Choose the town your group sets off from or is heading to. Each page says where a coach may stop, where it parks and which rules apply in the city, with the source.
Every city deals with coaches in its own way. Bruges keeps coaches out of the historic centre and lets groups get off at the Bargeplein. Ghent has a large car-free area and a low-emission zone inside the ring road. Leuven works with stops where a coach may stand for half an hour, and a car park on the edge of town where it waits. And in Brussels the whole region is one low-emission zone, coaches included. If you know that in advance, you choose a pick-up point that works and agree the right times with the coach company.
Is your town not listed? Then choose the larger city nearby: what it says about getting on and arrangements usually applies to the towns around it too. Only a low-emission zone applies exactly within its own boundary. If you set off in Zwijnaarde or Merelbeke, for example, the Ghent zone does not apply to your pick-up point, but it does as soon as the coach drives into the city centre.
A school trip calls for different arrangements than a wedding or a ski trip. With a class the accompanying adults count too, and the time at the school gate is sacred. At a wedding the coach drives between the town hall, the party venue and the hotel. And on a ski trip two drivers often come along, because the journey to the Alps is longer than one driver may drive in a day. For each occasion we set out what to arrange, with the source where possible.
For each place: where the coach stops and parks, what the driver gets and how far it is, as the park or city itself says, with the source.