Comfort Hotel Art Siru, Sint-Joost-ten-Node

...the hotel itself. The Comfort Hotel Art Siru (or the Siru as I'll refer to it from now on) is a strange beast. A few years ago, around 130 contemporary Belgian artists were commissioned to decorate each of the 101 rooms, to create the world's first 'Art Hotel'. Every room is decorated with unique and original paintings or sculptures, and it really is a lovely idea. The bizarre thing is that you'd expect this kind of innovation in some kind of high-end ...
...budget business traveller. It's a Comfort Inn with better decoration. There's no bar and the only facilities are a conference room and a breakfast area. Oh, and a vending machine on the fourth floor. Basically, the whole art thing seems to be a bit of a gimmick for a hotel that would otherwise be a bit lost, sandwiched as it is between the Hilton and the Sherraton. I kept wondering if I was just missing the point, as I roamed the corridors in search ...

Olly_Plimsoll 07.08.2007 · Read full review
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