mcopeland
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Frances - April-June, 2016
Portuguese Lisbon-Santiago - October, 2017
We started from St. Jean on Tuesday, stayed at Orisson (having booked back in February) and were told not to worry about reserving in Roncesvalles. We're slow, and when we arrived in Roncesvalles all beds in the new section were taken. They placed us in one of the rooms of the old section - very cold, with no heat. They were surprised at the amount of pilgrims who came through that day. Today we came into Zubiri, again thinking we did not need to book ahead. We got the last room (at a hotel) in town. Everything else was sold out by 3. The next town was also sold out. The albergues are flabbergasted that so many pilgrims are here and are telling us that we need to book tomorrow's stay tonight.