Holiday Inn Brussels

... and we were somehow skipped. After a little bit of walking, we managed to find the hotel. Wow. It was REALLY nice. It was a Holiday Inn so it was definitely "American," but with a Belgium flair. It was also really modern. I talked to the front desk about ...

My plan was supposed to land in Brussels....didn't because Ryan Air are idiots.  There was some rain, so they got back in the air and dropped us off at another airport in Belgium(which was just as crappy weather).  Anyway I got to the train ...

June 29, 2011. Day 4 started a little later than usual, at 7:45.  It was our last day at the Holiday Inn Ijmuiden, and the students were right at home at breakfast.  Today we headed for Belgium, and it would take more than 3 hours to drive ...

... in for a one hour wait with some scones, hot coffee and cocoa for the kids. The Eurostar high speed train to Brussels, Belgium was absolutely beautiful although going through the chunnel really did freak me out. Kind of wondered, sitting there while my ...

Ik spring uit een vliegmaschein alleen al om jou te zien Lorem ipsum en de vlucht was goed en het eten was lekker ik nam de pasta en er was ook water met ijsblokjes en canada dry en een koekje en filmpjes om naar te kijken tijdens de ...

... 7-11.  Nope, this is not we're after at all....  So back into a cab, and a call to my personal concierge at the Holiday Inn.  I hand over my cell to the driver and we're on our way.   After a long drive all the way across the ...

again, 35mm photos. so this may take some time to ...

... .  Finally, we found one that wasn’t fully booked.  It wasn’t the Holiday Inn, but it was what I would imagine a hotel in Brussels would look like if it hadn’t been commercialized for the business people and dignitaries that ...

... figured out where the hotel was. We had booked a one bedroom apartment at The Citadine. It is a little bit like a generic Holiday Inn or something, but we figured we had enough European charm in our everyday life in Leuven that we should really focus on ...

... , the tiniest one I have stayed at was an Intercontinental in Zurich.  Now, the Intercontinental is the high end of Holiday Inn.  When I arrived there it looked great.  The lobby was all marble and brass and crystal chandeliers.  It ...

Stayed at the Holiday Inn Express and used the hotel as our "jumping off" point to tour Beglium.  We unfortunately didn't get much time here, as we left (after a FABULOUS breakfast...which included chocolate!!!) for Bruge in the morning, and went ...

... tired and stuffed.  Luckily, we had almost no trouble finding the shuttle to our hotel right outside the airport.  We stayed in a Holiday Inn; it felt really nice to me to be in an American style hotel.  There was a hot water maker, a large ...

... ;    Amsterdam 13. Madrid             Bordeaux 14. Brussels            Warsaw 15. ...

... Brussells is Four Points by Sheraton Brussels Rue Paul Spaak 15 · Brussels 1000 · Belgium Phone: (32)(2) 645 611 Day 4: Brussels to Amsterdam (June 2): This morning we leave Brussels and arrive in the vibrant city of Amsterdam. Uncover another facet ...

... start off this blog with a little explanation of my stupidity. I entered Rue instead of Route in our GPS for our hotel in Brussels. Suffice to say that by trying to avoid the downtown I ended up driving through the old center and out again trying to find ...