I need to know where there are cheap prices.

Need to know prices of Spirits and Beers over in Brussels? and anything really interesting to do.?

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• Answer:

  On average, you will pay anywhere between €1.50 and €1.90 for a simple pils in Belgium. In Brussels, it will generally be at the higher end of that range. Speciality beers will likely cost anywhere between €2 and €4 euros and possibly even more. Spirits and cocktails are likely between €2 and €6. You do have to try the local spirits: Jenever shots; It is a local type of gin that comes in a wide range of flavours from fruits, berries to things like cactus, chocolate and violets petals. The classics are bessenjenever (with berries), citroenjenever (lemon) and appeljenever (apple). Just be careful with these. They go in like nothing, but by the time you start feeling the effects, it's probably already too late. And with that, do keep in mind that the drinking culture in Belgium is much slower paced. Unless you can find your way to a student drinking party, binge drinking is not really accepted here, even amongst youngster. So to have a good time here, don't drink to get drunk, drink to be more social. Especially with the many strong beers abound, the accepted way is to take your time with these, because just two Duvals is enough to hammer anyone who isn't used to it. Your wallet will also thank you for this slower pace of life. :) For eating in Brussels: the area around St-Catherins. Though anywhere in Brussels will be good as long as you avoid the Rue de Boucher. It's a tourist trap. Going out: Also the areas around St-Catherins and the Jules van Praet straat. Expats generally hang out around at the Place du Luxembourg at the European Parliament. As you won't find many Belgians in Brussels anyway, they can pretty much be considered as one of the surrogate groups of locals here. Places worth visiting are the Grande Place, the Cinquantenaire park (and the European quarter around it), the palace of Justice. For contrasts, the area around North station which is Schaerbeek. On one side, you have the glass ghetto, wich is a modern beautiful, clean, and boring business area. If you exit the station from the back, you enter the red light district. Go one street further, and you enter in the lively bustling middle-eastern quarter. Other areas are for example the Matonge quarter which is mostly an African neighbourhood. If you have time, the Atomium, and if you have lots of time, you can walk through the park to the royal palace in Laeken (The other palace in the center is just the kings office). At the side of the domain, you have the Chinese pavilion and the Japanese pagoda. They are open to the public. The royal greenhouses in the palace unfortunately are only open during the summer months. Though I do believe that the hop-on-hop-off busses do pass here as well. Museums: Magritte Museum. The cartoon museum. The Victor Horta museum... Shopping: Luisa Laan (and the Dansaertstraat apparantly though I haven't been there myself) There is much more to see and do, so this free guide/map will be a lot of help: http://www.use-it.be But unless you have at least a week, you won't be able to do/see everything anyway. One last note: The most famous symbol of Brussels is also the most disappointing one: the statue of manneke pis. So don't bother looking for it. You will stumble into it eventually.