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Bruges Beer Festival

From: £325

31st Jan-3rd Feb 2020

PRICES COMING SOON…..

City Tax Payable locally

Price includes standard Eurostar and SNCB rail travel, 3 nights accommodation , VAT/TAXES and service charges.

 

Contact us for more details at sales@beerjunkets.com

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Your Trip

2019 will mark the twelfth anniversary of the Bruges Beer Festival and to celebrate this, the festival is back at the Belfry AND the Markt, in the historic Old Town, a superb, scenic location taking the festival back to its roots. With 300+ beers to choose from the finest Flemish brewers, the 12th Annual Bruges Beer Festival promises to be the best one yet!

Tasting Glasses – €3 deposit. You can keep this as a souvenir or return the glass undamaged for your deposit.

Beer Tokens – €1.50 (1 Jeton = 1 Beer).

Opening Hours - Saturday: 12:00 – 22:00 and Sunday: 11:00 – 21:00

Also on hand will be chefs, cooking gourmet food, specially selected to be paired with the varieties of beers showcased just for you.

Small plates – 6 jetons each/ Large Plates – 9 jetons each (2013 rates)

Friday 1st Feb 2019

Depart: London St.Pancras 12:58 Arrive: Brussels 16:08

Connection: Brussels to Bruges – SNCB

Accommodation: 2*Ibis or 4*Golden Tulip de Medici

Monday 4th Feb 2019

Connection: Bruges to Brussels by SNCB

Depart: Brussels 12:52 Arrive: London St. Pancras 14:05.

  •   £100 pp non-refundable deposit required at the time of the booking; the outstanding balance is due on the 28th Nov 2018

De Halve Maan.

Bruges was once home to a handful of working breweries, but today the soul survivor is De halve maan or ‘half moon’, which first crops up in record books in 1564! the current business was estblished in 1856 by Leon Maes and, incredibly, remains in the family. Maes’ great, great, great, great, granddaughter developed the Straff Hendrink and her son, Xavier, the blond Brugse Zot. You can try both in converted maltery and battling room, which now acts as the brewery’s cafe. The brewery offers a warm and hospitable welcome to all visitors. A highly entertaining brewery tour is available with traditional Belgium lunch- well worth a visit for beer connoisseurs. (join our tour- register your interests)

Choco-Story.

A great experience! You are immersed in the ancient Mexican world of the Mayas and the Aztecs for whom chocolate was the drink of the gods and cocoa beans a means of payment. The chocoholic gets to find out all about the production of chocolate truffles, chocolates, hollow figures and bars of chocolate.

Horse-Drawn Carriage Rides.

The clip-clop of hooves hitting cobblestones resounds constantly in the streets of Bruges. In summer, aim to jump on board between 18:00 and 19:00 – by this time day-trippers have left the city, locals are stirring dinner at home, and most tourists are taking a shower. Bruges’ streets take on a semi-tranquil air at this time of day, and the gold-topped buildings shimmer in the late sun rays. Carriages depart from the Markt, and their route takes 35 minutes (including a pit stop at the Begijnhof).

Markt.

Bruges’ nerve centre is the historic Markt, a large open square flanked by medieval-style buildings and bustling with horse-drawn carriages, open-air restaurants and camera-clicking tourists. Standing tall at its centre is a monument to Pieter De Coninck and Jan Breydel, the leaders of the Brugse Metten, and lording over everything is the fabulous belfry.

Most of the gabled guildhalls edging the Markt are not original. Notable at Markt 16 is Craenenburg café; in this building the Hapsburg heir Maximilian of Austria was imprisoned by the leaders of the city in 1488 after attempting to restrict their privileges. When Maximilian later became emperor, he took revenge by directing trade to Antwerp.

The Markt’s eastern side is dominated by the Provinciaal Hof, a neo-gothic building home to the post office and a handy ATM.