It is potentially a very nice hotel, built in what was a bank, spacious entrance, nice courtyard for sitting outside, very clean and well located. The bathroom was excellent and so were all the fittings. BUT the road on which it is situated has been dug up to such an extent that it looks like a war zone. Not only no traffice, but a really dangerous walk on what is left of the sidewalk, rubble, metal plates placed over parts of it, even a great big hole over which one was supposed to jump - I turned back to the end of the road. It is quite a long walk to get to an open road, and there is only one place to cross over, if you are brave enough. That means no parking, no taxis to the front door, you'd have to carry your case from around the corner. I don't think many municipalities would allow construction work as dangerous as this for pedestrians. I would avoid it until the building works are over. M oreover Antwerp suffers from being a cycle-priority city. No taxis seen cruising, very few cars, cyclists and scooter riders plough straight through pedestrians everywhere, especially on the main shopping street, so you really have to look out for yourself. The consequence seems to be many closed shops, few cafes, a dead atmosphere in this area, which was just north of the main shoppig street, Meir, and close to the university. Breakfast was good but pine nuts or something similar were scattered over everything. There was fruit salad, mostly melon, but a lack of fresh fruit even at the height of summer, not even a banana. Background music playing at breakfast. The bedroom, advertised as "cosy", was tiny, you had to skirt sideways around the bed and the wardrobe was about 12" wide.
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