I'm a very opened minded traveller and tend not to read too much into bad reviews as someone's palace is someone's prison cell. This is why I booked the Hotel Galia.
It was a very easy hotel to find thanks to Google Map however it is, as stated in reviews, in front of a flea market which seems to be on every day and in what I would call a bit of a dodgy area.
On arrival at the hotel, myself and my partner were given room 52. You get the lift to floor 3 and walk the rest. It can only be described as a bad loft conversion. Booking a double room meant you got 2 single beds with a massive loft window above one of the beds, a terrible bathroom and nowhere to hang your clothes. After speaking to the receptionist we were given room 34. A slight improvement with a double bed but still not worth the 85 euros paid.
Once out of the hotel and on the main road, you are taken to a completely different area and the lovely part of Brussels. It was only a 5 minute walk so that's a positive.
We were awakened at 4am with the delivery man who seemed to be going for guinness record in the loudest person talking on his mobile phone! Then the set up of the flea market started. There was no air conditioning but even with the window closed you could here everything. Needless to say a good sleep was not had.
We had breakfast in the morning which was actually not too bad, plenty of breads, jams, meats and pate to choose from along with cereals, pastries and coffee and juice. We took advantage of what was on offer as we wanted to get our monies worth somehow!
I'm a well travelled open-minded person however I would not go back here! Brussels yes, but the Hotel Galia, no!

We stayed in this hotel for one night and were very confident.

Positive: Delicious typical breakfast in a nice atmosphere; very friendly and helpful (although a bit chaotic) staff; nice area, close to the city centre; quiet, clean room

Negative: Promised parking space was unfortunately not available; the rooms were not ready before 2:00p.m.

The room was indeed small but if you stay there only for one or two nights it should be no problem at all.

We arrived at this hotel to find that we were double booked (as I saw this written on the email confirmation she had on the desk). Although she didn't tell us this and gave us the excuse that there was something wrong with our room. The hotel is in a bad neighbourhood. This is obvious when we arrived, but was later confirmed by a friend who lives and works in brussels. To their credit they quickly found an alternative hotel that was of very good quality and in a much nicer area, however we were not offered a taxi to take us there and instead expected to walk. All in all not impressed.

My friend and I had made a mistake when booking our hostel and therefore we needed to find a place to spend the night. We had the choice between another hostel pretty far away and then this - to us - unknown hotel close to our location. Somehow we felt that we had the money (30 € per night was way over our budget) and we never regretted spending them.

Now for the hotel: The man in the reception had kind of a film noir sexy feel to him with a lovely french accent, which made the knees of two interrail-girls like us shiver. Our room was at the top of the building with a nice view of the city, clean and had a brand new feel to it. It wasn't big, but the charm of the interieur design and the presence of a comfy bed with a duvet made up for it.

The biggest surprice of them all was the breakfast buffet. Those Belgians really know how to make such a thing. On top of it all the breakfast room was filled with loads of old plates, pictures and other crap that you can buy at the numerous fleamarkets. (see attached picture) which made you want to go out and explore the wonderful city of Brussels.

When reading this review you have to keep in mind that we had been staying in hostels for weeks and therefore our standards might not has been as high as other peoples. Still this is a hotel I would love to return to again and again and again....