How To Reach Brussels

Travelling by air is the best option to reach Brussels from India. Mumbai has five direct flights every week to Brussels, which also happens to serve the best India to Brussels flight time. The duration is 9 hours 50 minutes. The flight is operated by Brussels Airlines and flies on every day of the week except Sunday and Wednesday. Lufthansa and Swiss Air have 11 hours 35 minutes flights from Mumbai via Munich and Zurich, while Turkish Airlines takes 20 minutes longer. From Delhi, the best flights are flown by Finnair, KLM or Lufthansa, each of them timing a little more than 11 hours. But Delhi or any other city does not have nonstop flights, which means there will be layovers for an hour or more at cities like Helsinki, Amsterdam, Munich, Zurich, Frankfurt, London et cetera.

Travelling by train is a very common form of transportation in Western Europe. The main Brussels train station is Central-Centraal located right in the city centre. Midi-Zuid serves the south and Nord-Noord serves the north. Another station is the one corresponding to the airport. One can catch Brussels train from almost all the nearby cities – Paris, Cologne, Amsterdam and Berlin by Thalys trains. The Benelux route via Eurail is very popular, where you get a combined pass for Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. Eurostar connects Brussels at Midi station with London via the Channel Tunnel. Thalys runs a daily 1 hour 15 minutes high speed train from Paris-Nord to Brussels-Midi.

It is not unheard of to travel from India all the way to Brussels by road. But those who do seek to make records. It is not the way to go for a regular vacation. However, from other cities of the EU, bus services are plenty. Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and UK have easy bus services to the Midi and Nord stations.