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Best transportation: "Metroing, "training" and walking"
  by delphinic  
written: 17 September 2004
last time there: September 2004
I visited Brussels by coming in from the airport by train: 2.60 EUR, get the ticket at the airport and get right to Centraal Station metro stop. One metro (subway) ticket costs 1.40, but a card of ten costs less than 10 EUR. I found that the distances downtown were rather short, so in total I only bought about 10 tickets in a week.
The buses, subway and trams run on the same tickets. You can get a map of the network at the tourist office (close to Centraal Station or de Broukere station). The tickets can be bought at automatic outlets, and they come out as a card. In the subway, you have to validate the card in on of the orange boxes before taking the stairs down to the metros. If you transfer to a tram or a bus, you should also put it again in the orange box onboard. If you are within the allowed time (I think 60 or 90 min), then this will count as a "Transit" and it will *not* cost you another ticket.
The transit system stops early at night, so check the schedules. It starts early in the morning, though!
One other point of interest: in the subway, there are display board with all the stations on the line, and the position of each metro train on it. It tells you when to expect the next one, and its terminus, because some lines split in two and half the trains go to each terminus.
Pros: cheap public transit, efficient and clean enough
Cons: closes early
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