Finding Accommodation Along the Camino: A Top Tip

[Frankybaby66]

Top Tip number 3 ? . . .
Avoid looking for accommodation at 'the bottom of that page' in the guide book. Much as I love John Brierly's guidebooks, lots of pilgrims blindly follow the suggested stages, and end up looking for somewhere to stay in the same town/village.
Jus before or just after suggested end point, accommodation is more plentiful.
Buen Camino

 

[williamlittig]

Top Tip number 3 ? . . .
Avoid looking for accommodation at 'the bottom of that page' in the guide book. Much as I love John Brierly's guidebooks, lots of pilgrims blindly follow the suggested stages, and end up looking for somewhere to stay in the same town/village.
Jus before or just after suggested end point, accommodation is more plentiful.
Buen Camino

My wife is the Hospitalero at Ribadiso and they are not nearly half full. Considering the Publik albergues where are you can’t make reservations but you will make friends.

 

[ukjohn99]

Top Tip number 3 ? . . .
Avoid looking for accommodation at 'the bottom of that page' in the guide book. Much as I love John Brierly's guidebooks, lots of pilgrims blindly follow the suggested stages, and end up looking for somewhere to stay in the same town/village.
Jus before or just after suggested end point, accommodation is more plentiful.
Buen Camino

Thank you - great tip.

 

[pjacobi]

In my experience, I had no problems finding accommodations on the Briarly stages. I aggressively trained before the Camino and could easily walk the 20-30km Briarly stages, plus a few more "bonus" Kms walking around the town to the church, museums and shopping.

Many untrained pilgrims intend to blindly follow the Briarly stages, then get injured and are forced to limit walks to only 10-15km per day.


-Paul

 

[BlackRocker57]

In my experience, I had no problems finding accommodations on the Briarly stages. I aggressively trained before the Camino and could easily walk the 20-30km Briarly stages, plus a few more "bonus" Kms walking around the town to the church, museums and shopping.

Many untrained pilgrims intend to blindly follow the Briarly stages, then get injured and are forced to limit walks to only 10-15km per day.


-Paul

This is indeed the danger of blindly following guidebook «stages», some of which are way too long for novices / camino newbies or the untrained hiker ... it is the same with many guidebooks not just the Brierley one

 

[JillGat]

My hot tip for finding accomodations on the Camino is to walk alone. There is much higher chance that there is one bed available as compared to even two.

 

[pjacobi]

This is indeed the danger of blindly following guidebook «stages», some of which are way too long for novices / camino newbies or the untrained hiker ... it is the same with many guidebooks not just the Brierley one

The option I chose is to train before the Camino, so that I could follow the Briarly stages.

It's sad to see so many people injure themselves, when most problems could be avoided by a little bit of training before the Camino.


-Paul

 

[Anniesantiago]

Yep. Some of my favorite places have been "between the stages."

 

[Madamjoy]

The option I chose is to train before the Camino, so that I could follow the Briarly stages.

It's sad to see so many people injure themselves, when most problems could be avoided by a little bit of training before the Camino.


-Paul

I’m pretty fit and strong, yet walking this Spring on the via de la plata I had an injury and needed time off. It happens to the best of us.

 

[Frankybaby66]

The object of my post was to share my experience in finding accommodation vacancies by avoiding pinch points along the trail.
It wasn't meant to stimulate a discussion in how some people don't train long enough or hard enough etc.
We all approach Caminos differently, right?