INFO & IDEAS

Rooms with Benefits!
Book a room during the summer months and get a choice of “extra benefit”. Rooms at very competitive rates (From € 25 onwards) will help you to discover Brussels well within even the tightest of budgets and then there is more…As an added benefit all guests will have a choice of 2 extras: the Brussels Card which gives free access to museums and events, including the brand new Magritte Museum, or, and this only in the Month of August, a 10-day pass to the Brussels Summer Festival! For participating hotels, the most incredible rates and more info, go to www.brusselssummerpack.com

NEW! 5th ‘Convention’ District of Brussels: Mont des Arts!
With the upcoming return of Square and the opening of the Magritte Museum, the "Mont des Arts" with its 200 meeting rooms and accommodation for thousands of attendees within walking distance, the Mont des Arts district has more than earned its place amongst the current Convention Districts Rogier, Grand'Place, Louise and Europe. The choice of excellent venues is overwhelming – BELvue & Coudenberg, BOZAR, Espace Culturel ING, Musical Instruments Museum, Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Cinematek, the Bibliothèque Albert I, the new BIP (Brussels Info Place)… It’s proximity to the Central Station & Metro, the Royal Palace & Park and accessibility to themajor institutions are turning this district into a real Museum Meetings Quarter. 


Discover the brochure!!

Meeting venues & convention districts is the name of the brand new brochure that will take you on a practical discovery trip of the 5 convention districts of Brussels. Available as from this summer in English only.

SALE ! SALE ! SALE ! SALE !
July is bargain month in Brussels! For a whole month all shops will have exceptional discounts and promotions on offer on the summer collections. Let yourself be seduced by a good bargain in one of the many shopping districts of the capital!

Brussels by Segway until 27.09.2009
For sheer sensations, after less than 10 minutes’ training, you’ll be at the controls of a revolutionary machine, the Segway. During two hours participants will be setting off to explore the most mythical places of interest in Brussels: the Grand’Place, Manneken Pis, the fortified city walls, the Sablon, the Royal Palace, the museums of Comic Strip, Music or Contemporary Art and more. All tours are accompanied by a guide. www.belgium-segwaytour.be or www.brusselsinternational.be

This is not a realist walk !...
This Summer Surrealism is definitely King in Brussels and of course there is more, much more than the magnificent Musée Magritte Museum. Go to www.brusselsinternational.be and discover some of the most intriguing guided walks through Brussels: a must for Magritte and Surrealism lovers!

Descend into the Sewers of the city
The Sewers Museum broaches all the aspects of the water cycle in Brussels from the Middle Ages to today. Relief maps, scale models, films and unusual objects explain the different aspects of water purification in an educational and playful way. The visit includes a walk through the sewerage system of the River Senne. No special clothing required for the visit!
www.bruxelles.be