For family visits to La Hulpe we were very fortunate to discover a luxury hotel not far away and have gotten to know Dolce very well during four stays in spring, summer, fall, and winter.During our stays we got to know almost all the room types that Dolce offers: Superior, Executive, Junior Suite, and the Sequoia Suite. We had breakfast both as part of the room price and also in different packages for an additional fee. Compared to the accommodation and to the quality of the Brasserie restaurant, the buffet was a bit disappointing with the typical disadvantages: jostling for space, balancing plates, over emphasis on fried food with no fish offered at all during our stays. We’d have been prepared to pay more for a healthy breakfast a la carte.Our first stay was in a Superior room (number 6044) with wonderful wooden floors and a great shower and a private relaxing view of trees and greenery. The bed was superb: great mattress and wonderful pillows. And we made use of the huge safe-in-a-drawer: we were able to store our tablets and laptop away safely with no problem. During our next stay we tried an Executive room (number 2461), located in a building closer to the spa, with a sofa and a nice view of the forest but with carpeting and a small cramped bathroom with tub and shower-in-tub. We moved on our second night then to a wonderfully spacious Junior suite with wooden floors, a flat screen TV in the middle of the room, a truly luxurious bath and shower combo. Sadly the large windows look out onto one of the busy paths from the parking lot to the reception area and thus this ground floor suite doesn’t have the privacy of the smaller room (which has become our favorite) right across the hallway.Our most recent stay was on New Year’s when we booked the largest most extravagant accommodation, the Sequoia Suite, with a living room and dining room area, two separate bathrooms, a separate bedroom with free-standing tub and high-tech shower and bath and luxurious amenities with a beautiful view of the surrounding forest areas. In addition to the size of the suite (the Sequoia name fits), we appreciated the nice designer touches – the vases in the foyer and the sculpture that helped make a suite that’s mostly used for business also a cozier place for private stays.Reception staff was always very friendly, helpful, and almost always competent – perhaps surprising since we noticed quite a few with “trainee” on their badges. Nicolas, one of the staff members from our first stay, remembered us upon our second stay and provided us with interesting details about the history of the hotel as originally headquarters for IBM. During our most recent stay over New Year’s we met the manager Mr. Jansen, who was proficient in English and Spanish and thus could greet our entire multi-lingual family. Leonhard took wonderful care of us, showing us our Sequoia Suite and giving us some more background history on the hotel and explained some of the challenges of trying to satisfy conference and tourist guests. Guillermo at the Badian Bar provided us with the best of all possible welcome drinks.The room numbers are somewhat confusing at first: the 6 or the 2 doesn’t refer to the floor but to the building – the hotel itself is made up of several separate buildings linked by longer indoor corridors. Regardless of which rooms we were in, we enjoyed the wonderfully relaxing large lobby area with beautiful views of the forest and an interesting assortment of different styles of furniture in different areas, large open spaces with neat modernistic comfortable and cozy furniture, creating a light and very airy atmosphere with a relaxing Dolce fragrance throughout. We’ve come to see Dolce La Hulpe as our home away from home and thus are grateful that what is basically a conference hotel for groups also provides wonderful accommodations for tourists and for return guests like us.