Advantages: Very centrally placed Disadvantages: Noisy side street!!!
I've just returned from a 7 day holiday with WA Shearings (see my other reviews for opinions on Shearings) staying at the HotelOstend. We stayed for 6 nights on a half board basis (July 30th- Aug 5th).
The hotel has a website: http://www.hotelostend.be/
For anyone travelling independently, you can check and book reservations online. The website also has a photo- guided tour of the hotel.
The hotel is quite centrally placed. It's pretty much over the road from the beach (about 50m away.....but down a side street so you can't see the sea!) near to the marina. I'd say it was a medium sized hotel offering 122 en-suite rooms (some family rooms too) with a fairly large restaurant, a small bar (called the Safari bar and decorated in rather fetching tiger and zebra print!) It also has a children's room next to the bar which has a bouncy ...
Advantages: Good base for exploring, good selection of shops, bars and restaurants. Disadvantages: Not as pretty as some other places. Building work is a problem at the moment.
facilities?but this isn?t a hotel review so I?ll not go into too much detail. It does have a 24 hour reception though which is very useful if you want to take advantage of the late night bar opening!!
~~~BARS.
There are two really good bars in Ostende for those wanting an extensive beer list ~ these are mentioned in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide to Belgium & Holland. These are the Café Botteltje on Louistraat and 't Ostens Bierhuus that is right across the road! Our favourite was 't Ostens Bierhuus, run by an English bloke called Tim. Beer prices are more expensive than we are used to in English pubs, but bearing in mind the strength of some of the beers (brews of 8% and above are pretty average features) you certainly get what you pay for! There are quite a few other bars around the place ~ there are even a few English style pubs (our ...
Advantages: Ver enjoyable Disadvantages: Kevin Sorbo was hotter as Hercules
About fourteen years ago I watched Hercules the Legendary Journeys and fell completely in love with Kevin Sorbo. Ten years later I switch the television on and see that he has a new television show that my house mates immediately turn over because they're too cool to watch sci-fi (even though I did catch them watching Star Trek once). That new television show was of course Andromeda and as I now have a lovefilm membership I can watch whatever I want! A couple of months ago I received the first DVD of Andromeda season 1 and I have to say that I was disappointed. It turns out that I'm not in love with Kevin Sorbo so much as Hercules. But I got over my initial disappointment (with some help from the extremely sexy Keith Hamilton Cobb) and found out that there is much more to this show than a very attractive cast.
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