Bruges Experience

Beautiful Bruges

Advantages: Clean,beautiful,romantic. Beers are nice!
Disadvantages: busy on weekends,not too much to do

...preferred taking the Eurostar to Bruges rather than taking the plane. The city of Bruges itself is very compact, and if you put your mind to it, you could probably walk and see most of the city in a day. On the first night that we were there, we arrived at our hotel, one of the Small luxury hotels of the world called the Romantik Pandhotel, which is situated brilliantly in the centre of Bruges. However, we found our double room a bit on the small ...
...canals, and what trip to bruges would be complete without a boat ride!? There are many companies doing boat tours, and they seem to be similarly priced, so i guess one company is just as good as any other. The guides speak in 3 languages (english, french and Flemish), so you can just sit back, relax, and tune in whenever your language is up. The boats take you down most places in the city except for the "Minnewater" or "lovers lake" area , which ...

redstar79 08.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Bruges (Belgium)

QUAINT OLD TOWN

Advantages: nice place
Disadvantages: not that much to do

Since I am just back from my 4th visit to Bruges, you would think I had loads to say about the place, but I probably don't. Don't tend to do long and informative reviews on here, but here goes. So why so many times to Bruges? Am not really sure. I guess it all started about 6 years ago when a Ferry crossing opened up in the town of Rosyth. This is about 12 miles away from where we live. I had heard of the Hull to Zeebrugge crossing, well this was ...
...in Scotland to experience a Ferry Crossing over the North Sea. The original Boat was called the Superfast, which lasted about 3 years. A lovely large Ferry Boat however the costs weren't paying so a new Boat arrived, again the costs didn't pay, so in late 2007 the service was cancelled. This May the service was taken over by Norfolkline and the sailing set again. We went last week when the cheap season was on, but cheap meant £364 for the 2 of us ...

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Review of Brugge

A Bear, a Beer and Half Moon!

Advantages: Stunning buildings, lots of bars and two breweries to visit.
Disadvantages: Gets VERY busy and be prepared to pay tourist prices!

...~~~WHERE IS BRUGES? Bruges is in the small European country of Belgium and can be found in an area in the north called West Flanders. The main language in this area of the country is Dutch (French is the dominant language in the Southern regions ~ Wallonia), although English is widely spoken and also German. Belgium is part of the E.U. so the currency is the Euro. Bruges is known for its canals, earning it the name of “Venice of the North” and you ...
...THERE? We traveled to Bruges on the train from Ostende and the journey took us approximately 20 minutes ~ no time at all. Bruges is also easily accessible by road and rail from other destinations in Europe (we traveled from the UK and rail links from the channel tunnel and ferry ports were regular and convenient). ~~~GETTING AROUND. Once we arrived in Bruges we opted for the old fashioned method of transport and walked from the station to the centre. ...

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Wilkommen free-spending culture vultures

Advantages: quaint, plenty to do
Disadvantages: pricey, popular with British SAGA tours

If you have read my Review on Bruxelles, you will know that my style is to try and describe the atmosphere rather than list specific attractions, and this applies here too If you have NOT read my Bruxelles Op, WHY NOT!!! I always imagined Brugge to be a quaint little town that was probably over-rated and infested with coach tours on their way back to the channel ports. On the latter point there is a grain of truth, it gets very popular in the summer ...
...part of Belgium so if you've been to quaint Dutch towns you will notice a resemlance It is a working town though, although it relies on tourism it is home to a train manufacturer which (fascinating fact) has built all the Virgin Voyager trains and others supplied to UK rail companies. You are unlikely to se smokestack industry though I have driven there from Calais and it was easy enough to navigate, right into the town centre, but I would advise ...

mark-southside 26.04.2004 · Read full review
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Venice of the North

Advantages: Romantic, Clean, Welcoming
Disadvantages: Awkward Journey

...our three night break in Bruges through the Sunday Times Leisure Direction. On paper this appeared to be a four day break to be taken in the period between Christmas and New Year but we failed to take too much notice of the travelling time involved in getting from West Dorset to Bruges. Our best option would have been to fly from Bristol to Brussels but we had set our hearts on journeying by Eurostar from Waterloo International to Brussels as a first ...
...train journey from Brussels to Bruges was matter of minutes. Wrong on that one; up and down escalators with our luggage and a twenty minute wait on a cold platform then what must have been the slow train to Bruges arriving at 5.30 pm. A taxi to our hotel in the centre of Bruges and we were finally in our hotel room at 6.00 pm. Have you got that? A car, three trains and a taxi with a total travelling time of ten hours; it didn't take that long to ...

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