Do you have to go to Kortrijk or Ghent to rent a private safe deposit box near Mouscron?

What are the real options around Mouscron?

Two concrete possibilities face a resident of Mouscron and the neighbouring towns. The first is local: the Gold & Silver Company vault in Dottignies (Mouscron), Rue Arthur Roelandt 22, open six days a week. The second is the branch of a network brand in Kortrijk.

Ghent lies far beyond Kortrijk from Mouscron: 56 kilometres, about 41 minutes of driving, against fifteen kilometres for Kortrijk (OpenStreetMap route estimates of 3 November 2026, without traffic; check the journey time from your exact starting point).

Bank vault rooms are closing to the public one after another. Gold & Silver Company took the opposite path as early as 2012, opening in Dottignies (Mouscron) the first private safe deposit vaults outside the banking system in Belgium. Fourteen years later, the vault is still there, on the French-Belgian border, 100 metres from a police station.

Is a bank account needed?

In Dottignies (Mouscron), no bank account is required, and a valid identity card or passport is enough, whatever the nationality. Signing takes twenty to thirty minutes, and the box is ready to use at once.

In which cases is the local option enough?

The box holds whatever calls for safe, discreet keeping: documents, contracts, wills, foreign currency, jewellery, watches, luxury bags, ingots and coins. Four box sizes, from 240 to 350 euros per year, and a numbered safekeeping formula at 10 euros per month are offered. Details are on the prices page, and the full presentation of the vault is on the guide's home page.