I just had a travel consultant tell me that there's no train station in Bastogne. Is this true? I was planning to visit this Monday ( Oct. 22) by train, leave luggage in a locker at the train station, rent a bike and head to the monument/museum a couple of miles away. Obviously that's not possible of there's no station with no lockers--not to mention bike rental. Anyone have any info. on this?
Posted by
Chicago, IL, USA
473 posts
The URL for the Belgian rail system is http://www.b-rail.be/main/E. After some poking around, it did not seem as though there is a train station in Bastogne. FYI, specifying "Brussels" as the "From" city, seemed to cause the web site to use the airport as the starting point. Similarly, specifying "Bastogne" as the "To" city caused the web site to use some local Brussels location as the destination. I had better luck when I specified Bruxelles as the departure point and " Bastogne Sud" as the arrival point. Or just Google "Bastogne Tourism". Several sites popped up, all listing the local tourist office. You can email the tourist office.
Posted by
Minneapolis, MN, USA
8700 posts
According to the timetables at www.bahn.de, there are two stations, Bastogne-Nord and Bastogne-Sud. I don't know if either station has lockers.
Posted by
Minneapolis, MN, USA
8700 posts
I did some more investigating. According to the Belgian Rail site, there are no lockers at either Bastogne station. The stations are unattended so there are few services of any kind.
Posted by
OP
Arlington, Texas
35 posts
Thanks to all. Bastogne will have to wait 'till another trip--with a car.