Hi everyone,
Please, I need some tips to plan my lone long weekend in Belgium, arriving Mar 13 at 10 pm.
1. What will the weather be like?
2. I plan to spend some time in Brussels, also in Brugge, maybe 2 days each. What other cities or places are worth visiting? Antwerp?
3. How far is Luxembourg from Brussels? Is it possible to make a one day trip? Maybe Waterloo?
4. I%26#39;d appreciate any advice on best tickets fares and how to save on trains, etc. to those places.
I really hope someone can help me. Thank you so much.
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1. Your guess is as good as ours, but you can find averages on here www.weatherforecastmap.com/belgium/brussels/
2. It depends on how much time you have and what you want to see, if you only have 4 days I would say that Brussels and Brugge are enough for this time of year, but check out %26quot;Belgium attractions%26quot; in the list on the left.
3. It is just possible to do Luxembourg in a day, it takes 2h51 minutes by train and there is one at 45 minutes past each hour from the Gare du Nord (also stops at other Brussels stations but you don%26#39;t say which would be the most convenient to where you are staying).
For Waterloo, you would take TEC bus W (or a couple of De Lijn buses whose numbers I%26#39;ve forgotten) from outside Brussels Gare du Midi, in Avenue Fonsny in front of the Hotel Ibis. I think it costs about 3 EUR one way, but it might be worth asking for a day ticket as I think this may cost 5 EUR, saving you 1 EUR on a return ticket. For the battlefield you need to get off AFTER Waterloo village, in Mont St. Jean - ask the driver to let you off at %26quot;butte de lion%26quot; (lion mount). You might also want to stop at the Wellington Museum in Waterloo on the way there or back, it%26#39;s right opposite the bus stop (and a church).
4. Train fare fom Brussels to Brugge is about €13.60 one-way, and half-price at weekends for a return ticket, so this would be the price for a return ticket at the weekend. All RETURN rail tickets are half price at weekends within Belgium, but I don%26#39;t think this would apply to Luxembourg, which costs something like €28 one way. The guys in the railway ticket offices are very good at finding you the best value ticket for the time you want to travel.
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Thank you for the tips,
How about rail tickets - is it necessary to book in advance or they are available and easy to buy right before leaving?
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For train tickets, with the exception of Eurostar (London) and Thalys (Paris, Amsterdam, Cologne..) you just turn up and buy them on the spot, or if you are afraid of a delay before departure, you can call by a convenient station and buy them the night before provided you specify date of travel. It isn%26#39;t possible to reserve a seat on local trains anyway, and they don%26#39;t stop selling when they reach capacity, if the train was full you would just have to stand (has happened to me only once, going to Ghent).
For TEC bus tickets (Waterloo) you buy them on the bus.
Note that if you are buying tickets for the Brussels transport system, STIB, from next month these will cost more if bought on the bus or tram (€2 per ticket instead of €1.50) than if purchased beforehand. You can buy single-trip tickets, multi-trip tickets, 1-day/3-day etc. tickets from the machines in metro stations, which have instructions in English as well as French, Dutch and German.
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Great, thank you so much for the detailed info.
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