A Gudiña to get a new albergue

[Deleted member 73526]

The Xunta has announced an investment of around €300,000 to convert the Casa de la Viúva in A Gudiña to an albergue. As far as I can tell, the building is currently used as a tourism office.

La Casa da Viúva de A Gudiña será albergue para peregrinos

La Xunta de Galicia invertirá 286.000 euros para adaptar el inmueble para acoger 43 usuarios

www.laregion.es

I imagine that these plans were formulated some time ago. But given the current situation, I'm struggling to see how this is the best use of money. A Gudiña has an existing municipal albergue and several private accommodations. I think €300K could be put into some programs to help a range of camino businesses to get through these lean times...

 

[KinkyOne]

The Xunta has announced an investment of around €300,000 to convert the Casa de la Viúva in A Gudiña to an albergue. As far as I can tell, the building is currently used as a tourism office.

La Casa da Viúva de A Gudiña será albergue para peregrinos

La Xunta de Galicia invertirá 286.000 euros para adaptar el inmueble para acoger 43 usuarios

www.laregion.es

I imagine that these plans were formulated some time ago. But given the current situation, I'm struggling to see how this is the best use of money. A Gudiña has an existing municipal albergue and several private accommodations. I think €300K could be put into some programs to help a range of camino businesses to get through these lean times...

As long as I can remember the albergue in A Gudina was notorious for bedbugs in several reports here and on other Camino sites. Twice I passed through the town the albergue was closed for fumigation and also all the hospitaleros before A Gudina warned me not to stay there if possible. It was Xunta albergue so I can't see how the changing of location could improve it???

 

[Deleted member 73526]

Notoriety is harder to clear than bugs. In Nov. 2017 I was told that the infamous infestation was a thing of the past. Sept. 2019 was also fine.
With its concrete walls, steel furniture, and plastic-covered mattresses, it strikes me as a comparatively inhospitable space for bedbugs.

 

[Antonius Vaessen]

I stayed there in 2015, one of my friends was bitten by a bedbug. The hospitalero took immediate action. Exactly a year later the Albergue was temporarily closed probably for fumigation. This being said I have to agree with Raggy. The Albergue is clean and indeed seems an inhospitable place for bedbugs

 

[camino07]

I had no choice but to stay there in early October 2017 as all the private accommodation was full,mainly with construction workers . Was very pleasantly surprised. No sign of bedbugs either.

 

[Damienw]

The Xunta has announced an investment of around €300,000 to convert the Casa de la Viúva in A Gudiña to an albergue. As far as I can tell, the building is currently used as a tourism office.

La Casa da Viúva de A Gudiña será albergue para peregrinos

La Xunta de Galicia invertirá 286.000 euros para adaptar el inmueble para acoger 43 usuarios

www.laregion.es

I imagine that these plans were formulated some time ago. But given the current situation, I'm struggling to see how this is the best use of money. A Gudiña has an existing municipal albergue and several private accommodations. I think €300K could be put into some programs to help a range of camino businesses to get through these lean times...

The old albergue was relatively new in an upscale residential square ( just after the railway bridge?).

I suspect they are unlocking this higher residential value to create local jobs on both sites.

 

[Deleted member 73526]

The old albergue was relatively new in an upscale residential square ( just after the railway bridge?).
I suspect they are unlocking this higher residential value to create local jobs on both sites.

I don't remember that there was an upscale and a downscale end to A Gudiña. If anything, I'd have guessed that the residences near the albergue were rather ordinary, but it's a fair bet that real estate values and construction projects and support for politicians had something to do with this decision.

 

[Elle Bieling]

October, 2019 - no bedbugs when we stayed there!

 

[Pelegrin]

A Gudiña means "the Little Goth" that suggets a Visigoth settlement. Very near(13 kms) A Mezquita (the Mosque) could have been a Muslim settlement.

 

[peregrina2000]

Update on the plans with a picture.

286,000 euros
80 beds

Gronze says the capacity at the current albergue is 24 beds. Pretty hefty increase!

Así será el albergue de peregrinos de A Gudiña

La Casa da Viuda se convertirá en los próximos meses en un albergue para peregrinos a su paso por la Ruta de la Plata

www.laregion.es

 

[Kanga]

That's optimism.