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Better Deal for Family of Four - Albergues or Pensions?

templarsoul

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Camino Frances (SJPP to Fisterra) (June/July 2015)
Hello, All! We're leaving mid-June for our first Camino and I need some advice. With some albergues costing as much as 12 euro a person, how much more would an inexpensive pension normally run? I'm thinking that if it isn't too much more, we might do at least a pension every so often. For us, we mainly look forward to albergues as places to meet and socialize with fellow pilgrims. My thanks in advance!
 
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It would depend on the albuergue and the pension. I will say this, you'll be able to get a private room in a lot of albuergues (no extra cost, just the cost of four beds). Also, if one of your children is really young he/she won't always be charged, even though they'll get a bed (depends on the albuergue and the hospilitario)
 
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Hi, I think you would need to check out all the options at each place you decide to stop. I found that a private room in an albergue usually cost about 40 euros. The pension down the road might also charge 40 euros for a room but give you much better value for money. Jill
 
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Didn't know this, thanks!
 
This is what I was hoping to hear! Thanks!
 
Traveling with 3 adults and one baby, we usually got a private room for four for the normal cost of 4 beds. So if 8 euros a night, it's be 32. etc We only did a few pensions, but when we did they were usually SLIGHTLY more expensive.

Now maybe the only reason we didn't get charged extra for the private room was that we called a day in advance, told them we had a baby, and my wife has a great peninsular accent........ But our experience was it just cost the same as a non private room, but they'd give us the private room. Sometimes they didn't even charge for the baby.
 
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