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A Gudiña to get a new albergue

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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.

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...
 
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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.

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???
 
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With its concrete walls, steel furniture, and plastic-covered mattresses, it strikes me as a comparatively inhospitable space for bedbugs.
 
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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
 
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.
 
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.

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.
 
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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.
 
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