Travel Information & Housing
Accommodation
The organizers of the HPLC 2025 conference want to emphasize that participants are responsible for arranging their own accommodation in Bruges. Given that Bruges is an extremely popular tourist destination, it is strongly recommended that attendees book their lodging as early as possible.
You can visit the official Visit Bruges website for any hotel recommendations or use any alternative like booking.com or airbnb.com to find your preferred accommodation.
Most hotels are ideally located within walking distance of the Conference Venue.
WARNING: some participants may have received fraudulent emails to book their accommodation for the Conference. Please be aware that the only official email addresses extensions for communication about the congress are @hplc2025-bruges.org or @vub.be.
Travel
For long range travel, Brussels airport (Zaventem) has 167 direct destinations from all over the world.
For short range travel, Bruges is very easy accessible by car (5km from E40 motorway) and train. Major European cities such as Amsterdam, London and Paris are within a range of maximally 300 km, and are directly connected to Brussels by high-speed train.
The most convenient way to reach Bruges from Brussels or Brussels Airport is by train. The train station at Brussels airport is located at level -1. To plan your train journey: go to Belgian Train (or download the Belgian Rail-app “NMBS: trein info & tickets“) and select “Brussels airport” as starting station and “Bruges” as destination. Be sure to select a station preceded by the logo “(B)”-logo. (other names in drop-down list are bus, tram,.. stations). On Sundays, direct trains to Bruges from Brussels airport leave at xx:24 from platform 2 (Destination “Knokke”. There’s two more options (with changeover at Brussels-Midi/South leaving xx:30 and xx:57 from platform 1). This movie visualizes the process from arrivals to the train: Arrival-Process
Leaving from one of the 3 main Brussels stations (North, Central, Midi/South)? Then you have a choice of 3 direct trains per hour (65’ journey).
Bruges’ train station is less than a 10’ walk away from the conference venue and the main hotel area.
