Brussels Travel Guide

Brussels has no shortage of places to stay, but given the number of visitors, finding a room can be hard, particularly in summer, and it's best to book ahead at least for your first night. Staying in a hotel on or around the narrow lanes near the Grand-Place is an attractive and central option.

The Tourist and Bed & Brussels, rue Kindermans 5, 1050 Brussels.
Provide reservation services.
Tel: 26 - 46 - 07 - 37.

BRUEGEL, rue du Saint Esprit 2.
This HI hostel, housed in a smart and modern building, has 135 beds. It's fairly central and a basic breakfast is included. Dorms sleep six to twelve, double and quadruple rooms also available.
Metro Gare Centrale. Dorms.
Tel: 25 - 11 - 04 -36.

CHAB, rue Traversiere 8.
A rambling, spacious hostel with a good reputation, though it can seem chaotic. Sinks in all rooms, but shared showers an toilets. No curfew. Breakfast included. Sheet rental 3050. One, two and four-bedrooms.
Metro Botanique. Dorms.
Tel: 22 - 17 - 01 - 58.

JACQUES BREL, rue de la Sablonniere 30.
HI hostel - modern and comfortable, and with a hotel-like atmosphere. Showers in every room; bar, restaurant and meeting room. Beds in two to twelve-bedded dorms.
Metro Madou or Botanique. Dorms.
Tel: 22 - 18 - 01 - 87.

NEW SLEEP WELL, rue du Damier 23.
Bright and breezy hostel in a recently refurbished building, a five-minute walk from place Rogier. Hotel-style facilities including a bar; good disabled access. Sheet rental 3050. Advance booking essential. One, two, three and four-bedrooms.
Metro Rogier. Dorms.
Tel: 22 - 18 - 50 - 50.

HOTELS

LES BLUETS, rue Berckmans 124.
Charming, family-run hotel with ten en-suite rooms in a handsome terrace house one block south of the petit ring. Immaculate fin de siecle decor. Advance reservations recommended.
Metro Hotel des Monnaies.
Tel: 25 - 34 - 39 - 83.

GEORGE V, rue 't Kint 23.
A ramshackle old hotel in an atmospheric if somewhat down-at-heel neighbourhood of big, balconied tenement blocks. Rooms are plain and modern, but with clean and well-appointed en-suites.
Premetro Bourse.
Tel: 25 - 13 - 50 - 93.

MIRABEAU, place Fontainas 18.
Welcoming hotel with thirty neat, modern en-suite rooms. Occupies a good-looking, early twentieth-century, seven-storey block and overlooks a busy square bordering Anspach.
Premetro Anneessens.
Tel: 25 - 11 - 19 - 72.

RESIDENCE REMBRANDT, rue de la Concorde 42.
Popular, pleasant pension-style hotel. Thirteen clean and comfortable rooms - six en-suite - and kitsch bygones in the foyer. Located on a dispiriting street off avenue Louise, near place Stephanie.
Trams #93 and #94 run along avenue Louise.
Tel: 25 - 12 - 71 - 39.

SABINA, rue du Nord 78.
Twenty-four, workaday, en-suite rooms in a late nineteenth-century terrace townhouse. Located in an appealing residential area that was once a favourite haunt of the city's Victorian bourgeoisie.
Metro Madou.
Tel: 22 - 18 - 26 - 37.

SAINT MICHEL, Grand-Place 15.
One of the city's most distinctive hotels and the only one that looks out over the Grand-Place. It occupies an old guildhouse on the east side of the square, but the grandness of the facade isn't universally matched by the rooms inside - which range from the basic and small at the back of the building to more elegant period rooms at the front. If you're a light sleeper, revellers on the Grand-Place may well disturb your slumbers.
Premetro Bourse.
Tel: 25 - 11 - 09 - 56.

LA TASSE D'ARGENT, rue du Congres 48.
A popular, family-run hotel with just eight modest, modern rooms in a good-looking, fin de siecle mansion about five minutes' walk north of the cathedral.
Metro Madou.
Tel: 22 - 18 - 83 - 75.