Though its location is great, I would not stay at Gilles’ apartment again. I certainly would not recommend it to my friends. It is dirty and poorly ventilated (it has just one small fan; when we stayed in the apartment, it was 80 degrees Fahrenheit [26.6 degrees Celsius] outside, but much hotter inside, so much so that we turned the shower on, as cold as it could get, and showered in the middle of the night because we could not sleep). And though I hope it was an isolated incident, we had a terrible check-in. Gilles originally told me we could drop our bags off at 11, then check in at 12. The morning of, reneging, he told us we could not drop our bags off until we checked in at 12. When we checked in at 12, the apartment was DIRTY, so Gilles’ colleague Elodie (who was checking us in) sent us away until 1:45, during which time a cleaner tidied it up. We asked to stay in the apartment while the cleaner tidied - having just flown overnight from the US, we wanted to rest before a 3 PM appointment - but Elodie would not let us. There are some lovely Airbnbs in Brussels. Keep looking for them. Do not stay here.