Yooma Urban Lodge

“Yooma Urban Lodge - The perfect family hotel”

We booked the Yooma Urban Lodge Brussels through Eurostar with our train ticket and it has to be one of the best hotels I've ever stayed in. It's certainly the best family hotel! My children (9 and 5) absolutely loved having their own space within our room whether that was the very spacious pod/b… more

We booked the Yooma Urban Lodge Brussels through Eurostar with our train ticket and it has to be one of the best hotels I've ever stayed in. It's certainly the best family hotel! My children (9 and 5) absolutely loved having their own space within our room whether that was the very spacious pod/bunk-beds; fitted with individual reading lights, sliding privacy panels and enough space within the bed frame for everything they needed, or being able to close the sliding doors to the double bedroom making it feel like two rooms in one. All of the rooms and hallways of the hotel are decorated with in a comic book theme, telling the story of Outside of the room they absolutely adored the free arcade/soft play room situated on the basement level of the hotel. This was perfect at the end of the day when it was getting too late for the youngest to be out but not yet so late that they were ready for bed. They made a few friends playing in here too and were very rarely playing alone as other family also said their children loved this feature of the hotel. Situated within a five minute walk of Brussels-midi it really is the perfect location for anyone travelling by Eurostar or train in/out of the station. Walking to the Grand Place took 20 minutes but the tram station is only just at the end of the square, for anyone not wanting to walk (a day ticket cost 10e pp or 30e for a family of four). Much to the joy of my 5 year old they are currently building another station to go up the other side of the city towards Brussels Central making this hotel even better situated for getting out and about. I'm really hoping that Yooma Uban Lodge hotels start appearing in other cities around Europe because it would be one of the factors when deciding where to go. Having one in Paris has already swayed us toward booking there.

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“Great experience, special thanks to Mr Guilley”

The location is very near to Brussels Midi station so this was quite convenient for us as we travelled by train quite often. The amenities were excellent for the kids with PlayStation and game rooms within the hotel. The rooms had great bunk beds for the kids. The room was spacious and clean. Break… more

The location is very near to Brussels Midi station so this was quite convenient for us as we travelled by train quite often. The amenities were excellent for the kids with PlayStation and game rooms within the hotel. The rooms had great bunk beds for the kids. The room was spacious and clean. Breakfast had great variety ranging from hot (bacon, scrambled eggs, sausages) to cold options (cold cuts, fruits, yoghurt, cereals, waffles etc). The room also had a coffee machine in it and a kettle. The hotel has a water cooler on the third floor so you don’t have to buy water at all. Mr Guilley at reception was fantastic. He couldn’t do enough for us. He made the great experience we already had even better. All members of staff were excellent and attentive. If you have children then I’d highly recommend this hotel. I’d definitely come back.

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“Worth a look”

Location, location, location. We stayed here for a week so that we would be very close to the train station but still close enough to the city center, which worked out perfectly for us as we took the trains for numerous day trips to near by cities (Ghent, Antwerp, Bastogne). If that is what you are… more

Location, location, location. We stayed here for a week so that we would be very close to the train station but still close enough to the city center, which worked out perfectly for us as we took the trains for numerous day trips to near by cities (Ghent, Antwerp, Bastogne). If that is what you are looking to do this is a good option. If you want to see Brussels city center - stay in the city center. The area around this hotel is not the best, but we never felt unsafe. There is also a TON of construction and rush hour traffic near here. The hotel itself was very nice and the staff were extremely nice and couldn’t do enough to make our stay comfortable.

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“Great hotel poor location”

The hotel itself is amazing, the cartoons on the walls are really something else, the staff is very supportive and polite and the buffet served for lunch and dinner had lots of options and was really good. I mainly gave this rating for two reasons: the location and the air conditioner. The locati… more

The hotel itself is amazing, the cartoons on the walls are really something else, the staff is very supportive and polite and the buffet served for lunch and dinner had lots of options and was really good. I mainly gave this rating for two reasons: the location and the air conditioner. The location is horrendous, I’m from Brazil and I honestly didn’t feel comfortable walking around the neighborhood, people were always staring and I wasn’t even sure if I had to ask my wife to change her dress because it seemed like the culture was a little bit different there. As it turns out, the hotel is in Anderlecht, a commune and is one of the most violent in Brussels from what I’ve researched, there’s a lot of people screaming at each other and beggars, so what I did was calling a taxi to go to wherever I needed. Now to the air conditioner, it simply doesn’t work, I tried to open the window to let the air from the outside in, since it was cooler than inside the room with the A/C set to 10°C but then you lose all your privacy and the air flow wasn’t great since it was facing the other side of the rooms. Beyond that, you don’t have a mini fridge on your room, you need to go to the third floor to fill your bottles directly from a fountain that serves still and sparkling water, this was actually great since I just spent two days there but the mini fridge might have been missed if I stayed longer. I wouldn’t return to the hotel only because of its location, hopefully they will give a face lift to that region since there’s a lot of sites under construction when I visited and maybe things get better. Crossing S*x Shops, CBD Shops and dodging beggars as soon as I hopped off the train and alongside the way to the hotel was definitely not a good experience.

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