De Hofkamers

Ostend


Model yachts and dozens of teddies create a welcoming reception and lounge. Rooms are all different but play on romantic pseudo-antique themes; some have four-poster beds. All have a safe, fridge and kettle. There's a four-lounger roof terrace but be aware that any claims of 'sea view' mean craning your neck and looking north down a tunnel of other hotels.

Breakfast is relatively lavish.


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Nearby Ostend attractions

1. Statue of Marvin Gaye

0.16 MILES

Soul superstar Marvin Gaye wrote his last hit, 'Sexual Healing', in 1981 while living in Ostend. His residency is marked by a wildly tacky statue of the…

2. Mu.Zee

0.26 MILES

Mu.Zee, Ostend’s foremost gallery, features predominantly local artists. There’s a significant collection by symbolist painter Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946)…

3. Shinkaitei Tuin

0.32 MILES

Evolving since 2001, architect Takashi Sawano has faithfully reproduced a Japanese garden just blocks from Ostend's seashore. Come to wander through its…

4. Mercator

0.34 MILES

This fully rigged, three-masted 1932 sailing ship was once used for Belgian Navy training purposes and is now a nautical museum that hosts changing…

5. St-Petrus-&-Pauluskerk

0.36 MILES

Ostend’s most striking historical building features beautifully ornate twin spires, a rose window and a gloomy neo-Gothic interior. It was consecrated on…

6. Stadsmuseum

0.36 MILES

One might expect this museum, occupying a house that hosted Napoleon in 1798 and Belgian royals from 1834–1850, to be a little more grandiose and exciting…

7. Léopold II Statue

0.39 MILES

Most of the beachfront is overshadowed by 10-storey concrete buildings, but beside the very ‘50s Thermae Palace Hotel there's some respite where a…

8. Marien Ecologisch Centrum

0.45 MILES

This educational operation has a little one-room collection of seashells and sand that you can examine under the microscope.