Access Brussels explains how the city actually works for someone visiting it — what is free, which day things are shut, how the ticket works, and which famous thing to skip.
Who writes this
The Access Brussels Editorial Team. That is a house name rather than a person, and we would rather say so than invent a biography. We work from the public record: the transport operator, the region and the nineteen communes, museums’ own ticketing pages, and published statistics.
How these articles are made
Articles on this site are drafted with the help of AI language models from published sources, and checked before they are published. We say so plainly because a reader deserves to know how what they are reading was produced.
Automation is why we can cover the unglamorous things at all. Brussels’ practical detail is scattered across two languages and nineteen communes, each with its own rules and its own website, and much of it exists only in French or Dutch. Assembling that in English is laborious, changes often, and is exactly the sort of work that otherwise does not get done.
Before anything goes live we check the load-bearing facts against a primary source and date them on the page. Fares and opening times change; the date tells you whether to trust the number.
What we do not do
- We have not visited the places described here. No invented local favourites, no “our team loved”, no restaurant reviews written from a desk.
- We do not invent people. No fabricated authors, no fake credentials, no made-up quotes from residents.
- We do not print a number we could not check. Where the evidence is unclear we say so, and where a claim belongs to someone else we name them.
When we are wrong
Sometimes we will be. Prices rise, offices move, rules change and sources go stale. Anything factual carries the date it was verified; treat an old date as a reason to confirm before you act. This is general information and our own editorial view, not advice for your particular situation.
How the site pays for itself
Advertising, and occasionally affiliate links. Where a link earns us a commission it is marked as sponsored and the page says so. Our comparison articles carry those links; the everyday practical guides do not, because they have nothing to sell and we would rather they stayed clean. What we recommend never depends on what pays.
See our privacy policy for what is collected when you read this site — very little, and almost none of it by us.