Melia Avenue Louise Boutique Hotel - Brussels, Belgium 

I liked this place a ton when it was a Melia property last August--the fact that it's a Sercotel but can't be found in the Sercotel literature on the web doesn't bode well. The rooms were great--small, but extremely well appointed. And, rare for a Hotwire property, they threw in breakfast. It's in my favorite Brussels neighborhood so I won't argue with the location, and the staff was ,most friendly, even indulging a frank discussion of Mideast politics while the patrons (but not the staff, inshallah) indulged in Chimays.

We have just came back from Brussels and an Easter weekend stay at the Izan Avenue Louise Hotel. The hotel is a boutique hotel with 60 rooms - we booked in a Superior Double room. On arrival we were greeted with a nice young woman at the Reception and although check-in time was 2.00pm, we were able to get our room much earlier, thus able to rest before exploring the city. The room was a very nice one albeit rather kitschy, very comfortable bed, TV with lots of channels in different languages, especially French channel (for my French speaking Swiss husband) and BBC 1 & 2 + CNN for me., a nice marble bathroom with amenities. Breakfasts were included in the price and they were very good buffet. Very nice staff at breakfast time too! They were rather overwhelmed on Easter Sunday but managed with efficiency to place all guests for breakfast that morning. The location of the hotel is on a quiet street off the famous Avenue Louise - a very long street with lots of fabulous and famous boutiques. The metro "Louise/Louiza" is about 5 mins.walk and it would take 25 mins.to walk from Hotel to the famous Grand Place. Good restaurants on Rue Jourdan - not far from hotel. The only hic we had was the toilet in our room, and as we were staying during the weekend, no plumber was available :-(..... so my husband who has some handyman notions was able to do something creative - so we were able to use the flusher all through our stay. It is a pity though that the hotel does not seem to take this problem too seriously and for a small and rather exclusive hotel, they should have been able to call on a plumber to repair the toilet flusher. That is our only negative point on this hotel. On the whole, our stay was comfortable and pleasant. We recommend this hotel to travelers going to Brussels for tourism or business.