What a unique house! Benoit, our host, has designed and decorated this fascinating old house with something interesting everywhere you look. The building is clearly quite old, but it has all the modern conveniences one would expect, and we were quite comfortable. He also thoughtfully keeps the kitchen stocked with most basics, and also has excellent local beers and snacks one can purchase for a reasonable cost.

There are pieces of art everywhere, some one-of-a-kind furniture, stacks of collections of books and movies and vinyl albums (!) and even a harpsichord in the living room. The entire place is a feast for the eyes.

The house is centrally located, with very easy walking access to much of historic Brussels. The street is very quiet, yet close to shopping, restaurants and tourist attractions. You may not need a car (we didn't).

That being said, there are a few important caveats:
- While there’s plenty of room for a large number of people, there are no doors between sleeping areas, so you won’t have much privacy. The 3rd floor bedroom is a small loft up a flight of stairs which is at the end of a short corridor past the 2nd floor bedroom, and the one full bath is in between these two bedrooms. You can hear anyone in any of these rooms from any other. This was a bit of an issue with my family, as we’re used to a bit more privacy than that, but if privacy isn't your concern, you’ll be fine.
- He isn't kidding about the lack of rails on the stairs. The entry stairs to the first floor has no railing, and the opening on the second floor to the stairs going down has no railing either, and worried me somewhat. My youngest is 10 years old and I was fairly certain he’d be able to avoid falling down there, but to be safe we made a little wall around the stairway opening out of our luggage and some small tables, just to be safe. The loft bed is also quite close to the unblocked opening of the stairway down. If your party is only comprised of at-least-average dexterity adults you should have no problems.
- The staircase to the 3rd floor loft/bedroom is surprisingly steep. It was a bit nerve-wracking when descending (I'm a pretty clumsy guy).
- While the description does say that there’s a two-night minimum stay, we were told that since our stay was only two nights we’d be paying a higher rate. Be sure to check the price with the host if your stay is going to be short.
- The cleaning fee is 110€, which seemed a bit high to me. It is not mandatory, we did have the option of cleaning the apartment ourselves. In retrospect I could have easily done that; if you're not excessively messy you can avoid this cost.