As the title says, I finally visited this beautiful and interesting underground fort today. Besides the firing bunkers, observation domes and enterance this fort is completely underground (carved out in marl).

They have guides that can give tours in French, Dutch, German and English. We took the Dutch tour and our guide (Jan) was very good, he spoke very passionate and had an answer to every question. You can also visit without a guide but that limits where you can go.

We took the basic guided tour which also won't let you see everything but still a lot more than unguided. It was supposed to be 2h long but it became 2.5h, no complaints on my behalf ;). I do recommend taking the earliest time slot so you can visit (quite a lot) chambers/quarters that are part of the unguided tour but aren't covered in the guided tour.

The people at the reception were also very friendly and helpful, there is a free parking lot at the entrance, it's located in a small town so public transport access is probably minimal. They didn't have any Belgian heritage coins anymore which I actually really wanted, but I bought their beer-box instead, my daughter got the €0 note.

All in all, I will visit again! (even if it's just for that heritage coin lol)

For anyone interested, here's the link to their website: https://fort-eben-emael.be/nl/home .

by motzak

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  2. Loved it when I went, me and my then gf where all alone in the fort. It was so silent and earie

  5. Hey, May I recommend a visit to Fort Battice?  It’s smaller than EE but it has a really interesting guided tour that lasts about 3,5Hrs. With some bonusses: one of the original generators still works and one of the armoured cupola’s has been made operational again.

  7. Wait is this the fort that was taken over in less than 24 hours? If so, that was one of my favourite tours ever. ❤️

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