PASSAGE BRUGES — Hotel in Bruges

After reading a few past reviews of Grand Passage, I was a little nervous about my stay but overall, I had a very good experience. This is as of May 2025. To be clear, this is not a hotel, these are rooms above a restaurant.||First, I booked directly through its website and I would not recommend it. I never received any booking confirmation, check in details or check out details either. I had to call Belgium before arriving in order to make sure they even HAD it. Booking with them might be cheaper but honestly, I would book with a third-party instead. Hopefully communication through that is better.||Second, I stayed in a double room, of which there are a few layouts. The rooms do look like the photos, which is great, but the quality among them varies. So if you have a preference, request that at booking. ||As mentioned in past reviews, the rooms are tight. Even for Europe. I was one person in a double room and that was fine but if there were two people, it would be very snug. Bathroom is in the room and obviously little space or privacy. They also don’t provide hand soap (which was odd) and there are not enough hooks for towels to be hung so again, just makes a cluttered experience. ||Also from past reviews, the AirCon doesn’t work. It blows hot or warm air only, or is a fan. There is no actual cooling. So if you need actual air con or cooling, I would not recommend this place. The staff said it was fixable, etc. and then just admitted this is the best it would be (warm). And rooms do get warm during the day if the sun is out. So just FYI. When I was there, a carnival was taking part nearby so without air con, I had the window open and listened to children screaming on the rides for hours. Not fun.||Wifi is great in the rooms and water pressure is too. For being above a restaurant there was no street noise, restaurant noise or smells either, which was great. Location is great too on the bus from the train station.||Also, staff is nice but they are really focused more on the restaurant than guests upstairs. But if it’s not too busy in the restaurant, they’re very responsive.||I would consider staying here again and would recommend it as long as you’re aware of...

The hotel I stayed in sounds a different place to previous reviews! I’ve double checked the address - Dweerstraat 26 - to make sure it’s correct. It obviously used to be a hostel but is now a hotel. We had a shower and toilet in our room and breakfast was included. ||We had a lovely one night stay as a family of 3 and would definitely stay again. ||Good things - friendly staff at check in and at breakfast. |Location. Seemed like less than 5 minutes walk to everything we wanted to see. |Beautiful building on the outside. |3 big windows because we got a room st the front (I think there are probably only 2 of these). |Good shower. |Amazing breakfast. Melon, granola, yoghurt, orange juice, croissants, lots of spreads (jam, Nutella, biscoff, honey, pâté, cheese), bread rolls, eggs (which you could boil yourself to the desired hardness), bacon, cheese and coffee. ||Less good things - the toilet was tiny. We’re luckily not tall. I think if you were 6’ you’d need to have the door open to be able to sit down. (From reading previous reviews I wonder if this is because they had to find space to install en-suites). |There was some noise from other rooms - hair dryers etc. |No parking on site. (This turned out not to be a problem at all as Bruges is so small snd there is a car park across the road, but we had searched for hotels with parking so this took us by surprise on arrival). |Fold down bed for child had a big shelf above it (which it folds up into when not in use) which our son kept bumping his head on. ||We definitely hope to return. And next time we’d like to try the restaurant in...

The hotel I stayed in sounds a different place to previous reviews! I’ve double checked the address - Dweerstraat 26 - to make sure it’s correct. It obviously used to be a hostel but is now a hotel. We had a shower and toilet in our room and breakfast was included. ||We had a lovely one night stay as a family of 3 and would definitely stay again. ||Good things - friendly staff at check in and at breakfast. |Location. Seemed like less than 5 minutes walk to everything we wanted to see. |Beautiful building on the outside. |3 big windows because we got a room st the front (I think there are probably only 2 of these). |Good shower. |Amazing breakfast. Melon, granola, yoghurt, orange juice, croissants, lots of spreads (jam, Nutella, biscoff, honey, pâté, cheese), bread rolls, eggs (which you could boil yourself to the desired hardness), bacon, cheese and coffee. ||Less good things - the toilet was tiny. We’re luckily not tall. I think if you were 6’ you’d need to have the door open to be able to sit down. (From reading previous reviews I wonder if this is because they had to find space to install en-suites). |There was some noise from other rooms - hair dryers etc. |No parking on site. (This turned out not to be a problem at all as Bruges is so small snd there is a car park across the road, but we had searched for hotels with parking so this took us by surprise on arrival). |Fold down bed for child had a big shelf above it (which it folds up into when not in use) which our son kept bumping his head on. ||We definitely hope to return. And next time we’d like to try the restaurant in...