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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 itss 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. Itss 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 st 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 cityss Victorian bourgeoisie. Metro Madou. Tel: 22 - 18 - 26 - 37. SAINT MICHEL, Grand-Place 15. One of the cityss 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 isnst 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 yousre a light sleeper, revellers on the Grand-Place may well disturb your slumbers. Premetro Bourse. Tel: 25 - 11 - 09 - 56. LA TASSE DsARGENT, 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 minutess walk north of the cathedral. Metro Madou. Tel: 22 - 18 - 83 - 75.
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