Kasteelhof ’t Hooghe

Ypres


If you're driving, this out-of-town mock-Tudor-styled hotel is a great choice. It has genuine WWI trenches in the gardens and is ideally located for the kids to be first in at Park Bellewaerde, directly behind. It is about 3km west of Ypres on the N8.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Ypres attractions

1. Park Bellewaerde

0.2 MILES

This grand-scale high-adrenaline amusement park is the perfect place to give the kids a break from the histories of war.

2. Hooge Crater Museum

0.4 MILES

In a quaint repurposed chapel on the Ypres–Menen road (N8), this small but characterful two-room museum is entered between assorted WWI sandbags, rusty…

4. Sanctuary Wood (Hill 62) Museum

0.98 MILES

This gnome-fronted, surreally ordinary house displays a chaotic hotchpotch of WWI helmets, shoes, guns and harrowing photos, some in antiquated wooden…

5. Hill 60

2.09 MILES

Western Front battlefield.

6. Kasteelpark Zonnebeke

2.25 MILES

This lake-fronted Normandy-chalet-style mansion and gardens are located in the centre of Zonnebeke village. The mansion was built in 1922 to replace a…

7. Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917

2.27 MILES

Within the grounds of Kasteelpark Zonnebeke you'll find this polished WWI museum charting local battle progressions with plenty of multilingual…

8. Ramparts

2.58 MILES

Ypres is unusual in that it has retained extensive sections of its city fortifications. Designed by French military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de…