ibis Brussels Centre Gare Midi 3 estrelas

Simple and clean room. Bed was comfortable. Back rooms are calm but front ones can be noisy. Breakfast is generous. Just in front of central train station and a good walking distance to Brussels central square. During weekend it's crowded and if you check-in late in the afternoon you may find quite queue on the front desk, that may take you some nice 20min until you get the concierge.

We booked a family room here for a long weekend when visiting other family members and friends in Brussels. So the location very close to Brussels Midi station was perfect for us. The family room was fairly spacious, and clean, with a decent small bathroom (great shower). Shower gel & shampoo were provided but there was no tea / coffee machine or any other extras. Reasonably comfy bed, good bedlinen & towels. We didn't opt for breakfast as we thought it expensive at 17 euros each. There were few breakfast options nearby: best were at the station itself (Panos simple but recommended; likewise the places in the food court, which had better coffee). The restaurant was closed when we were there. One evening we ate in the bar - very restricted menu, pizza (13 euros) was OK, served with no salad or other accompaniment. A few different beers were available (5 euros+) with a decent large TV tuned to the football. Bar opening hours were restricted and there was barely any other lounge space: the few available chairs & sofa were occupied by Eurostar staff every time we looked. So nowhere much to sit other than in your room. The helpful (but ...) left-luggage facility was not easy to use: most lockers were either already occupied or not working. There were no detailed instructions. We wasted a lot of our, and the receptionist's, time dealing with this. The area outside can seem quite rough especially in the evening, so if you're going out, it's better to use a taxi if coming back after dark. It's about a 25-minute walk to the Grand'Place: the walk is not very pleasant at the moment as much of the road Ave. Stalingrad is currently being dug up. We would consider staying again but would look for improvements in all of the above first (option for more reasonably-priced breakfast; better bar menu; open restaurant; more lounge spaces - is it really necessary to close off the bar outside bar-opening hours?; left-luggage lockers; end of the building work in the road outside).

Very handy hotel if arriving by Eurostar, hotel opposite station. Head onto main station concourse area and then towards platform 22. Hotel on main road exit. Area a bit forbidding/ edgy at night as rough sleepers and numbers of single males hanging around outside station. Ibis has security at front door plus station security staff( at night ) on roads outside. All Ibis staff friendly and helpful but you need to use your room key for everything ( lifts , ground floor public toilets ) . Breakfast buffet including hot and cold items , plentiful. Good transport links ( bus and trains and metro) . As at all busy stations be wary of pickpockets. Walk from hotel to Grand Place about 15 to 20 minutes( cross through station out at Eurostar terminal, turn right head out down Av de Stalingrad and keep going straight , eventually changes into Rue de Midi and tourist signs show right turn to Grand Place) . Currently lots of roadworks going on ( Mar 2023) but there are restaurants in area, some steak houses and fair number of Algerian/Morrocan / Spanish cafes . Often populated with seemingly by males . Sunday morning North African market is weekly event ( road next to station ).

We spent two nights here and booked it due to the proximity to the train station for easy access as we were travelling on international trains. Unfortunately we did not realise that the Midi train station is very dirty and grimy and the area around it seems quite unsafe. There is even a security guard right at the hotel door and fortunately the lifts have to have your key present to work. There do not appear to be any restaurants nearby, besides the fast foods in the train station itself. Our room was quite spacious and there was no outside noise. The bathroom looked like it needed a bit of an upgrade and the towels were a bit threadbare. The room was pretty clean. Breakfast is the standard Ibis buffet which included a lot of cold and hot items. A couple of the plates were dirty and some of the cutlery too. The receptionists were generally helpful, especially as the luggage storage lockers were full and we needed to leave our bags for a few hours after check-out before our evening flight. The arranged for storage in another locked area and then gave us a key so we could access a bathroom before we left for the airport. I would not choose this hotel again, not because the hotel was too bad, but because of its location. If I visit Brussels again I will try the Ibis near Grad Place and Central Station. Brussels should really improve the general upkeep of the public transport and streets.

What a cozy Ibis this was! Good room size, good service, decent bathroom size. Smart locker system for luggage storage. Right across from the train station. Overall impressed. Very noisy though but that's the location just across the train Station