Is Brussels Safe for Solo Female Travelers?

Solo travel experience

I loved Brussels. Just a short train ride to Ghent, Bruges, and Ostend. I felt very safe there. I chose to stay there for Christmas and was not disappointed. Many establishments were open on Christmas Day. Fantastic art museum. A little cheese shop that was to die for. My hotel was a short walk from the Central Station.

Solo travel experience

I was surprised by Brussels. I was there and enjoyed going around. There are lots of beautiful places, nice shops, and colorful markets and also in the evening, I remember a lively atmosphere and music. I stayed very near Grand Place, taking also day trips by bus to Ghent, Antwerp, and Bruges. I loved the whole experience in the city.

Solo travel experience

I went on a short trip to Brussel to visit my friend I spent there 4 nights. I had the best time, friendliest people and it was so easy to get around and I practiced my French although they speak another dialect but they were really nice and patient with me . Food was cheap and best thrifting experience 😍 They have shops where you by clothes and accessories by the kilo, so you basically weigh the stuff you want and you pay the bare minimum I got soooo many stuff for under 30€ I haven't tried many Belgian meals but the brunch meals are a must as well as the sweets ofc we had Belgian waffles which were funnily shaped as vaginas and penises 😂😂 It's really safe we were two girls roaming around brussels late at night and gladly we didn't encounter any problems with anyone. So an overall perfect experience 👌

Group travel experience

I went to Brussels in Belgium with a friend a few months ago. Really loved it. It’s a big city but with a small-town vibe. We took a day trip to Luxembourg, which was also really pretty. We booked a bus, and it’s really cheap (FlixBus). If we’ve had more days I would have liked to do a day trip to Bruge as well, as I’ve heard it’s really nice.

Solo travel experience

I was only there for 2 days but I walked everywhere and felt pretty safe. The only place I felt was a little sketchy was the bus station at late night because sadly there were a lot of homeless people there.

Solo travel experience

I recently travelled to Brussels alone and I loved it! I felt really safe, the hostel was great and there was plenty to do! Plus, I loved belgium waffles and belgian chocolate. I took a walking tour which was brilliant and showed me all the best historic sites, and gave brilliant recommendations for where to eat etc.

Solo travel experience

Things to do: - Explore Grand Place - Lunch (bao buns) - Galerie du Roi - St Michael and St Gudula Cathedral - Mont des Arts (view!) - Parc du Bruxelles - Royal Palace of Brussels - Shopping (Rue Neuve) - Brunch at Maison Dandoy (Royal Gallery of St Hubert) - Try special frites (chips with ketchup, mayo and onions) - Notre Dame Sablon - Palais du Justice view point (see the Atomium in the distance) - Manneken Pis - Souvenir shopping - Haagen Daaz ice cream cafe

Solo travel experience

Mini Europe is cool, the atominon building is really cool, have a meal in the top sphere. Downtown is great, lots of places to get good food, lots of chocolate, be sure to get the fries with the dipping sauces.

Solo travel experience

Things to do: - Visit Grand Place - Visit the Atomium - Take a free walking tour - Take a picture with Manneken Pis - Visit Galeries Royales - Enjoy the view at Mont Des Arts Food: Try Belgian waffles, fries and chocolate. Safety: Perfectly safe city. Recommendations: Brussels is beautiful, with excellent food and drink, but quite boring.

Solo travel experience

Things to do: - Book a chocolate making class - Go up the Atomium - Visit the Royal Palace of Brussels - Explore the Grand Place - Tour the EU Headuarters - Visit St Michael and St Gudula Cathedral - See the Manneken Pis - Explore Cinquantenaire Park Safety: I was there in August and felt perfectly safe Recommendations: Brussels is beautiful, but it's a huge city with lots of walking involved.

Brussels is amazing little city. You can visit a lot of museums and coffeeshops. It’s mine of safe and really easy to travel around. Because it’s the capital of Europe we have also a lot of diversity here and the food is so diverse and you can find everything. We have also a lot of good local food of course.

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Brussels is a great place to live in as a student,there's loads of transport and people to meet . It's small, cozy and some neighborhoods are really alive. But if you're traveling here I would recommend not staying too too long since after a while there's nothing to visit or to do for free anymore here. But it's still enjoyable if you like to chill.

For sight seeing I recommend Queen galleries, sablon, royal palace, mont des arts (where you have nice musuems close by, I recommend to go see at least from the outside the museum of instruments and the bozar musuem, that are in beautiful buildings). For drinks and brewery delirium is a good popular choice and is really in the center and old narrow streets, the brussel beer project is nice too. For cocktails the vertigo is nice bar down from the Sablon (area where you can get a lot of chocolates) and is in old and quite unique building. Around the Halles St Gery there are nice bars and the atmosphere is quite festive usually. Around the "parvis de Saint gilles" there are a lot of nice bars and restaurants, I personnally like the "ce piace", and not far from that a nice brunch place is "le petit mercado". The "place de jeu de balles" is also nice, it has a flee market, lots of antics, bars and restaurants, its nice to wander around in the streets and you can walk a bit in the neighbourhood and go in front of pieter bruegels (an old famous painter) house and go see the palace of justice by going with an elevator and have a view of the city. Another area that is nice and quite lively is place Flagey, you can go to get fries on the place and then have a drink at the Belga for example, and if you walk a bit follow the ponds of ixelles and go to the abbaye de la cambre and walk in the parc around.

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