and it isn't the cheap option you may have come to expect. The supermarkets do fresh bread, cheese, fruit, pasties, hot cooked chicken, salads, etc. This probably offers you the best value and on a nice day, you can sit by the river, or in one of the numerous parks and have a picnic. You can find some cheap, takeaway pizza places as well, where you will pay approximately 10CHF.
Getting around the city is really easy on the Trams and the reception should give you a tourist card that allows you free travel on the trams. Avoid using taxis, they are unnecessary and very expensive; it explains why there are so many taxis sitting around unoccupied.
If you are coming to Basel from the Euro Airport, come out through the Swiss side, not the French and get the green bus, No. 50 that stops outside. You will see directions in the airport for the bus. This bus goes right to the SBB Railway Station with trams that will take you in all directions. The bus is frequent, approx every 15 mins so there really is no need to take a taxi. To get to Gundeli Apartments, you need to go out the back entrance and head for Telplatz and turn right down one of the side roads. It is only a couple of stops on the tram but I am sorry, I don't remember what tram it was. It is approximately a 15 min walk.
As well as visiting places in the city; there are countless museums, parks, pretty streets, etc., it is definitely worthwhile exploring places further afield and easy places worth a day trip to, are Colmar, Strasbourg, Freiburg. You can get trains from SBB. Lorach in Germany is a small, quite pleasant town and very easy to get to from Basel by taking tram 8 to Kleinhuningen and then a bus 6 or 16 right into Lorach.
On hot, sunny days and the summers here are really lovely, definitely head for a swim in the river. It's great to cool off in it's cold waters! I get the tram 2 to Wettsteinplatz, walk through the little park there and there down by the river are a few river beaches and seating areas. There are also showers to wash away river water after your swim.
The best thing about these apartments is that they centrally located and cheap in comparison to many of the hotels in Basel, but I wouldn't want to stay more than a few days because they are quite cramped.
