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Hotel Metropole vs MEININGER Hotel Bruxelles City Center
Both hotels are rated very highly by travel writers. On balance, Hotel Metropole scores significantly higher than MEININGER Hotel Brussels City Center. Hotel Metropole has a TripExpert Score of 90 with endorsements from 10 publications such as DK Eyewitness, Travel + Leisure and Michelin Guide.
Hotel Metropole
Michelin Guide
Concierge
Lonely Planet
Travel + Leisure
DK Eyewitness
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Place De Brouckere 31, Brussels, Brussels 1000, Belgium
From $114 /night
- Pet Friendly
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Free Breakfast
- Laundry Service
Michelin Guide
"Period lobby and lounges, a retro-style lounge bar with columns, a piano and frescoes, and luxurious bedrooms and suites."
Concierge
"A robust and blowsy dowager duchess of a hotel, this 298-room Victorian has seen continuous service since 1895—amazingly, it's the only 19th-century survivor in the city."
Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"This 1895 showpiece has a jaw-droppingly sumptuous French Renaissance–style foyer with marble walls, coffered ceiling and beautifully etched stained-glass back windows."
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Travel + Leisure
"Though some may argue the Belgian capital is on the cusp of a design and style revolution, history continues to resonate from icons like the Hotel Metropole."
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DK Eyewitness
"Built 1895, this plush hotel boasts striking architecture and a mix of French Renaissance, Empire and Art Deco styles."
MEININGER Hotel Bruxelles City Center
Frommer's
Oyster
The Telegraph
Wallpaper
Quai du Hainaut 33, Saint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussels 1080, Belgium
From $65 /night
- Pet Friendly
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Laundry Service
- Laundy Room
- Multilingual
Frommer's
"The German Meininger hotel group made a shrewd move when they took over the former Belleville brewery."
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Oyster
Mid-Range
"Stylish and modern, the lower-middle-range Meininger Hotel Brussels City Center is part hotel, part hostel, with more than 700 beds occupying 150 rooms."
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The Telegraph
7.0
"A former brewery is the industrial setting for this novel property, part of a dynamic German chain that aims to bring hotel standards to youth hostel culture."
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Wallpaper
"Housed in a redbrick building, in what used to be the former Bellevue brewery next to the canal in Brussels, these new carbon neutral lodgings are a cheerful mix between budget hotel and hostel."
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