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    <description>Holiday parks within driving distance of the Benelux: comparisons, budgets and departure advice.</description>
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    <copyright>Holliday Pratique — English</copyright>
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      <title>What does a weekend at a holiday park really cost?</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The price shown on a park page covers the accommodation, and nothing else. Add the drive, the food and the activities and a three-night weekend for four comes to between €752 and €1,295 from Brussels. Here are the four items, one by one.</description>
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      <title>Autumn half-term with the children: which holiday park?</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>By late October it is dark at half past five, Belgium and the Netherlands break in the same week, and two thirds of the seasonal outings on our park pages have shut. Six parks within 2h 20m of Brussels confirm the three facilities that save a weekend like that.</description>
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      <title>Center Parcs or Landal: what our data actually says</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Two chains hold 28 of the 33 parks in our database. They differ less in quality than in consistency: Center Parcs equips almost every site the same way, Landal lets each site be itself.</description>
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      <title>Which nature holiday park with children is under two hours from Brussels?</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Twelve parks in our database are within two hours&apos; drive of Brussels. Three of them genuinely combine woodland with facilities built for children. A comparison based on confirmed amenities and measured driving times.</description>
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      <title>The holiday parks where dogs are welcome, with the numbers attached</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Twenty-three of the 33 parks accept dogs in our data, and not one of them is in Belgium. Here are the five nearest to Brussels, what there is to walk, and where this information stops.</description>
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      <title>The best holiday park in Belgium in autumn</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Nine Belgian parks are in our database. In September there is little between them; by November four of them lose half of what made them interesting. Here they are, and here is why.</description>
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