Brussels, Belgium

Fleur de Ville

Price per night from$146.17

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR124.47), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Bank holiday

Setting

Peeping Grand-Place

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Neoclassical riches have been restored at Fleur de Ville, a central Brussels stay set in a converted 19th-century bank. Rooms and suites balance period features with curated contemporary pieces, high ceilings and delicate moulding. A fine-dining restaurant and bar occupy the old boardroom — an atmospheric spot to spy the Grand-Place’s spire and play 'Guess Who' with centenarian statues. Its zero-waste menu and ties with small local suppliers mark a fruitful investment in the city’s future, too.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

51, including five suites.

Check–Out

Noon. Check-in is at 3pm, but both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates don’t include breakfast, but a buffet and handful of made-to-order options are available at the restaurant for €34 a person.

Also

Two garden-view rooms have been designed for guests with reduced mobility, however, access around the rest of the hotel is fairly limited and the main reception only has staired access.

At the hotel

Reading lounge, paid laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV with Netflix, Marshall Bluetooth speaker, tablet, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, hairdryer and Aesop bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Original features have been carefully restored in each individually designed room. Snag the Iris Room with a terrace to make an alfresco date with your morning coffee and a Maigret mystery.

Packing tips

Take a leaf out of Era’s zero-waste book and bring a canvas tote to stash your brocante finds and Belgian choc.

Also

The fitness centre is open daily from 7am to 10pm.

Children

All ages are welcome. Extra beds can be added to certain rooms on request.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

In the intimate, wood-panelled room off the main restaurant, you can still see the hooks where bankers hung their coats over a hundred years ago.

Dress Code

Bring out your organic threads or most enviable vintage finds to match Era’s sustainable ethos.

Hotel restaurant

Era, the hotel’s fine-dining restaurant, is set amid the neoclassical columns and marble busts of the old bank’s boardroom. Chef Yonatan Cohen’s zero-waste menu blends traditional Continental techniques with bold modern flavours, working with seasonal ingredients from local producers to up the eco cred even further. Dishes change with the calendar, but you can always bank on the chilli- and lime-laced oysters.

Hotel bar

As you gaze out towards the Grand-Place from Era’s lounge bar, you’ll need an appropriately cosmopolitan prop: a Belgian craft beer, glass of organic wine, or perhaps a seasonal cocktail spotlighting local ingredients, should all do the trick.

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 7am to 10.30am, Monday to Friday (7.30am to 11am on weekends). Dinner is served Tuesday to Saturday, 6pm till late, and the lounge bar pours during restaurant hours.

Location

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Address
Fleur de Ville
Rue du Fossé aux Loups 46
Brussels
1000
Belgium

You’ll find Fleur de Ville on Rue du Fossé aux Loups, a few minutes’ walk from Brussels’ Grand-Place in the city’s historic heart.

Planes

Most international hubs have routes to Brussels Airport, which is 30 minutes from the hotel by car. Transfers can be arranged on request.

Trains

Coast into Brussels-Central railway station from Bruges, Gent, Antwerp and more, or direct from major hubs including London, Paris and Amsterdam to Brussels-South. De Brouckère is your local metro station, a few minutes’ walk away. From here, you can jump on lines 1 and 5.

Automobiles

Brussels’ centre is very walkable, and there are good public transport links, too. There’s no private parking at the hotel, but limited paid parking is available at Monnaie car park, just down the road from the hotel.

Other

Tram 4 stops at De Brouckère, linking you to Gare du Nord in one direction and the south of the city in the other.

Worth getting out of bed for

If you’re invested in the hotel’s financial history, find out more down the road at the Museum of the National Bank of Belgium. The Grand-Place, Brussels’ historic central square, is a short stroll away and where gold-painted guildhalls and neogothic Maison du Roi compete to catch your eye. The latter houses the Brussels City Museum, host to exhibitions on Belgian history and folklore. It’s also home to the original Mannekin Pis, the city’s cheeky emblem; head around the corner to GardeRobe Mannekin Pis to admire his 1,000-costume strong wardrobe and learn about the festive tradition of dressing the little statue, started by Louis XV of France.

The Brussels Canal is an industrial-turned-artsy area worth visiting for a waterside walk, and checking out offbeat galleries, architectural time capsules and cool community projects as you go.

Local restaurants

Restaurant de l’Ogenblik has been serving elevated bistro fare in its cosy, wood-panelled dining room since the Sixties. For haute Belgian and French cuisine, head to Le Rossini, a polished contemporary restaurant helmed by a husband and wife duo with a passion for seasonal local flavours.

Local cafés

Artisan coffee, matcha and ruby hot chocolate are specialities at the Unusual, a mood-boosting spot a short walk from the hotel. The decor is playful, a patchwork of vintage doors and primary-hued panels, but the baristas are serious about their beans, and sustainability, too.

Local bars

Waterside natural wine bar La Flaque feels like dropping into your coolest friend’s place — home-cooked small plates, a hand-scrawled cocktail list, healthy amounts of glitter, and of course, an expertly curated cellar.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this capital hotel in Brussels and unpacked their fruit beer and fancy chocolates, a full account of their European city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Fleur de Ville in Belgium…

At Fleur de Ville, the seed for a cosmopolitan stay was planted over a century ago by three influential Belgian architects. It was originally the headquarters for the national bank, and full credit goes to its fin-de-siècle financiers and their stately tastes. The original soaring ceilings, intricate cornices and carved-wood panelling still set a suitably opulent atmosphere — the sort that inspires you to order a sidecar as you survey the storied streets that stretch towards the Grand-Place.

Besuited stuffiness has been consigned to history, though. In rooms and suites, period features are paired with bold prints and bauble-like chandeliers, and the boardroom’s been commandeered by a fine-dining restaurant that puts a modern, zero-waste spin on classic French cuisine. With roots planted firmly in Brussels’ past, Fleur de Ville has blossomed into a forward-looking pied-à-terre.

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