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Not to mention local holidays.
Here's a handy list - worth considering if you are planning a camino.
https://www.officeholidays.com/countries/spain/2024
Pamplona has exactly three "pilgrims only" albergues: Albergue diocesano Betania, Albergue Casa Paderborn and also Albergue de Pamplona-Iruãko Aterpea although they are also open to anybody during "low season" and they are even on Booking.com...
It should be noted though that the albergue Jesús y Maria in Pamplona is not an albergue that is exclusively for pilgrims; that they allow reservation during the period Octobre to April; that demand for beds in Pamplona is high on Fridays and...
Sometimes they are groups of pilgrims (same church or amigos group). That's also why I took a student group of limited size in the winter. It does sound really frustrating.
Same! I’m sorry but in my opinion this is a pilgrimage, not some holidays… today in Pamplona at the Albergue Jesús y Maria there was a reservation of a group of 40 people!! That’s almost half of the albergue!! It’s really frustrating…
I was at Betania at 1300 and a woman waiting in line at the door said it was full. Apparently she didn’t know what she was talking about. Thats frustrating.
So now I am now renting a room with some random man from Australia I met on the street...
Numbers arriving in Santiago are unusually large at the moment too. 2,127 Compostelas issued yesterday. 2,614 Compostelas issued today. An early date for Easter this year may have brought the peak pilgrimage season forward a little. At the moment...
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