Hotel Du Commerce, Blankenberge

Advantages: Near the town center
Disadvantages: No tea or coffee in the room only the mini bar

...Not bad as hotels go but most diffinately not the best. The hotel is situated in a good position in Le Havre quite approx 10 mins walk from the railway station and easy to find. Close to the hotel is the town centre with plenty of shops. The hotel lobby is fairly small and in need of some update, the lobby aslo leads directly on to the bar area and to the restaurent. The staff at the hotel are helpful and pleasant and we had no problemsat check in. The rooms are small but clean with double bed, bathroom and small seating area and TV (very limited chanel choice ), Note that there are no tea and coffee making facilities in the rooms only the mini bar. The rooms could do with updating and are in slight need of re-decoration. The hotel bar is pleasant and the service was good, but the restaurant is too small and we where... Read review

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Advantages: Very Central, Attractive Listed Building, Good Facilities
Disadvantages: Part of a Chain and Past its Prime...

...In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte was invited to stay at the 'Hotel du Commerce', Bruges, during an official visit to the city. He accepted the invitation. A superb triumphal staircase and a sequence of beautiful, 'Bonaparte halls' were especially commissioned within the then 200 year-old Hotel to mark the occasion. However, in what must surely have been a heartbreaking and insulting blow to all concerned, Napoleon cut short his official visit, and in the end he didn't even stay in Bruges at all. Today, nestled behind the winding and cobbled St.Jakobstraat, a quiet side street in Bruges' town centre, stands the old 'Hotel du Commerce', or to draw upon it its new and rather clumsy, official title, the Best Western Premier Hotel Navarra Brugge. It is a charming position for a hotel, just a brief stroll from Bruges' beautiful Market Square... Read review

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

...the website below to find what might interest to you There are two breweries with free entrance and opprtunities to sample the products Brugge offers a year-round programme of events, particularly music ranging from jazz to classical Brugge will mainly appeal to adults, but there are parks and a nearby theme park for kids. There is as mentioned above a seaside resort at Blankenberg about 40 mins away by train Hotels tend to be upscale. Many of the chains are represented, eg Novotel, Crowne Plaza. You basically have a choice of staying in the town or suburbs, which will be a little cheaper. I stayed once at the Crowne Plaza (on loyalty points) and it was fabulous, in Burg Square adjacent to the Market Square. The bedroom was wooden panelled. The breakfast in the conservatory was out of this world, hot options, exotic fruit, smoked salmon, cold... Read review

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