Hotel Avenue Louise Brussels Trademark Collection by Wyndham in Brussels

Location was great, staff were wonderful, gave some excellent restaurant recommendations (Thanks Pierre!) Not sure what an earlier reviewer was on about, but there were many restaurants, some small supermarkets in the area, excellent laundromat a couple of blocks away.

The downside was the room. Whilst it was big, bed was huge and comfortable; bathroom was roomy with a good walk in shower and decent water pressure, the wooden floors were noisy and quite dirty. Our feet were filthy if we walked around barefooted. Also very noisy from the elephant clomping around upstairs till all hours. Big window, but we couldn't open because of the constant sewerage smell and mosquitos. The room became really hot even though it was mid October. Due to our location next to construction, we were woken each morning to workers on scaffolding next to our window or the delicate sound of scaffolding being tossed around.

We didn't eat in the hotel as we don't eat enough to justify the cost of a buffet breakfast.

Booked directly through Wyndham, which said payment taken at time of booking. We arrived thinking we had paid (no, I hadn't checked payment had been taken.....staff handled my anger and confusion gracefully too!), to find this property doesn't take payment until arrival. Beware of this, luckily we were able to transfer funds to pay the bill.

Not quite in the same class as other Wyndham properties we'd used. I'm struggling to recommend, but at the same time it had a lot going for it!