Julia Mumford
Adventure Geek
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Frances (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Camino Ingles (2018)
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Quite amusing to read another thread running - 11 day tours of the Camino de Santiago, including hotels and most meals - a mere $US6995....
I agree you do need a contingency fund just in case of injury or illness that might cause you to stay a few nights here and there in private accommodation.I've noticed from other posts that 25 euros a day per person above the lodging costs is typical so 35 euros a day if staying in albergues seems to be right for estimating your costs. But for budgeting I would add about 20% more to be sure you had funds for unexpected events.
Thats an average off about $US630,- a day.Quite amusing to read another thread running - 11 day tours of the Camino de Santiago, including hotels and most meals - a mere $US6995....
hope that´s not buying sculptures and sending them home !Quite amusing to read another thread running - 11 day tours of the Camino de Santiago, including hotels and most meals - a mere $US6995....
About there for me. Some days less, some days more. Average 30-35 euros.
Quite amusing to read another thread running - 11 day tours of the Camino de Santiago, including hotels and most meals - a mere $US6995....
For €35 you will live well on the CaminoTravelling the Camino Frances route, using half decent albergues, how much money would you budget for each day?
I’m thinking in the region of €35 a day?
What do you think?
And these folks have to get to there daily hotels.. OMGQuite amusing to read another thread running - 11 day tours of the Camino de Santiago, including hotels and most meals - a mere $US6995....
35/day you could actually drink "good" wine every night
Looks like many of us are tracking along the same lines, I did it earlier this year for about 35 euro/4o USD. I did not include the night at the Pardor in Santiago or the Spa in Astorga, that would have exploded the numbers (but it was worth it). We did stay an extra day in Burgos, Leon and Astorga. I paid as little as 5 euro and as much as 12 euro at private albergues. We were not on a budget but we also did not see the need to stay in anything but Albergues whenever we could. On several occasions, we were able to get a room with 3 beds for 30 euro/3 but we had our own bath and usually more room. I asked some college students what they spent, they budgeted 30 USD but averaged 25 staying in municipals most of the time. I hope this helps.
It was not until I returned I found for those of us living close to Canada the benefit of crossing the border & driving to the nearest large city savings 50-75%.I recently (Apr/May) took 8-soldiers to walk the Camino and we budgeted 35-Euro per day for accommodations and food, which worked out well. I've attached our sample budget, which we used to determine our project costing per-person, which I always rounded up; you can disregard the other info as it may not apply. As a note regarding flights, it shows $1,100 Cdn but was actually $975.29 (Kingston, Toronto, Madrid, Pamplona - Santiago, Madrid, Toronto and return to Kingston). We were unable to get a flight into Biarritz, but Pamplona was very convenient as well. Additionally, the extra cost for Orisson was for refreshmentsHTHs
We stayed in hotels those nights although some private Albergues will let you stay longer.Those were helpful observations. You mentioned extra days in Burgos and Leon. I thought the auberges let you remain for only one night. How did you manage an extra day? Thanks.
We too tended to stay in private rooms and tried to book a private room in an albergue for 40euros a night. That did not always happen. We travel off peak times and sometimes we would stay in the dorms for abt 10euros pp but did this only when there were a few or almost no one was staying in the establishment. Sleep was important too us so we would not compromise noise for price! We rarely drank the wine, so we often ordered off the menu of the day or a particular dish. Better quality of food! We ate a small breakfast before we left early in the morning (Self prepared), another breakfast abt two hours into our day, a lunch around 2-2:30p and a lite supper in our room which we bought at a supermarket. The total cost was circa 80 euros per day.My wife and I average about 75 to 85 Euro a day for the two of us. We do tend to stay almost exclusively in private rooms, pensions or hotels when the other two options are not available.
We enjoy our own space at night, but also realize that not everyone walking the Camino is well off financially. So we can not in good conscience stay in bunk rooms in albergues when many pilgrims truly need the cheaper lodgings due to tight budgets.
Just as an aside we did occasionally talk to a few pilgrims that were obviously very well off, but for some reason were feeling driven to walk the Camino as cheaply as possible.
Art, while albergues only let you spend one night unless you are ill with doctor’s note etc., those who want to stay an extra day in town typically opt for a hotel or pension, of not for the two days, at least for the second one.Those were helpful observations. You mentioned extra days in Burgos and Leon. I thought the auberges let you remain for only one night. How did you manage an extra day? Thanks.
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