Since Brussels has been voted for the capital of Europe prices have been rising quite including room rates for hotels. Having said that I will give you a few tips here how to avoid paying the highest rack rates. If you are planning a trip to Brussels gear your holiday period in Brussels towards the summer holidays or weekends during the rest of the year. This is when all the office workers from EU Parliament are on vacation and hotels drop their rates quite a bit to compensate and fill up their vacancies. If you can’t make your way to Brussels during the summer holidays than another way to bargain from a cheap hotels deal is to limit your actual stay in Brussels for the weekend. This is when again the bulk of business travelers are gone and hotels offer special deals and discounts over the weekend. A weekend package might be stay three nights for two or stay Saturday to Monday with 20% discount. The rest of your stay in Belgium you might want to enjoy the beautiful country side around Brussels and stay in a country hotel for about half the money. You can have day trips to places like Bruges or Antwerp easily since Belgium has a well functioning railway system and is a small country. It takes only 1 and half hours to from Brussels central station Midi to Amsterdam central station for about 30 Euro return. This demonstrates how small and easy to travel the Belgium actually is.