{"id":1303505,"date":"2026-09-30T11:55:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/?page_id=1303505"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:31:37","slug":"bruges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/europe\/belgium\/bruges\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruges"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"parent":1302227,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"hw-hub-city","meta":{"footnotes":"","hw_hub_hero_eyebrow":"","hw_hub_hero_h1":"","hw_hub_hero_intro":"","hw_hub_hero_image":"","hw_hub_hero_overlay":"","hw_hub_hero_cta":"","hw_hub_why_title":"","hw_hub_why_body":"","hw_hub_why_link_label":"","hw_hub_why_link_url":"","hw_hub_why_cards":"","hw_hub_stats":"","hw_hub_countries_title":"","hw_hub_countries_intro":"","hw_hub_featured":"","hw_hub_regions":"","hw_hub_hostels_title":"","hw_hub_hostels_intro":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_label":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_url":"","hw_hub_hostels_source":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_type":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_id":"","hw_hub_hostels_currency":"","hw_hub_hostels_count":"","hw_hub_hostels_cache":"","hw_hub_hostels":"","hw_hub_when_title":"","hw_hub_when_intro":"","hw_hub_seasons":"","hw_hub_costs_title":"","hw_hub_costs_body":"","hw_hub_cost_rows":"","hw_hub_cost_note":"","hw_hub_money_reads":"","hw_hub_rail_title":"","hw_hub_rail_body":"","hw_hub_rail_link_label":"","hw_hub_rail_link_url":"","hw_hub_rail_image":"","hw_hub_routes":"","hw_hub_events_title":"","hw_hub_events_intro":"","hw_hub_events_source":"","hw_hub_events_continent":"","hw_hub_events_count":"","hw_hub_events_cache":"","hw_hub_events_cta_label":"","hw_hub_events_cta_url":"","hw_hub_events":"","hw_hub_events_pills":"","hw_hub_reads_intro":"","hw_hub_article_rows":"","hw_hub_show_read_time":"","hw_hub_all_title":"","hw_hub_all_body":"","hw_hub_all_cta":"","hw_hub_trips_title":"","hw_hub_trips_note":"","hw_hub_trips":"","hw_hub_faq_title":"","hw_hub_faq_note":"","hw_hub_faqs":"","hw_hub_cta_title":"","hw_hub_cta_body":"","hw_hub_cta_buttons":"","hw_hub_newsletter_title":"","hw_hub_newsletter_body":"","hw_hub_newsletter_shortcode":"","hw_hub_hub_term":"","hw_hub_scope_rows":"","hw_hub_country_hero_eyebrow":"","hw_hub_country_hero_h1":"","hw_hub_country_hero_intro":"","hw_hub_country_hero_image":"","hw_hub_country_hero_overlay":"","hw_hub_country_hero_cta":"","hw_hub_country_stats":"","hw_hub_country_intro_title":"","hw_hub_country_intro_body":"","hw_hub_country_facts":"","hw_hub_country_cities_title":"","hw_hub_country_cities_intro":"","hw_hub_country_cities_live":"","hw_hub_country_cities":"","hw_hub_country_trips_title":"","hw_hub_country_trips_intro":"","hw_hub_country_trip_types":"","hw_hub_country_do_title":"","hw_hub_country_do_body":"","hw_hub_country_do_points":"","hw_hub_country_do_tag":"","hw_hub_country_do_more":"","hw_hub_country_food_title":"","hw_hub_country_food_body":"","hw_hub_country_food_points":"","hw_hub_country_food_tag":"","hw_hub_country_food_more":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_title":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_body":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_points":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_tag":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_more":"","hw_hub_country_transport_title":"","hw_hub_country_transport_body":"","hw_hub_country_transport_points":"","hw_hub_country_transport_tag":"","hw_hub_country_transport_more":"","hw_hub_country_money_title":"","hw_hub_country_money_body":"","hw_hub_country_money_points":"","hw_hub_country_money_tag":"","hw_hub_country_money_more":"","hw_hub_country_safety_title":"","hw_hub_country_safety_body":"","hw_hub_country_safety_points":"","hw_hub_country_safety_tag":"","hw_hub_country_safety_more":"","hw_hub_country_entry_title":"","hw_hub_country_entry_body":"","hw_hub_country_entry_points":"","hw_hub_country_entry_tag":"","hw_hub_country_entry_more":"","hw_hub_country_season_title":"","hw_hub_country_season_intro":"","hw_hub_country_season_note":"","hw_hub_country_season_rows":"","hw_hub_country_budget_title":"","hw_hub_country_budget_intro":"","hw_hub_country_budget_note":"","hw_hub_country_budget_rows":"","hw_hub_country_budget_currency":"","hw_hub_country_events_title":"","hw_hub_country_events_intro":"","hw_hub_country_events_source":"","hw_hub_country_events_country":"","hw_hub_country_events_count":"","hw_hub_country_events_cache":"","hw_hub_country_events_cta_label":"","hw_hub_country_events_cta_url":"","hw_hub_country_events":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_title":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_intro":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_label":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_url":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_source":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_type":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_id":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_currency":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_count":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cache":"","hw_hub_country_hostels":"","hw_hub_country_faq_title":"","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Stay the night and you get it almost to yourself.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1304077","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"366 | Steps up the belfry\r\n8m | Visitors a year, most of them day trippers\r\n1 | Michelangelo sculpture outside Italy, here","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"Preserved by five centuries of failure","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Bruges was one of the richest cities in Europe in the fourteenth century, trading wool and cloth through a channel to the sea. The channel silted up, the money went to Antwerp, and the city spent 400 years too poor to knock anything down \u2014 which is why it looks the way it does.\r\n\r\nThat preservation is now the entire economy. Eight million people a year come through, most on coaches for the day, and between eleven and four the Markt is close to unwalkable.\r\n\r\nThe trick is simple: stay over. After the last coach leaves, the canals empty, the lanes go quiet and the city becomes genuinely lovely. Anyone who tells you Bruges is a tourist trap saw it at two in the afternoon.\r\n\r\nTwo days, or one night done properly.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | Train from Brussels 1 hour, Ghent 25 minutes. The station is 20 minutes on foot from the Markt\r\nGetting around | Entirely walkable. The centre is 2km across\r\nLanguages | Dutch. English is spoken everywhere in the centre\r\nDay trippers | Heaviest 11:00 to 16:00. Mornings and evenings are the city's own\r\nCanal boats | About \u20ac15 for 30 minutes, from five jetties, no booking\r\nTap water | Safe to drink","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"The whole historic centre is inside an egg-shaped canal ring, and it is small.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"14","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"Markt and Burg | First-timers | The two central squares with the belfry, the town hall and the Holy Blood chapel. Busiest by day, empty by night. | 51.2090 | 3.2247 |  | \nSint-Anna | Quiet and local | North-east of the centre: windmills on the ramparts, almshouses and residential streets ten minutes from the Markt. | 51.2130 | 3.2340 |  | \nNear the station | Value | South of the centre by the Minnewater park, with cheaper beds and a twenty-minute walk in. | 51.1950 | 3.2180 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Bruges","hw_hub_city_do_body":"Climb the belfry. It is 366 narrow steps to the top of a 83-metre tower over the Markt, tickets are timed and it sells out, so book online the day before. The carillon of 47 bells plays from just below the platform, which is loud and worth timing for.\r\n\r\nThe Church of Our Lady holds Michelangelo's Madonna and Child, the only sculpture of his to leave Italy in his lifetime, bought by a Bruges merchant in 1504.\r\n\r\nThe Groeningemuseum has the Flemish Primitives \u2014 Van Eyck and Memling \u2014 painted here when this was the richest city in northern Europe.\r\n\r\nA canal boat is \u20ac15 for half an hour and is worth it once. Go at the first or last departure to avoid the queue.\r\n\r\nThe Begijnhof, a walled courtyard of white almshouses, is free and is the quietest corner of the city.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"The belfry | 366 steps, timed tickets, and book online the day before\r\nMichelangelo Madonna | The only sculpture he let leave Italy in his lifetime\r\nGroeningemuseum | Van Eyck and Memling, painted in this city\r\nCanal boat | \u20ac15 for 30 minutes. First or last departure to skip the queue","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Bruges","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Bruges","hw_hub_city_free_body":"Walking the city at eight in the morning or after nine at night is free, and it is the best thing here \u2014 the same lanes and canals without the crowds.\r\n\r\nThe Begijnhof courtyard and the Minnewater park beside it cost nothing.\r\n\r\nThe ramparts walk runs around the old city wall line past four surviving windmills, and takes about an hour.\r\n\r\nThe Burg square's town hall facade, the Markt's guild houses and the canal views from Rozenhoedkaai \u2014 the most photographed spot in Belgium \u2014 are all free.\r\n\r\nChocolate shops give samples freely and without much resistance.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"Early or late | The city empties. This is the whole trick\r\nBegijnhof | A walled almshouse courtyard, free and silent\r\nThe ramparts | An hour past four surviving windmills\r\nRozenhoedkaai | The most photographed view in Belgium, and free","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Bruges","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Bruges","hw_hub_city_food_body":"The Markt restaurants with picture menus and people outside waving you in are the ones to walk past. Two streets away the same moules-frites is \u20ac8 cheaper and better.\r\n\r\nFlemish stew \u2014 beef in dark beer \u2014 and waterzooi, a creamy chicken or fish stew, are the local dishes at \u20ac18 to \u20ac26.\r\n\r\nChocolate is serious here. The good shops make on site and will tell you so; the ones selling identical pralines in identical boxes on the main streets are not those.\r\n\r\nDe Halve Maan is the last working brewery in the centre, with a tour and a beer at the end, and a two-mile underground pipeline that pumps its beer to the bottling plant outside the city \u2014 which is a genuine thing and not a joke.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Walk two streets | Off the Markt, prices drop by a third\r\nFlemish stew | Beef in dark beer. \u20ac18\u201326\r\nDe Halve Maan | The last central brewery, with a beer pipeline under the city\r\nChocolate | Buy where they make it on site","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Bruges","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Bruges","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Modest, and it is not why people come. A handful of good bars around the centre \u2014 't Brugs Beertje with 300 beers is the one beer drinkers make the trip for, and Le Trappiste in a thirteenth-century cellar.\r\n\r\nMost places close by one or two, and Bruges is a city that genuinely goes to bed.\r\n\r\nA beer is \u20ac4 to \u20ac6, and the abbey ales here run strong.\r\n\r\nFor a real night out, Ghent is 25 minutes away by train and has 70,000 students. Plenty of people stay in Bruges and go there for the evening, and the last train back is late enough to make it work.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"'t Brugs Beertje | 300 beers, and the reason beer drinkers come\r\nLe Trappiste | A thirteenth-century vaulted cellar\r\nEarly closing | Most places are shut by 01:00\r\nGhent | 25 minutes by train if you want a real night","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Bruges","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Bruges","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"You walk. The historic centre is about two kilometres across and closed to most traffic, and nothing is more than twenty minutes from anything else.\r\n\r\nThe station is a twenty-minute walk south of the Markt, or a short bus ride at \u20ac2.50.\r\n\r\nTrains reach Ghent in 25 minutes, Brussels in an hour and Antwerp in an hour and a half. The Weekend Ticket halves national fares on Saturdays and Sundays.\r\n\r\nBikes are the local transport and rental is \u20ac10 to \u20ac15 a day, which is the best way to do the ramparts and to reach Damme along the canal.\r\n\r\nHorse carriages cost \u20ac60 for 30 minutes and you can walk the same route in twenty.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Walk | The centre is 2km across and largely car-free\r\nStation | Twenty minutes on foot, or a \u20ac2.50 bus\r\nBike rental | \u20ac10\u201315 a day, and the best way to see the edges\r\nWeekend Ticket | Half price on national trains at weekends","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Bruges","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Bruges costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Expensive for Belgium, because everything is aimed at eight million visitors. Dorms are \u20ac25 to \u20ac45, a main \u20ac18 to \u20ac26 in the centre, and a beer \u20ac4 to \u20ac6.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac60 to \u20ac95.\r\n\r\nThe savings are straightforward: eat two streets off the Markt, buy chocolate where it is made rather than on the main drag, walk instead of the \u20ac60 carriage, and use the free things \u2014 the ramparts, the Begijnhof, the early morning.\r\n\r\nMuseum entry is \u20ac12 to \u20ac15 each, and a combination ticket covers several if you are doing more than two.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u20ac25\u201345\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac60\u201395\r\nTwo streets off the Markt | A third cheaper for the same food\r\nSkip the carriage | \u20ac60 for a route you can walk in twenty minutes","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Bruges","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Bruges","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Bruges is very safe, including at night when the centre empties, and serious crime affecting visitors is rare.\r\n\r\nPickpocketing happens in the Markt crowds in the middle of the day, which is the one time the city is packed.\r\n\r\nThe canals have no railings along much of their length and the cobbles are uneven and slippery in rain. People do fall in, usually after a few of the strong local beers.\r\n\r\nCyclists move fast through the lanes and have right of way in marked areas, and the centre's narrow streets mean you will hear a bell behind you. Emergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Unrailed canals | And uneven cobbles. Mind both after a few strong beers\r\nPickpockets | In the Markt between eleven and four\r\nCyclists | Fast, and they have priority. Listen for the bell\r\nEmergency | 112","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Bruges","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Bruges","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"The coast, a windmill village and two better cities, all within an hour.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Ghent | 25 minutes | Train, about \u20ac7 | The same canals with 70,000 students and a fraction of the coaches. Many people prefer it. |  | 1304147\nDamme | 30 minutes | Cycle along the canal | A small town at the end of a tree-lined canal, reached by bike in half an hour. The ride is the point. |  | 1304148\nOstend | 15 minutes | Train, about \u20ac5 | The North Sea coast: a long beach, a promenade, and the tram that runs the entire Belgian coastline. |  | 1304150\nYpres and the Salient | 1.5 hours | Train, about \u20ac14 | First World War battlefields, cemeteries and the Last Post sounded under the Menin Gate every evening at eight. |  | 1304151","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Bruges","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"Shoulder months, and always stay over. The city is a different place after the coaches leave.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. The crowd calendar matters more than the weather here \u2014 any month is pleasant if you are out before ten or after seven.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 6 | 2 | Cold, quiet and the cheapest beds of the year\r\nFebruary | 7 | 2 | Still quiet. Good for museums and empty canals\r\nMarch | 10 | 3 | Improving, and the crowds have not started\r\nApril | 14 | 4 | Good. Blossom, and Easter is the first busy weekend\r\nMay | 18 | 5 | Excellent. Warm enough for terraces, manageable crowds\r\nJune | 21 | 4 | Long evenings. Day-tripper numbers climbing\r\nJuly | 23 | 3 | Peak. The Markt is unwalkable in the middle of the day\r\nAugust | 23 | 3 | The same. Book beds well ahead\r\nSeptember | 19 | 5 | The best month. Warm, and the coaches thin out\r\nOctober | 15 | 4 | Good value and atmospheric in the mist\r\nNovember | 10 | 2 | Grey and quiet. Markets open at the end\r\nDecember | 7 | 4 | Christmas market on the Markt, and an ice rink. Busy weekends","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"One procession dates to 1304 and is UNESCO-listed.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Bruges","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/belgium\/bruges\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Procession of the Holy Blood | Ascension Day, May | City centre | A UNESCO-listed procession dating to 1304, carrying a relic through the streets with thousands in costume. |  | \nChristmas market | Late November to early January | Markt and Simon Stevinplein | Stalls and an ice rink on the main square, with the belfry lit above. |  | \nTriennial | Every three years, summer | Citywide | Contemporary art and architecture installed across the medieval centre. |  | \nBruges Beer Festival | February | Markt halls | Small breweries from across Belgium in the middle of low season. |  | \nZandfeesten | Summer Sundays | Various squares | One of Europe's largest antique and flea markets, several times a summer. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"Transport is low because you walk everywhere. Museum entries at \u20ac12\u201315 each are the main variable.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 25 | 16 | 3 | 8\r\nMiddle of the road | 42 | 35 | 5 | 25\r\nComfortable | 75 | 65 | 10 | 45","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Bruges","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A small scene, and staying over is the single best decision you can make here. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Bruges","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/belgium\/bruges\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Bruges travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"Is Bruges a tourist trap? | Between eleven and four, yes. Eight million people a year come through and most are on coaches for the day. Stay over and walk the same streets at eight in the morning or nine at night and it is one of the loveliest cities in Europe. The difference is that stark.\r\nHow long do you need? | One night done properly, or two days. The centre is two kilometres across and you can see the main things in a day \u2014 the value is in the hours when the day trippers are not there.\r\nBruges or Ghent? | Bruges is prettier and busier; Ghent has the same canals, 70,000 students, better nightlife and half the coaches. They are 25 minutes apart, so do both \u2014 and consider sleeping in Ghent if nightlife matters to you.\r\nDo I need to book the belfry? | Yes. Tickets are timed and sell out, so book online the day before. It is 366 narrow steps and the carillon of 47 bells plays from just below the top.\r\nIs the canal boat worth it? | \u20ac15 for thirty minutes, and yes, once. Take the first or last departure of the day \u2014 the queues in the middle of the day are long and the canals are crowded with other boats.\r\nIs Bruges expensive? | The most expensive city in Belgium for visitors. Dorms \u20ac25 to \u20ac45, mains \u20ac18 to \u20ac26 in the centre, and a day around \u20ac60 to \u20ac95. Walking two streets off the Markt cuts food costs by a third.\r\nWhat is the beer pipeline? | De Halve Maan brewery in the centre pumps its beer through a two-mile underground pipeline to a bottling plant outside the city, because the medieval streets could not take the lorries. It is entirely real.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Bruges hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. Then meet the people already there in the app.","hw_hub_city_cta_buttons":"Find hostels in Bruges | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/belgium\/bruges\/\r\nGet the app | https:\/\/hostelworld.onelink.me\/IdiK\/f5a50nhd","hw_hub_city_newsletter_title":"Get the good stuff monthly","hw_hub_city_newsletter_body":"New city guides, deals and route ideas. 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