Good location and many good hotels. The Antwerp Zoo and the Diamont area all very near. Nice cafes and restaurants in the Kaiserlei.

www.hotelara.com/belgium/accommodation/antwerp-accommodation.html

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This museum is just the right size for an afternoon visit and includes some of the best Flemish 'primitives' I've seen. It includes a fabulous Eve by Cranach (better than the version in Florence) and a spectacular Judith.

For a drink return to the Grote Markt and look at the Town Hall. To your right on the corner of Wisselstraat there is a wooden floor and benches bar that is the best and friendliest in Antwerp.

Avoid the port at night unless you like a fight. Don't even think about the red light district. It is divided into sections according to race/nationality and is extremely violent - it makes Amsterdam's look like a children's playground.

Leopold de Waelsplaats

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Close to the cathedral in a quiet back street. Lovely luxury hotel in an old house with big rooms and good service. Approximately £100 a night for good size double.

Zand 13-19, 2000 Antwerp; www.hotel-sandt.be/ENG/home.htm

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Organised every year in late June by Bier Passion magazine, this is a celebration of Belgian beer and brewing, where it's possible to enjoy a choice of several hundred beers.

You'll meet beer-lovers from all over the world at this event which has out-grown two venues since it was first organised in 1999. It is now held on the Groenplaats in the heart of the city. It IS a commercially-organised event, so there are some beers from the mass-produced, not-very-interesting end of the market, but even so there are more craft-brewed beers than any one person can sample in a weekend.

On the Groenplaats. Bier Passion magazine's website is www.beerpassion.com

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