• Get your Camino Frances Guidebook here.
  • 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)
  • ⚠️ Emergency contact in Spain - Dial 112 and AlertCops app. More on this here.

Search 69,459 Camino Questions

Item left behind in Paris - advice?

Raqdoll

New Member
Time of past OR future Camino
Frances (2019)
Hello all, I need a bit of advice on how to retrieve an item (my husbands e-reader) that got left behind in Paris. The hotel is being less than helpful so I need to figure how to get it from the hotel to Santiago. Normally, I’d send pre-paid envelope but because it’s Spain and France - I’m at a loss as to what’s available and...how to accomplish this.

Any advice would be very appreciated!
 
Technical backpack for day trips with backpack cover and internal compartment for the hydration bladder. Ideal daypack for excursions where we need a medium capacity backpack. The back with Air Flow System creates large air channels that will keep our back as cool as possible.

€83,-
Transport luggage-passengers.
From airports to SJPP
Luggage from SJPP to Roncevalles
Buen Camino! Spain and France should be no problem, EU right? No Spanish? Explain the problem to your next hospitalière/a have them write out your request for a pre-paid envelope and pop into the next Post Office with the note. May this be your first, only, and worst experience on the Camino. Ivar is a busy soul but he also may have better advice. Try a PM direct to him.
 
Hello all, I need a bit of advice on how to retrieve an item (my husbands e-reader) that got left behind in Paris. The hotel is being less than helpful so I need to figure how to get it from the hotel to Santiago. Normally, I’d send pre-paid envelope but because it’s Spain and France - I’m at a loss as to what’s available and...how to accomplish this.

Any advice would be very appreciated!
I wonder if you can use something like https://www.sendmybag.com/ . I think they use DHL and you can set a pickup address and a destination address and pay online. The hotel would need to print out the shipping label. Not sure if the DHL driver has an envelope or not, but if not, they would need to get some sort of packaging as well.

Feel free to send it to me in Santiago if you like.

My address is:
Ivar Rekve
ATT: [Your name goes here]
Travesía da Universidade 1
15704 Santiago de Compostela
La Coruña
Spain

(Phone number, if needed, is: +34 981 04 21 34)
 
3rd Edition. More content, training & pack guides avoid common mistakes, bed bugs etc
La Poste has prepaid envelopes for express delivery within EU. I think you can purchase online and have them delivered to the hotel. Prices strike me as quite expensive:

Prepaid / Padded / 1Kg / Express delivery to EU = €52 incl. tax

If you can have the hotel post it to an address in France, its cheaper

Prepaid / Padded / 1Kg / Express delivery to France = €29 incl. tax

Prepaid / Carton envelope / 500g / Normal delivery to France = €3.91 (+2.90 delivery fee) = €6.81

Are you walking in France right now?
 
Last edited by a moderator:

Most read last week in this forum

La Voz de Galicia has reported the death of a 65 year old pilgrim from the United States this afternoon near Castromaior. The likely cause appears to be a heart attack. The pilgrim was walking the...
Just reading this thread https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/news-from-the-camino.86228/ and the OP mentions people being fined €12000. I knew that you cannot do the Napoleon in...
I’m heading to the Frances shortly and was going to be a bit spontaneous with rooms. I booked the first week just to make sure and was surprised at how tight reservations were. As I started making...
This is my first posting but as I look at the Camino, I worry about 'lack of solitude' given the number of people on the trail. I am looking to do the France route....as I want to have the...
My first SPRINGTIME days on the Camino Francés 🎉 A couple of interesting tidbits. I just left Foncebadón yesterday. See photo. By the way, it's really not busy at all on my "wave". Plenty of...
I was reading somewhere that some of us are doing night walks. As a natural born night owl I would love to do such walk too. Of course I can choose stage by myself (CF). But was wondering if any...

❓How to ask a question

How to post a new question on the Camino Forum.

Forum Rules

Forum Rules

Camino Updates on YouTube

Camino Conversations

Most downloaded Resources

This site is run by Ivar at

in Santiago de Compostela.
This site participates in the Amazon Affiliate program, designed to provide a means for Ivar to earn fees by linking to Amazon
Official Camino Passport (Credential) | 2024 Camino Guides
Back
Top