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I think that this makes the most sense (Let the walkers who carry their packs bed down first) but it is up to the hospitaleros. I know that the hospitaleros do get training.
It would be a shame if tour companies take over and push the walkers --peregrinos --who carry their packs out of the...
Hello Maricristina,
Did you actually turn people away who did not carry their packs? I agree with you that the pack should be carried, but we are going to have a mixed group with some carrying (ME!) and some not.
It's too easy for the tour groups and such to take over and sanitize the whole...
I have read in some blogs that entry to some albergues might be refused if they don't carry their bags and use a "vehicle support service" such as a taxi to bring backsacks. My girlfriends and I are going to do the Camino next spring for a friend's 50th birthday and we are split about how to go...
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