The best Brussels small group activities

Travelling in groups is cool, no matter how you look at it. You get a fantastic experience and unique memories are created.

It doesn't matter if you do it as a family, with your parents and siblings or your favourite cousins, if you do it with your partner and his family or with a group of friends. From the first minute, you know it's going to be different from anything you've ever done before.

It doesn't matter how long it takes, you can spend three days in Brussels, or just visit the Belgian capital for 48 hours. Every minute is going to be fantastic.

To make the experience even better, here are some must-do activities to make the most of both Brussels and your whole group.

Best activities for small groups in Brussels

Travelling in a group

Many travellers don't realise what a fantastic location Brussels is in Belgium. It is within easy reach of other major cities that you can visit in an express day trip, or even an afternoon.

To give you an idea of how easy it is to travel, the city of Ghent is just 30 minutes away by train. Transport in Belgium in general, and Brussels in particular, is punctual and comfortable.

Antwerp, the city of diamonds, is just 45 minutes away and Bruges is less than an hour's journey. You also have little hidden gems like the city of Leuven and its impressive forest less than half an hour away.

Without having to spend the night somewhere else, imagine the plan. You wake up in the best hostel in Brussels; Latroupe Grand Place, a central, comfortable place with the best atmosphere in the capital, you escape to Bruges, spend the day there and you're back in Brussels for dinner in one of the restaurants with the best Belgian food in Brussels.

Brussels by bike

If you don't feel like leaving Brussels, you can stay and do some sightseeing with the rest of your group. But instead of going on an ordinary tour, why not do something different? There are companies that offer you the best of the Belgian capital on a bike tour, so that you can discover its monuments and historical sites at a different pace.

With small groups, you'll have a great time while learning fun facts and stories about Brussels. Has anyone suggested a stop at one of the best Belgian beer bars? Good idea.

Different Escape Rooms

If you think of a group of people wanting to have a good time, one of the first things that comes to mind is an escape room. They are no longer a fad, they have become one more option in the leisure offer of any city. The bigger the city, the more varied options you'll find.

In Brussels, in addition to the classic indoor escape rooms, with numerous themes, you'll find a new type of escape room that is popular in the big cities: the open-air escape room.

With just an app on your mobile, you'll be able to play with your group of friends in the city centre, solving riddles, unravelling mysteries and discovering the city's great monuments. Don't you think it's a great plan?

Chocolate workshop in Brussels

Going for a walk and not escaping to the best chocolate shops in Brussels is a crime, a sin. But if you want to go one step further, if chocolate is your passion or if you just want to have a good time, sign up for a chocolate workshop.

Not only will you get to taste chocolates and learn about their history, but you will also learn how to make the world's most famous chocolate from scratch; Belgian chocolate. Depending on the shop or company you do the activity with, the type of chocolate may vary, although the most common is to make pralines and mediants.

And, of course, you'll be able to take your own creations with you afterwards, as well as take a tour of the facilities in case you see something else you'd like to take with you. Be warned, it is so good that all the chocolate in Brussels won't seem enough for you.

Belgian beer at its best

If there's one thing that can live up to Belgium's renowned chocolate, it's its beer. As well as visiting the best bars to try their beer, you have to visit the most beautiful taverns in Brussels. As well as being beautiful, their craft beers are fantastic.

If you want to go a step further, you can also take a beer tasting to learn how to differentiate the different nuances of its flavour. They'll teach you the history, the brewing process and you'll end up being an expert.

And if you still want more, if this beer experience is not enough for you and your group and you are looking for more, here you have the total activity; the beer spa.

You read that right. At The Good Beer Spa, just east of the centre of Brussels, you will live every beer lover's dream; bathing in beer while tasting a beer of your own creation. The ultimate experience and surrounded by your group of friends or family.

Beyond karting

Karting is one of the activities par excellence if you want to have fun in a group. If in a normal karting you have a great time, what will it be like to drive as if you were a character from Mario Karts? Are you ready to throw a banana or a bomb at your cousin or your best friend just a few metres from the finish line?

This is the proposal of BattleKart Tour & Taxis, north of Brussels. An indoor karting circuit where, thanks to the light effects, you can have throwing weapons and different gadgets that will make you feel like a real character from Mario Karts or Crash Team Racing.

You might make a new enemy, or start hating someone with all your heart, but the fun you're going to have is hard to find anywhere else.

Where to sleep in a small group in Brussels

After all the excitement, fun and tastings, you'll need to stop for a while and recharge your batteries. We recommend spending the night at the best hostel in Brussels; Latroupe Grand Place.

The reason is its central location, its comfortable rooms and the best atmosphere in its common areas. People from all over the world come together with the same desire to have a good time. Plus, you can book a whole room for your entire group and keep the fun going into the night.