Le Dixseptième

We stayed at Le Dixseptieme for 4 nights in Sept 2015. Our reasons for being a fan are the location, size of the room and the relatively low cost for the room. The hotel is a very short walk from the Brussel Central station which is very good for arrivals and departures. We were in the «new» section of the hotel (The old part was once a residence.) The room had plenty of room and faced into the courtyard and was therefore quiet. However, it is where folks smoke and if you opened your windows you sometimes smoke with them.
A warning if you have mobility issues. To get to the new section we had to navigate two small stairs cases and pass through an outdoor courtyard. There is a small elevator between floors. However, it is quiet small.
As we saw noted in other reviews on the web, the hotel lacks in terms of friendliness. Some of this is due to the layout. You enter through a hallway like passage. To get to anything that looks like a lobby, you must turn through a non disrupt door where the desk clerk sits behind a desk and is hard to see. It makes interaction difficult at best.
The breakfast seemed expensive with nothing special to draw us in. o, we ate at other area restaurants and git a larger variety for less money.

As an almost full time traveler, I am a business member with most major hotel chains/​conglomerates. Usually, when travelling internationally, I use Unilocal or TripAdvisor to assist with finding the highest rated hotels. For some reason or other, Le Dixseptieme was the highest rated hotel (only 4 reviews) in the Brussels area. I did not think it was even close.
Cons first…
1. There is no parking associated with this hotel. If you have a car, you can park it at the Grote Markt Underground parking lot about 1.5 blocks from the hotel for 14.9 Euro/​24 hours.
2. Every room has AC but you have to contact the front desk to turn it on.
3. The room had no shampoo/​conditioner.
4. The shower handle was completely broken in the tub area allowing some pretty weird looking bugs to run out through the holes and into the bathroom.
5. The high price is associated entirely with the fact that a) its located right next to the Grand Palace and b) apparently the building is, itself, a historic monument… although I’m not sure why.
6. The standard eggs/​bacon/​cheese/​bread breakfast is 20Euro.
7. Weak WiFi
Here are the pros…
1. The Reception was very friendly/​helpful and ready to assist whenever called upon.
2. You really cant beat the location. Its 2 blocks from Grand Palace!
3. The rooms have a nice little couch area for music/​reading.
I would not rate this a four star hotel, maybe a 3 star (?), however you cant beat the location. I wouldn’t recommend this hotel to others. I never thought I say this but somehow the Best Western has become a luxury brand outside the US and you can stay there (right across the street from the Le Dix) for the same price and a plethora of additional amenities.

Five star service and amenities, perfect quiet location steps from the hubbub of the square. Huge room and great bathroom, excellent service. Very charming, would definitely recommend.

We loved this place.
Right in the center of the old part of Brussels and literally 5 minutes from the train station. Compared to Paris and Amsterdam, it was an absolute steal.
Friendly, helpful staff. Wonderful breakfast.
Our room was huge. The sitting room was bigger than our entire hotel room in Paris. The bedroom was bigger than our bedroom in Paris. The bathroom was bigger than our bedroom in Paris.
And we had a private outdoor patio. And, yes, it was bigger than our entire bedroom in Paris.
Quiet at night. An amazing, modern bathroom, Internet, cable TV.
The only thing smaller than at our hotel in Paris was the bill.
We absolutely hated checking out and moving on.

This hotel was a great find.
**Room was great. We got a «superior suite» in the classic section, it was 2-​floors and lots of old stonework and exposed wood beams, with original art and sculptures. Tons of space, 2 sofa’s that each pull out into a full-​size bed, plus a bedroom upstairs.
**Location: perfect. Right on the Place D’Espagne, a 2 minute walk from the Grote Markt, maybe an 8-​minute walk from the Fine Arts museum complex up the hill.
**Price — expensive. Those «steep discounts on weekends» that Brussels is supposed to be famous for didn’t materialize, but it was at least a discount off of the rack rate.
**Breakfast — top notch. One batch of croissants was literally hot out of the oven — as in, they bake them onsite. Full euro brekafast bar, with eggs, bacon, MEATS, cheese, fruit, yogurt, etc. They serve it from 7−10ish.
**One complaint — the upstairs bed was 2 twin beds pushed together. I only associate that with cheap hotels. I was about to ding them a star for it but …
The night before we checked out, I asked advice about airport taxi the next day. She said that it would cost 30 Euro’s with all our bags (turned out it was 50 Euros, but we may have gotten a nicer private car, which was fine).
She asked us what time our flight was, and we said 10, we’ll get to the airport at 8. After consulting with her colleague, she strongly advised us to arrive 3 hours prior, per airport guidelines.
THEN, they offered to open the breakfast a half hour early, at 6:30, so we could eat and still arrive for our flight on time. So there’s that star again. :-)

Un des plus beaux hôtels de Bruxelles à ma connaissance ! Le Dixseptième aurait pu s’appeler Le Dixseptième ciel tant cet hôtel est, non seulement splendide, idéalement placé à deux minutes de la Grand Place.
Ce n’est donc pas étonnant qu’il soit classé monument et fasse partie de la zone Unesco de Bruxelles.
Sa façade est juste un avant-​goût de son intèrieur au décor cosy, chaleureux et malgré sa situation, c’est un hôtel calme !!!
Le tarif d’une nuité n’est pas excessif pour un hôtel de cette catégorie, comptez 160 euros en tarif normal mais il y a souvent des promotions.
N’oubliez pas que, comme dans beaucoup d’hôtels de cette qualité, c’est un plaisir d’aller juste y boire un verre sans avoir à y dormir !