Hotel Pilar

Excellently located opposite The Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSKA), the sunny terrace of Hotel Pilar looks welcoming. However, although pleasant and courteous the service was slow, and the food mediocre. My friend's meatloaf was acceptable, but my Shrimp Croquettes were not: composed of a slimy brown sauce, deep-fried, the two small croquettes (20€) had very little to do with shrimps, and a great deal to do with processed food. Disappointing.

The friendly staff and super cool interior Location is great for getting to know the city with best galleries, restaurants, shops, museums, ... Great restaurant on the ground floor as well, great caesar salad and seasonal dishes. The rooms also have amazing views.

My stay was a disaster The door to my room did not close, and the heating in the room didn’t work. I arrived to find my room completely open and totally freezing. In the morning, the room was so cold inside that there was water on the windows. Building work on my floor started before 7am. The door to the fire escape was propped open, which only made me even colder. There were workmen banging, scraping, and slamming doors from 7am. All made worse by the fact that my own room door wouldn’t close and so kept banging every time they went past. It turned out I’d even been put in the wrong room I told the front desk about this in the morning, but then sat at breakfast for an hour, with no apology or even acknowledgement from management. I watched the manager across the room stand for half an hour laugh and joke with some customers, but he didn’t even make eye contact me. This is the first time I have left a review for any hotel, but I feel I have to because it was so bad. Stay anywhere else in Antwerp but here. The street would be quieter, warmer, and cheaper. Delicious breakfast though

foooodieeeeeeeeee alert So good! We had the Marisco Extremely good wines friendly staff and cool interior huge and green terrace, so perfect in summer But inside was reallu nice as well they gave us a good recommendation on the wine they serve great bottles as well

Amazing food! Kind staff. We had lunch there with our team and everyone loved it. Very lively, great food and atmosphere. Definitely coming back!!!!! We sat inside,but can't wait for summer. Seems an amazing terrace with lots of plants. So will be back.

The hotel has a good concept, equivalent to Mama Shelter (well thought out for about the same price point as the Hotel Pilar in Antwerp) in Paris, or Hotel Credible in Nijmegen (much less expensive than Hotel Pilar). Yet, unlike either of these, it does not carry out this concept in a way that really offers even some of the basics that it promises. First, the staff is really, really nice, cool, helpful, but the problems are out of their control. No parking: The hotel listing on Trip Advisor says, and even starts with 'parking' (see photo), but when we got there, there was no parking that was part of the hotel services. In fact, the closest parking is 1/2 a kilometer away and if you are not from the BeNeLux chances are you do not have the app you need to get into the parking, which means downloading a new app. Not to mention if you are alone, and for any reason you are are differently abled, you must walk 1/2 a kilometer. And in all cases, given the complexity of driving around a beautiful city in full construction, your navigation will not know how to get you to the parking lot, since the maps are not updated. When we finally parked and got the hotel, it was an hour later... , the very nice employee told us the listing meant that there was parking 'around the hotel'... but unless the hotel is in a purely pedestrian area, then I, as a person booking a hotel, I would assume that all hotels have parking 'around the hotel'. Cleanliness and Upkeep: The sheets and bed were clean, and the hotel has no carpeting, so it felt good enough to sleep there, but the furniture is I guess 'shabby chic' if one can consider used early 2000's Ikea as vintage, and the enormous bathtub, had handles that fell off and were rusted. The blanket on top of the comforter had not been cleaned and their were hairs of all hair color stuck to it. Again, the comforter cover, sheets, and towel was very clean. Very nice, but overworked staff: The staff handles both the check-in/out and the restaurant, which was very happening, which again if fine, but if one compares in price and concept Hotel Pilar to an equivalent in Paris, then this might be a superb Mama Shelter, which carries it all through much better. Mama Shelter and JAM Hotel are bigger, so I get that Hotel Pilar can't afford that... but then I would then say, this hotel is more of the order of also superb Hotel Credible in Nijmegen, whose price point is significantly lower than Hotel Pilar and much more consistently clean with better upkeep of furniture and in our case, in our room at Hotel Pilar, of the bathtub, where knobs were rusted and fell off. Breakfast: The breakfast was very expensive for something exciting promised, and was again rather disappointing. Awful coffee... the pain perdu was a piece of brioche toasted... with yummy fruit on top, compared again to Mama Shelter or Hotel Credible... again Mama Shelter, same price bigger hotel, so I get that Hotel Pilar can't do this, but then Hotel Credible ha