The places on this page have been used by us, and have used again due to the location, friendliness and standard of rooms and cuisine.

Please mention Tommy’s site if you book some of the more traditional Hotels.

YPRES

Kasteelhof Hooge is a very good Hotel on the Mennen road just outside Ypres. The location is excellent for the 1 day tour, good food and accommodation. Great selection of local beers - worth going to for a meal or drink if in the area such as hill 60 , Hooge Crater

 

Cherry Blossom Bed &Breakfast

Grote Branderstraat 30, 8908 Vlamertinge (Brandhoek) Ypres, Belgium

Bed & Breakfast - Tearoom with friendly/homely atmosphere, traditional English food all freshly prepared just 10mins drive from Ypres.

Open all year round.

0032 (0)57 301555 or 0032 (0)472 347694

cherryblossom@telenet.be    www.cherryblossom.be

 

The Royal Picardie Hotel, which looks like a fortified castle planted in the heart of the Somme and near famous World War I battlefields, invites you to enjoy a warm and friendly stay. Close to main roads, Albert is approximately 92 miles from Calais and a short drive from Arras and Amiens.

 

 

CAMBRAI

Hotel Beatus is a great 3 star Hotel on the Avenue De Paris, Cambrai. This is about a 20 min walk from the center of Cambrai and very easy to find due to the enthusiastic sinage around Cambrai. The owner is very interested in WW1 and some years back unearthed and restored a tank, called Deborah. A model is in the reception of the Hotel, but to see the tank in full may take some persuading.

debora tank
Kastelhof Hooge
royal-picardi

Somme

Chavasse Farm – in the heart of The Somme Battlefields, located in the quiet village of Hardecourt aux Bois. Four minutes from Delville Wood and fifteen minutes from the Thiepval Memorial. Our Farm has three separate Cottages available to rent, Chavasse House sleeps upto twelve guests, Coury & Dupres House's both sleep 4 guests.

 

The Royal Picardie Hotel ~ See above

 

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Follow the links for D.I.Y Battlefield Tours

Maps & Guides give’s you info to help along the way.

Battlefields - Maps & locations.

Great War Links - other sites dedicated to WW1 & 2

 

In Flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses, row on row, that mark our place; and in the sky the larks, still singing, fly - scarce heard amid the guns below. we are the dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie - in Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow..... In Flanders fields....