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Good Rate :: Belgium's Choco-Laté Festival

Where: Katelijnestraat 65A, Brugge, Belgium, 8000

[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quotes here were valid for April 7 to 9, 2007 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]

We couldn't resist anything that lets us say "choco-laté" over and over, so this week we're checking out rates in Bruges (or Brugge), Belgium for the Choco-Laté Festival running April 6 to 10. Do your dieting before you head in this direction, then dive in for a few days of indulgence, sleeping it off at the Ibis Brugge Centrum.

The hotel pickings are slim already for the weekend nights of April 7 and 8, with only a few hotels showing availability on both nights. The best bet for strolling, at a rate that won't take a year of cocoa bean picking wages to pay off, is the Ibis Brugge Centrum--at $178 per night. This is a mid-range 3-star hotel that's part of the Accor group, but in a historic building at least. It has a 24-hour snack bar, a reasonably priced restaurant, and rooms that are on the small side but well-kept. You'll probably want to skip that $15 breakfast though and grab something light nearby. (Plus while most 3-star hotels in the U.S. throw in free wi-fi now, here you'll pay a minimum of 10 euros to log on.)

Here's the description of the mouth-watering festival itself from What's On When:

The self-proclaimed Belgian chocolate capital goes a step further with chocolate sculpture contests, body painting, children's activities and a trail taking in the city's landmark chocolatiers such as Leonidas, Godiva and Neuhaus.

Brushing aside chocolate's sinful connotations, the festival reveals the health benefits of cocoa in massage, beauty therapy and skin products - so there's no reason to feel guilty about a little sweet indulgence.

The Ibis Brugge Centrum is a mile from the city center, so you can walk off the choco-laté afterwards too.

[Photo: David Wilmot]

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Ralph Fiennes Continues World Sex Tour at Hotel

Where: Dijver 7, Brugge, Belgium, 8000

Actor Ralph Fiennes caused quite a stir last month when he joined the Mile High Club with a Qantas stewardess yet that hasn't slowed down his travelling sex drive.

The latest report has the actor frolicking naked in a hotel pool in Belgium with not one, but four women.

Guests at the Hotel Tuilerieen in Bruges were awoken at 5am by loud music, yelling and screaming. Usually, hotel managers don't like to disturb celebrity guests no matter how bad the behavior, but this hotel's rep, Patricia Homble said: "I wasn't happy about it."

But did she ask Fiennes and co. to leave? We doubt it.

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Hotel Heritage Sun Deck View Video

Where: Niklaas Desparsstraat 11, Brugge, Belgium

Earlier this week we told you about our recent trip to Hotel Heritage in Brugge Belgium.

To give you a taste of what this hotel's sun deck view is like we filmed this short video.

Enjoy.

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Hotel Heritage: Blogger in the Belfry

Where: Niklaas Desparsstraat 11, Brugge, Belgium

Brugges is one of those must visit medieval cities in Europe. Once in town, you will want to stay at one of the many killer hotels Bruge has to offer. We made our camp at one such hotel, Hotel Heritage, which is steps away from Markt and Burg, the two main squares in town.  You will need to take a cab from the train station to the hotel, unless you are up for a twenty minute walk with your luggage.

More on the Heritage after the jump

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