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I've done this in hostels, and I'd do it in an albergue. Dryers are a shared resource and it's up to them to free it up for the next person
Any reasonable person won't mind you doing this.
Gave up planning ahead and booking on the Norte as I found it was noticeably spoiling the experience. Of the 6 days to date I've been convinced I'd be sleeping out I found a bed on 4 and had a comfortable night in my bivi bag on two.
The first night in a church porch I was woken at around 4 by...
Not sure having been savaged by bedbugs recently on the Norte makes me an expert, but for what it's worth a comment about people wrapping their stuff separately.
I really don't think you can take the risk. If anything has come into contact with them the only safe tactic is to treat everything...
While staying at Zenarruza monastery on the Norte I bought a necklace from their shop for 4 euros. It was a cross with a figure of Jesus on it and a separate metal Camino shell all on a loop of black material rather than a chain.
Given the price and the fact they had a ton of them, along with...
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