Other activities

The Casemates Brewery

The unique historic Casemates of the Wooden Horse at the Lille Gate in Ypres were transformed into an authentic brewery, where the beers Wipers Times and Caves Santé, among others, are brewed. If you are curious about the history of this site, its operation or the story behind the brewery, we would like to welcome you on one of our brewery visits. As part of the tourism department's group packages, a 1-hour brewery visit is offered. By default, the brewery visit includes the following components:
welcome, screening of the brewery film, tour of the brewery and a tasting of a beer.

There is also a shop at the brewery. A visit without reservation is possible on Saturdays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. From Easter to autumn vacations also on Thursday and Friday afternoons.

Price: € 10/pers. including 2 tastings.
Less than 15 people: flat rate of € 120.00 + € 7/pers.

Practical: not on Saturdays after 15h and not on Sundays.
Package price for groups < 15 persons

Booking via https://kazematten.be

Cady Cars - Unique collection of cars

For groups from 15 people, up to 200 people maximum, this owner presents his collection of unique and luxury cars to you. Each car has a unique story, which is extensively documented.
Also for companies this is a unique location for an exclusive meeting, company party or event.

From 15 persons, € 15.00 per person
The location is accessible for persons in wheelchairs.

Contact Thierry

Urban Hunt - City game in Ypres

Urban Hunt is a unique city game where you devise a strategy to discover secrets, crack cryptic hints and put other teams in a heel. Special facts about Ypres, drone footage, mysterious sound clips, drawings of historical Ypres figures and South African instructions make this a unique experience. Competition between the teams is sparked via the live scoreboard. Urban Hunt is the ideal group activity for families, friends, companies, schools and youth movements?

Price: € 12,00 per person, discount for schools and youth associations -.
Duration: 2 hours: 10 minutes preparation / 90 minutes game / 20 minutes regrouping & post-match.
Practical: From 2 to 150 participants
Organization, info and booking: http: //urbanhunt.be

Rowing on the fortresses

From the water, our historic fortresses look their most beautiful. If you want to experience this, walk across the idyllic little bridge from Pacific Island restaurant and report to the reception desk. There are eleven rowing boats, each suitable for four people. A unique opportunity to unwind. Afterwards you can enjoy a warm apple pie with a delicious cup of espresso coffee, on the terrace of restaurant Pacific Eiland.

Price: €17/pp (rowing - cake and coffee) Duration: 1,5h (of which half hour rowing)

Without cake: €15/half hour/boat (max 4 pers./boat)

Attention: Not possible on Tuesday

Info:www.pacificeiland.be

Wine estate Zilvercruys

Ypres brews wine as well as beer on its territory. The Zilvercruys estate is a
vineyard of 3.54 hectares with 12,000 vines near Steenstraete. During a tour of the vineyard, you will hear not only the story of the winery and its production processes, but also the local history. Steenstraetse Hoppe wine is unique in the world, A creation of the winemaker, and has been received with great interest by the international press.

Price: € 10/pp with 4 tastings - less than 10 people: flat rate of € 100

Duration: 1h50

www.zilvercruys.be

Escapegames

3 exciting escapegames

With The Longest Hour, Virus Escape: Scientists and Virus Escape: Criminals, Ypres has three unique and exciting escape games. Each game is played in teams of 3 to 7 people, so you can try to escape with up to 20 people at a time.
The Longest Hour was the first escape game in Belgium and is still one of the most popular.
In Virus Escape you step into the shoes of scientists or criminals, in an original and nerve-wracking battle against the clock and against
each other.

Price: € 25/pp - max. 7 players/game - 21 in total

Duration: 1 hour

Booking via www.escapegames.be

GPS game in Ypres: The Great War

Interested in experiencing the story around 'The Great War' in an original way? We take you along the most beautiful spots of the city. Armed with instruction booklet and GPS the participants, divided into several teams, find their way through Ypres. Each team uses the GPS to follow its own route, independent of the other teams. Each location is followed by a fun assignment: practical tests, riddles, team building assignments, photo cases,... Which team scores best on the various tests? Who can complete the crossword puzzle and be the first to find the answer to the thread and win a prize?

Price: €27/pp (with 2 practical tests) -from 15 people or €35/pp from 10 people onwards

Duration: 3h - half hour briefing, followed by game and award ceremony

Practical: min 10 participants

Booking via www.outsideadventure.be

Urban Golf in Ypres - Outside Adventure

Urban Golf? This is the informal variant of golf. For everyone who wants something different, less rules, less etiquette, no golf license needed and no special outfit. You play with regular golf clubs but from a mobile grass mat with rubber balls.

The inner city of Ypres serves as the golf course. Especially for you, a beautiful route has been mapped out. You start near the Cloth Hall. Via the Grote Markt you head for the Ypres Fortifications, where you continue your tour. A statue, bench, drain grate or lighting pole can serve as a target.

Price: € 20/pp (including drink)

Duration: 2 hours

Reservation via www.outsideadventure.be

City Golf

Ypres, a city that breathes history and where the Battle of Ypres is omnipresent. What is 'the Battle of Ypres' and why was it so important? Experience City Golf and discover the funniest stories and anecdotes about the city of Ypres during this unique tour of Ypres.

Hit a ball at 6 locations such as the Grote Markt, Kazematten and in the shadow of the Sint-Maartenskerk.

Price: 6 holes :€ 22/pp
9 holes: € 30/pp

Duration: 2 hours (without break) - 3.1 km

Included: golf initiation, rental of golf equipment, guidance during the entire course and insurance in case of damage. Group rates from 12 persons

Reservation www.city-golf.be

iChallenge

Do you want to discover Ypres in an original and playful way? iChallenge offers numerous interactive city games! One of them is Operation Freddy where you make a crazy city tour through Ypres and carry out Freddy's playful assignments at different locations. You can partly personalize this game. Take a look at our website and discover our other city games!

Price: €22 -€26/pp

Duration: 3 hours

Included: professional game facilitator and material

Info:http://ichallenge.be/nl/

In the footsteps of Baron de Vinck

Would your group like to follow in the footsteps of Baron de Vinck, the Baron of Bellewaerde, in 1919?

A walk has been developed about the pioneering work of Gaston de Vinck, recounting the reconstruction of the devastated region with a central role for the return of the de Vinck family.
With letters, testimonies and photos from the family archives in hand, the narrative guide takes you along the remaining relics around Hooge and Bellewaerde. And they are not minor: we can still recognize a piece of the destroyed landscape and admire the baron's rebuilt castle.

The highlight of the walk is the baron's emergency concrete house, the only one of the Jouret & Speltinckx type still to be seen in Flanders.

Price: € 75/group (max 25p/group)

Duration: 2.5 hours

Booking via https://bellewaerts.be/contact/

Wipers Times Tour

When some soldiers of the Sherwood Foresters found a printing press in the ruins of Ypres, their luck couldn't stop. For three years they wrote the Wipers Times, often from the trenches. The newspaper, full of hilarious advertisements and provocative jokes, soon became the talk of the town in the British army. With your own copy in hand, join our guide in their footsteps along Ypres' obscure alleyways, cratered landscape and cemetery. After lots of funny anecdotes and hilarious references, enjoy a breughel meal
at the Hooge Crater Museum where we get exclusive access to trenches and a bunker. Ending we do in the casemates under the fortifications. This is where the Kazematen Brewery is now located. After a guided tour, we taste several varieties of the Wipers Times beer. A quality Belgian beer, the perfect match for British humor!

Price: Bike tour from € 63,00
Coach from € 45 (excluding transport) - (mini)bus from € 96

Duration: 7 hours

Info:www.hoogecrater.com

Astrolab Iris

In the past decade, popular observatory Astrolab Iris grew into one of the six fascinating natural science centers in Flanders. With the presence of no less than 2 hi-tech observatories, it exerts a special attraction especially on anyone who wants to explore the universe. Admire and look
briefly through the largest amateur telescope of the BENELUX and northern France. Visit our optical lab, follow a
3D presentation of the universe in our cinema, get to know the model of the ISS, all under the guidance of a passionate astronomer!

Price: €5/pers. with a minimum of 8 people per group p (minimum €60)

Duration: 2 hours

Practical: not on Sunday afternoon

Info:www.astrolab.be

Sporttrack Outdoor

Outdoor Escapegame

With all kinds of cryptic descriptions, by solving puzzles and riddles and by cracking secret codes, you try to get the treasure in time. Unlike a classic escaperoom, everything takes place outside. And this in the beautiful nature around Dikkebusvijver. Sometimes in the air, sometimes underground, sometimes on the water. That's all there is to it, so skill and sportsmanship are also important here.
The standard game can already be played by secondary school children. Also possibility for Escape-PLUS game.

Price: €15/pers.

The PLUS game is + €3/pers. - Minimum 8 participants

Duration: approximately 2 hours

Folk games room

Some 30 old folk games such as pudding buckets, spinning buckets, sliding billiards, marbles, men's game, trou madame, ring and horseshoe throwing, flea shooting, cheese board, hammer game, rack rack pull, wheel buckets, pinball duel, etc. etc. Possibly in
competition form with a score sheet or with a ladder tournament. Always very fun and de(?)-exciting.

Price: €5/pers with minimum of €50/group.

Duration: on weekends always open in the afternoon. During the week only on reservation.

Tandem - War route

In group, all in pairs on a tandem, along unique war memories.
And this on the nicest roads with a dot-arrow map or on junctions. Direction Ypres and the Eel Brook with
Passages to In Flanders Field Museum, the Menin Gate, Hill 60, Carterpillar Crater, demarkation poles, military cemeteries, mine crater The Bluff, astrolab Iris, the environmental farm, ...
It is possible to complete a questionnaire.

Distance: 18 or 25 km

Price: €16/pers, bike and helmet included. Most things can be visited for free. Can possibly be done with a guide.

Paintball or Pullpaintball

Trying to hit each other with paintballs is always great fun for young and old. We play the game with rifles or with shooting catapults. Especially with the catapults, skill, tactics and cooperation are even more important. Teambuilding at its best. We also play the game in a forest with verges and streams.

Price: €17/pers. 100 bullets included. Minimum 10 players.

Duration: 2h.

Team building challenge or archery course

Best compared to the "game-without-borders" of old, but not in fixed teams, but in constantly changing groups. Very fun with jokers, coaches, a stage and an award ceremony. The tests are group- and weather-dependent, varied and very original: the puzzle-your-root-trial, the biathlon, the rickshaw-cross, the smart-tower-of-Pisa, the pot-belly-fall-not-in-trial, etc. If you choose the shooting course, then of course there will be shooting with different types of weapons (carbine, pistol, crossbow, blowgun, ...). Not always just on target, but always framed in a game concept. The clay target shooting and the lazy-lucky-luke are the hits here. Even in the evening or in bad weather, both activities can always continue with indoor trials.

Price: €14/pers. for the team challenge and €16/pers. for the archery course. Minimum 10 participants.

Duration: approximately 2h.

Info and/or reservation:
www.sporttrack.be - 0475 455 666

Chocolaterie Ledoux

We welcome you and your friends with a delicious chocolate and explain in a playful way the process from cocoa to chocolate. You will hear fun chocolate facts and we will let you discover what kind of chocolate suits you. We show at our chocolate machine how a praline and hollow figure are made and how a delicious filling fits into a praline. You get to see an active workshop and at the end you can taste a surprisingly
tasty fresh praline. Afterwards you can make your own selection in our chocolate store.

Price: € 95 - From 20 people: € 5/pp - max.50 people

Duration: 1 hour to 1h15

Included: 2 tastings: a praline and a caraque

• CHOCOLATE WORKSHOP

- Chocolate figures
- Artisanal pralines
- Delicious truffles
- Student oats
You get to take home your homemade chocolate! Tasting chocolate and having a drink are of course part of it!

Price: € 45/pp

Duration: approximately 2 hours

Number: for groups of 6 to 20 people.

Included: packaging, tasters, drink, your homemade chocolate ... And we do the dishes! ;-)

Booking via https://choc-ledoux.be/

Jules Destrooper Visitor Center

Quality, authenticity, natural ingredients and above all a never-ending passion for cookies ... When Jules Destrooper founded his cookie company of the same name in 1886, he would never have suspected that more than 125 years later, gourmets all over the world have come to appreciate it. At Bezoekerscentrum Jules Destrooper you will literally walk through the rich history of the world-famous cookies from the Westhoek and receive an expert explanation from one of our staff members.

Price: € 5/pers.

Duration: 1,5 hour

Guide: € 70 per guide (max 30 people)

Practical: closed on Mondays, Sundays and holidays.
Lo is located 24 km from Ypres.

Info:www.julesdestrooper.com

Heuvelland: Wine estate Monteberg

Throughout the year you can book a guided tour to discover the unique culture of viticulture in Heuvelland. This visit fits perfectly with a tour through the beautiful Heuvelland.
There are 2 formulas

• Standard visit: We go together in the vineyard, two tastings (with a chocolate at the second tasting), watch our film illustrating all the activities at the winery, give general explanations and answer your questions.

Price: € 10/pp with flat rate of € 200 for groups < 20p

Practical: extra charge on Sundays and public holidays and after 6 p.m.

Duration: 1,5 hour

• Short visit: With less time you can opt for the short formula. You taste a glass of Monteberg wine among the vines (weather permitting) and get to know the wine-growing culture.

Price: € 8/pp with flat rate of € 160 for groups < 15p

Duration: 45 minutes

Practical: not on Sundays and public holidays

Extra info: possibility of farm picnic € 19/pp + drinks according to consumption

Info and reservation via www.monteberg.be

Hill Country: Wine estate Entre Deux Monts

Our experienced guide will take you for a small walk in the vineyard.
In the vinification room we will tell you all about how the wine is made.
While enjoying two delicious wines in the tasting room, a film explains our craft during the different seasons.

Discover our visit formulas : www.entre-deux-monts.be

Watou: Brewery Saint Bernard

In the heart of the hops region, beer is made that appeals to the imagination of many a beer lover. For more than 75 years, St.Bernardus has been known worldwide for their authentic, quality high fermentation beers. Since the opening of their new visitor center in 2018
St.Bernardus has become a real tourist attraction. You can taste Hemelse Nectar at 360° rooftop bar Bar Bernard, where you can enjoy a breathtaking panoramic view, or crawl under the brewer's skin at Guesthouse Brouwershuis.

During the 'Brewery Tour', their new interactive visitor experience, you discover
the unique story of St. Bernardus at your own pace. This museum 'experience' immerses you in the history of the brewery, lifts a veil on the brewing process and grants you an exclusive look behind the scenes. Expect a sensory, audio-visual experience, ending with the natural beer tasting in Bar Bernard!

Brewery Tour is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Reservation through the online booking module is required.

Trappistenweg 23 - 8978 Watou - 057 388 021 - visit@sintbernardus.be

Booking via www.sintbernardus.be

Wine Estate Den Nachtegael - Zonnebeke

On the border of Zonnebeke and Langemark, rolling landscapes and beautiful panoramas form the backdrop of Wine Domain Den Nachtegael.
With 10 hectares of vineyard and with respect for the history of this special location, this versatile winery succeeds in reflecting the character of this terroir in wines of superior quality.

Groups of up to 140 people are welcome at the new wine estate.

www.den-nachtegael.be