This hotel, once a private mansion, offers a rare patch of green in the city's lodging spectrum. It's across from the trees of the Cinquantenaire Park, and it has a large garden where you can organize a barbecue in summer. The comfortable rooms vary in size from enormous to standard and the executive rooms come complete with computers. The lobby evokes the colonial era with its potted palms and a bust of Henry Morton Stanley, who was dispatched by King Leopold II to explore the Congo. There's a tiny bar at the end of the reception desk. Pros: friendly staff, good service. Cons: more a business hotel than a tourist location, historical center is quite far away.
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