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Stayed in the Four Point Brussels. A small charm, simple hotel. The front desk staff is very helpful and friendly. There is a small wellness center on sixth floor with hot tub, steam room, suna, a double headed shower. But it is somewhat UNISEX. A lot of tour groups use the hotel. The rooms facing the garden are much quieter and if you want leave the window open, you will hear the bird singing in the morning. The hotel did not provide much information on local resturant or stores close by or tram information which is very useful to get around the town since no Metro station is close to the hotel. I list the information here so someone else may save some trouble. From airport take train 95 BF (about $2.00) (if you go there during weekend and return during weekend, a discounted round trip for 140 bf instead of 190, there are ATM in the terminal pass the gate). Get off at Brussels Zudi station (South station, one station past Central) following signs to tram 81/82. Tram and metro use the same kind of ticket. Tram stops (major ones) post a map and a schedules and direction stop names etc for each line). Get off at Rue Lesbroussant and you will see a big sign on the front building pointed to the street Four Point is on (A small street with a market at the front). Zudi is a realative new station compare to central and nord station in Brussels. There is a big local market around Zudi on Sunday. If you take 81 all the way to Monganmory direction, you will see the 1920 exp buildings where now host the auto mesuem and military mesuem. The stop is three stops before Mongamory. There is tram 94/93 that close to the hotel as well. It goes to the Royal Palace and low town to the Grand Place (nice resturants and charm looking during night). Brussels is cheap to fly to but everything else is more expensive than even Paris. The beach town Knokke and the medieval town Brugge (about 1 1/2 hour train ride from Zudi)worth explore if you get bored in Brussels. If you go there on weekend and return on weekend or holidays, you can save almost 50% on train fare (standard fare 740 bf to Brugge or 420 bf for weekend). Check with conductor or the ticket office to ask where you have to change train. It was strange for both destination, there is no direct train to get there but there is direct train to come back to Brussels. No SPG properties in these two cities. I wish they did. They are much more interesting than Brussels.

Anyway, hope this information may benefit some other members of this board down the road.