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Elegant and sophisticated, the five-star Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place boasts the best location in Brussels. Just off the world-famous Grand Place and in front of the Grand Casino Brussels, this "Bruxelles" hotel is a member of the Leading Hotels of the World and is within walking distance from Brussels' Central Station, the Antique Market on the Sablon, the Royal Covered Galleries and Brussels' Royal Palace Gardens. Brussels' Zaventem Airport is only a 20-minute journey away.

The Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place is one of the best Bruxelles hotels that ideally combine work and relaxation. After a recently completed three-year refurbishment plan, the Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place offers guests a blend of traditional values and the latest technology to ensure a carefree stay in the heart of Brussels. Simply put, the Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place offers the very best in Belgian accommodation's and is the ideal place to stay during your Belgium holidays.

The Royal Windsor Hotel's Chutney's bar-restaurant offers a diversified menu and memorable cocktails. The Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place in Brussels also has a piano bar and a nightclub in the hotel that stays open until dawn. The Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place also offers 24-hour Room Service.

An ideal setting for your "Bruxelles" meeting, the Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place offers 15 soundproofed and air-conditioned meeting rooms that can accommodate up to 300 people, with natural daylight, as well as a Business Centre with staff assistance.

The Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place boasts the best location in the heart of Bruxelles. Conveniently located in front of the new casino of Brussels and within walking distance to the Grand Place, the Royal Palace Gardens, the Antique Market on the Sablon and other Brussels attractions, the Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place is an exceptional choice for either business or leisure travel.

Transportation options to and from this Brussels hotel include taxi service, train service to Central Station and limousine, reserved upon request.

Should you require local transportation, they will be delighted to arrange a Mercedes S Class, or equivalent, up to a stretch Lincoln limousine.

Distance from the airport and approximate transfer times to the Royal Windsor Brussels Hotel:

Distance (road):

• 13.9 kilometres / 8.7 miles
• By car: 16 minutes
• By train shuttle: 25 minutes

Salon Grand Place

Breakfast is served at the Salon Grand Place located on the ground floor:

• From 7:00am to 10:30am on weekdays
• From 7:00am to 11:00am on weekends

Chutney's Bar and Restaurant open seven days a week - 11:00 am to 1:00 am

Waterloo Bar Tea Time: Open daily from 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm Piano Bar: Open Monday to Friday from 6:00 pm

Nightclub Open Thursday through Saturday from 11:00 pm until dawn

Chutney's bar-restaurant offers a diversified menu and memorable cocktails. Waterloo Bar is a piano-bar and is an ideal place to start the evening. And for those who want to keep dancing all night long, Griffin's Nightclub is open from 11:00 pm. Room Service is at your disposal 24 hours a day.

Waterloo Bar Have a break in the cozy atmosphere of the Waterloo Bar for a Royal Teatime everyday from 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm. They invite you to savor a selection of finger sandwiches, home-made scones and Sophie Tordoir's Fashion desserts. Complement your selection with selected rare teas, coffees and cordials.

From 6:00 pm, from Monday to Friday, the piano bar is open for predinner cocktails and late evening drinks

Duke's Nightclub For those of you who want to keep dancing all night long, Duke's Nightclub is open from 11:00 pm until dawn Thursday to Saturday.

Hotel Facilities

• Free Fitness Centre
• Free sauna
• Massages upon request
• Business centre with Internet access
• Free High-speed ADSL Internet connection in all rooms
• Wireless Internet
• Nightclub
• Express check-in and late check-out on request
• Private car parking with valet service with charge
• Laundry and dry-cleaning
• Connecting rooms
• Pets allowed, with charge

Child Care Services

• Babysitting on request
• High chairs and baby cots available

With 266 rooms, including 16 suites and one Royal Suite, the hotel guarantees to provide attentive and personalized service. Among its six floors, The Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place offers three non-smoking floors.

The combination of sheer elegance with the latest sophisticated equipment such as three lines, including a free high-speed SDSL line, or wireless Internet will be certain to meet all your requirements whether your stay is for business of pleasure.

Superior Room The Superior rooms are located on smoking as well as non-smoking floors. They are designed in a very contemporary style with pastel colors. Each room is air-conditioned, equipped with a desktop, a flat screen interactive television, a mini bar, a trouser press, an in-room safe, a free High Speed Internet LAN connection and a wireless access to Internet. The Portuguese marble bathrooms complete the final touch with exquisite bathrobes and Carven amenities.

Business Premiere The charming Business Premiere rooms are located on smoking as well as non-smoking floors. These elegant rooms are decorated with dark wood and a range of colors that evoke the universe of Godiva chocolates. All Business Premiere rooms ensure optimal comfort and are especially well suited for businessmen and women, equipped with a flat screen interactive television, a free high-speed Internet LAN connection, wireless access to Internet and functional amenities. The guest will receive one free movie channel with 3 movies, a welcome drink in the Waterloo Bar or Chutney's bar.

Deluxe Room The Deluxe rooms, some located on the top floors of the hotel, offer a lounge with sofa, easy chairs, and a flat screen television, a desk with free high-speed Internet LAN connection and a separate toilet. The rich fabrics emphasize the luxury of the room and the Portuguese marble bathrooms, some with separate shower, complete the final touch with a collection of Bulgari amenities. The Deluxe room is approx. 45 m2. The guest will receive Bulgari luxury amenities, a luxury seasonal fruit basket & mineral water and one free movie channel with 3 movies

Suite This Suite, located on the top floors of the hotel, benefit from a magnificent view overlooking the spires of the famous Grand Place. When you enter this Suite, there is a lounge with sofa, easy chairs and a flat screen television, a desk with free High Speed Internet LAN connection, a separate toilet, a bedroom and a flat screen television. The rich fabrics emphasize the luxury of the suite and the Portuguese marble bathroom with separate shower complete the final touch with a collection of Bulgari amenities. The guest will receive a luxury seasonal fruit basket, a Cuvée Warwick Bordeau, mineral water and a bouquet of flowers.

Royal Suite Royal is definitely the term for this suite. As you enter this suite located on the top floor of the hotel, you are directly facing the Louis XV style desk with a cloakroom. On your left, there are a superb living room and dining room, with its flat screen television, HI-FI personal video and CD lector and private bar. The spacious bedroom with its king-sized bed is subtlety enhanced by soft color scheme. Passing through the dressing area, you enter into the Portuguese marble bathroom with its own Jacuzzi and Sauna. The Bulgari amenities complete the feel of luxury. This Royal Suite is approx 100 m² and connects directly to an executive Suite. The guest will receive a a bottle of champagne, a luxury seasonal fruit basket and a box of Godiva chocolates.

The Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place provides appointed rooms and facilities for persons with disabilities.

• Three non-smoking floors,150 rooms
• Three smoking floors, 116 room

In-Room Amenities and Facilities

• Individual mini bar
• Fully air-conditioned with individual thermostat control
• Marble bathroom
• Hairdryer
• Magnifying mirror
• Carven beauty amenities
• Bathrobe an slippers
• Direct dial telephone with voicemail and data port
• Two telephones in each room
• Free High-speed ADSL Internet connection
• Wireless Internet
• Radio and Interactive flat screen television, in-house movies, with cable and satellite channels
• A personal safe in the room
• Double-glazed windows
• Twice daily maid service including evening turndown service
• Complimentary daily newspaper served with breakfast upon request
• Trouser press
• An early check-in and a late check-out upon request
• Free access to the fitness center and sauna

Fashion Rooms

The Spirit of 'Tailor-Made' Accommodation

The Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place in Brussels has opted for extreme personalization by entrusting the decoration of a selection of their guest rooms to Belgian famed Fashion Designers. The Fashion rooms offer a fundamentally different world of experience to travelers seeking novelty, sensation and exclusivity.

The Belgian stylists Mademoiselle Lucien, Jean-Paul Knott, Gerald Watelet and Marina Yee have designed the first four Fashion rooms. Six other Fashion Rooms have just opened to create unforgettable nights at the Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place. They feature artistry by six Belgian fashion designers representing widely different styles: Haider Ackermann, Pascale Kervan, Nina Meert, Romy Smits, Kaat Tilley, Nicolas Woit.

Xavier Delcour and Christian Wijnants will label the last two Fashion Rooms this spring 2006.

All Fashion Designers express a very different vision of fashion and share a preference for an art of living that is in harmony with the art of dressing.

As 2006 is devoted to Fashion and Design in Brussels. They have created a special package that is 100% Fashion: “The Fashion Addict Package”. For more details, please see the “Special Offers and Packages” page.

Jean -Paul Knott After graduating from the New York Fashion Institute of Technology Jean-Paul Knott started to work for Yves Saint Laurent Paris where he stayed for twelve years. In 1999 he started the company "Jean -Paul Knott Brussels". His first collection was presented in the beginning of the year 2000 in Paris, New York and Brussels. Jean-Paul Knott has also worked for Krizia as an Artistic Director and launched a line of underwear for DIM Beautiful People, while continuing to launch several collections of his own label "Jean -Paul Knott, Brussels". Light gray like the northern sky, straight lines with details of leather and bamboo are key elements in the Fashion Room designed by Jean-Paul Knott.

The emphasis is on bareness, but without being cold. There is a recognizable sensuality of styles and fabrics which is so representative of Jean-Paul Knott, as well as his ability to draw the attention to the purity and beauty of a movement, a simple movement devoid of all artificiality.

Words from the designer: "The absence of anything artificial is very similar to my clothes. The desire to leave the space to interior beauty, echoing the purity of the lines and the materials. That is what is similar to my collections. As for me, is there anything more personal than to invest my private life in my Fashion Room?" - Jean-Paul Knott

Gerald Watelet Gerald Watelet founded his own Fashion house in 1988 and one year later he held his first fashion show, presenting his first collection. In 1994 he presented a collection in Paris which was sponsored by Philippe Venet and Ms. Carven. In 2003 he took over the staff from the Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture fashion house and moves into the old salons of Philippe Venet in Paris. He regularly creates the dresses for princesses of the royal families of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In his Fashion Room, this designer has created a traditional yet modern ambience, which is cozy without being heavy. He uses contrasting materials and colors: green, blue, white and brown. The marriage of styles and the inclusion of personal items naturally give life to the room. To create his Fashion Room, Gerald Watelet has used the same criteria as in his collections : Luxury, calm and voluptuousness.

Words from the designer: "Who has not dreamt of spending a peaceful night spent in a calm but cheerful, elegant but modern and comfortable but contemporary setting, in one of the few places where we can say that we feel at home! And yet... this is a hotel room, My hotel Room, which is the culmination of a great deal of thought about what I would like to find in the evening, after a days work in an unfamiliar city... or for romantic weekends so that, in the end, this room is the site that you most enjoy visiting. This is undoubtedly the secret of the 'Green Room'!!!" – Gerald Watelet

Marina Yee Marina Yee studied at the Institute des Beaux-Arts St Lukas and finished her studies at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp where she obtained a distinction in Fashion design. She was a member of the "Antwerp Band of six", which was six Flemish designers who made Belgian design well known on the global scene. In the mid 80's Marina Yee worked together with different designers and at the same time launched her own collections in places such as Paris, Osaka and Antwerp. Her clothes are expressions of the women who wears them and by designing unique pieces this makes Marina Yee stand out in the Belgian Fashion world. Seeing herself as a citizen of the 21st century Marina Yee has created a room in a futuristic sense. By mixing open spaces, 11 different kinds of white colors, organic forms, innovative materials and bright colours Marina Yee invites you to discover her universe. A room where space and light plays together and complement each other.

Words from the designer: "Unanimously, we have decided to transform the room into a "New Millennium Wonderland". On the move, traveling. A place to stop off during a journey. Past-present-future. A refuge in a life which is constantly changing. Infinite movement: Perpetual movement. We wanted to integrate this dynamism in a literal and figurative manner into the space and fittings of the room. No squares. The central banquette is situated on the axis of the room and transforms the space into an unusual dimension. The octagonal rotary shape gives the illusion of movement and timelessness. In a niche built into the room, there is a lounge-sofa corner, with round shapes and curved spaces. A circular, digital, flower power age." - Marina Yee and Jan Willem Thonnon.

Mademoiselle Lucien The Belgian fashion brand Mademoiselle Lucien Couture was founded in 1998 by Pascal Di Pietro Martinelli and Laurent Uyttersprot. Their first collection was presented on the famous Barbie doll, being the only ones in Europe with authorization to present their creations on Barbie dolls. In cooperation with the diamond merchant Rex they created a series of four diamond Barbies. In 2001 Mademoiselle Lucien Couture opened its first boutique in Brussels. Their presentation concept was called "Fashion Art" which is mixing colours, forms and cuts in elegant poses and graphics. The Fashion Room created by Mademoiselle Lucien is a dedication to a voyage between orientalism and Art Deco inspired by the dancer Akarova. The room contains radiant colors such as orange and gold and with the light they bring a nice balance together with more natural tones such as gray, beige and taupe. There are five glass boxes hanging from the ceiling dedicated to present artistic works supported by Mademoiselle Lucien. The contents in the glass boxes are regularly changed by the Designers. These glass boxes act as an artistic communication tool between the designers and the guests.

Words from Véronique Paulus de Châtelet, Governor of the Brussels Region "The movement and geometric motifs, and the materials and intimacy of this room reflect Akarova's aesthetic principles and choreography. It is the artist's room, a cocoon for her beauty, and it draws us into a creative trance. The display cabinets define the space.

The Mademoiselle Lucien room is a jewellery box holding the secret of contemporary artisans. Here, we can see the eternal nature of Brussels and its multicultural expression."

Nicolas Woit After gaining work experience in Paris at Mugler, Chloé and Issey Miyake, Nicolas Woit returned to Brussels. There, he teamed up with a friend with whom he could do made-to-measure. In 1998, this jack of all trades decided to stand on his own and set up in Antoine Dansaert Street. Nicolas Woit is a self-declared lover of retro. He still retains today “his handmade” approach, the art of transformation and the love of the old fabrics. Nicolas Woit always takes time out just to rediscover ways of interpreting the item of clothing as a story, a memory...

Nicolas Woit has put his signature to a very glamorous, luxurious Fashion Room which proves to be a secret and intimate place with lighting filtered through various lampshades. The room uses sophisticated colours that highlight the Schiaparelli pink bordering the carpet in harmony with a sumptuous velvet day bed cushioned with an impressive pouffe. The bed is covered with a high couture patchwork quilt in saffron, orange, green, bright pink tones and the bedroom offers a stellar sky. You need to seek it out with your eyes and fingertips, a room which inspires softness and voluptuousness.

Words from the Designer: “Warm colours, sombre tones, bright pink, bronze. Luxury and velvet feature in my collections. In any case, i didn’t want to use objects of contemporary design such as those you would find in all the magazines and another hotels boutiques...

Kaat Tilley After studying plastic arts and painting at the St. Lukas Institute Antwerp and Brussels, Kaat Tilley went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Antwerp in Fashion and Stage Costume Design, with distinction for her work on “Malher and Venice”. Painter, designer of fashion and jewellery, furniture and lighting, Kaat Tilley’s talents are often used in the cinema, theatre and music. Her international career has centred on eclecticism until several years ago. Kaat Tiley is a materials virtuoso and uses it, in every creation, to create artistic and unique work. Her Fashion Room offers a dream atmosphere and opens the doors to the world of imagination. Kaat Tilley wanted a room that existed outside the confines of place and time. Swathed solely and uniquely in the colour of the dawn. A timeless beauty offering respite from the chaos. The creator has erased the traces of the contemporary world in her room by hiding all the equipment which could let us think about it. This room proves to be a restful place with calm and purity.

Words from the Designer:

“The inspirations begin in a notebook, like a trace of memory, of a past experience to which I bring new life. This was about a scene called “The Bride of the Sea”.

A story that brings substance to that imaginary woman, the breath of my work, of my inner life. Come to rest in my fairytale-like Fashion Room. It’s also a return to the roots of my work from 20 years ago. The expression of a dream, a story that almost becomes a reality.”

Pascale Kervan After completing the haute-couture fashion and design course at Grenier de Paris in Brussels, Pascale Kervan straight away preferred to practice her trade at her own Maison de Couture founded in 1995. Pascale Kervan introduces today’s woman to the rediscovered pleasure of “made-to-measure” clothes, created and fashioned in absolute harmony with the body that it is dressing as well as with the personality that it reveals. Pascale Kervan sets a tone of modernized refinement with a thick, black carpet in black and off-white velvet, brushed aluminium, Plexiglass and opaline colors. The entrance could be something out of the first pages of a detective novel; in black and white, with its huge photos of a model in a James Bond Girl pose, with boots and sexy clothes, a sofa-daybed in black astrakhan with metal feet, the bar and its high stools in black leather, and the focus of attention is the vertical cylindrical aquarium-lamp, which is both playful and imaginative.

Words from the Designer:

Incorporating elements of the Kervan style, I composed an interior. Some geometry, made-to-measure, sublimated lines, comfort, contrasts that create harmony and hand-made additions. A touch of modernity that revitalises classicism. My room is a declension of the Kervan touch adapted to a hotel room that is a space for living and feeling, not just sleeping.

Romy Smits Romy Smits, born in the Netherlands, lived most of her life in Belgium. Freedom is very important to her and she is therefore self-taught. Since the age of 24, Romy has been working independently. In turn, she has devoted her heart and mind to specific experiences in the fields of interior design, styling, fashion and management. Between 1992 and 2001, Romy worked as a freelance key account manager, commercial advisor, visual merchandiser and art director for Dries van Noten.

Romy Smits collections are not only timeless, useful, beautiful, functional or sensual, they are also and above all, “extrasensory” manifestations.

Her Fashion Room is also particular by the fact she chosed to use different spaces represented by several colors: green, silver, red, black and pink. Each color reminds you of a feeling, a symbol, or an unprecise impression: that is to say “extrasensory” manifestations.

Moreover, the bed, nestling against a silver curved wall, with an ovoid and protective form is the central element of the room due to it's size, colour and location.

Words from the Designer:

“Rebirth Suite is a space for inspiration, where you can relax body and soul, experience feelings of love, passion and happiness. For each activity there is a particular space in this suite, which is symbolised with carefully chosen colours and shapes. All surfaces of the room are finished with glossy coatings because brilliance perfectly balances the radiation of all colours. Perhaps you can experience that specific interior, living can stimulate your personal identity.”

Nina Meert Nina Meert started at the Conservatoire de Théâtre of Paris where she was part of an exceptional year, alongside names such as Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Lucchini and André Dussolier. Then, she left for Italy, attending the Drawing Academy of Florence before working with Pucci.

She launched a small household collection which was an astounding success. From there, she went on to create dressing gowns, lingerie and then evening dresses. In Paris, she started out with the great names of the time: Cacharel and Daniel Hechter. Nina Meert’s creations use natural fabrics, architechtural lines that bring the sunset with floral colours merging into infinity. They are made for women of all ages and cultures, offering them the freedom and harmony of the body.

In her Fashion Room, Nina Meert worked the lighting in the same way a musician composes a musical score. She raises the question of knowing if the sunlight comes from the inside or the outside of the room. The walls are entirely covered with frescos "Pompeii" painted by an Italian artist with sand from rivers, the floor is ceruse wood and Roman stone. She also gives her room an artistic side by the designer seats sculpted in a moulding and by the curves on the "barca". Nina Meert’s Fashion Room is a work of clarity, freshness, depth and journeying.

Words from the Designer:

“Room from Nowhere, for 24 Hours, 1 Minute ... a halt, a fleeting moment. A Room that offers you freshness and welcome in every halt of its spontaneity. Every halt, is as if engraved in your memory. Allow yourself this freedom, this serenity”

Haider Ackermann Haider Ackermann's life is like a long journey across the world. Born in 1971 in Santa Fe de Bogotá in Colombia and adopted by French parents, Haider Ackermann divided his youth between Ethiopia, Chad, Algeria and France until his parents moved to the Netherlands. In 1994, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Antwerp, in the fashion department. The Haider Ackermann style interprets the mysteries of a multi-cultural world to deliver elegant fashion, a line, natural fluidity, and above all, style. Restrained contrasts that are the traces of the memories and sensations of this world traveller. These marriages of influences, his ethnic interpretations, give birth to an avant-garde fashion modulated by this extra soulfulness, which gives him a very special place on the fashion scene. Haider Ackermann gives us his cross-cultural vision of the world. This world traveller offers his Fashion Room the multiple souvenirs that his memory has filtered to keep their infinite nostalgia - impressions like the fabric of life. On the walls, an ancient wall covering with flocked medallions, a black Indian bed cover decorated with small mirrors as are found in Rajasthan, precious Moroccan tables that play with the light, the eclecticism of genres between modernity, ethnicity and antiquity … all swathed in grey and pure white, which add a tone of harmony. Not to forget black, the “cocoon color” of Haider Ackermann.

Words from the designer:

I wanted to tell the story of my memories of Africa, Asia, Europe. But restrained, like a confidence. In the mists of the past. The eclecticism, the mix of materials, the unfashionable side of my Fashion Room and its intimacy are elements which are the closest to my collections.