When I booked this hotel for a birthday trip for my wife & I, I wasn't warned (at the time) that I had booked for the period of the Ghent Festival. I was also not prewarned tat, I had booked & paid for one of the hotels premium rooms, overlooking the river. I should have appreciated the information that this room, although scenic, was directly over the "Pole Pole" stage where blindingly loud, very bass-beat heavy music would be going on to 2.30 every morning! after the first night admittedly the hotel did offer to move us to what they said, would be a slightly quieter room but no mention was made of refunding the premium that I had already paid.
So beware, out of
festival period, pleasant hotel, convenient for Old Town. During Festival - pack your ear plugs!