OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Albergues requiring proof or certificate of vaccination?

[dick bird]

Can anyone tell me if albergues are currently (i.e. as of now) requiring proof of vaccination? Is this standard practice and what happens if a pilgrim does not have the certification required.

Current protocols for Castilla y Léon suggest that vax certs are not demanded so I'd like to know what is happening on the ground and in other regions. Can anyone give more up to date information?

I am mainly interested in the policy in municipals, paroquiales and donativos.

Thanks

 

[peregrina2000]

Álvaro Lazaga just said on his video that in Galicia the certificates are not required.

 

[Peregrina 2013]

Good to know Thank you!

 

[Bradypus]

Álvaro Lazaga just said on his video that in Galicia the certificates are not required.

Must be a recent change of policy - last week I was asked for proof of vaccination in the Xunta albergues on the Camino Sanabres.

 

[tbcan]

Must be a recent change of policy - last week I was asked for proof of vaccination in the Xunta albergues on the Camino Sanabres.

As of yesterday albergue St. Martin in Miraz will be asking for proof of vaccination but things are changing rapidly in this covid world.

 

[Kathar1na]

Must be a recent change of policy - last week I was asked for proof of vaccination in the Xunta albergues on the Camino Sanabres.

El certificado Covid dejará de ser necesario este sábado, 26 de febrero, en la hostelería en Galicia (I guess that hostelería includes Xunta albergues).

There is more: De este modo, desde las 00:00 horas de este sábado día 26 quedará sin efecto esta medida relativa al certificado Covid en hostelería que el Tribunal Superior de Xustiza de Galicia (TSXG) había autorizado hasta esa fecha.

IOW, no proof of vaccination required for staying in hotels and albergues in Galicia as of midnight Saturday 26 February 2022. It may take a while before everybody knows. I am not certain that any albergue owner or manager is even allowed, strictly speaking, to require proof after that date.

In Navarra, on the website of the Albergue de Peregrinos of Roncesvalles, they had a note that said that proof of vaccination is required. I can't see the note anymore.

Castilla y León never had such a requirement, and I know that it has also been abolished in La Rioja. That covers the whole Camino Frances in Spain.

 

[lt56ny]

Álvaro Lazaga just said on his video that in Galicia the certificates are not required.

There were a few albergues that asked very early then in December walking to Muxia the Xunta in Negreira not only asked for my certificate but hassled me about not having an Covid test from the last 48 or maybe it was 24 hours old. I complained and told him that was ridiculous and was putting my pack on to walk back to Negreiga to find another albergue when he relented. He was not a warm and fuzzy guy at all!

 

[Former member 92300]

I don't know the CURRENT situation, but just offer a suggestion. IF you are vaccinated, bring your card with just in case, regardless of whether or not proof of vaccination is CURRENTLY required! The rules keep changing and when I was on my summer Camino, the rules kept changing then too, while I was walking. Thank goodness the staff at the albergues were able to alert pilgrims to rule changes. And it is good to be prepared in case vaccine requirements continue to change.

 

[dick bird]

I was actually asking from the perspective of being a hospi (and we certainly have to show an international vax cert) - what rules will we have to enforce and (more to the point) how firmly?

Anyway, thanks for the responses. Maybe see you in El Burgo Ranero second half of April.

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