Thursday, December 5, 2013

Hotel de France, Brussels

ordinarily I wouoldn't clutter up my blog with hotel reviews, saving those for Trip Advisor or in this case, Booking.com, but I'm not sure I'm going to get the cance to post such an update, so  . . . 
chosem because of its proximity - walking distance - from the train station . . .
hotel is a dump, starting with the exterior . . .
lobby almost is presentable, but not quite . . .

the rooms likewise are dingy, at best . .. see photos . . . our room is "decorated" in 3 colors: lavendar, purple, and some textured orange color . . .
the bed duvets are stained with-what-we-dare-not-imagine . . .
our room, ostensibly clean, but grimy
decorated in 

the bathroom smells musty, but mrs says the bathmat IS clean . . .

the window opens up only to an air-shaft . . . which we opened anyway, since the room was stuffy with heat, and infused with a diesel / kerosene / butane smell my daughter said *could be* heating oil . ..

hallways reminded of us the Milan atrocity, from their gritty griminess . . .



OTOH, on the plus side .  . .
some one is smoking tonite, even tho its a non-smoking hotel, according to the literature (tho' we did find an ash tray in our room on our "desk table") and that is masking the petroleum odor . . .8^/ . . .
the tv works fine and has several english channels, one showing british game shows and another, american tv from the 80s. . . .
no rats, bugs, or vermin in evidence .

astounded at the high rankings for this hotel found on booking.com . . . empirically, I find them to be misleading at best . . . 

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