de la Orden de Malta

[Hiawatha]

Being of Maltese heritage and with a somewhat tenuous ancestral link to the Knights of St John I am keen to visit those sites that have links to Malta .
One of these is the Albergue de Peregrinos de la Orden de Malta in Pamplona .
If anyone has stayed there and could perhaps give me a warts and all opinion of it as a place to spend a night I would be grateful ?

 

[whariwharangi]

Being of Maltese heritage and with a somewhat tenuous ancestral link to the Knights of St John I am keen to visit those sites that have links to Malta .
One of these is the Albergue de Peregrinos de la Orden de Malta in Pamplona .
If anyone has stayed there and could perhaps give me an warts and all opinion of it as a place to spend a night I would be grateful ?

Brierley makes no mention of it. Perhaps it has another name?

 

[MaryLynn]

In October I stayed at the albergue run by the Order of Malta in Cizur Menor, just 5km outside of Pamplona, which I think is the place that you mean. It is well worth an overnight stay. The church is next to the albergue and contains interesting flags and photographs (or paintings?), and there was a service or musical event in the evening, as I remember. The church and the albergue are simple, but interesting, and there was a wonderful view of Pamplona at night.

 

[mspath]

Here are the Gronze.com citation
https://www.gronze.com/navarra/cizur-menor/albergue-orden-malta

and the Eroski citation
http://caminodesantiago.consumer.es/mobile/albergue-de-cizur-menor

Buen camino!

 

[Hiawatha]

Thanks !
Nice to know it isn't a dive , or too pretentious for that matter , something to look forward to amongst the thousand other things .

 

[Coleen Clark]

I stayed there two years ago. Nice people, tiny kitchen and common room, several smaller bunk rooms cut down the noise. Because of the people I'd stay again.

 

[Rebekah Scott]

The order of Malta also recently took over running the municipal albergue at Villacazar de Sirga, just before Carrion de los Condes. They've remodeled the old place to make it accessible to handicapped pilgrims, and they seem to have an ongoing outreach to pilgrims using wheelchairs and other mobility aids.

 

[Anemone del Camino]

They've remodeled the old place to make it accessible to handicapped pilgrims, and they seem to have an ongoing outreach to pilgrims using wheelchairs and other mobility aids.

Rebekah, I found that albergues that have been remolded recently all have handicap access. Asking owners, I learned these are requirements depending on some attributes of the albergue. So ramps and large bathrooms are now common, even if some albergues close the adapted batrooms to prevent hankypanky in them.

 

[Kiwi-family]

We stayed at the Cizur Menor one. It's where we met Mr Long Shower. In the ladies bathroom there were two showers and the toilets - I suppose the men's was the same. Mr Long Shower went in, locked the door (in spite of notices telling you not to!) and proceeded to take a shower that lasted well over half an hour. My desperately-needing-to-pee son gave him the name that stuck!
Also at this albergue a lady from the village came in looking for the family walking with kids - she had seen us walking, hoped we would stop there and ran home to bake us a cake!
Your mileage may vary;-)