pentahotel Brussels Airport

Localisation was ok-ish mostly due to the fact it is close to the place of my work. But overall it's a bit on the side from everything like shops and utilities. Communication is in okay distance about 10 minutes to train station, and 5 to bus stop with limited buses coming that way.

Photos shown on hotel profile are looking very nice, while the standard room looks completely different. I only noticed that the standard room photos are available under some small letters link after I made reservation - which was non-refundable at that point. The room was terribly small with barely any place besides bed, the chair for the desk could be barely pulled out from under the desk that you could sit there. There was direct hole in the wall - going to outside which I guess worked as some sort of ventilation. It was covered by some small metal plate with holes - which you could pull out as you wished. Window had metal frame which added to the hole in the wall made it so that the room could get very cold depending on weather conditions. On top of that the air conditioner seemed to be barely working and made really loud - broken machinery type - noises, and wasn't really working according to what you put on the control box - thermostat was definitely not working correctly there. During my stay of 2 weeks and 3 days I managed to count 3 different types of bugs in the room. Acoustic isolation is also non-existent, you can hear everything from the hallway, outside and the rooms next to you even when people are talking in normal voice/watching TV. Same with the shower, toilet, MASSIVE wooden sliding doors on metal wheels on a metal frame. In the booking I made I chose single king-sized bed instead it's just two small beds put next to each other. Cleaning service could also be questioned, sometimes it took 2-3 days to clean little dirt coming from the shoes - but that's minor issue with everything else in mind. Oh and you get free 2 Mbps WiFi access and no this is not 16 Mbps = 2 MBps deal, want more - pay 7.5 Euro per day (little less if you take for more days if i recall correctly).