Hotel de Flandre

The location was perfect for me because it was close to the places where I had meetings and in the morning it was fairly easy to get out of Ghent. The room was clean and everything other than the light in the bathroom worked as intended.

The room was in another building for which the instructions were confusing. Could've made it clear if the receptionist would just walk to the exit and show me which way the other building is. No parking meant that I had to leave the car in a nearby parking garage and pay extra. The light in the bathroom was kinda broken, the switch didn't function properly and one of the light bulbs was exposed which is a bit risky in a bathroom.

I loved that they serve proper coffee for breakfast, which is rich and diverse. The location is excellent, the room is okay: neat and clean.

The basic room temperature was 17C, which I find rather low in November. I could heat it up in about an hour till 21.5C. But once you remove the electronic card (because you’re leaving the room) heating stops working.

The hotel is situated right in the city centre. The breakfast was great, the staff was excellent. We were placed in an annexe building across the street from the main hotel site, which had its own little garden and benches to sit on - great for smokers.

The bathrooms within our rooms had walls that went only about halfway up to the ceiling. This means that inside the room you can hear (and smell) everything that is going on within the bathroom - be it the other person taking a shower, be it something else. Apparently this is a thing: the open bathroom concept. I had no idea that something like that even existed, and I wouldn't recommend such a room to anyone.