Where to stay en route from Luxembourg to Calais
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We are going to Luxembourg for a couple of nights mid week in March to celebrate a big birthday for my wife. She's getting on a bit, so has had several of these 'big' events over the years! 
We are leaving Lux on the Thursday AM en route to the Eurotunnel on the Sat morning.
Anyone have any ideas for a lovely hotel in an interesting town/village with good grub and bars en route and within a couple of hours of Calais?
Hotel has got to be pretty top notch with usual requirements including decent bathroom and beds and not the often encountered 'quirky' (read basic 1960's) French speciality facilities...
We are leaving Lux on the Thursday AM en route to the Eurotunnel on the Sat morning.
Anyone have any ideas for a lovely hotel in an interesting town/village with good grub and bars en route and within a couple of hours of Calais?
Hotel has got to be pretty top notch with usual requirements including decent bathroom and beds and not the often encountered 'quirky' (read basic 1960's) French speciality facilities...
I’m looking for similar for when I’m coming back from near Frankfurt.
https://cobergherhotel.com/nl/
Like the look of this place but might be a bit close to Calais for my purposes.
https://cobergherhotel.com/nl/
Like the look of this place but might be a bit close to Calais for my purposes.
andygo said:
We are going to Luxembourg for a couple of nights mid week in March to celebrate a big birthday for my wife. She's getting on a bit, so has had several of these 'big' events over the years!
We are leaving Lux on the Thursday AM en route to the Eurotunnel on the Sat morning.
Anyone have any ideas for a lovely hotel in an interesting town/village with good grub and bars en route and within a couple of hours of Calais?
Hotel has got to be pretty top notch with usual requirements including decent bathroom and beds and not the often encountered 'quirky' (read basic 1960's) French speciality facilities...
Plenty in Brugge?We are leaving Lux on the Thursday AM en route to the Eurotunnel on the Sat morning.
Anyone have any ideas for a lovely hotel in an interesting town/village with good grub and bars en route and within a couple of hours of Calais?
Hotel has got to be pretty top notch with usual requirements including decent bathroom and beds and not the often encountered 'quirky' (read basic 1960's) French speciality facilities...
Where are you staying in Luxembourg? We stopped at Chateau d’Urspelt last year.
Edited by bennno on Sunday 23 February 06:44
We stayed here for a special occasion a few years ago and it was excellent. Ghent tend to be a little quieter than Brugge (where we stayed at the Dukes Palace - https://hoteldukespalace.com/ )
https://www.pillowshotels.com/ghent/
https://www.pillowshotels.com/ghent/
bennno said:
Plenty in Brugge?
Where are you staying in Luxembourg? We stopped at Chateau d’Urspelt last year.
Looked at the Chateau d'Urspell, but no availability for our dates. Where are you staying in Luxembourg? We stopped at Chateau d’Urspelt last year.
Edited by bennno on Sunday 23 February 06:44
We have stayed in Bruges a couple of times, fancy somewhere new this time. Thought it was a bit touristy, mostly centred around the square and the horse drawn carriages. If you could have a blast round the town in a WRC car that would be a different matter! I'd even let Thierry Neuville drive.
Had a peep at Coberghotel, lovely hotel, but didn't float my wifes boat for some reason.
We are staying at the Parc Hotel Beaux Arts in Luxembourg Old Town which is close to bars and restuarants, and have currently booked a Ariane Hotel in Ypres, again close to cafes, bars and various WW1 stuff. Not perfect, but just got bored looking late last night! Ypres is pretty much on our route and works with our Eurotunnel crossing time.
I'll report back with our impressions, although hotels may change !
Edited by andygo on Sunday 23 February 15:37
Just a bit of feedback after our trip to Luxembourg and Ypres, where we satyed en route back to Calais.
In Luxebourg we stayed at the Hotel Parc de Beaux Arts which was situated 100 yds from the Dukes front door of his palace. Great position, super clean, friendly staff as were all the people of Lux.
Can particularly mention the https://bigbeercompany.lu/. Whilst not normally a beer monster, and very quiet at 7pm, this beer was just brilliant and would have loved more, but had to walk the steep uphill climb to this Italian: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g190...
From a very unpretentious facade it quickly turned into an immaculate and lovely interior, matched only by it's brilliant grub. not cheap, but well worth it.
From there, the next day we braved more of the pockmarked tarmac rally stages that pretend to be Belgian motorways over to Ypres on our way home.
Another brilliant find, staying at the 4 star Arianne Hotel, whilst bland looking from the exterier, was just lovely and modern (ish) inside. Again, spotless and clean, they had obviously spent a few bob to make it as good as possible. Short 5 min walk into the town, which was again just lovely, clean and pretty.
Quite quiet at this time of the year fortunately and the whole town centre amazingly reconstructed after WW1 to a faithful standard. Flanders museum in the square was large, impressive and with access up a spiral stone staircare to the roof, 200ft or so up, was mighty impressive and both cities well wrth a trip..
So pleased with our adventure!
Good to see the Belgians aren't fans of EV's either!
In Luxebourg we stayed at the Hotel Parc de Beaux Arts which was situated 100 yds from the Dukes front door of his palace. Great position, super clean, friendly staff as were all the people of Lux.
Can particularly mention the https://bigbeercompany.lu/. Whilst not normally a beer monster, and very quiet at 7pm, this beer was just brilliant and would have loved more, but had to walk the steep uphill climb to this Italian: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g190...
From a very unpretentious facade it quickly turned into an immaculate and lovely interior, matched only by it's brilliant grub. not cheap, but well worth it.
From there, the next day we braved more of the pockmarked tarmac rally stages that pretend to be Belgian motorways over to Ypres on our way home.
Another brilliant find, staying at the 4 star Arianne Hotel, whilst bland looking from the exterier, was just lovely and modern (ish) inside. Again, spotless and clean, they had obviously spent a few bob to make it as good as possible. Short 5 min walk into the town, which was again just lovely, clean and pretty.
Quite quiet at this time of the year fortunately and the whole town centre amazingly reconstructed after WW1 to a faithful standard. Flanders museum in the square was large, impressive and with access up a spiral stone staircare to the roof, 200ft or so up, was mighty impressive and both cities well wrth a trip..
So pleased with our adventure!
Good to see the Belgians aren't fans of EV's either!
Edited by andygo on Monday 17th March 20:50
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