jimsheppard
Walking since 2011
- Time of past OR future Camino
- September 2023
For 2024 Pilgrims: €50,- donation = 1 year with no ads on the forum + 90% off any 2024 Guide. More here. (Discount code sent to you by Private Message after your donation) |
---|
1. New albergue in Deba is excellent. Book at the tourist information office. The bar opposite does excellent early breakfasts
5. Portugalete is a disaster for accommodation. We couldn't find the albergue which was probably closed. All pensions and hostels full. Can recommend the hotel San Jorge in Santurtzi. It's up the top of the town at the end of the metro line.
Many thanks for the updates; I've made notes in my guidebook. Leaving for the Norte in 2 days time!
Jill
Hi, Jill, don't mean to hijack this thread, but I'm wondering what your range of walking days is. I will probably have about 40 and could start a bit further back from Irun.Hi Laurie, thanks! I prefer asphalt to cobbles! The Norte will be a nice change for me from the Portuguese. Looking forward to it. I am actually starting in Le Verdon-sur-Mer, near Bordeaux. Jill
Where is the new albergue in Deba? For what it's worth, the one above the train station was very good as well when I was there 2 years ago.
As for Portugalete, I can also recommend Pension La Guia, at the top of calle Virgen de la Guia. They did the washing for me, as well as a bit of sewing.
I'm should have said "newish " albergue - Ice meant the one in the Old station building.
Laurie, it's part of the train station, in the lower town.Those of us who remember the cramped albergue with two triple bunks and a heavy unpleasant odor are quite happy to hear about that! Is it in the upper or lower town?
1. New albergue in Deba is excellent. Book at the tourist information office. The bar opposite does excellent early breakfasts
2. Stage from Markina- Xemein to Guernica is very well waymarked and had a lot of improvements.
3. Can highly recommend restaurante Pitis in Markina- Xemein. Good local food and plenty of it. They also have reasonably priced rooms in a flat round the corner.
4. To shorten the long stage from Guernica to Bilbao the prudent pilgrim may well decide to press on to albergue Eskerika. Be advised that washing and toilet facilties are less than adequate for the number of pilgrims that the albergue contains. There is however a good dryer. The albergue and Hospitalero definitely exhibit "character".
5. Portugalete is a disaster for accommodation. We couldn't find the albergue which was probably closed. All pensions and hostels full. Can recommend the hotel San Jorge in Santurtzi. It's up the top of the town at the end of the metro line.
I'm so sorry that happened, and I hope you find much nicer lodging as your Camino progresses. I found a no smoking room pretty much meant no one was smoking in it once you were handed the key, no promises about beforeI stayed in the pension buena vista in portugalete last week and it appeared to be a hostel for homeless people who were up all night talking loudly and watching TV. . Also,rooms smelled of smoke and were not clean. Not ideal for a woman on her own
It was a lesson in expectations. once I recognized no fumar really was like traffic signals in Saudi Arabia, my life was easier. That afternoon on the Norte was an important moment.Lol, now I feel really guilty, being a smoker, but then, perhaps not - as I have never walked the NorteBuen Camino, SY
I don't have my Camino guidebooks on hand, so can you confirm that this is on the Camino out of Deba going through Olatz to Markina?Thank you for this information. Can you explain why many folks don't go through the town of Larruskain? I understand their is a steep cliff later on but it seems much shorter. Thank you in advance
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?