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Thanks, Laurie!
I attended a webinar yesterday put on by the Xunta de Galicia for the tourism sector, and the guides you posted are the ones they refer to as well. If anyone is interested in the webinar, it's on YouTube (in Gallego).
The rule about dorm rooms having to be booked/used in their entirety will encourage camino ‘families’. I can envision individuals joining forces to create groups, even on a very temporary basis, to be able to use these dorm rooms; these groups being very fluid and apps being exploited to find like-minded individuals.
It won’t make dorms safer, but people will find ways to circumvent the rules, in order to save €.
Tenting will become more attractive to budget conscience solo walkers who don’t want to share dorms with strangers. Single rooms will have a lot more demand on them.
But albergue owners have to try something!
Right. I posted the measures that Albergue O Candil is taking just as an example of what one albergue is doing.There is no rule that says that dorms have "to be booked/used in their entirety". This is just an option that some have decided to use.
I don't see why not if you wash or have them washed them every morning, handle them in disinfected gloves and maybe pack them in washable cotton bags?My big question is if I can still give cotton sheets and pillow cases as I refuse to buy those awful disposable ones. According to the guide, sheets must be separately packaged.
I don't see why not if you wash or have them washed them every morning, handle them in disinfected gloves and maybe pack them in washable cotton bags?
‘Rule’ was too narrow a term, and I should have said I was responding to the posting about O Candil. Booking out dorm rooms to established groups seems to be a smart way to go, limiting the mixing of new people, but I think it’s fraught with easy potential for run arounds.
It seems to me that what will happen with that albergue is that pilgrims will meet up on the trail and combine resources to rent the room of beds together. Which wouldn't be much different than before, other than self selecting your roommates.This was posted on Facebook, from the Albergue O Candil in Melide. They will no longer rent individual beds. Each room will have to be rented in its entirety.
I'm not saying that all albergues will operate this way, but apparently these are the measures that this particular albergue is taking.
The information is also on their website
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