Belgian Coast
This popular chain hotel is set back from the beach, but has pleasant, quiet rooms and a lovely pool. Excellent value.
Must-see hotels in Belgium
Brussels
Three B&B rooms are decked out in Moroccan-Asian style in a quiet but central location.
Wallonia
In a historic former music college, this friendly place is just five minutes’ walk from the Grand Place. Dorms have showers, but the shared toilets can…
Liège
Before you swan in, be aware that this hotel's 20 rooms come in quite different states of renovation. The newest have wooden floors with bold black-and…
West Flanders
Creamy paintwork, indulgent oversized showers, splendid linen and gentle modernism turn this classically styled 1770 mansion into what's labelled a B&B…
Ghent
A rare chance to sleep within the walls of a begijnhof. The nicest of three homely rooms has its own kitchenette. St-Amandsberg begijnhof is around 500m…
Belgian Coast
Just behind the town hall, this lovely private house-hotel occupies a pale, turreted mansion dating back to around 1912. Rooms aren't large but they cram…
Ghent
The three guestrooms of this friendly B&B in an attractive 1890s townhouse have high ceilings and private showers but shared toilets. The house is…
Ghent
Sleep on a reed-sprouting ‘recycled’ barge with a small open-top conversation deck. The boat's canal-side moorings are 600m northwest of Oude Begijnhof…
Liège
This basic but personable 16-room hotel has 24-hour reception in its congenial, inexpensive café. En suite toilet-shower booths are tiny in some rooms,…
West Flanders
On the Watou village central square, you'll find this charming historical café with attractive B&B rooms. It also offers St-Bernardus Tripel on draught…
Bruges
In a 1613 former stable, this is one of very few places in Bruges where you’ll get a private canal-side terrace (flower-decked, though not on the…
Northwest Belgium
Choose a colour-themed room at this swish B&B over the station-area hotels for its friendly English-speaking welcome and bean-bag recliners. Book ahead to…
Wallonia
Just before the base of the belfry, this modern, well-equipped HI hostel has an attractive tiered design making good use of the sloping terrain. The…
Belgian Coast
This 34-room HI hostel has 138 beds, but outside the summer months it's blissfully quiet. It's situated near the dunes just a short walk to the ocean…
Antwerp
If you can put up with poor ventilation, some broken fittings and a few mosquitoes, the Ash's 12-bunk dorms are Antwerp's cheapest by a long way. Staying…
Wallonia
If you want to make a full day of it in Han-sur-Lesse, this 41-room hotel makes a good base. Rooms are comfortably furnished, and it has a decent…
Brussels
With a location right on the fabulous Grand Place, Le Quinze offers recently revamped, budget-boutique-hotel decor. Views from the front rooms are truly…
Bruges
Two remarkably eccentric guest rooms with private bathrooms are overloaded with religious trinkets and all manner of arty bits and pieces. The house has a…
Namur
On a peaceful stretch of river happily away from the busy road, this modernised HI hostel partly occupies the attractive red-brick mansion that was once a…
West Flanders
This delightful 1907 red-brick mansion features high ceilings, old marble fireplaces and stripped floorboards, creating a lovely blend of classic and…
The Ardennes
Bouillon's main camping site is layered down a riverfront hillside around 1.5km west of town via the N810. Facilities are clean but very dated, with…
Ypres
If you're driving, this out-of-town mock-Tudor-styled hotel is a great choice. It has genuine WWI trenches in the gardens and is ideally located for the…
The Ardennes
The 15 rooms here above a pleasant, unpretentious Italian restaurant have en suite bathrooms (though many are tiny), and have been renovated sufficiently…
Antwerp
A small, simple but pleasantly sited campground with 80 pitches across the Scheldt River, near Sint-Anna ‘beach’ and De Molen open-air swimming pool.
Brussels
If your taste is for opulence rather than minimalism, this could be the place for you. Rooms are done out in deep rich colours and piled with carvings,…
Northeast Belgium
A stylish, personal, two-suite B&B with beautiful terraces, helpful hosts and clean-lined rooms. Breakfast is included, and dinners around the large…
Ghent
This simple campground is in a recreational park with a pretty pond that's perfect for swimming and aquatic sports. It's located about 4km west of Ghent's…
Northeast Belgium
A spick-and-span youth hostel whose breeze-block-walled rooms all have private bathrooms but a limited number of powerpoints. Bring your own towel and a…
Brussels
The lobby bar and pool-table verandah are unusually hip for a hostel, but rooms are less glamorous and, from some, reaching the toilets means crossing the…
Wallonia
A pleasant riverside hostel. Zigzag down from the square beside the tourist office, cross the park and it’s the orangey-red building directly across the…
Ghent
Unusually calm yet pretty central, this inviting hostel is in a revamped a high-ceilinged historical house with virginal white walls, spacious bunk rooms…
Ostend
This HI hostel is smart, modern and minimal, but the dorms, even with their vivid colours, lack that airy, bright feeling. But there's an elevator, no…
Ghent
Behind a pseudo-medieval facade facing a picturesque willow-lined central canal lies this recently thoroughly renovated and spotless (though slightly…
Wallonia
This boxy hotel has pleasant if fairly generic furnishings, but the welcome is friendly, it has in-room kettle and coffee, and parking is only €2 per day…
Northeast Belgium
A campsite on the eastern edge of Grimbergen, a short walk via footpaths from the Tommenmolen watermill-restaurant.
Ghent
This 1863 townhouse has attractive belle époque, art deco and art nouveau touches, a comfortable communal lounge area featuring maps, globes and an…
Bruges
The Lybeer once had plenty of tatty edginess to it, but has recently been tastefully renovated. It’s handily central in a typical Bruges terraced house…
Brussels
Look out at the Manneken Pis from the window of Room 5 in this neat, unsophisticated, six-room B&B-style ‘hotel’, accessed by steep spiral stairs from an…
