Contact Information
Address:
Koningsweg 1
9660 Brakel
Belgium
Phone: 055/600617
E-mail: info@boskanter.be
Directions
We appreciate your efforts to use public transport or ride the bike.
You’ll be more mobile if you travel by backpack (rather than trailer). From the bus-stop to Boskanter you have to use a sand road. And a backpack comes in handy if you want to make hikes around Belgium.
By Bike
Maybe you want to follow the ‘Mijnwerkerspad’ (“miner’s path” in Dutch): this is an old railway embankment between Zottegem and Ronse, turned into a GR bicycle path. But be careful, the path is interrupted in Opbrakel. Coming from Ronse, it’s better to turn left at Hurdumont. Coming from Zottegem, you turn right at the interruption. If you want to follow the ‘fietsknooppunten’ (a network of fixed cycling routes between several points), we are between points 48 and 99.
By train.
To Boskanter
You can reach us by bus (see next chapter) from the trainstations of Ronse and Zottegem. You can reach Nederbrakel (4.5 km from Boskanter) also by bus from the trainstations of Geraardsbergen and Oudenaarde. Zottegem, Geraardsbergen and Oudenaarde can be reached by a direct train from Brussels every hour. If you missed the last bus and have to be picked up by car, the nearest trainstations are Munkzwalm (if you come from Brussels or Kortrijk) and Lierde (if you come from Ghent).
For travel direction, check the website of the NMBS.
Train in Belgium
Train in Belgium is managed by one national railroad company.
Since September 2025 they have a whole new ticket system.
We don’t have a reservation system on our national trains. A train ticket is valid for a certain day, not for a certain time, but there is a difference between peak and off-peak hours. During off-peak hours, you get a 40% reduction if you have a train+ card that costs 4€/month if you are less then 26 years old, otherwise 6€/month. Peak hours are from 6 till 9 and 16 till 18. With a train+, youngsters pay maximum 5€50 between any two stations in Belgium, regardless the time. Adults pay max. 14€.
Youngsters get anyway a 40% reduction. So train+ then gives you a 40% reduction of the 40% reduction price.
We have local trains (stop everywhere) and IC-trains (Inter City, stops only in the big cities) but no ultra fast trains, except the ones that come from the neighboring countries (TGV, Thallys, ICE, Inoui, …). The train+ is not valid for ultra fast trains.
By local bus.
There is a busstop at 10 tot 15 min. walking from Boskanter.
It’s easiest to reach us by bus from the train stations of Ronse and Zottegem. From these train stations, you can use bus 20 and busses 207 and 208.
- During the week they drive from
- Zottegem from 6h21 till 20h21 (till 21.21 only to Brakel centre),
- Ronse from 6.00 till 20.30
- on saturday they drive from
- Zottegem from 7.45 till 19.56 (till 21.51 only to Brakel centre),
- Ronse from 7.28 till 19.37
- and on Sunday from
- Zottegem from 8h51 till 18h51
- Ronse from 8.33 till 18.30
You can find the timetables for these busses on the website of De Lijn. You have to press a button on the bus, to ask the driver to stop. Check for the stop on your route planner, or ask the bus driver beforehand to warn you.
Tickets can be bought on-line, even just before you get on the bus. The cheaper option is a ticket for ten rides that you can buy either on-line (app) or in newspaper shops. We can take over remaining rides on the paper ticket if you would not use all of them.
On the map below, tou can follow the dotted blue line to get from the circle (busstop) to the arrow (Boskanter). You should count 10 minutes. Watch out: part of the road is a small dirt track. Very beautifull, but not made for trailers.
From abroad
France
Often the last part to Belgium, with a high speed train from Paris to Brussels, is the most expensive. It’s also a detour. You can avoid this by either taking a bus from Paris to Brussels, or by taking the train to Lille Flanders. From there you can take a ‘normal’ train for only 13€ across the border, with a change in Kortrijk, to Oudenaarde, Zottegem or Munkzwalm (see ‘by train’).
Germany or The Netherlands
If you come from Germany or The Netherlands by train, it’s sometimes cheaper to take a ticket to the last station in Germany or The Netherlands (Aachen, for example), then a ‘normal’ ticket to cross the border to the first station in Belgium (Hergenrath, for example). When you are under 26 and buy a train+ ticket (see ‘by train’), you pay max. 5€50 between two Belgian stations.This only works for IC or local trains (even if they don’t stop in the tiny first station in Belgium or the last one abroad). It doesn’t work for the high speed international trains that go directly to Brussels, so it’s only for ‘slow travel’.
By international bus
There are several stations in Belgium. Usually you will travel to Brussels. Sometimes it makes sense to check Antwerp, Ghent or even Liege. As youngster with a train+ card the train will be the same price anyway, and might be faster. Also, sometimes a bus ticket to a further station, for some obscure reason, is cheaper than a closer station. And sometimes it’s nice to travel a bit further in the morning, so you can sleep a tiny bit longer in the bus and you don’t have to wait in an empty station in the early hours, waiting for the first train.
By plane
We have two big airports: Zaventem airport and Charleroi airport (sometimes called Brussels South).
Zaventem
Zaventem airport has usually the more expensive flights and is close to Brussels. Every hour you have a train that goes directly from Zaventem to Zottegem, so you could arrive pretty late and still be in Zottegem for the last bus or for us to pick you up by car. Apart from the flights that are usually more expensive, Zaventem has the drawback that you have to pay a ‘Diabolo’ supplement for the train from Zaventem airport to Brussels. the Diabolo costs 6€90, is automaticaly included in any ticket you buy from the airport and has no reductions. You can avoid this supplement by traveling with a local bus of the Flemisch bus company ‘de Lijn’ from Zaventem airport to Brussels.
Charleroi
Charleroi airport has most of the cheaper flights but is further from Zottegem. You have to take a bus brom the Walloon bus compagny ‘TEC’ to Luttre, so it takes a while before you are in Brussels. The bus costs 6€. There is also a direct shuttle bus from Charleroi Airport to Brussels South trainstation (16€20). It takes 55 min. and drives every 20 min. So take into account, when traveling over Charleroi, that early or late flights are no option, unless you stay in a hostel around the airport or in Brussels.
GPS
Aim for the crossroads between Pullem and Koningsweg instead of ‘Koningsweg 1’. Because Koningsweg consists of two parts with a forest in between and the GPS can send you to the wrong end.