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606, www.bedandbreakfastbruges.com, mietjedebruyne@yahoo
.co.uk).
$ Paul and Roos Gheeraert - Vandevelde l live in a Neoclassical l
mansion and rent three huge, bright, comfy rooms (Sb-€60,
Db-€70, Tb-€90, two-night minimum stay required, cash only,
strictly non-smoking, fridges in rooms, Internet access and Wi-Fi,
Riddersstraat 9, 5-min walk east of Market Square, tel. 050-335-
627, fax [phone], www.bb-bruges.be, [e-mail]).
$ 't Geerwijn B&B, run by Chris de Loof, offers homey
rooms in the old center. Check out the fun, lofty A-frame room
upstairs (Ds/Db-€65, Tb-€75, pleasant breakfast room and a royal
lounge, cash only, non-smoking, Geerwijnstraat 14, tel. 050-340-
544, fax [phone], www.geerwijn.be, [e-mail]).
Chris also rents an apartment that sleeps five (€100).
$ Royal Stewart B&B, run by Scottish Maggie and her
husband, Gilbert, has three thoughtfully decorated rooms in a
quiet, almost cloistered 17th-century house that was inhabited by
nuns until 1953 (S-€45, D/Db-€62, Tb-€82, cash only, pleasant
breakfast room, Genthof 25-27, 5-min walk from Market Square,
tel. [phone], fax [phone], www.royalstewart.be, r.stewart
@pandora.be).
Hostels
Bruges has several good hostels offering beds for around €15
in two- to eight-bed rooms. Breakfast is about €3 extra. The
American-style $ Charlie Rockets hostel (and bar) is the liveliest
and most central. The ground floor feels like a 19th-century sports
bar, with a foosball-and-movie-posters party ambience. Upstairs is
an industrial-strength pile of hostel dorms (90 beds, €16 per bed
with sheets, 4-6 beds per room, D-€50, lockers, Hoogstraat 19,
tel. [phone], www.charlierockets.com). Other small, loose,
and central places are $ Snuffel Backpacker Hostel (56 beds,
€14-18 per bed includes sheets and breakfast, 4-14 beds per room,
open 24/7, Ezelstraat 47, tel. [phone], www.snuffel.be) and the
minimal and funky $ Passage (€14, 4-7 beds per room, D-€50,
Db-€65, prices include sheets, Dweerstraat 26, tel. [phone],
www.passagebruges.com, [e-mail]).