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    Donativos and flyers

    I whitnessed it once, a donativo albergue driving up the camino and giving out flyers. Even leaving the car to build up a more convicing personal contact. And I got told that the same person was as well sitting beside his entrance, waiting for pilgrims and trying to convince them to stay at his...
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    Donativos and flyers

    I agree donativos are a wonderful tradition and deserve generous donations, when the intentions are the real ones. But unfortunately there are as well black sheeps, who abuse the concept with different intentions and do harm the original concept.
  3. M

    Donativos and flyers

    Thank you for the clarification. That's what I suggested. Apparently there is at least one Albergue on the camino, who pretends to be Donativo, but actually abuses the label to make business and to compete against other Albergues, with aggressive advertising and offering donativo-dumping-prices...
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    Donativos and flyers

    I know one albergue, but don't want to publish the name. Other pilgrims told me, that they have made similar experience with other donativos. I know that I found the aggressive PR kind of strange, because a Donativo-Albergue is supposed to be a non profit business (sin animo de lucro).
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    Donativos and flyers

    Is it common for donativo-albergues to distribute flyers up and down the camino to recruit pilgrims or to stop pilgrims, who pass by, at the entrance to convince them to stay overnight in their own hostel? What are your experiences? And what do you think of it?

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