Christmas Market in Antwerp starts on Saturday 10 December 2011!
Our cozy Christmas Markets are an old holiday tradition where locals and visitors meet for buying traditional decorations and lots of goodies at open-air stalls in the heart of the city. Nice winter dishes and musical performances will keep you warm during these cold days. This magical event is absolutely fantastic! You can sip hot mulled wine or try one of Antwerp’s famous jenevers next to a cozy open fire.
Dozens of wooden chalets are waiting for you until 10 PM and of course those where Antwerp jenevers are being sold stay open much longer until some people don’t find their way back home alone!
Nice tip: On the Market Place you will find during the Christmas period a real ice rink. Young and old are turning graceful pirouettes while others are watching and enjoying a cup of hot chocolate.
We started our own tradition and the Astoria Hotel will again welcome you with a gass of hot Gluhwein as from 9 December 2011. Each time you enter our lobby with cold hands we offer you a glass of hot Gluwein. The smell in the lobby of oranges, vanilla, cinnamon and sugar gives you a real warm welcome in our hotel!
Usually we don’t like it when the summer ends. But while writing this I start dreaming of the typical Christmas smell of trees, Gluwein and open fires. December can’t be here fast enough!
After receiving an e-mail from Euromillions for encouraging me to play as there was € 10.000.000 to win we decided to share following on our Facebook page.
What would you do if tonight you win € 10.000.000 with Euromillions??? We will publish all answers in our lobby to share with guests and also on our blog! (Indecent language will not be published) Let us know! At least we can smile even the weather is real bad in Belgium!
After many answers like “Quiet a few new handbags”, “I would have a big party! Lol!” and “I’ll travel over Paris, Milan, New York and Sydney just to party…” we decided to purchase a ticket of € 2.
It started as a fantasy and became a big success! About a month ago on the 9th of September 2011 we asked Facebook friends from Astoria Hotel Antwerp to choose the lucky numbers for that night.
After a few hours we had 7 different friends that chose 5 numbers and 2 stars. We purchase the ticket and posted the picture of that ticket on Facebook as proof that we were not joking.
Since then we play every week on Friday and sometimes also on Tuesday with an increase of Facebook friends who like Astoria Hotel Antwerp!
More and more friends joined us to give their lucky number for the following game. Each post was hopeful to win and share! Wishes to open bottles of champagne etc made it real fun to follow Astoria’s posts. One friend even wishes we would fill up his empty safe :
Last Tuesday, 11 October 2011, we got lucky! We purchased 2 tickets of €2 because we had 14 friends with lucky number requests. Both tickets won and €20 is added to our favourite play list.
Today we will purchase 1 ticket for playing 10 times. If we get lucky we can fill up 14 safes before the end of the year! Good luck to Greg, Alun, Robin, Krisztina, Kati, Deborah, France, Adrienn, Lucas, Robert, Dimal, Agnès, Myriam and Dimitri! We will not post our lucky numbers on this blog… to see them you need to like Astoria Hotel Antwerp on Facebook!