During our first
camino frances (2015), my wife and I stayed in the municipal albergue in Najera. It tied with the municipal albergue in San Juan de Ortega (also dank, smelly, dirty with bathrooms and beds in poor conditions) as being the worst albergue we stayed in during our camino. The albergue in Najera had 47 bunk beds (= 94 pilgrims) in a single room. It was completely full. The ventilation was terrible and sound carried throughout the night with non-stop coughing, snorting, farting, burping. The restrooms were cramped, with only one rest room for men and one for women. For the men, one of the three showers was broken. We vowed to never stay there again. During a subsequent camino, we ran into a couple that had planned to serve as hospitaleros at the Najera municipal, but learned shortly after they arrived that bedbugs were everywhere, so the municipal had to be shut down. From the above comments, it does not seem like conditions have improved. Bob