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Can a normal hotelstamp be usted as camino stamp in my camino credencial?

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It will. I’ve got signatures, doodles and the label from a tin of anchovies (La Pez de Lorenzo in Burgos) on mine. All passed muster in Santiago.

You’ll find that just about any business of any description in Spain has a stamp that they use for invoices and receipts; whilst many on the Camino route (especially the Frances) will have something more decorative.
 
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I have stamps from campsites, self-drawn pictures when there was no stamp available, pictures drawn by hosts and things written by private hosts that took me in.

A hotel stamp will be fine

Buen Camino!
 
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Yep. But albergues stamp automatically. With hotels - you often have to ask. But I haven’t been to a hotel along the Camino that didn’t have one.
 
Bars, cafes, restaurants, supermarkets, town halls etc etc all stamp credenciales. The important thing is to prove that you were in a particular place at a particular time so make sure they date it.
 
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I have even obtained a sello / stamp from gas stations, winery shops, and once a police station. In Spain, business operators you must issue a receipt even if the computer is down. The manual backup is typically a manual receipt of some sort, with the rubber stamp of the business.

If the business is legally operating, it will have a rubber stamp. I have never been refused.

Hope this helps.

Tom
 
Like t2andreo states in the post above asking at the local police station can be most helpful.

December 2011 when I arrived at
Caldas de Reis much was closed for siesta; I was pooped and could neither find the tourist office nor an open albergue.

When I entered to ask for help at the local police station they formally stamped my Credential and kindly directed me to a nearby open bar.

 
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I have stamps from the Garda Civil and Catalan Mossos as well as (over the years) dozens of hotels and casas rurales. I also have one from the French railway workers' union holiday resort outside Bayonne, but nothing ever beats Rebekah Scott's sello from the rabbit abbatoir.
 
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My weirdest one is a stamp from a Escape Room business in Pontevedra... They said it was the first time a pilgrim walked in (and escaped out, yay ), and were really, really happy to be part of someone's journey.

But no, it doesn´t beat the rabbit abbatoir.
 
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