Budget for 2022

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camino?camiYES

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• Jun 29, 2022

• #1

Hi all, when I did the first 2 weeks of the Camino Frances in 2019 (Sjpp to Roncesvalles) I budgeted 30-35 Euros a day with lodgings/meals.
As the world is now slightly more expensive in general, I wondered what the low end budgeters currently on the trail are working with?
Cost isnt an issue, but a slight personal challenge I gave myself for the Camino was to do the actual train (not including getting to and from) as frugally as possible...is 35 per day still achievable...?

 

henrythedog

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• Jun 29, 2022

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In reply to your specific question: yes

Have a look at this thread:. The poster walked (virtually ran, compared to me) the full CF with remarkably little cost and no drama; although his diet and his associate’s alcohol consumption are not to be recommended.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/the-french-way-noblehiker-chronology.74244/page-2#post-1030175

If you can do it cheaper than @NobleHiker I’ll buy you a pint - but you’ll have to collect it.

 

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J Willhaus

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• Jun 29, 2022

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I think you can still get by with this amount. We are on the Camino now and finding that while prices are higher for groceries, you can still manage on bocadillos, olives, hard boiled eggs, yogurt, and nuts/trail mix. If you enjoy social dining, it will be more difficult eating out on a budget. Many stores now offer prepared salads, roasted whole and half chickens that you could buy to share in a small group at albergues with kitchens. We not seeing as many 'pilgrim meal' offers where we are.

 

Sheesh

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• Jun 30, 2022

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J Willhaus said:

....Many stores now offer prepared salads...

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Excellent. So a plastic fork goes back on my packing list.
(I will have to shave off that 10 grams elsewhere. )

 

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camino?camiYES

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• Jun 30, 2022

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henrythedog said:

In reply to your specific question: yes

Have a look at this thread:. The poster walked (virtually ran, compared to me) the full CF with remarkably little cost and no drama; although his diet and his associate’s alcohol consumption are not to be recommended.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/the-french-way-noblehiker-chronology.74244/page-2#post-1030175

If you can do it cheaper than @NobleHiker I’ll buy you a pint - but you’ll have to collect it.

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Brilliant stuff! I think that pint is safe pal

 

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• Jun 30, 2022

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J Willhaus said:

I think you can still get by with this amount. We are on the Camino now and finding that while prices are higher for groceries, you can still manage on bocadillos, olives, hard boiled eggs, yogurt, and nuts/trail mix. If you enjoy social dining, it will be more difficult eating out on a budget. Many stores now offer prepared salads, roasted whole and half chickens that you could buy to share in a small group at albergues with kitchens. We not seeing as many 'pilgrim meal' offers where we are.

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Thanks for your reply. Olives can get in the bin but i can cope on the rest of those options i did greatly enjoy the social dining last time but i suppose that will depend on who I meet on the way!
BUEN CAMINO

 

Jodean

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• Jun 30, 2022

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I had quite a few communal meals.
Albergue Karma in Sansol, made a fantastic meal for us for 8€ and a single bed there was only 6€.
Other places may have upped their meal to 11 or 12€, but still a bargain. Rosalia in Castrojeriz, Meeting Point in Hornillos, Oasis Trails in Villamajor Monjardin, Parada Vitoria in Viloria de Rioja made a fabulous paella, Reboleira in Fonfria had one of my top meals for 11€ - traditional Celtic foods served in a Celtic house, Albergue El Serbal y la Luna in Pieros had a decent veg meal and some of the most comfortable beds on the Camino for 10€.
I don't think I stayed under the average of 35€ per day, but maybe came close? I splurged on beds quite a few time, staying in places that had the curtained beds, or places that had breakfast.

 

J Willhaus

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• Jun 30, 2022

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You can still eat together with others. We just bought groceries to make supper (macaroni and cheese plus some fruit), breakfast(yogurt), sandwich stuff for tomorrow, and a bottle of wine for 14 euros. That's 3 meals for the two of us and we will invite others to dine with us tonight here at the albergue. Our albergue is 10 euros. We had a menu of the day hot lunch with three courses ith bread,, water, wine,, and a coffee afterwards for 13 euros each.

 

Bob from L.A. !

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• Jun 30, 2022

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J Willhaus said:

We not seeing as many 'pilgrim meal' offers where we are.

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Just got back from the Norte and I "think" I may have seen Pilgrims meals offer only twice in 43 days. Things have certainly changed in the last 10 years.

 

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hegedis

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• Jul 2, 2022

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Anyone wondering what would be a comfortable minimum for daily spending (getting food from shop, supermarkets, and sleeping in the cheaper but still nice albergues) is around €15-20.