Bruges how long

Thanks also, for your hotel recommendations. I will check them out, as well. We just came back from a trip to Belgium and spent 1 day in Brugges and it was great. We pretty much felt satisfied with 1 day of sightseeing. Try going to Antwerp for a day and Brussels.

I would say 2 days should be plenty with time to spare in Brugges. It's a small town, but adorable and full of culture and art. Truly my favorite town in Belgium. If I could live in Europe, it would be Bruges. We spent 2 nights in Bruges 3 years ago. It was a special experience for us. Benno and Frieda make you feel like a king and queen. I could spend hours in the Groening museum alone.

Oh and the memling museum, I could also spend 2 hours in there alone. But I love that Flemish art. My next trip may be a London, Bruges trip.

I plan on maybe 5 and 6 days in each town, respectively. I want to use Bruges as my headquarters as I day trip to other towns in Belgium. This post is unusual. Typically on this site any question about how long to stay somewhere becomes like a bidding war. Someone will say two nights, the next says three, then four, five - and on it goes. By the end of the thread you need a full month to begin to appreciate the place. The fact that the concensus is no more than two nights is worth noting.

I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin. If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me but I didn't, so it doesn't.

I am not sure who Michael is quoting, but I will probably love Bruges. I grew up on a farm and so was so retarded that my parents made me sleep in the barn until the day I left for college.

OK, Brad, this is just for you I and my husband and his parents could easily spend two weeks in Bruges! So there ;- And Roy, if you haven't seen the movie "In Bruges" and have a high tolerance for R-rated language and violence, do watch it before your trip It does kind of matter when you are there. I have gone in the winter and it was nice, but one day was enough for me. We then went once in the summer and after a couple of hours, we were fed up completely and got out of town as quickly as we could.

It was so packed with tourists that nothing was enjoyable. I would much rather go to some other cute town that doesn't have the hoards of buses. Some people adore cute no matter if 50 tour buses are also adoring it and others of us feel too many tourists negates any cuteness. It also depends on what else you have seen and experienced. Brugge may be the first medieval town you have ever seen and it is gonna blow your socks off.

If you have traveled all around Europe and seen multiple medieval towns, you will enjoy Brugge, but it ain't gonna keep you up at night ooohing and aaahing. Ah, BradMath Got it. Thanks Ed. Everyone's different. I've been all over Europe many times, grew up in France, have seen hundreds of cute towns and medieval towns, and I loved Bruges.

Could easily have stayed longer than the 3 days we were there. We were there in July of '08 and it was not jam-packed with tourists.

It was very pleasant. I visited Bruges several years ago. Two nights seemed rushed; three nights would be better. There are museums, etc to visit and it is a pleasant city for walking and browsing. Two nights in Bruge in plenty. We enjoyed it, but it is very touristy. Food in Bruge was not too good. We stayed at the Hotel Fevery, we enjoyed it but it was a bit of a walk to town.

I seem to be the only person in the world who preferred Brussels to Bruges. Everybody and their brother told me how Bruges was the hidden gem of Europe and just had to be seen but I found it very disappointing. Brussels on the other hand, is a city that everyone I know has bad things to say about but I loved it. Hell, 30 minutes in the Grand Place was more enjoyable than an entire day in Bruges. But, like I said, I am obviously in the minority.

I'll bet those same people think Gimmelwald and Rothenburg are "Back Doors". But I agree with Rik about Brussels. It isn't nearly as immediately pretty, and there are some areas that, quite frankly, are ugly although go outside the tourist zone in Brugge and you'll see much of the same.

It takes some effort, but everytime I go there I discover something else interesting. Despite the rumor, there's far more than the Grand Place and Mannekin Pis. View Results. Mail will not be published. Ever wondered how long you need to spend in a particular city or place? You can spend hours crawling the web trying to find a well informed answer.

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How many days in Prague ». They may have well chucked an umbrella and a sparkler on top just to make sure everyone noticed. Well fuck the critics, it was delicious, but went down far too quickly for 2pm on a Monday!

I switched to the local Donker or dark beer to re-gain some credibility, though they also have a tasting set of four beers to try if you want to dig in for a long afternoon. The food was good too you can find a menu here. Typical Brits, coming to Belgium and sticking to what we know — a cheese sandwich and bright red beer. We meandered through countless alleyways, drooled over stacks of chocolate in window displays and eventually ended up back home.

Tall walls and huge doorways, mean lots of dark little nooks and crannies. It reminds me very much of York in that respect, and having taken a ghost tour whilst we were there last year, my mind went into overdrive. I tripped over a loose cobble but nothing more sinister to report!

So many great cities take on a new life at night, and Bruges is no exception. There is a peaceful elegance after dark here. The party capitals of Barcelona or Prague feel a long way off, and the day-trip tour groups have long headed back to Amsterdam or Brussels. The buildings are sympathetically lit, highlighting soft yellows in the stone against inky skies. Bruges is European cafe culture at its best. The alleyways and squares bounce beer-merry conversations off stone walls.

No stag dos, no street drinking, no clubs. To start day two, we walked the canal path to the east of the city out to the old windmills. The windmills in Bruges were an unexpected surprise. When I saw a photo of them on Instagram I thought they were in The Netherlands , but here they are, inside the city walls.

Originally there were around 23 of them, providing flour and corn to the residents, but now only four remain. Some are straight reconstructions, whereas others have been relocated from local villages. Only one of the four stands on the original site of a windmill if you want to geek out some more read this post. Jeruzalemkerk turned out to be a wonderful find for more than just the relics.

It was 8 Euros to get in, but worth every penny. Next up was the Musee De Chocolat. Yes, yes there were. Just about enough to stop any cocoa-based rioting, but not so many as to render the shop at the end obsolete.

At the end, there was a great chocolate demonstration which thankfully ended in the chocolate created being distributed amongst the crowd. Just round the corner from the Chocolate Museum is the kind of chocolate shop that appears in sugar-induced dreams. For a short tour that takes in some of the quietest and most beautiful sections of the canal, take Spanjaardstraat beside Jan de Clerckwalk up to Gouden-Handrei then take a right onto Sint-Annarei before following Groenerei back to behind the main tourist areas.

To start day three we headed south, to Minnewaterpark. They are places chosen to be protected for the future of humanity, which is a pretty big brag!

On arrival in Bruges I thought there was only one site, but was very excited to find there was a second — the Belfry in the centre formed part of a collection of Belfries in France and Belgium awarded the status. My excitement when I saw the sign as I left was genuine, excessive and more than a little pathetic. The Belfry of Bruges is the most iconic construction in the city. Up a few steps, built into what looked like a brick-built chimney there was a door.