Where else can I ask for stamp if..?

[ydan]

Where else can I ask for stamp If I stay in a hotel that does not have camino stamp?

I am now in Agés, the next town from San Juan de Ortega. Tomorrow will be to Burgos and I am thinking of staying in a hotel.

Can I go to a municipal albergue just for a stamp? Do I need to pay for the stamp alone?

 

[Mark Lee]

You can get stamps at bars, cafes, restaurants, churches and tourist offices.
You don't have to have one from the albergue or hotel you are staying at. They don't carefully inspect them at the tourist office in Santiago when you get your compostela.
No need to go to a municipal albergue you are not staying at for a stamp.

 

[BamaVol]

Is there any indication from the outside which bars, restaurants, cafes or churches will provide cellos?

 

[Mark Lee]

Sellos are everywhere. You'll see. You won't have any problem getting them.

 

[Anemone del Camino]

Just about any business has a stamp. Albergues and churches and cute ones, to get into the Camino spirit, but tourism offices, hotels, restaurants will have stamps because they use them for all sorts of official business, including issuing receipts. Poke your head in and ask them if they can stamp your credencial. It will likely have the name and contact information for the business and perhaps even a business registration number.

 

[DurhamParish]

I got one in a dress shop in Redondella on the Camino Portuguese. I stayed up stairs where they had an apartment they rented to pilgrims.

 

[scruffy1]

The Ayuntamiento (City Halll) or a public library can also give you the sello. In Portugal on Easter morning with everything closed I got one from the Police Station! They are eveywhere.

 

[jsalt]

Ask the person who stamps the credential to write the date as well. Often the non-albergues don't do that. You can write the date in yourself, but I like to get mine in the handwriting of the person who stamps it. Jill

 

[SabsP]

Most likely the hotel itself has a stamp, do not worry.
I remember getting stamps, ,on the Ruta del Ebro and Ingles especially, from a local library, townhall and one from a careresidence for the elderly !

 

[Rebekah Scott]

Back before the Camino Invierno was waymarked, nobody seemed to "get it" when I asked for sellos, but once explained, it seemed they came out of the woodwork... and I got some of my best sellos ever! Favorites: a taxi driver, a doctor at the medical center, a chicken- and rabbit-slaughterhouse, a wine bodega, and a doner kebab stand.

 

[waveprof]

You'd be surprised at how many (even nice) hotels have stamps. But if they dont, look for a bar......or tourist office.

 

[CaptBuddy]

You'd be surprised at how many (even nice) hotels have stamps. But if they dont, look for a bar......or tourist office.

Even Paradores. Whether you stay there or not, they are happy to give a sello.

 

[waveprof]

My wife and I both teach Gaudi (in her Spanish culture and modernism courses, and me in my interdisciplinary modernism course) so she really wanted a sello with Gaudi's palace in it in Astorga. The only good one we could find was at the 4 star hotel Gaudi. They gladly stamped all four of our passports and gave our 13 month old a piece of candy. Band it was obvious we weren't going to be staying there.

 

[grayland]

I once went into a little tienda to buy an orange in a very small village on the VdlP. No other pilgrims for days. The little older lady immediately asked if she could give me a sello. She was very happy and proud to put it in my credential.
I was using a South Africa credential (different story) at the time and she just could not understand the the relationship between an Americano and Sud Africa.
My Spanish was just not up to the task of explaining that the SA credential has many more spaces for stamps than the standard ones.

Most places are very happy to give you a sello...with the exception of the very busy bars with crowds of pilgrims all asking for stamps. But, even then they will usually have the stamp on the end of the counter for you to use yourself.

You do not have to stay in an albergues to ask for a stamp. I have not heard of anyone being turned down. Probably happens but not often enough to be remarked upon. Look at the stamps that other people have when at dinner and see if any have any really special stamps that you may want to go obtain while you are there.
I have run into people who were very involved with getting stamps that had special memories of the places they visited, ate, stayed, and any that were special. They were making the credential a big part of their journal. I may try to do that this year....except that I never follow through on the journal either.

 

[HeidiL]

We walked with an 8-year-old the first time. For him, the most important thing was to get as many sellos as possible, so we had to get him an extra credencial after the first 11 or 12 days. The first one was simply filled!

 

[Anemone del Camino]

Back before the Camino Invierno was waymarked, nobody seemed to "get it" when I asked for sellos, but once explained, it seemed they came out of the woodwork... and I got some of my best sellos ever! Favorites: a taxi driver, a doctor at the medical center, a chicken- and rabbit-slaughterhouse, a wine bodega, and a doner kebab stand.

Interestingly enough, today I carefully went through a Camino App that explains the start of the Credencial. It apparently only goes back to 20 or so years ago. Yet I rember Jaco (is that what the Ave Fenix owner goes by) talking about staffs being stamp by fire to show a person had to move on, and this was 100s of years ago. Yes, there it is, it's in the History portion of the Camino Santiago 2.0 app.

 

[oursonpolaire]

The hotel will have a stamp, as the Spanish are stamp-happy, and attach them to receipts and all legal documents. My favourite was from the Guardia Civil in Tamarite de Litera, where they hand-squeezed orange juice for me, as it was a hot day-- my Spanish friends love the story. I can't beat Rebekah's rabbit slaughterhouse. Occasionally, I would find that clergy were very grumpy about sellos, but that's their problem-- most were delightful and gracious about it.

 

[Rebekah Scott]

One thing to remember: don't bang on the door of a closed albergue during the day for a stamp, even if you know people are in there. A closed door means CLOSED.
Those people are working, or maybe getting the only real rest they'll get in the next 24 hours. Stopping everything to put a rubber stamp on your souvenir collection is not going to go over so well...

 

[jsalt]

Lovingly hand drawn by the owner of the pensao in Albergaria-a-Velha on the Camino Portugues.

 

[hecate105]

When I had to get a train through the mountains (I had a disability at the time) the station master insisted on stamping my credencial - luckily I was on the return part of the journey!

 

[Kathy F.]

My experience is so little compared to others on this forum.
Nevertheless, I found that you could get sellos everywhere on the Camino. All you have to do is ask.
Buen Camino

 

[Harington]

Where else can I ask for stamp If I stay in a hotel that does not have camino stamp?

I am now in Agés, the next town from San Juan de Ortega. Tomorrow will be to Burgos and I am thinking of staying in a hotel.

Can I go to a municipal albergue just for a stamp? Do I need to pay for the stamp alone?

You can get one in the Cathedral ticket office - or at least you could in 2011.

 

[Introibo]

You can get one in the Cathedral ticket office - or at least you could in 2011.

Just got mine from the ticket office. Its out on the right hand side of the counter so you can help yourself. You also get a Peregrino reduction on the entry fee.
If you go to the farmacia Alvarez Atienza in town, hobble around and buy Pedi Relax, you get a free lollipop!

 

[Scott Sweeney]

Where else can I ask for stamp If I stay in a hotel that does not have camino stamp?

I am now in Agés, the next town from San Juan de Ortega. Tomorrow will be to Burgos and I am thinking of staying in a hotel.

Can I go to a municipal albergue just for a stamp? Do I need to pay for the stamp alone?

Oh the story I could tell about a night in Ages.
.

 

[Adhemar78]

It would be rather surprising if a hotel in a town on the Camino Frances didn't have a Camino stamp. I stayed in hotels or pensions in Carrion de los Condes, Leon, Astorga, Molinaseca, O'Cebreiro, Arzua and A Rua and they all had stamps. I didn't get one for the hotel I stayed at in Burgos but I don't think I asked them if they had one. I got stamps in Burgos from the tourist office and the cathedral instead.