We chose Walcourt and Hostellerie Dispa as our home-base for a weekend in the Ardennes. The hotel itself if a nice combination of bar, wonderful restaurant, and B&B. The building is beautiful and the rooms are nice and spacious. Communicating with the owners/employees was a bit awkward since they spoke nothing more than French (not even Dutch) and my husband's French is a bit rusty. Still, the owner and everyone who we encountered was very very kind (so much so I wish I could give a better review).||||Plus-points:||- Dinner at the restaurant was great (despite some initial food allergy confusion)||- Rooms are beautiful||- Plenty of parking||||Negatives:||- Breakfast was very very disappointing (this coming from someone who doesn't eat much in the morning) and extremely expensive (€12...worth €5 max if you include the coffee).||- Two restless nights due to shouting and chaos erupting from the bar downstairs around 2 or 3AM each night. We could make out the voices clearly and there was no way to shut them out. All in all, we had to catch up on rest after...
Read moreWe chose Walcourt and Hostellerie Dispa as our home-base for a weekend in the Ardennes. The hotel itself if a nice combination of bar, wonderful restaurant, and B&B. The building is beautiful and the rooms are nice and spacious. Communicating with the owners/employees was a bit awkward since they spoke nothing more than French (not even Dutch) and my husband's French is a bit rusty. Still, the owner and everyone who we encountered was very very kind (so much so I wish I could give a better review).||||Plus-points:||- Dinner at the restaurant was great (despite some initial food allergy confusion)||- Rooms are beautiful||- Plenty of parking||||Negatives:||- Breakfast was very very disappointing (this coming from someone who doesn't eat much in the morning) and extremely expensive (€12...worth €5 max if you include the coffee).||- Two restless nights due to shouting and chaos erupting from the bar downstairs around 2 or 3AM each night. We could make out the voices clearly and there was no way to shut them out. All in all, we had to catch up on rest after...
Read moreWe arrived at 15.50 to be told the hotel closed between 16.00 and 18.00 and so we would have to wait in our car for 2 hours to be admitted. I persuaded the manager to let us in, however, and we were shown to a very nice clean room. Unfortunately there was no hot water so we could not take either a shower or bath. My enquiry about this was met with a shrug and an explanation that "there is a problem." We dined in the restaurant. Be warned, the portions are small, posh and very expensive. We ate dover sole and the flesh around the bone was raw. There was a very noisy party going on when we retired which was held right under our room - so no sleep. The two redeeming features were the cheerful lady who served us breakfast and the waitress/barmaid. The one night stay cost 178 euro with the one course meal for two and six beers. I would...
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