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Brussels Hotels
Realtime Brussels Hotel Reservations
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Online Brussels hotel reservation service representing directly over 100 central Brussels hotels offering special last minute deals, early bird discounts and in general excellent discounted rates.
- Book through email, secure service, telephone or fax through this website
- All prices are per room per night
- Use our quick search facility on the left to search/book available accommodation in Brussels
- Please click the links below to check out our latest special offers.
- Book now, pay later. Credit card details are used as guarantee only, so you don’t pay anything until you arrive/depart the hotel
- Our service is free.
Tel: 00 44 20 8859 8999
Fax: 00 44 20 8859 3344
Email: enquiries@hoteladvice.com
We also have great discounts in other cities:
Berlin,
London,
Dublin,
Stockholm,
Tallinn,
Oslo,
Copenhagen,
Helsinki,
Rome,
Paris,
Amsterdam and
Zurich
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Some Popular Brussels Hotels
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The European Parliament has found an ideal home in Brussels (Bruxelles in French, Brussel in Flemish). This inland capital city of Belgium, bordered by The Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France, it is a multi-cultural and multi-lingual city at the very heart of Europe. Indeed, it claims with some justification to be the ‘Capital of Europe’.
Language is a complex and serious issue in bilingual (French and Flemish) Brussels, as well as being a focus of communal tensions. Some 85% of native Bruxellois speak French as their first language.
Yet the image of the city suffers abroad, due to its very diversity, as well as the self-effacing nature of its quirky inhabitants, too modest to blow their own trumpet. Brussels has no symbol to rival the skyscraping Eiffel Tower, aside from the tiny but famed Manneken-Pis, a statuette of a urinating boy.
The first visit to Brussels, uncoloured by expectations, is therefore all the more rewarding. Narrow cobbled streets open suddenly into the breathtaking Grand-Place, with its ornate guild houses, impressive Town Hall and buzzing atmosphere. It would be difficult to find a more beautiful square in the whole of Europe. Bars, restaurants and museums are clustered within the compact city centre, enclosed within the petit ring, which follows the path of the 14th-century city walls. The medieval city is clearly defined by its narrow, labyrinthine streets, making it easy to distinguish the later additions, such as Léopold II’s Parisian-style boulevards – Belliard and La Loi – today lined with embassies, banks and the grand apartments of the bourgeoisie and close to the glitzy new EU quarter. The working class still congregate in the Marolles district, in the shadow of the Palais de Justice, although this area is on the up-and-up. New immigrant communities are settling in the rundown area around the Gare du Nord. Neighbouring communes, St-Gilles and Ixelles, draw an arty crowd with their ‘in’ shops and restaurants. These are worth the trek, if only to glimpse some of Brussels’ finest Art Nouveau buildings, the style being developed by Bruxellois Victor Horta, the son of a shoemaker.
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