From Brussels: Private Full-Day WWI Tour with Lunch

Explore the historic WWI sites of Ieper (Ypres) on a private full-day tour from Brussels. Visit the Menin Gate Memorial, the In Flanders Fields Museum, and the Passchendaele Museum.
Explore the WWI sites around Ieper (Ypres) on a private tour from Brussels. Visit the Hooge Crater Museum, Hill 62, the Menin Gate, the In Flanders Fields Museum, the Passchendaele Museum, and the Tyne Cot Cemetery.

Be picked up from your hotel in Brussels and travel to the Hooge Crater Museum. See life-size reconstructions of World War I battle scenes, an extensive collection of weapons, equipment, and photographs. Learn about the history of the museum and the surrounding area from your guide.

Continue to Hill 62 (Sanctuary Wood) Canadian Memorial. Learn about the history of the wood and the trench lines and dugouts that were enclosed and the shattered trees fenced in. See the 3D stereoscopic photographs of highly graphic scenes taken during the war.

Visit the Menin Gate, a memorial to the missing. Inside are the names of some 55,000 Commonwealth soldiers who were reported missing before August 15, 1917. Every evening at 8 PM, the "Last Post" resounds under the Menin Gate.

Walk around Ieper (Ypres) to pickup souvenirs and have lunch. Visit the In Flanders Fields Museum, located in the rebuilt Cloth Hall of Ypres, an important symbol of wartime hardship and later recovery.

Climb the restored Belfry tower and look out over the city and the surrounding battlefields. Visit the Passchendaele Museum and experience the life of the military during WWI in a dugout and trenches.

Finally, visit the Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials. See the Tyne Cot Memorial, which commemorates nearly 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom and New Zealand who died in the Ypres Salient.

To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.

This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.