A Gudiña - Accommodation Help Please!

[SYates]

Hello, now I need your help ;-)

Tomorrow I will arrive in A Gudiña and looking at many, many comments in Eroski and Gronze the albergue there is known since a long time as a 'bed bug castle'! Any recent experiences? Any tips for other accommodation options? I am happy to pay a bit more and avoid to catch chinches ;-)

Buen Camino! SY

 

[LTfit]

Greetings from the Caminho Portugês Central!
The problem with chinches was from this summer when I was there. Assume resolved since then.
Lovely stages await you!
Buen Camino!

 

[KinkyOne]

Same here @SYates
It was summer 2015 and I was warned for the bedbugs and on that exact date when I went through A Gudina the muni albergue was closed due to fumigation. That's all I know although I've heard two days later that albergue opened its doors.

Ultreia!

 

[alansykes]

I've stayed there a couple of times (in the late autumn, most recently in 2014) and never had any problems. Very nice albergue, I thought. The Restaurante Óscar (on the road back towards Padornelo) does a great menú - it was heaving with workmen when I got there, always a good sign. I think they also have rooms if you really want to avoid the albergue.

 

[domigee]

There were bed bugs end of June (I actually saw them) so I booked us in a small hotel, across the main road,opposite the road that leads to the albergue. Sorry, can't remember more details (my blog was lost when the site closed down at Christmas...).
It's a modern albergue so easy to clean, I am sure it has been done by now and it'll be fine.

 

[murraydv]

Hello, now I need your help ;-)

Tomorrow I will arrive in A Gudiña and looking at many, many comments in Eroski and Gronze the albergue there is known since a long time as a 'bed bug castle'! Any recent experiences? Any tips for other accommodation options? I am happy to pay a bit more and avoid to catch chinches ;-)

Buen Camino! SY

SY, You are making good progress. When will you get to Santiago and how is the weather?

 

[marilyn van graan]

There were bed bugs end of June (I actually saw them) so I booked us in a small hotel, across the main road,opposite the road that leads to the albergue. Sorry, can't remember more details (my blog was lost when the site closed down at Christmas...).
It's a modern albergue so easy to clean, I am sure it has been done by now and it'll be fine.

I also stayed at that hotel and it was really great - the staff were so kind and when I left (2 nights) I went to thank them they gave me a grand farewell - would definitely stay there again just for old times sake - will be going through there in mid May - bed bugs are the worst thing ever but so far have never had that problem on my previous 3 Camino s - stayed at the hotel as I intended to stay longer than 1 night
Buen Camino

 

[camino07]

Hello, now I need your help ;-)

Tomorrow I will arrive in A Gudiña and looking at many, many comments in Eroski and Gronze the albergue there is known since a long time as a 'bed bug castle'! Any recent experiences? Any tips for other accommodation options? I am happy to pay a bit more and avoid to catch chinches ;-)

Buen Camino! SY

In 2013 we didn't like the look of the Albergue (packed) and we stayed in pleasant Hostal Madrilena on main road as you walk into town 35E double.

 

[SYates]

In the end none of us wanted to take the risk and we shared a room in Hotel BrumaII (60 Euro/3 people) which was clean, free of chinches and had a big bathroom. Buen Camino, SY

 

[MileHighPair]

Current reports on the APOC Facebook page (27 March 2016) of live bedbugs in the Municiple Albergue in A Gudina. This is not good news for this albergue or the ones downstream.

 

[SYates]

So we were saved, just spoke with a neighbor here in Laza and she confirms also that pilgrims coming from A Guidiña complain of bed bug bites also this year. Buen Camino sin chinches, SY

 

[Donna Sch]

Hotel Oscar is a weird little place. The bar downstairs is full of hunting trophies of rather small deer, the TV is on the hunting channel and there is a framed newspaper clipping of Franco. The meal was good at the time but both of us got the trots from it. We were there because the municipal was being fumigated and was closed. You did the right thing!

 

[KinkyOne]

Current reports on the APOC Facebook page (27 March 2016) of live bedbugs in the Municiple Albergue in A Gudina. This is not good news for this albergue or the ones downstream.

I walked through A Gudina last summer and many locals told me that it's a constant problem with bed bugs in that muni albergue (same with Mombuey I was told). They all think the main problem is hospitalero but that might be also a local "political" issue...
Best to plan slightly different stages (Lubian - Campobecerros or Laza) and avoid it. Or stay in private accommodations. There are also hostal before Lubian in Padornelo, hostal in Sta.Maria de Vilavella before A Gudina and if I remember correctly CR in A Venda do Bolaño with exquisite views towards Verin.

 

[becky]

We were in a gudina 9 days ago and saw bedbugs in the albergue. We quickly moved to hostel la Madrilena which was nice. Have seen to further bedbugs on the way since and we have always stated in albergues.

 

[Bad Pilgrim]

I walked through A Gudina last summer and many locals told me that it's a constant problem with bed bugs in that muni albergue (same with Mombuey I was told).

Oh, that's correct, your comment reminded me of the albergue in Mombuey where I luckily wasn't bit, but some other pilgrims were. Their legs had been chewed to the bone! ... OK, not entirely, but anyway, there were buuuugs. I wouldn't put my foot across that doorstep if I was on the Plata, yuck!!

/BP

 

[KinkyOne]

Oh, that's correct, your comment reminded me of the albergue in Mombuey where I luckily wasn't bit, but some other pilgrims were. Their legs had been chewed to the bone! ... OK, not entirely, but anyway, there were buuuugs. I wouldn't put my foot across that doorstep if I was on the Plata, yuck!!

/BP

Hola, BP,
I see you'll be on Primitivo this year. Any exact dates?

 

[Bad Pilgrim]

Hola, BP,
I see you'll be on Primitivo this year. Any exact dates?

Oh, thanks for asking K1,

But I haven't bought my ticket yet. Been so lazy. In fact I think I'll do it right now. So yes: CamDe Madrid, Salvador, Primitivo. I'll book my flight for Madrid to arrive June 24 and start strolling the following day. Unfortunately I don't know when I will get on the Primitivo, if I ever get there. Towards the middle of July?

 

[KinkyOne]

Oh, thanks for asking K1,

But I haven't bought my ticket yet. Been so lazy. In fact I think I'll do it right now. So yes: CamDe Madrid, Salvador, Primitivo. I'll book my flight for Madrid to arrive June 24 and start strolling the following day. Unfortunately I don't know when I will get on the Primitivo, if I ever get there. Towards the middle of July?

Oh, that's too late for me if I'll be able to go this year anyway. Via de Bayona, CF, Salvador, Primitivo, CF, Fisterra is my plan. Return home from SdC around June 15th...
Next time

Ultreia!