Hotel Jan Brito

Transportation to Bruges : train, airplane, ferry, car

Train

Trains : All about traines to Bruges on the website of the national railway company. You can buy tickets over the internet.

Thalys : Direct trains to Paris, Amsterdam and Cologne.

Eurostar : Direkt trains to London.

Taxi : A taxi from the station in Bruges to the hotel costs about € 8. Recommended taxi company is Taxi Snel.

Bus : At the station of Bruges, take bus nb. 6 of 16 till the fish market "Vismarkt". Continue in the same direction as the bus. The hotel is in the next street at the right hand side.

Airplane

Zaventem : Brussels' Internationale Airport.

Oostende-Brugge : International Airport Ostende - Bruges.

Charleroi : International Airport Brussels South.

Ryanair : Low cost flights to Charleroi (Brussels-South).

Direct bus shuttle Charleroi airport - Bruges : www.voyages-lelan.be

Virgin Express and SN Brussels Airlines : Flights to Brussels.

VLM : Vlaamse Luchtvaartmaatschappij. Flights to Brussels and Antwerp (Deurne).

Vueling.com : Flights from Barcelona and Valencia to Brussels.

Ferry

Superfast Ferries : Direct ferry connection between Scotland and Flanders (Rosyth / Edinburgh - Zeebrugge).

P&O Ferries : Ferry between Zeebrugge and Hull.

Transeuropa Ferries : Ferry between Ostend and Ramsgate.

Car

Route description

By car - from Antwerp or Brussels over Gent

• Take the high way to Oostende (high way E-40).
• Take one exit before Brugge : Oostkamp. Follow the signs "Brugge".
• After about 5 km the "Baron Ruzettelaan" will lead you to the ring road around Brugge. Go straight on and cross the ring road.
• You now enter the inner city of Bruges by the gate "Katelijnepoort".
• You are now in the street "Katelijnestraat". Go straight on till the Church of our Lady "Onze Lieve Vrouw-kerk" (at your right).
  
• Turn right.
• Over the Gruuthusestraat you drive to the street "Dijver", where the Groeninge museum is located. Go straight on till you see on your left a small square with a roof on pillars. This is the fish market "Vismarkt".
• Turn into the next street at your right. This is the street Freren Fonteinstraat. You will see the hotel immediately at your left.

By car - from Calais

• Take the high way to Bruges (high way A-18/E-40).
• Take exit Brugge/Torhout. Follow the signs "Brugge". After about 5km you will come to a round-about "Unesco Rotonde".
  
• Go right, direction "station" and follow this ring road. After about 1km you come to a road cross with traffic lights and indication "Katelijnepoort". Turn left into the Katelijnestraat.
• Continue as describer above.

Parking in Bruges

In the inner town of Bruges the following parking regulation is in force :

• Unless differently indicated, the entire inner city is considered « blue zone ». During the day you are allowed to park up to 4 hours (use the new european parking disk). During the evening and at night (between 19h and 9h) and on Sundays during the entire day, you are allowed to park there without time limitation.
• There are also a few “paid parking” areas. You can park there during 2 hours (buy a ticket at the ticketing machine and show it clearly on your dash board).
• For “long term parking”, make a reservation on our private parking or park in one of the underground parkings in the city (reduced tariff if reserved in advance at your hotel’s reception) or at one of the parkings surrounding the city. Next to the railway station there is also a big parking from which you have a frequent and easy bus connection to the inner city (the ticket of this parking allows you to travel free of charge on this bus).

City map of Bruges

Clic here for a city map of Bruges withe situation of and road to the hotel city map in PDF