Hortensia is a B&B in the city of Ypres, a few minutes from the city ramparts at the Lille gate. I have stayed in a number of Ypres B&Bs and hotels, and while they were all satisfactory, I found Hortensia to be excellent in all respects. The owner, Andre Parys, is exceptionally friendly and helpful, offering bike rental, storage for motorbikes and bikes and insider knowledge of the area. The rooms are spacious and spotless and the breakfasts excellent. Hortensia is located near the Lille gate, which means you can have yourself a nice walk on the city ramparts to the Menin gate ceremony and any one of the nice restaurants and tea rooms in town. Parking is plentiful nearby. Value for money is excellent at just over 60 euros for a two-person room. I plan to return here whenever I come back to Ypres.

Contact Andre Parys for reservation and/or information by going to his website:
www.guesthouse-ypres.be

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Friendly and smart snack bar and restaurant a short walk along Lille street from the Gros Markt square. Fresh food, well cooked and good value for money.

Rijselstraat 49
www.hetzilverenhoofd.be
057 360367
Eiper station

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Stay at the Albion hotel, close to the Menin Gate. Stylish, friendly, good value; easy walking distance to the centre.

Eat at the De Stoove. A 100-yard walk off the tourist centre behind the cathedral rewards you with good food, a classy environment and personal attention.

Take the battlefield tour with Salient. A young vibrant guide gives an informative and moving trip.

Albion Hotel is in St Jacobsstraat.
De Stoove is Surmont de Volsbergestraat.
Salient Tours are on Meenestraat near the Menin Gate.

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A hotel and restaurant on Ieper's main square. Old Tom offers decent accommodation at an attractive price, and the restaurant does some of the best (traditional Flemish) food in town. Convenient for the local attractions, and the welcome is friendly.

Grote Markt 8
www.oldtom.be

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My father and I just spent a pleasant 5 days in Ypres, at Camalou B&B. We found it to be a great base from which to explore both the salient and the surrounding countryside. Annette and Christian are great hosts - they treat their guests like old friends and they are a font of information about Ypres and anywhere else you would like to explore. Annette does great tours of the battlefields, but whatever you choose to do with your day, she will have some invaluable insider tip for you. The rooms are beautifully furnished and comfortable, the breakfasts hearty and family-style. Camalou is about 3.2 km from the center, which means you will need a car, but you are near roundabouts that will take you to any key towns in the salient, and you get to wake up to the sound of local roosters and dairy cows. At around 65 euros/night, Camalou is an ideal Ypres headquarters. I heartily recommend it.

351, Dikkebusseweg 8908 Ypres, Belgium;
tel: +32(0)57 20 43 42;
fax: +32(0)57 21 78 62;
email: info@camalou.com;
www.camalou.com

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Near Ypres is the village of Passchendaele made famous (infamous) by the third battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). Passchendaele was obliterated totally in world war one, but today it is renowned for its cheese.

Passendale (the Flemish) cheese is a semi-soft cheese made from cow's milk. With its brown crust, covered with white mould, it resembles a round loaf of bread. The Passendale cheese has distinctive rounded edges and a soft, damp consistency. The flavour is mild and creamy. Try it.

Passchendaele
near Ypres
Flanders Belgium

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In the magnificent cloth hall is the In Flanders Fields exhibition, which takes aspects of the first world war battles in and around Ieper (Ypres) and displays the history and horror of the 'war to end all wars'.

The museum pays homage to John McCrae's famous poem In Flanders Fields ... a must see.

The old cloth hall in the market square (Grote Markt 34)
Ieper (Ypres), Flanders, Belgium; tel: 57 239220;
www.inflandersfields.be

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A small older-style hotel with some character, the hotel was rebuilt after it was flattened in the first world war. Its location on the north side of the Ypres town square makes it centrally located for visits to the Cloth Hall or the nightly Menin Gate ceremony.

The food is very good; there is a restaurant and brasserie and they also stock a lot of different Belgian beers which you enjoy in the beer garden out front. A good clean budget style hotel for the stay in Ypres (no car parking though, you park in the street behind).

Hotel Gasthof t’Zweerd
Grote Markt 2
B - 8900, Ieper;
tel: 32 (0)57 200475;
fax; 32 (0)57 217896;
www.tzweerd.be/

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