sabina positive points: central location around 15 to 20min by foot to grand place and central station, and very next to a metro station(Madou) good breakfast with a reazonable price, quiet hotel good cost-benefit relation, a nice economical hotel
negative points: dont give free maps of the city, don’t have a safe, the TV didn’t work, don’t have free internet computer(it has free wifi)

I had to book a hotel last time, near Av. des Arts, and found Hotel Sabina, which I thought it was a 3 star hotel. I paid 85 Euros per night, including breakfast for a single room.

Well... The room is very tiny and I can step from the shower to the bed in one step. The bed is rather uncomfortable, I smelled cigarette although the room is supposed to be non-smoking and breakfast was less than satisfactory for the price.

I needed an iron and they gave me an old iron with a top plug exposed, which was a bit frightening. Also, when I came back from a meeting around lunchtime time, the reception was UNATTENDED. Basically, anyone could walk in, pick-up a key and steal whatever they wanted from any of the rooms. Later on the day, the main door was shut, which was a bit of a relief.

Having said that, the room and bathroom were clean and they have a decent free WIFI connection.

All in all, it is not the worse place I have stayed, but it is far from being great. There are lots of restaurants and metro stations nearby. It may be an option in emergencies.

Over the past 4 years, I've stayed at the Sabina, probably four times. It has always met my needs when I'm on business in Brussels. I have continued to stay there for the location, the free wifi and the uniformly excellent staff. It is nice to have a place I can consider "home" when in town.

I booked two rooms at Hotel Sabina without reading the tripadvisor reviews. As our taxi was taking us from the airport to the hotel I pulled up the reviews on my phone and strongly considered eating the cost of my deposit and going to another hotel but I figured I'd check it out. When we got there I was surprised by its relatively central location and very comfortable accomodations.

I think the previous reviewers thought they would be staying at a high class hotel which Hotel Sabina is definitely not. But the rooms were clean and the bathrooms, although small were adequate and also clean.
The breakfast is your standard European breakfast with pastries, toast, cheese, cereal, coffee, juice and tea. The man working the front desk (at all hours) was extremely friendly and helpful. He let us make two phone calls and allowed one of my roommates to print his boarding pass for our return flight.

The hotel is a quick 10 minute walk to the touristy area and has many restaurants on the way.

I would definitely return to Hotel Sabina