tram 1 (Flanders Expo - Wondelgem / Evergem) brings you from the St Pieters station or center (Korenmarkt, Gravensteen) to approximately 300 meters from the hostel (stop 'Witte Kaproenenplein'). Cross the street and tram tracks and follow a little street ahead of you (Aloïs Joosstraat), in between some appartments.  You end up at a waterway, named Brugse Vaart, where you'll find us!

Tram 4 (Gent Sint-Pieters - Moscou) brings you from the St Pieters station to approximately 600 meters from the hostel (stop 'Brugse Poort'). Cross the tram tracks and the street, and go straight on for some 200 meters (a street called Noordstraat).  You end up at a bridge (Phoenixbrug): just before the bridge you take a street on your right side, along the water. This is the Bargiekaai!

 

 

from Dampoort station

 

 

Bus 3 (Gentbrugge - Mariakerke Post) brings you from the station, through the centre to approximately 300 meters from the hostel. Get off the bus at 'Brugse Poort', just before the crossroad, cross the latter, walk straight on into Noordstraat and before the bridge turn right and follow the water. This is the Bargiekaai.

 

 

 

Directions to Ghent

 

 

Gent Sint Pieters: trains depart and arrive here from all corners of the country. There are regular connections to other flemisch art towns: four trains per hour to Bruges, three trains per hour to Brussels and two trains per hour to Antwerp. From Zaventem (national airport) you can take several trains to Gent Sint Pieters. Either directly (train direction Deinze - De Panne), or by a change in Brussels North (train direction Oostende). From Brussels Airport (Charleroi) there is a shipping service between the airport and the railway station, from where there are two possibilities to go to Gent, each with a change in Brussels South: the train to Knokke or Oostende. Thalys and TGV trains arrive also in Brussels-South. For the schedule, please check www.b-rail.be.

 

 

Euro Lines buses take you from all corners of Europe to Brussels or Gent (Dampoort station). Check the website for more information: www.eurolines.com.