Mr & Mrs Smith 1898 The Post

Boutique hotel 1898 The Post inhabits the building that was once Ghent’s head post office, a tour de force of neo-Gothic architecture built for the 1913 World’s Fair. Its fairy-tale turrets rise high over the Graslei, the city’s historic grain port, flanked by mediaeval guildhalls with decorative façades and steep gabled roofs. Inside, you’ll find plenty references to the building's former occupation (polished-metal pencil cases and postcards in the rooms, for example), but the furnishings also call to mind the man of letters himself: antique writing desks, glass ink bottles and bookcases abound. Having poured yourself a whisky at the honesty bar or sunk into a chair by the fire, you could be forgiven for thinking that you weren’t actually in a hotel at all, but staying in the castle of some bookish baron.