Where do we stay on the Camino de Santiago?

Where do we stay on the Camino de Santiago?

ALBERGUE:

Albergues are a small, basic and low priced place which are meant to provide a place to sleep, shower and sometimes offers a communal pilgrims meal. The average cost of an Albergue is approximately 35€/$38. It's typically a dormitory style room with shared facilities and normally have bunk beds. A few Albergues offer private rooms and a few offer a place to wash your clothes. They will typically have lines outside to hang your clothes to dry. Some have blankets that you can rent for 2€/$2.20 and have a paper fitted sheet that you need to put in the mattress and over your pillow before you lay down. Ear plugs can help your drown out the snoring that can happen in a room of sometimes up to 30 people sleeping. Lights turned on by 7am and you have to be out by 8am.

HOSTEL:

A Hostel is similar to a guest house. Many have private rooms with a shared bathroom. The average cost of a Hostel is 65€/$71. As with Albergues some will have a place to wash your clothes and some have a clothes dryer. Hostels are nice because you can get a better nights rest without the chior of snoring, farting and people yelling in their sleep. Some also offer a pilgrims meal.

The main difference between a hostel and an albergue is that a hostel is open to everyone and an albergue is generally open to pilgrims. Albergues have a lights-out policy at 10pm where as hostels allow 24 hour access. You can always spend more than one evening in a hostel but some albergue do not allow this.

APARTMENTS:

Few apartments are on our Camino app that were right on the Camino path and had a small kitchen, laundry and small living room. The cost has been approximately 98€/$108. As a nice change we went to the grocery store and bought food to make instead of having a pilgrims meal or going out to a place to eat. One apartment was a smart apartment and everything was operated through an application on our phones.

HOTEL:

Some hotels are also on our Camino app and we have splurged a few times and got ourselves a room. The cost has also been approximately 98€/$108.

PILGRIMS MEAL:

With the Pilgrims meals we generally have 3 courses. First course; salad, spaghetti or soup. Second course; steak with patatas (potatoes), pork loin with patatas or chicken with patatas. Third course; sweet rice, ice cream, cheesecake or fruit. All meals are served with water and wine. Lately meals have been paella without meat.

Breakfast usually consists of juice, coffee, a small muffin and yogurt.

JACOTRANS:

Jocotrans is a company that will transport your pack to your next location so that you only have to carry a day pack with water and snacks while you walk.