Brussels, Belgium

The Hoxton, Brussels

Price per night from$173.38

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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 (EUR148.46), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Seventies flair

Setting

Park-pocketed Brussels North

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Skyline views come as standard at The Hoxton, Brussels — a luxury hotel set in a 1970s tower, where the Botanical Garden borders the city’s business district. The capital’s classics are all within easy reach, but with Peruvian dining and a Mexican rooftop bar edged by a vista-wrapped terrace chez vous, sightseeing may move down your priority list. The hotel’s Seventies-inspired interiors and light-flooded bedrooms are a figurative high point, too.  

 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

198.

Check–Out

Noon, and check-in is at 3pm. You’ll get guaranteed late check-out until 3pm included with your stay.

More details

Rates include a buffet breakfast with à la carte options, served daily at Cantina Valentina.

Also

Nine Biggy rooms at The Hoxton, Brussels (one on each floor) are adapted for wheelchair access with widened entry, lowered controls and modified bathrooms. There's elevator access to all floors, including down from the lobby to Cantina Valentina, and the lifts have Braille signage.

At the hotel

Bikes to borrow and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, Roberts radio, air-conditioning, tea- and coffee-making kit, mini fridge, free fresh milk and bottled water, and bespoke bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Interiors show a reverence for retro flair, prompted by the building’s Seventies heritage: pink sinks and toilets in ensuite bathrooms are the hotel’s boldest true-to-the-era move. Not all Roomys are created equal: our hearts belong to the Roomy Corner (two on each floor), which is notably light and forgoes a desk to create a window-side sitting area. Grown-up water babies will be drawn to the circular tub that comes with a Roomy Bath. Biggy is top of the crop here and is the only option with a king-size bed.

Spa

There’s no spa at The Hoxton, Brussels, but a gym on the first floor, equipped with cardio machines, resistance trainers and free weights, is open around the clock to keep your workout routines on track.

Packing tips

Bring a head for heights: bedrooms at The Hoxton, Brussels start on the 13th floor of Victoria Tower.

Also

The hotel is in IBM’s former HQ, built in the 1970s and still exuding retro glamour with its curvy furniture and vintage details such as rotary telephones and pink bathroom- suites — although no floppy disk sightings, to date.

Pet‐friendly

Your dog (up to 10 kilogrammes) can stay for free in any room type at The Hoxton, Brussels, although we’d recommend a Roomy or Biggy for comfort. Treats, bowls, beds and waste bags are provided, but no pups are allowed in the restaurant or bars. See more pet-friendly hotels in Brussels.

Children

Welcome, although not especially catered for. An extra bed for one child under 12 or a baby cot can be added (both are free) on request to some of the larger rooms.

Sustainability efforts

The Hoxton, Brussels endeavours to tread lightly and has achieved Green Key certification for its efforts. These include reducing use of plastic and implementing waste management (no unused minibars here). Local suppliers are championed not only in the hotel's supply lines but also to guests via a curated Good Guide of nearby sustainable shops, restaurants, cafés and attractions. LED bulbs and solar panels help to lower energy consumption.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

When weather allows, terrace tables at Cantina or Tope are hard to beat. On cooler days at Cantina Valentina, windowside spots or against the flamingo-muralled back wall are our top picks.

Dress Code

The Hoxton group’s MO is to create fluid spaces with a laidback ambience, which also means there’s no wardrobe pressure. To channel the South American mood by evening, add embroidered tops, Andean-inspired brights and boho silver jewellery.

Hotel restaurant

Tucked behind the Lobby Bar, Cantina Valentina at The Hoxton, Brussels celebrates Peruvian cuisine with a ceviche bar, meats a la parrilla, flavourful salads and seafood towers. Take your pisco sours to terrace tables in summer and linger over grilled steak or duck rice with Botanical Garden views. This is also where a buffet breakfast with à la carte choices is served, and on Sundays, book your spot for a leisurely brunch of pan con todo, avocado toast or quinoa pancakes. The South American inspo continues up on the rooftop at Tope; more a bar than a dining spot, it offers Mexican bites to counter your hibiscus cosmo habit, with chilaquiles, esquites (corn bowls), and various dips and chips on the menu.  

Hotel bar

Past reception, a staircase takes you down to the high-ceilinged Lobby Bar, strewn with plants and flooded with light from floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the Botanical Garden. It's a casual spot for coffee and drinks, morphing into a watering hole as the day crowd departs and the lighting softens. On the 22nd floor, Mexican-inspired Tope riffs on cocktail classics with tropical-sherbet margaritas, moreish pisco sours and spiced-rum mules. Its rooftop terrace is perfectly pitched for alfresco aperitifs, and you can expect DJ sets, with extended late hours, on Friday and Saturday nights.  

Last orders

The Lobby Bar serves from 7am until midnight; Cantina Valentina opens for breakfast, 7am–11am; from noon until 10pm, it switches to all-day dining. Tope is open from 5pm until midnight (1am, Friday and Saturday).

Room service

Order light bites and snacks to your door between 7am and 10pm.

Location

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Address
The Hoxton, Brussels
Square Victoria Régina 1
Brussels
1210
Belgium

Set beside the Botanical Garden, The Hoxton, Brussels borders Brussels North, and is around 20 minutes on foot from the city centre.

Planes

Brussels Airport is your nearest international runway, a 25-minute drive from the hotel; staff are happy to arrange taxis with notice. Alternatively, there’s a 20-minute direct train from the airport to the Hoxton’s nearest station, Brussels-Noord.

Trains

Brussels is that rare thing — a city where rail can compete with air for ease and speed of arrival. International Eurostar trains arrive at Brussels-Midi; from there, it’s a six- to eight-minute train ride to Brussels-Noord and a 10-minute walk to The Hoxton.

Automobiles

You won’t need a car in this well-connected capital, but if you’re wedded to your wheels, there’s a paid public carpark beneath the hotel.

Other

For metro and tram services, Rogier station is a five-minute walk from the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

Your base at The Hoxton, Brussels rests beside the Botanical Garden with their manicured beds and terraces — also home to cultural venue Botanique, which hosts a rotation of exhibitions and concerts. The skyscrapers of the business district dominate the northern skyline, but you’re still just a 20-minute walk from the capital’s beating heart (aka, the Grand-Place). To the west, you can explore vogue neighbourhood Dansaert’s designer stores and vintage-clothing boutiques, plus the heritage highlights, bars and restaurants of Saint-Catherine, centred around its leafy square.  

Local restaurants

Belga Queen is more of a culinary experience than a restaurant reservation: set in a stately former bank with soaring architecture and ornate interiors, it invests in Belgian fare and brings a raw bar and polished mixology to the portfolio. At classic brasserie Les Petits Oignons, around the corner from Place du Petit Sablon, Mediterranean flavours are spun into a celebration of French cuisine. Mid-century-inspired decor and Middle Eastern plates come together at vegetarian-friendly Le Conteur. 

Local cafés

Coffee aficionados Bouche have a couple of outposts in the capital where you can grab a satisfying caffeine fix — one on Rue de Namur, the other on Rue Froissart. Aussie-style brunches are the calling card of Frank — enjoyed in a light-filled, plant-dotted space on Rue des Princes.

Local bars

A brewery and restaurant set in an art deco building in Dansaert, Brasserie Surréaliste serves its craft beers and Belgian bites with eye-catching interiors. Whether beers or cocktails are your sips of choice, you’ll find the bonhomie spilling to terrace tables on Place du Saint-Géry from Mappa Mundo is quite the tonic. 

Reviews

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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 towering urban bolthole in the Belgian capital and unpacked their vintage wardrobe-finds and stash of cacao, a full account of their city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside The Hoxton, Brussels… 

A concrete-boned, 1970s tower block may not seem like a promising foundation for a luxury hotel, but The Hoxton, Brussels is flamboyant proof of how well it can work. Set in IBM’s former headquarters, the hotel leans into its retro heritage with bold use of colour, sculptural furnishings and exposed concrete supplying an industrial edge.   

The hotel’s double-height lobby makes quite the entrance — although cosy nooks and leafy alfresco spots are tucked into this convivial space as you progress through the bar to its patio-edged Peruvian picantería. A rooftop Mexican bar is your go-to for margaritas and tacos, with late opening and DJ sets bringing the fiesta at weekends, and a parasol-dotted terrace coming into its own in summer.  

The Hoxton’s offbeat location similarly defies expectations. It’s quiet and leafy, bordering Brussels North, yet still only a hop from the capital’s tourist-patrolled centre — you could say it’s plugged into the city’s mainframe. 

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