Aazaert ****

Very good 4 stars hotel for reasonable price. Very helpful personel help with every request. Medium choice breakfast menu. Very good kitchem - every day new full menu - no other choice, but excellent quality. If you like French cousine its worth to go there. In hotel is 11m swimming pool available for all guests for free. Excellent meeting room with its own small terrace and open terrace open for all guests. Nice to reste there. Good choice. Hotel rooms are without minibar, but equiped with fritch, so you can bring drinks from bar next to reception at any time.

Beware, most rooms have no air conditioning and rooms at the front are too noisey to keep the windows open at night. Staff very helpful and polite. Nice 11m swimming pool. Clean and comfortable, no drink facilities in the rooms.

I stayed in the Aazaert hotel 3 nights, paying 80 euro per night (I see in the review below somebody paid 150 euro?). For this price the quality was great and even better than other big-chain 4 star hotels costing twice this amount. This hotel is more a family run hotel, so for example the girl at the bar is the same girl that will clean the rooms. So they know you very quickly, which gives a nice atmosphere. The staff are also very flexible, for example at the bar. I did not like the room at first instance, but when having a better look I had to change my mind. The room was very clean and comfortable and I liked the the set up of the bathroom which was very comfy. (toilet seperate from bathroom). Note that all rooms are different. A few negative small details: I did not like the blankets (2 small blankets on a 2 person bed) and felt like the towels and other toilet stuff (shampoo) was not adequatly replaced. Wireless internet was available. Lunches and breakfast I had at Aazaert were great. Our meeting room on the fifth floor with sun bath terrace was very nice. Parking is indeed a problem like everywhere in Blankenberge.

Upon arrival, nobody help you with the luggages. Garage is just 200 m. from the hotel. The hotel without service: 160 euros the night breakfast included (Mr/Mrs + 9 yrs child). To be paid extra: bathrobe to rent 5 euros each, slippers for 4 euros, breakfast delivered to the room supplement of 8 euros PER PERSON. Toilet articles in the bathroom unworthy, tiny bath towels. Extra pillows missing in the room. Absolute cold and neutral decorative style. In fact the hotel has to make a maximum of money without being concerned with the customers. Internet, even at the reception or the bar nearby, is charged. The covered carpark 17 euros the night. Half-board (let's say all but gastronomical), an error or rather a horror: three St-Jacques scallops too cooked and heated, followed by steaklet of duck swimming in 5 mm of a sauce of not certified origin. I am astonished not to have read any comment on this hotel. I will surely not have gone there. Please no more.