Hotel Le Grand Colombier

It's near the central station, which was a plus for us since we travelled to other cities too. It is also pretty cheap for the location directly in Brussels. Everything except the Atomium Square was reachable by foot.

Basically everything regarding the room. First and most important of all: It had no windows! The fake window (couldnt be opened) led to the hallway. No air circulation either, we had to open the door to the hall to get the steam out after a shower. Furniture is old, rampaged and partly broken. Elecrtricity is scarce, you find one outlet with an old multi-tab that scared us too much to add another multiplier (blue sparks). The toilet's and shower's water tubes look like they have been pirated from another room (Careful: Warm and cold faucets are switched!). The "shower curtain" was a regular IKEA cloth curtain, which seemed kind of.. unhygenical? A broken hair dryer was tapped/hardwired directly into an electricity cord beneath the wall's surface - I'm no expert but it looked dangerous. The "08/2005" written in pencil beneath it didn't make it any better. For the noise, I guess you can have constructions in any hotel if you're unlucky, which was the case for us here on top of the other problems, but yeah, never mind, could happen anywhere I guess. What really made us laugh though was the Emergency Exit sign that pointed to the entry of Room 4 in a dead end of the corridor. I hope the good people of room 4 are in 24/7 - in case of an emergency. So yeah, all in all it was a terrible room but the pricing was great. If you're a capsule-hotel-kind-of-guy and only looking for a place to fall asleep at, this might be your stay.

The only good thing about the hotel is its location.

The bed had bed bugs, most of the time there were no one at the reception to help out. Sometimes they missed putting towels in the room. Very old building and the whole building had a very bad smell that we couldn't open the window most of the time.

The hotel was down a cul de sac which was noisy at night. The blue flashing signage outside was not adequately blocked by the curtains of the room. The plumbing from other rooms sounded as if it was draining through our room. Shower room was tiny.