City

Events in Boom

One event a year moves hotel prices in Boom, and this is what it does to them. Where to stay, how long each district is from the venue, and how to get here.

Illustration: an enormous fantastical festival main stage at night in a wooded park, beams of light and confetti over a crowd in silhouette
Tomorrowland · Illustration — a generated image of the kind of scene, not a photograph of the venue.

What is on

DatesEventTypeBooking
16–25 Jul 2027TomorrowlandexpectedFestivalClosing

The weeks the city fills

Against what the same hotel costs four weeks earlier — our estimate, not a live rate. Outside these weeks Boom prices like any other month.

Getting here

AirportCodeTo the city
AntwerpANR25 min
BrusselsBRU40 min
Brussels South CharleroiCRL80 min

Trains: Boom.

Where to stay

De Schorre
DistrictTo the venuePriceWhat it is
DreamVille10 min walk$$The festival's own campsite; a village of 40,000 with its own programme
Boom & Rumst15 min walk$$$The town itself — a handful of guesthouses and a lot of short-lets
Antwerp40 min train$$$Twenty minutes by train, a real city, and the base most people should pick
Mechelen35 min train$$Between Antwerp and Brussels, cheaper than both, on the same line
Brussels60 min train$$$An hour away with thousands of rooms; the fallback that always works

More on Tomorrowland: which days to go and when to book. See also festivals.