Planning your visit Which hotel?

“Dignitas and Lifecircle will suggest several hotels but you can stay wherever you choose.”

When you are planning your visit, Dignitas will send you a list of about eight recommended hotels.   Athanasios and Phoenix Care will do the same, but it is a shorter list.   Pegasos recommend either the Hotel Engel in Liestal or their own hotel in Roderis. You do not need to choose one of these recommendations. Anecdotally, Zurich is supposed to be a more expensive place generally than Basel or Liestal.

I had a look at the Hotel Engel in Liestal but that was in 2022, before its recent refurbishment.   Prices range from £135 to £180 per room. On my own first visit I stayed at the Hotel Danner, across the Rhine in Germany. It was about 30% less expensive than its equivalents in Switzerland.

It is quite understandable that Dignitas and Lifecircle do not like to limit their recommendations to just one or two hotels.   Members making the journey to their centres will have different budgets and different personal requirements – many will need disabled access, for example.   Also, the hotels themselves, whilst obviously grateful for the business, will not want to gain a reputation as the ”death” hotel of the town.   It should be mentioned, though, that when staff are being interviewed at the Hotel Engel in Liestal they are specifically asked whether they would have any problems with people being recommended to them by Pegasos.

Athanasios do not make any specific recommendations but, on their website, they do mention the Hotel Im Schlosspark because it is nearby. They also mention the Essential by Dorint in central Basel.