2. I don't know what a Premier Inn standard hotel corresponds to but assuming you mean cheap chain, Ibis Budget (formerly Formule 1) has a map you can use to find a hotel located where you want it, see www.hotelformule1.com/gb/home/index.shtml

If you need to work out the route, you can use www.viamichelin.com

4. It depends on how exactly you approach Brussels, but for the Brussels Expo/Heysel/Atomium area mentioned in 1.1 above, for which you would take Exit 7A from the Brussels Ring (brusselsexpo.be/exen/…accessibility-car.aspx), the car park by the Atomium is next to HEYSEL metro station or if you park further out near the stadium, the terminus of that metro line is ROI BAUDOUIN. It costs €2 per person to travel into town or you can get a 10-trip card for use between a group (e.g. 5 trips in, 5 trips out) for €13 - children under 6 travel free.

premier is slghly better than an etap more the standard ibis whetever it is called now, look at the accor site. Parking is always expensive but probably ok if you are doing a day trip i would park at heysel and tram metro it in.

Hi thanks for this.

You mentioned Heysel - do you have an address and a rough route to get there from Calais? Also, is the parking there on side streets or an actual car park?

Could I recommend you read the responses already given, and look up the links provided, before asking questions to which people have already given you answers, or ways of finding out the answers?

I gave you the link to viamichelin to work out the route from France - all you have to do is enter Calais as departure point and Brussels as arrival point and then if you wish, adjust (which you can do by focussing on the map) for the RING EXIT that I also gave you!

AND I gave you a link to the Brussels Expo site, to a page with at least 5 maps indicating access to that area by road, from European to city to local level - on the most local of which, in the bottom left-hand corner, the Atomium, Expo buildings and metro station (M) are all identified, together with STREET NAMES!!!

I also referred to "the CAR PARK by the Atomium" - in fact, it's between the Expo buildings and the Atomium, alongside the tram/metro line, although there is also parking along some of the roads illustrated, as well as car parks you would have to pay for next to the Expo buildings. Heysel is a metro station and an area, it doesn't have an exact address but is on Avenue de l'Impératrice Charlotte/ Kaizerin Charlottelaan. The car park (which serves the Atomium, Kinepolis cinema and Bruparck) is an open space to the South (left on map) of Boulevard du Centenaire/ Eeuwfeestlaan. You are not likely to miss the Atomium, and once you get to that area you will soon see where cars are parked.

Actually. Forget I asked. If that is the attitude of you people in Belgium, I think I will try another city.

Thanks, but no thanks

Just reading this, for the same info......seems a bit childish. However, if you ask a question, it's polite to pay attention to the answer!

Superb driving directions qaminari. I've been Brussels many times. I'm going next week, but this time will be my first time driving up from Calais.

You've managed to put my mind to rest :)

Once again,, thank you!

Many thanks for the info.

I was trying to work out which would be best way to get to Brussels for the Jazz festival, and driving would mean arriving at about 9pm on Friday night. Sounds like parking at the Atomium till Monday am would be a good bet. I definitely don't fancy tackling Brussels traffic late on a Friday night, or early on a Monday morning!

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