If you arrive by air, Brussels International Airport is only 20 minutes from the city centre. With the mass exodus of business travellers on Fridays, weekend rates plummet dramatically, should you decide to incorporate a weekend into your trip. Its 152 rooms, furnished in a variety of styles, from Louis XV to Empire and Colonial, feature every technical convenience that a business traveller requires. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, year-round, a superior room can be booked on the Internet for 4,900 Belgian francs including taxes, service and continental breakfast, while a deluxe room sells for 6,900 Belgian francs. In the past year I have stayed at two other hotels that I can comfortably recommend.
Most rooms overlook a quiet inner courtyard and all are named after Belgian painters.
Each comes with telephone, fax and e-mail facilities. Every guestroom has a private safe, a fax machine, a large working desk, and three telephones with modem and computer connections. There are also fitness facilities and a Scandinavian sauna. Weekend rates drop to 5,200 BEF single occupancy. A culinary gem Belgium is paradise to epicureans.