Hotel New Regina

I have just come back from three nights at this hotel. It is very well-placed for tours of Ypres and the battlefields of Flanders however there are some things that travellers should be aware of. This hotel has some internal rooms which look out onto an internal brick shaft. The shaft is sealed at the top. My room was in constant darkness with no fresh air. It was claustrophobic and oppressive. I asked to move rooms but received a brusque reply of , “No rooms”. Whilst this is a no smoking hotel the ledge in my room had ash over it from stubbed out cigarettes and cigarette ends below the “window” ( more like a glass hatch to the shaft) so there was a smell of cigarettes in the room. The room wasn’t made up or cleaned on the third day and I had to borrow sheets of toilet paper from a friends room as they did not leave me with a spare toilet roll and only a few sheets on the one in the room. I was with a group of travellers who all paid the same price. Some were in the front facing suites and rooms with lovely views. Two of us were in the “cells”. If you are travelling with a group make sure you are not in room 5.

Stayed at Hotel Regina on our last night before heading to Calais. The hotel was adequat for our needs. There is no dedicated parking and the receptionist advised us where to park. The end result was our car being impounded with a 200 Euro charge to recover it. Extra stress needing to get to LeShuttle by 10:20. Twenty other cars also impounded. The receptionist the following day was brilliant tracked down where our car was and drove me to collect it. I would not advise staying in Ypres overnight. One day does Ypres but stay outside the town.