Grand Hotel de Flandre

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Hotellet har ett mycket centralt läge, precis mittemot tågstationen, vilket var ett stort plus. Rummet var fint och rymligt, med badkar, och personalen var mycket trevlig. Däremot fanns det några förbättringspunkter: sängkläderna var rena men något slitna – ett påslakan hade ett hål och vissa fläckar som sannolikt inte går att tvätta bort. Duschen hade också väldigt lågt vattentryck. Sammantaget en trevlig vistelse, men med utrymme för förbättringar.

Övernattning vid genomresa. Allt var smidigt och enkelt, kopia på id sedan nyckel i handen. Rent och fräscht även om hotellet har ett par år på nacken. Parkerade på andra sidan centralen på gatan.

This hotel has been OK before, but they're in the middle of a refurbishment right now. No lift (which they don't tell you about until late on the night before you arrive), but also the air conditioning in the rooms does not work because of the renovations, and they don't tell you that at all. The rooms, especially on the top floor, get very hot, but you can't have the window open because the enormous secondary glazing they have to keep out noise swings out into the room and across half of the bed. I'm sure it will be better once the renovations are complete, but until then, don't bother.

The hotel is currently undergoing renovation, which means there is no lift until June 2026, and they only told us this the night before we arrived. The room at the end of the corridor is not great ... the toilet is in a separate en-suite, with no hand-washing facility, from the bathroom. There is secondary glazing to keep out street noise, but it's very large and cumbersome to open. Beds were very soft, room a bit warm. Staff were good at addressing some of these issues, and it looks like the renovation should make the place a lot more modern when it's finally finished, but better communication would have been good.