KinkyOne
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- I'am not perfect, but I'm always myself!!!
Hi there, fellow peregrinos!
When I was reading threads on walking in "off-season" and especially during winter most of the questions (apart from equipment of course) were related to accommodation possibilities and therefore higher costs. Because I couldn't found any (but maybe there is!!!) list of albergues opened not only between let's say April - October period, I decided to do it myself.
I used Gronze and Eroski sites for majority of info so in my list there could be mistakes if mentioned sites wasn't updated. I, surprisingly, discovered that it isn't all that hard to find accommodation even in the winter time. From SJPdP to SdC there are 177 albergues in 111 locations opened in this period. Of course the number would've been lower if I'd go for "todo el ano" albergues. Instead my criteria was around 10 months/year and albergues where you have to check for availability in off-season.
It was also interested to find out that only 4 "long" stages (without opened albergue) are on CF in the winter:
1.) 23,1km: Leon - Villar de Mazarife,
2.) 22,6km: Leon - Villadangos del Paramo,
3.) 21,1km: Estella - Los Arcos,
4.) 19,5km: Huntto - Roncesvalles
The list is roughly organized like this:
- distance in kms from last mentioned location (kms regarding to Brierley...),
- name of the location (village, city etc.)
- name of the albergue (some diferencies between Gronze and Eroski here)
- type (muni = municipal, pari = parochial, priv = private etc.)
- number of places (mostly for "literas y camas")
- cost €/night (which vary from bunkbeds to regular beds, main season - off season etc.) with notion if breakfast is included (= B incl.)
- usually most useable/needed facilities:
K = kitchen
L & S = lavadora & secadora (usually "de pago")
B = bicycle storage
@ = internet (usually "de pago")
W = Wi-Fi
R = restaurant/bar/cafeteria (within albergue)
P = private accommodation (within albergue)
(when there are question marks in this section that means that the albergue was only listed at Eroski site which has no special mentions of internet or Wi-Fi availability)
- some exclusions or terms of using the facility (period-wise)
I didn't have time nor nerves to add links, telephone numbers etc. to the list You can easily find them on mentioned web-sites.
One more thing - since I'm an IT idiot the list was made in Word Document format and for upload I did transfer it to .pdf. So if anyone would want (or like) to transform it to Excel you have my GO
Ultreia!
When I was reading threads on walking in "off-season" and especially during winter most of the questions (apart from equipment of course) were related to accommodation possibilities and therefore higher costs. Because I couldn't found any (but maybe there is!!!) list of albergues opened not only between let's say April - October period, I decided to do it myself.
I used Gronze and Eroski sites for majority of info so in my list there could be mistakes if mentioned sites wasn't updated. I, surprisingly, discovered that it isn't all that hard to find accommodation even in the winter time. From SJPdP to SdC there are 177 albergues in 111 locations opened in this period. Of course the number would've been lower if I'd go for "todo el ano" albergues. Instead my criteria was around 10 months/year and albergues where you have to check for availability in off-season.
It was also interested to find out that only 4 "long" stages (without opened albergue) are on CF in the winter:
1.) 23,1km: Leon - Villar de Mazarife,
2.) 22,6km: Leon - Villadangos del Paramo,
3.) 21,1km: Estella - Los Arcos,
4.) 19,5km: Huntto - Roncesvalles
The list is roughly organized like this:
- distance in kms from last mentioned location (kms regarding to Brierley...),
- name of the location (village, city etc.)
- name of the albergue (some diferencies between Gronze and Eroski here)
- type (muni = municipal, pari = parochial, priv = private etc.)
- number of places (mostly for "literas y camas")
- cost €/night (which vary from bunkbeds to regular beds, main season - off season etc.) with notion if breakfast is included (= B incl.)
- usually most useable/needed facilities:
K = kitchen
L & S = lavadora & secadora (usually "de pago")
B = bicycle storage
@ = internet (usually "de pago")
W = Wi-Fi
R = restaurant/bar/cafeteria (within albergue)
P = private accommodation (within albergue)
(when there are question marks in this section that means that the albergue was only listed at Eroski site which has no special mentions of internet or Wi-Fi availability)
- some exclusions or terms of using the facility (period-wise)
I didn't have time nor nerves to add links, telephone numbers etc. to the list You can easily find them on mentioned web-sites.
One more thing - since I'm an IT idiot the list was made in Word Document format and for upload I did transfer it to .pdf. So if anyone would want (or like) to transform it to Excel you have my GO
Ultreia!