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Vlaams-Brabant · Issue 01 · Spring 2026
Survey · Nine Stays Within Taxi Range

Where to sleep,
after Agnes.

Eight character beds — and one walk-back — within a comfortable post-dinner ride home from the village of Sint-Martens-Bodegem. Curated for the night you've already booked the tasting menu.
Radius ≤ 20 km · ≤ 25 min Anchor Agnes, 1★ Michelin Night taxi ~€2/km · ~€45 each way
Agnes restaurant by Thomas Locus, Sint-Martens-Bodegem
★ Michelin 2026
The anchor
Processiestraat 3, 1700 Sint-Martens-Bodegem · former presbytery, modern French, €€€ [1] [21]
The Decision in Thirty Seconds
If you want to walk back
Same village as Agnes. Wellness B&B with indoor pool and sauna — but recent reviews flag cleanliness. Inspect on arrival. [4]
⚠ Mixed reviews
If you want hotel-grade wellness
4★ adults-only spa hotel, ~6 km away in Groot-Bijgaarden. Six pools, 12,000 m² wellness garden, 27 rooms with heated floors. Book ahead. [7]
If you want the "wow" backdrop
Restored 19th-century neo-Palladian villa, 17 km away in Halle. 200 m from a train station that puts Brussels 15 minutes away on Sunday morning. [9]
Villa Servais, Halle — restored 19th-century neo-Palladian villa Featured · ~17 km
Halle · neo-Palladian, 1847
The Catalogue's Cover Star

Villa Servais

A cellist's villa, restored room by room.

Servaislaan 8, Halle. Designed in 1847 by Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar for the Belgian cellist Adrien François Servais, with façade bas-reliefs carved in 1864 by Cyprien Godebski. [10]

The villa stood empty from 1981 until Maud and Geert de Poorter acquired it in 2016 and restored each of its eight rooms by hand. The first-floor Ernest Van Dijck library looks out over Halle Basilica. [11] [9]

From€160
Rooms8
To Agnes~17 km
Train200 m

The Catalogue

Eight stays, ordered roughly by distance from the table. Each one earns its place on a different axis — pool, horses, castle wall, farmhouse beams, a four-poster.
Adults-only wellness B&B
Bruine-Lieveheerstraat 7 ~1 km · walk ~€115 ⚠ 2.6 / 5

B&B Bodegem

Sint-Martens-Bodegem·3 rooms·Adults only

The only walk-back option in the catalogue. Indoor pool, sauna, hot tub; brands itself as a wellness B&B. [6] The catch: TripAdvisor sits at 2.6/5 with cleanliness complaints, while Bedandbreakfast.eu shows a milder 7.9/10 — pick only if walking home from Agnes outweighs the review risk. [4] [5]

Waer Waters spa hotel, Groot-Bijgaarden ~6 km €€€

Waer Waters spa Hotel

Groot-Bijgaarden·27 rooms·21+ only

The strongest pure-hotel option in taxi range. 4★, adults-only (21+), 12,000 m² wellness garden, six pools, two restaurants, heated-floor rooms. ~10 min by taxi after dinner — walk-ins routinely turned away at peak. [7] [8]

Trionfo Guesthouse, Gaasbeek ~7 km ~€110

Trionfo

Lennik · Gaasbeek·4 rooms·Castle gate

Quiet guesthouse at the gate of Gaasbeek Castle's park; named after the 1813 triumphal arch the Marquis Arconati built as a Napoleon tribute. Terrace, e-charging, no pets — a lower-key alternative to the farmhouses if you want the castle-park location without the farmhouse interior. [16]

B&B Het Verblijf, Lennik ~8 km ~€130

B&B Het Verblijf

Lennik · Gaasbeek·5 rooms·Farmhouse

A restored 200-year-old authentic Brabant three-sided farmhouse that has stood serenely in the Pajottenland landscape for two centuries — walking distance to Gaasbeek. [17] [15]

B&B De Windheer, Gaasbeek ~7 km ~€115

B&B De Windheer

Gaasbeek · Lennik·5 rooms·Step-free room

Halfway between Gaasbeek Castle and the Lennik market — 0.6 mi from the castle gate, with draft horse "Prins" out back. Five bedrooms including a suite and a wheelchair-accessible room. [18] [20]

B&B St-Hubert, Sint-Martens-Lennik — Friesian-horse estate ~10 km €110

B&B St-Hubert

Sint-Martens-Lennik·5 rooms·Manège

A working manège — five rooms named after the resident Friesian horses (Mien, Jack, Roos, Julius, Zafiera), an outdoor pool and a hot tub. The pick if a stable view at sunrise is your idea of character. [12]

B&B De Woestijn, Roosdaal — renovated farmhouse with heated pool ~10 km ~€135

B&B De Woestijn

Pamel · Roosdaal·3 deluxe rooms·Heated pool

Renovated farmhouse with three deluxe rooms, a heated outdoor pool in the garden, and a breakfast built from regional Pajottenland products. [19] [15]

Kasteel Ter Rijst, Heikruis — neoclassical castle with reflecting pond ~20 km · edge €85+

B&B T'Rest at Kasteel Ter Rijst

Heikruis · Pepingen·5 rooms·Bistro on-site

B&B and bistro inside a neoclassical castle in an English landscape park with reflecting ponds. Hosted four weddings for the Belgian TV show "Blind Getrouwd." The cheapest "wow" stay on the list — and the outer edge of taxi range. [13] [14]

Adults-only
Both B&B Bodegem and Waer Waters exclude under-21s. Relevant if you are travelling with children. [8]
Pre-book the return ride
Most of these B&Bs are rural. Do not rely on hailing a taxi in Gaasbeek or Heikruis at 23:00 — book the night ride with the lodging when you confirm the room.
Train extension
Villa Servais is 200 m from Halle station — a Brussels-bound Sunday morning is one short ride away if you're combining cities.
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