Can a normal hotelstamp be usted as camino stamp in my camino credencial?

[As gaat op stap in 2023!]

Tomorrow evening I will arrive at a hotel and the tourist office will already be closed. On Sunday it will be closed too.
The hotel hasn't a special Csmino stamp. Will another stamp do?

Astrid

 

[Bradypus]

Yes. All that matters to the pilgrim office is that the sellos show your travel along the Camino. Hotels, restaurants, albergues, churches, tourist offices, the police,.... Lots of options!

 

[henrythedog]

It will. I’ve got signatures, doodles and the label from a tin of anchovies (La Pez de Lorenzo in Burgos) on mine. All passed muster in Santiago.

You’ll find that just about any business of any description in Spain has a stamp that they use for invoices and receipts; whilst many on the Camino route (especially the Frances) will have something more decorative.

 

[As gaat op stap in 2023!]

Okay, thank you.

 

[C clearly]

I notice (only after about the third time seeing it) that you have a typo in the thread title - I expect you meant "used" instead of "usted", but I rather like the mistake, given our recent discussion of usted versus tu.

 

[J Willhaus]

Make sure there is a date even if you need to write it in yourself...

 

[trecile]

Most of the stamps in my credentials are from hotels and albergues.

 

[good_old_shoes]

I have stamps from campsites, self-drawn pictures when there was no stamp available, pictures drawn by hosts and things written by private hosts that took me in.

A hotel stamp will be fine

Buen Camino!

 

[MassNative]

Tomorrow evening I will arrive at a hotel and the tourist office will already be closed. On Sunday it will be closed too.
The hotel hasn't a special Csmino stamp. Will another stamp do?

Astrid

Yes, the AC/Marriott in Logrono stamped mine last fall. No problems in the Compestela office....

 

[As gaat op stap in 2023!]

I notice (only after about the third time seeing it) that you have a typo in the thread title - I expect you meant "used" instead of "usted", but I rather like the mistake, given our recent discussion of usted versus tu.

 

[Former member 92300]

Yep. But albergues stamp automatically. With hotels - you often have to ask. But I haven’t been to a hotel along the Camino that didn’t have one.

 

[dick bird]

Bars, cafes, restaurants, supermarkets, town halls etc etc all stamp credenciales. The important thing is to prove that you were in a particular place at a particular time so make sure they date it.

 

[t2andreo]

I have even obtained a sello / stamp from gas stations, winery shops, and once a police station. In Spain, business operators you must issue a receipt even if the computer is down. The manual backup is typically a manual receipt of some sort, with the rubber stamp of the business.

If the business is legally operating, it will have a rubber stamp. I have never been refused.

Hope this helps.

Tom

 

[mspath]

Like t2andreo states in the post above asking at the local police station can be most helpful.

December 2011 when I arrived at
Caldas de Reis much was closed for siesta; I was pooped and could neither find the tourist office nor an open albergue.

When I entered to ask for help at the local police station they formally stamped my Credential and kindly directed me to a nearby open bar.

 

[El Cascayal]

Lots of options!

Remember Farmacias, they have stamps too. Had lots of them on my first Camino !

 

[oursonpolaire]

I have stamps from the Garda Civil and Catalan Mossos as well as (over the years) dozens of hotels and casas rurales. I also have one from the French railway workers' union holiday resort outside Bayonne, but nothing ever beats Rebekah Scott's sello from the rabbit abbatoir.

 

[Bradypus]

but nothing ever beats Rebekah Scott's sello from the rabbit abbatoir.

My imagination is in overdrive!

 

[El Cascayal]

but nothing ever beats Rebekah Scott's sello from the rabbit abbatoir.

Pray tell, does anyone have a picture?

 

[Anamya]

My weirdest one is a stamp from a Escape Room business in Pontevedra... They said it was the first time a pilgrim walked in (and escaped out, yay ), and were really, really happy to be part of someone's journey.

But no, it doesn´t beat the rabbit abbatoir.

 

[JLuis]

Pray tell, does anyone have a picture?

Pleeeeeeeeeezzzz

 

[El Cascayal]

Pleeeeeeeeeezzzz

I can’t believe no one has yet to post a picture! Who has a picture??????

 

[Bradypus]

I can’t believe no one has yet to post a picture! Who has a picture??????

I assume that @Rebekah Scott does! Maybe she'll see this and satisfy our curiosity.