# A night in Ypres with the Last Post, an hour and a half from Brussels The First World War museum and the afternoon at Tyne Cot and Passchendaele, dinner and the Last Post at 20:00, and the next morning a guided tour of the Salient. Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/belgium/ypres/itineraries/ypres-last-post-night · Revisado: 2026-11-12 Dónde: Ypres (Ieper) In a day from Brussels, Ypres forces you to choose between the museum, the cemeteries in the countryside and the Last Post at eight in the evening. With one night you don't have to: on the first day you see the museum and the Passchendaele front, have dinner and go to the Menin Gate; on the second, a local guide takes you through the trenches and craters of the Salient. ## What does it cost? WhatHow muchNote In Flanders Fields Museum€12€6 for ages 7 to 17; belfry +€2 With the Passchendaele Museum€19.50Combined ticket Tyne Cot and the Last PostFreeNo booking Salient tour, Over the Top Tours€40Morning or afternoon, in English Gastrolunch at Klei€42Friday lunchtime, yes ## Where to stay? The Albion Hotel, 300 metres from the Grote Markt, with paid enclosed parking. If you arrive by car and prefer free parking, the four-star Ariane Hotel, five minutes' walk away. ## Where to eat? Klei on Friday lunchtime and De Ruyffelaer in the evening. On Saturday lunchtime, after the tour, grab something on the Grote Markt before heading back. ## El plan ### Friday · 08:30 · Car or train to Ypres An hour and a half by car along the E40 and A19, or about two hours by train with one change. ### Friday · 10:30 · In Flanders Fields Museum In the Cloth Hall, two hours. Climb the belfry for €2 more. ### Friday · 12:30 · Lunch at Klei The €42 Gastrolunch on the Grote Markt itself. Book. ### Friday · 14:30 · Passchendaele Museum By car, a quarter of an hour to Zonnebeke. The combined ticket with the Ypres museum comes to €19.50. ### Friday · 16:30 · Tyne Cot Three kilometres away: almost 12,000 graves and 35,000 names. ### Friday · 18:00 · Dinner at De Ruyffelaer Grandmother's cooking; it opens at 17:30 and leaves you five minutes from the Menin Gate. ### Friday · 19:30 · The Last Post Arrive half an hour early; at 20:00, silence and bugles. ### Friday · 21:00 · Night at the Albion Right in the centre, with enclosed parking. ### Saturday · 09:30 · Salient tour Over the Top Tours, four hours through the northern front by minibus, €40, from the Menin Gate. ### Saturday · 14:00 · The ramparts and the return A walk to the Lille Gate and back to Brussels. ## Un consejo más Book your hotel well ahead if you are going around 11 November: it is Armistice Day and Ypres fills up. ## Cuándo no ir Doing it on Sunday and Monday without checking: Klei is closed on Sunday and De Ruyffelaer only opens Friday to Sunday. ## Preguntas frecuentes ### How much does the getaway to Ypres cost? With hotel, museums, tour and meals, between €180 and €280 per person. ### Can it be done without a car? Yes: train to Ypres and the two Over the Top Tours tours, afternoon and morning, instead of going to Passchendaele on your own. ### Do you need to book the Last Post? No, it is free and without reservation. ## Dónde dormir if you're flying - **Ariane Hotel**: The Ariane is a four-star hotel on the Slachthuisstraat, a five-minute walk from the Grote Markt and seven from the Menin Gate, in a quiet area with a garden and pond. It has 62 rooms with individual air conditioning and boxspring beds, several on the ground floor. What it offers Free private parking with seven electric chargers, an enclosed bike garage with sockets, wifi, a lift, room service, a bar, a restaurant and a garden terrace from April to September, with a petanque court and a children's corner. Reception books battlefield tours, taxis and restaurants, and sells In Flanders Fields Museum tickets at a discount. It has a small exhibition room on the First World War. Getting there By car, it is the most convenient option in Ypres thanks to the free parking. From the station it is about a fifteen-minute walk. The restaurant is closed on Sunday. - **Albion Hotel**: The Albion is on the Sint-Jacobsstraat, in the historic centre of Ypres: 300 metres from the Grote Markt, the Cloth Hall and the In Flanders Fields Museum, and a few minutes from the Menin Gate. It has 32 rooms, the Classic ones with warm decor and the Premium ones, more modern, with a view over the rooftops. The rooms and breakfast All have a bathroom with a bath or shower, a small fridge, a coffee machine and kettle, wifi and extra-long boxspring beds; there is a lift and one adapted room. Breakfast is a buffet with bread from the bakery next door, farm cold cuts, Westhoek cheeses and the katteklauw, the Ypres bun. Also open to non-guests, for €27 (€17 for ages 6 to 14). Parking and getting there The private, enclosed and supervised car park is at D'Hondtstraat 59, around the corner: €16 a night for guests, by reservation, from 7:30 to 22:00, with chargers and a garage for motorbikes and bikes. From the station it is a ten-minute walk. ## Dónde dormir if you're driving - **Ariane Hotel**: The Ariane is a four-star hotel on the Slachthuisstraat, a five-minute walk from the Grote Markt and seven from the Menin Gate, in a quiet area with a garden and pond. It has 62 rooms with individual air conditioning and boxspring beds, several on the ground floor. What it offers Free private parking with seven electric chargers, an enclosed bike garage with sockets, wifi, a lift, room service, a bar, a restaurant and a garden terrace from April to September, with a petanque court and a children's corner. Reception books battlefield tours, taxis and restaurants, and sells In Flanders Fields Museum tickets at a discount. It has a small exhibition room on the First World War. Getting there By car, it is the most convenient option in Ypres thanks to the free parking. From the station it is about a fifteen-minute walk. The restaurant is closed on Sunday. - **Albion Hotel**: The Albion is on the Sint-Jacobsstraat, in the historic centre of Ypres: 300 metres from the Grote Markt, the Cloth Hall and the In Flanders Fields Museum, and a few minutes from the Menin Gate. It has 32 rooms, the Classic ones with warm decor and the Premium ones, more modern, with a view over the rooftops. The rooms and breakfast All have a bathroom with a bath or shower, a small fridge, a coffee machine and kettle, wifi and extra-long boxspring beds; there is a lift and one adapted room. Breakfast is a buffet with bread from the bakery next door, farm cold cuts, Westhoek cheeses and the katteklauw, the Ypres bun. Also open to non-guests, for €27 (€17 for ages 6 to 14). Parking and getting there The private, enclosed and supervised car park is at D'Hondtstraat 59, around the corner: €16 a night for guests, by reservation, from 7:30 to 22:00, with chargers and a garage for motorbikes and bikes. From the station it is a ten-minute walk. ## Dónde dormir without a car - **Ariane Hotel**: The Ariane is a four-star hotel on the Slachthuisstraat, a five-minute walk from the Grote Markt and seven from the Menin Gate, in a quiet area with a garden and pond. It has 62 rooms with individual air conditioning and boxspring beds, several on the ground floor. What it offers Free private parking with seven electric chargers, an enclosed bike garage with sockets, wifi, a lift, room service, a bar, a restaurant and a garden terrace from April to September, with a petanque court and a children's corner. Reception books battlefield tours, taxis and restaurants, and sells In Flanders Fields Museum tickets at a discount. It has a small exhibition room on the First World War. Getting there By car, it is the most convenient option in Ypres thanks to the free parking. From the station it is about a fifteen-minute walk. The restaurant is closed on Sunday. - **Albion Hotel**: The Albion is on the Sint-Jacobsstraat, in the historic centre of Ypres: 300 metres from the Grote Markt, the Cloth Hall and the In Flanders Fields Museum, and a few minutes from the Menin Gate. It has 32 rooms, the Classic ones with warm decor and the Premium ones, more modern, with a view over the rooftops. The rooms and breakfast All have a bathroom with a bath or shower, a small fridge, a coffee machine and kettle, wifi and extra-long boxspring beds; there is a lift and one adapted room. Breakfast is a buffet with bread from the bakery next door, farm cold cuts, Westhoek cheeses and the katteklauw, the Ypres bun. Also open to non-guests, for €27 (€17 for ages 6 to 14). Parking and getting there The private, enclosed and supervised car park is at D'Hondtstraat 59, around the corner: €16 a night for guests, by reservation, from 7:30 to 22:00, with chargers and a garage for motorbikes and bikes. From the station it is a ten-minute walk.