Biking in Antwerp

Antwerp is a beautiful city with a lot of historical sites, scenic places and of course things to explore.  The city historic district is not that big — in a recent visit a colleague of mine and I explored it on foot.  Spent several hours on foot and despite the interesting places you woudl observe, you would still want to do that via a bike.  

Antwerp has the infrastructure which is very much in favor of bikes – there are bike lanes everywhere…So this is very nice, but for us the tourists…how do we get a bike ???  

So we checked in the hotel – stayed in the Leopold hotel across a nice park — they advised us to go and check for bike rentals at the main train station.  We walked there – and to our surprise, in the tourist information office at the station we were told that the only place we can rent the bikes would be at a location near the river after crossing the historic old town.

Well, needless to say – someone took us for a "ride" – either the hotel or the tourist information office at the train station were incorrect in their guidance to us.  Checking on the Web – later on – I would say the issue is with the tourist information office at the Central Train Station.  Per info on the web you can rent a bike at:

Fietshaven
Centraal Station Antwerpen
Fietsingang onder het Astridplein
+32 (0)3 203 06 73
Open: daily: Easter, July and August, everyday from 9h-19h
Weekdays during the rest of the year
Prices:+- 13 euro/day, 19 euro/2days, 24 euro/3 days, 6 euro/3 hours, .

So, keep that in mind in the future.  I will post pictures of the places in Antwerp later this weekend.  In the mean time – here are some photos so you can get an idea how important bicycles are in Antwerp

Antwerp_VeloStation  BicycleOnMeirStreet-shopping

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