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special care to serve local
produce, plus home-made
jams, breads and pastries.

Half Board
An increasing number of
gourmet hotel-restaurants –
particularly those in a rural
setting – offer excellent value
half-board packages. These
include a daily meal at the
hotel’s restaurant and allow
visitors to sample a wide range
of outstanding local cuisine.
Chic, well-equipped room in the Grand Hotel Cravat (see p271), Luxembourg City
hotels themselves. The Visit cost. Breakfast may be a simple Internet Information
Brussels tourist office and Continental one with a choice Most hotels and many bed-
website offers a reservation of croissants and other and-breakfasts provide a Wi-Fi
service, as does the pastries, bread rolls, jam and Internet connection, and this is
Luxembourg City Tourist butter, and tea or coffee. often free of charge. All major
Office. Likewise, many local hotels, many of the smaller
tourist offices will reserve ones, and some bed-and-
accommodation for visitors. breakfast establishments, have
Airbnb.com lists private homes their own websites. Check
that are for rent. hotels.com for more
information on hotels.
Hotel Facilities
Most hotels above the budget Disabled Travellers
or one-star category have rooms Hotels in Luxembourg and
with ensuite bathroom facilities. Belgium take the needs of
A television comes with virtually disabled travellers seriously.
every room across the price Most have rooms designed
range. These usually have a for wheelchair-bound guests.
range of European channels It is worth remembering,
provided by a cable link. Phone however, that many hotels are
calls using the landlines in hotel Breakfast plate from a buffet, with in historic buildings and may
rooms can be very expensive. pastries and fruit not be suitable (many do not
Many hotels have tea- and have lifts). Most hotels allow the
coffee-making facilities in the A full buffet breakfast will offer visually handicapped to bring
rooms. They may also have cereals, cold meats, sliced a guide-dog on the premises.
minibars, with a range of cheese, boiled eggs, yoghurt, It is essential to ask in advance
alcoholic drinks, mixers, fruit juice fruit juices, fresh fruit and more. about the facilities available.
and mineral water, as well as Some hotel-restaurants focus Bruxelles Pour Tous and the
some Belgian beer; prices should on gourmet food, just as some Access-Able Travel Source
be supplied and are not always rural bed-and-breakfasts take have some listings.
exorbitant. Many of the top
city hotels, and some leading
country hotels, have fitness
and spa facilities, including
saunas and gymna siums, but
only a handful have swimming
pools, which are more common
in the countryside.

Breakfast
It is important to establish
whether breakfast is included
in the price of the room; where
it is not, guests may find that
this is an expensive additional The four-star La Butte aux Bois (see p268), set amid sprawling lawns in Lanaken

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