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Yann Casparini I am a hotel manager. With a hundred of contemporary hotel managers we created this travel magazine to share our selection of addresses and tips.
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Pantone Hotel, Brussels: Travelling in color!

• 18 Jun, 2010 • Catégorie: Belgium, One hotel a day

Paris has the Champs Elysees, Barcelona Las Ramblas, New York the Fifth Avenue. That’s not a problem, Brussels has its temple of fashion and design: the Avenue Louise, in the city center, where the Pantone Hotel took up residence. A name that refers to the color specialist for nearly 40 years and gave birth [...]



Be Manos: make your bets!

• 7 May, 2010 • Catégorie: Belgium, One hotel a day

The essential question to plan a weekend to Brussels is whether you want to stay in a hotel or design one of the many business hotels that populate the Belgian capital. The be Manos, luxury 5-star, creates a mini-tsunami on the local hotel offers. The result is stunning: 60 contemporary rooms, which rhymes with [...]



Boutique hotel in Brussels: do you know Odette en ville?

• 1 Feb, 2010 • Catégorie: Belgium, One hotel a day

Once entered the hotel Odette en Ville, hundreds of questions get to me: where am I? What happened to Odette? Did she switch her country boots for a pair of Jimmy Choo? Would this daring name be actually a wildly unusual place? It must be said that the atmosphere is nicely planted between tables [...]



Relais Ravestein in Bruges: a historic dive in the Venice of the north

• 14 Jul, 2009 • Catégorie: Belgium, Historic, One hotel a day, Romantic, Waterfront

Bruges bares a new treasure: the Relais Ravestein. At first sight, the building looks plain and the decoration looks sober. But do not rely on these appearances because behind these underestimated walls is an elegant hotel, with a design that’s unique in its kind. Renovated with taste and particular attention to details, this 15th century [...]



The Dominican: medieval night in Brussels

• 16 Jun, 2009 • Catégorie: Belgium, Historic, One hotel a day

Located on the corner of the rue Leopold, right next to the Monnaie Theater, the Dominican draws you to the center of the continent for a trip through time. In this remarkable place, where Eurocrats from different horizons meet, an eclectic modernism is mixed with sublimities from the past. Well inspired, Belgian designers Colin Finnegan [...]



Carbon Hotel: Mineral and high-class stay in Belgium

• 20 Mar, 2009 • Catégorie: Belgium, One hotel a day

In the 19th century, Genk region in Belgium lived through the coal mines, essential minerals for life, be it for human or for the Earth. From the past, nothing remains today except a design hotel, which seems to be extracted from soil and its decoration lie around dark design and the value of coal theme, [...]



Hotel Julien: a jewel in the diamond city

• 2 Jan, 2009 • Catégorie: Belgium, One hotel a day

Nestled in the historic district of Antwerp, Hotel Julien is a haven of peace. Around a green patio, stand two typically Antwerp former homes. Recently renovated, this boutique hotel of 11 rooms is a contemporary and elegant address in the heart of the quiet Belgium city.

The owner, Mrs Van Hool, is a designer and you [...]



Hotel Bloom: blossom between four walls!

• 25 Dec, 2008 • Catégorie: Belgium, One hotel a day

Imagine 305 white similar size rooms on 8 floors, each with white and beige bedding and a deep green carpet covering the ground. Rather monotonous isn’t it? But then imagine that in each room, a colourful and unique fresco has been painted by an inventive and daring artist in the making. Open your eyes, you’re [...]



A luxury hotel in Brussels which bring the vibration of senses…

• 24 Jun, 2008 • Catégorie: Belgium, One hotel a day

In one of the trendy neighborhoods of the capital, in one of the liveliest streets of downtown, the “Pacific Coffee” has been rearranged in its volumes and a whole by architect Marc Humblet and beautifully decorated colors, fabrics and various subtleties, conferring a sense of genuine haven of peace, by Mia Zia to create the [...]