I've been meaning to write about this hotel for a while. I stay in Mechelen often for business and of the "decent" hotels the Gulden Anker is my last choice. The good stuff - reception is fine, the restaurant is EXCELLENT with beautifully prepared and presented food at very reasonable cost. Breakfast is OK, nothing special. Rooms are a decent... more

Having stayed at the Gulden Anker for 4 nights found the hotel very good indeed handy for the center of Mechelen rooms excellent, food very good friendly staff, the lift is quite small and no disabled rooms but that can be overcome as you can get access via the restaurant and a nice location on the banks of the canel more

Stayed here one night and wished we stayed longer! Good size room, but tiny bathroom (reminded me of a bathroom on a cruise ship). Our room was nice and clean, with decent toiletries and adequate water pressure in the shower. The elevator wasn't working the day we checked in, so we lugged our luggage up a few floors (the hotel... more

We visited Best Western Hotel Gulden Anker, a 4**** hotel, situated between Antwerp and Brussels from November 22nd. – 24th. 2007. It is at the edge of the city centre at about 300 mtrs. from the “Gote Markt” with its cathedral. Mechelen is a nice, old, little city, which character has been partly destroyed by running up several modern buildings.... more

Mechelen is one off the famous and very beautiful five towns of Belgian Flanders the others being Leuven, Bruges, Antwerp and Ghent, the Gulden Anker hotel sits on the ring road, just away from the town centre. It is well furnished and the reception area is welcoming, there is a sauna, which has to booked individually, which is not a... more

Very nice hotel, clean rooms and bad, very good breakfast, and exellent dinner. Whe like it. more