Belgium Hotels & Hostels (273)

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This hostel-cum-hotel is a rabbit warren of neat rooms. With sheets, lockers and breakfast included in the price, its dorms are arguably the cheapest deal in town.

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A throwback to traditional European pensions before the rise and rise of hostels, seasoned travellers flock to the friendly, family-run Hôtel Sabina near Place Madou for its excellent value and o…

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This basic place has clean, modern rooms and makes a well-located base in the EU quarter if you need to be close for business. It's in a quiet spot if you want to be out of the city, and is ideal…

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Built in 1970, the brown-tinted modular glass facade of this hotel incongruously conceals an upmarket boutique establishment with an exclusive air, whose 80 sumptuously carpeted rooms are stuffed…

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With its soaring spikes of silver girded black glass, this international, business-style tower feels like a modernist iceberg photographed in negative. Its key advantage is its relatively easy ac…

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In the appealing Ste Catherine quarter, 10 minutes' walk northwest of the Grand Place, the Résidence Les Écrins is an enchanting, small, traditional hotel in a 19th-century townhouse, with 11 unp…

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Built in 1917 and operating as the Hotel Siru since 1932, this distinctive turreted building is actually part of the Comfort Hotel chain. Don't be deceived: none of the 101 rooms here are alike -…

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Tucked away in a small street just off Place Rogier in the shadows of the monolithic Sheraton and the Comfort Art Hotel Siru (both unmissable skyline landmarks), this stately 1906-built establish…

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This unobtrusive, heavily modernised hotel is right by the canalside in an excellent, central location. For such a location the prices are relatively good value for fundamentally motel-standard r…

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A rabbit warren of twisting corners, corridors and hidden staircases behind its heritage-listed facade, this quaintly traditional hotel is far from fancy, but its sensational location and friendl…

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Tucked away on a quiet, inconspicuous street on the edge of the St Géry quarter, all 17 rooms at this 1859-built hotel are bathed in sunshine streaming through big picture windows. Run by a warm,…

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This personable four-star hotel imaginatively combines an 18th-century mill-warehouse and a 16th-century Renaissance house with a brand new atrium-foyer. You enter beneath an almost botanical two…

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Facing the vaulted collonade of lace-shops that makes up the belfry's rear end, Martin's is about as central as you can get. Despite nods to traditional Flemish brickwork, this 150-room building …

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Smack-bang in the middle of Brussels, near the Grand Place, the 92-room Hotel Arlequin is a handy stumble from jazz and Latin clubs (there's one in the basement - Bar Anthanor - that's also opera…

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The sun rising over the Coupure canal creates a misty marvel which is particularly photogenic when viewed between the chaos of moored barges seen from the gates outside the comfortable, modern H…

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The traffic-choked Gare du Midi area isn't exactly a tourist attraction, but if you need to be close to the station for travel reasons, this clean, reputable hotel just 250m (273 yd) from the sta…

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Occupying three stately town houses and lavish newer premises on the edge of the EU quarter, close to Trône metro station, this grand English-style hotel might appear to be a jodhpurs-and-foxhoun…

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Owned by Belgian royalty, this 1930s grande dame's 21st-century cachet attracts the like of musicians Moby and Joe Cocker, as well as Johnny Depp and his wife, singer Vanessa Paradis, who, with t…

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Right on the Place du Grand Sablon, the site of the chic weekend antique markets, the NH Hôtel du Grand Sablon is part of the stylish Spanish hotel collection, NH Hoteles. The atmosphere and staf…

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The classy new hotel uses a well chosen touch of semi-minimalist modernism to bring fresh life to this proud 1804 building. Entering through a historic carriageway, the hushed subtlety is such th…

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True, it's part of a corporate chain, and true, the building's state-of-the-art circa 1989, but this hotel has a near endless list of one-off features, including one of Belgium's most celebrated …

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From well chosen angles the delightful eastern facade makes this four-star modern hotel look like a magnificent Art Nouveau palace. In fact the vast majority is of a fairly straightforward intern…

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This beautiful step-fronted traditional house has been an Inn since at least 1682 (though the facade is inscribed 1710). It's family-run, beautifully maintained and superbly positioned just a blo…

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Though its brochures claim it's right in the centre of Brussels, this place is a fair hike from the city's epicentre. But don't be dissuaded - this lovely four-star hotel is just 500m (1650ft) fr…

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OK, so not all the 107 rooms in this five-star establishment technically qualify as suites, with separate living and sleeping areas, but they're still decadently spacious with ample room to swing…

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Moulded faces gaze out from the Hotel Gravensteen's venerable 19th-century facade but a slight grubbiness means that the grandeur often goes unnoticed. Rooms are pretty thoroughly renovated but o…

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Its orange spires rising dramatically above a large square, the Astrid Park could be described as contemporary Legoland architectural confection and would look at home on the outskirts of Las Veg…

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Right on central Burg Square, this modern international hotel has all the usual business trimmings. In addition there are some surprisingly quirky historical details. Certain rooms have magnifice…

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This 16th-century-listed building has the requisite brick step-fronted facades, with main rooms which were heavily gentrified in the 18th century. The factor that sets this place apart from sever…

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This protected building dates from 1556 and has a magnificently peaceful canalside location near the 14th-century Augustine bridge.

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If you yearn to be ensconced in mahogany, oak, regal fabrics, and plush carpets, this fastidious old-school hotel should fit the bill. Among the stratospheres of the 266 rooms are 'standards' wit…

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With 49 rooms in a vast range of different styles and grades, this rambling hotel is hard to categorise. Its star attraction is the location right behind the Markt. It's so close to the belfry th…

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The history and location of this fine old palace make it special even if the rooms aren't especially outstanding. Originally built in 1600, this grand building is ripe with history. In 1781 it ho…

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A row of four consecutive 19th-century townhouses at the gentrified end of Langestraat has been transformed into a high-service - if fairly conventional - international style hotel. It prides its…

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In the modern, streamlined lobby with snazzy black vinyl sofas and piles of international mags and newspapers, the contemporary art you see is all original. There's more art to be found in all 42…

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This 'Small Luxury Hotel of the World' considers itself one of the Best in Bruges. Host to princes and presidents, it displays photos of its celebrity guests from the Belgian Crown Prince Philipp…

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Big glass doors slide open to reveal breathtakingly trendy pale-grey decor. Staff, dressed immaculately all in black, usher you into the lap of designer luxury. If money is no object and you valu…

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Two of the most imposing town houses on Hoogstraat, one of which is the former home of Baron de Peellaert. Both have been meticulously restored to create this comfortable and opulent new 50-room …

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If you're looking for international business standards but want a superb central location, the Antwerp Hilton is the obvious choice. It commands Groenplaats and is just two minutes' walk from the…

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Have I entered a film-set? Or is this really my hotel? Everything in the Walburg is on such a magnificent scale that it's sometimes hard to be sure. Extraordinarily vast doors lead you into the g…

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