Hotel Dukes Palace, Bruges, Belgium

• Modern dining: Featuring upscale decor and overlooking the courtyard garden, Restaurant Julien is the ideal spot for refined French-Belgian fusion cuisine, uplifted with a modern touch and seasonal produce. Elsewhere, scoff and quaff Belgian chocolates, pancakes, eggs, bread and more in the elegant, cream-hued breakfast room.
  
  

• Blissful spa: Let your cares fade away at the hotel’s rejuvenating spa, which houses Finnish and bio saunas, a salt wall, a well-equipped gym and a massage treatment room. For even more relaxation, retire to your guest room, where the interior décor retains the luxurious and authentic character of the historic building.

How to get there

Bruges train station is just under two kilometres away, around 20 minutes' walk. The hotel also has a private underground car park at the back of the building; it's recommended you enter the address 'Moerstraat 46' in your GPS if coming by car. Brussels Airport is a 75-minute drive away, or an hour and a half by train.Restaurant Julien is open from 6.30pm to 9pm. Reservations are strongly recommended and can be made via the reception of Hotel Dukes' Palace (by telephone or by e-mail). Bar Julien is open daily from 12pm to 10pm for tapas and 11am to midnight for drinks.

Entry requirements

The passport, visa and health requirements at the time of booking can be viewed on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website for UK citizens, and on the Department of Foreign Affairs website for IE citizens. It is your responsibility to ensure that you and all members of your party are in possession of all necessary travel and health documents, and in compliance with any other immigration/entry requirements before you travel, including whether your passport must be machine readable or which visas/waivers may be required for entry, such as ESTA for USA travel and/or ETIAS for EU travel. Please also be sure to check the validity of your passport and allow up to 10 weeks for passport renewals.