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[QUOTE="Rebekah Scott, post: 250655, member: 271"] Word to the wise: Municipal and many parrochial pilgrim albergues were designed with the homeless pilgrim in mind. The vaunted "camino experience" kinda grew up around it. The "donativo" places especially are meant to be bare-bones, low-cost dosses for drifters who have very few resources. They were not meant to accommodate middle-class holidaymakers living on the cheap. This is why the low-cost albergues are packed to the rafters by noon with the nattily-dressed pilgrims who rise at 5 a.m. and arrive at 11 to line up, then wander bored and glassy-eyed around town for the rest of the day. The people with no resources sleep on the church porch or in the vineyards, like they did back before the "value for money" and "true camino experience" people co-opted their beds. There are TONS of opportunities to meet friends and commune with the Camino spirit. If you can afford it, stay in a hostal or pension or hotel. Leave the low-cost beds for the people who have fewer options. [/QUOTE]
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