Travel info
How to reach Ghent:
By plane
The main Belgian airport, Brussels National Airport, is about 70 km away from Ghent. The easiest way to get from the airport to Ghent is by taking a train or taxi. For flight details and travel information, see https://www.brusselsairport.be/en/passengers. Another (budget) option is Charleroi Airport, also called Brussels-South Airport. To reach Ghent, you can take a shuttle from the airport (see https://www.flibco.com/en). You could also take the Brussels City Shuttle from the airport, towards Brussel-Zuid/Bruxelles-Midi train station and continue to Ghent by train. Another option is to take bus A to train station Charleroi-Sud and to take a train there. If you do the latter, you can buy a ticket to “any Belgian train station” which includes the bus fee at the vending machines right outside the Airport (Entrance 2). For flight details and travel information, https://www.brussels-charleroi-airport.com/en.
By train
International train services can bring you to Brussels (Eurostar from London, Thalys from Paris, etc.). Train timetables and online ticket sales can be found at https://www.b-europe.com/EN. From Brussels National Airport, there are frequent train services (basement level -1) to Ghent. You can either take a direct train to Gent-Sint-Pieters (directions De Panne or Brugge) or take the airport city express to one of the train stations in Brussels (Brussel-Zuid/Bruxelles-Midi, Brussel-Centraal/Bruxelles-Central, or Brussel-Noord/Bruxelles-Nord). When you arrive in a train station in Brussels, switch to an intercity (IC) train towards Ghent (directions Brugge, Knokke, Blankenberge, Oostende all stop in Ghent). You can easily reach Ghent from other cities in Belgium by intercity trains as well. Train timetables and online ticket sales can be found at https://www.belgiantrain.be/. There are two train stations in Ghent; Gent-Sint-Pieters is the main station.