Lisbon to Santiago - Albergues

[jsalt]

Hi, has anyone walked from Lisbon to Santiago recently and stayed in an albergue every night? If so, which places were they?
Jill

 

[caminobrit]

Yes I have, although u will have to do a few hostels such as Lisbon, Santerem, Tomar, golega, coimbra, which u may be paying 15 euro for a bed but they are excellent hostels and worth the money. There are also the bomberios if you need to keep the price down. Some of them you can stay in them but not all. They are all listed in the Brieley guide book or on the excellent wise pilgrim.com. From Porto alburgues are plentiful either way u choose to go. I walked to Fatima as well so can only tell u about my stages which I will list to Porto only. Lisbon hostel, day 1 apriate, day 2 azambuja (this is 40km) day 3 santarem, day 4 olhos de Agua, day 5 fatima, day 6 tomar, day 7 alvaiazere, day 8 rabacal, day 9 coimbra, day 10 Argos, day 11 agueda, day 12 albergaria a nova, day 13 grijo, day 14 porto. Happy planning, it’s a great quiet Camino at least from Lisbon to Porto anyway.

 

[Jopoke]

We struggled on the first night at Alverca. We didn't book in advance and everything was full with the workers. A lovely man took us to a cafe and insisted by buying us coffee and explained for us because I didn't speak any Portuguese of our need. Another local man took us to his house and gave us his bed. Neither of these kind men would take anything from us and only requested a candle lit and a prayer when we reached Santiago.
I'm so glad and lucky to have met these truly wonderful people and thankfully manged to communicate with Google translate.
Bon Caminho

 

[peregrina2000]

Well, that's a challenge!

We struggled on the first night at Alverca. We didn't book in advance and everything was full with the workers. A lovely man took us to a cafe and insisted by buying us coffee and explained for us because I didn't speak any Portuguese of our need. Another local man took us to his house and gave us his bed. Neither of these kind men would take anything from us and only requested a candle lit and a prayer when we reached Santiago.
I'm so glad and lucky to have met these truly wonderful people and thankfully manged to communicate with Google translate.
Bon Caminho

But now no need to struggle, because there is an Albergue in Alpriate. It's about 20 km from the Lisbon cathedral. https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...n-alpriate-20-km-from-lisbon-cathedral.40372/

 

[mcopeland]

We just walked that route, but won't be much help as we seldom stayed in albergues. We did stay in several hostels where there were both bunks and private rooms. We didn't see many public albergues on the Litoral route out of Porto but don't know about the other 2 routes. We used the extensive list of places to stay that's somewhere on this forum, as well as Brierley and both Confraternity of St. James books. When are you going? The albergue in Alpriarte was to be closed this winter for renovations. We stayed there on their last open day in mid-October. They have a Facebook page where you could probably check on the progress.

 

[jsalt]

Hi, I see that Gronze is updating their Portuguese Camino section (https://www.gronze.com/camino-portugues), which should be finalized in March 2018.

And I see that Golega now has two albergues, which is also fantastic news. (The last time I was in Golega (2014) I stayed at Quartos do Lagar, which had cheap rooms.)

Still only one hostel in Tomar, which is odd.

Anyway, it looks as though it IS possible to walk from Lisbon to Santiago staying in albergues the whole way.

And it is now possible to split up some of the long (over 30km) days into two, with other budget accommodation. (But still not for Tomar to Alvaiazere.)
Jill

 

[surya8]

Possible. I walked from Santarem to Porto in late Oct and stayed in alberues apart from Tomar. Santaren: Casa de Misericordia, double rooms for the price of dormitory, centre of town. Golega: Solo Duro, nice location, friendly dogs. Tomar: good hostel 2300 Tomar, centre of town. Alvaiazere: Albergaria Pinheiro - small one, rooms for 2 people or private ones, staicase and stamps to rememer Rabacal: go to the private one, at Cafe Bonito, brand new, have a swimming pool. Coimbra: Rainha Santa Isabel, before crossing the river to the city, huge, old and atmospheric. Mealhada: Alb Hilario, check if they have hot water in the dormitories, we didn't but the ones staying in private rooms did. Agueda: probably the best albergue on the Portuguese way, Alb St Antonio. Slightly out of town centre but on the way for next day. Albergaria: we went to A-Nova - avoid as almost on the highway, very dusty and polluted. Stay in A-Velha instead, greener and more pleasant town. Sao Joao da Madeira: we stayed in Casa da Misericordia, donation, not exactly an albergue, huge room, mattresses on the floor. People with whom I ended up walking later went from Lisbon and stayed in albergues as well. Hope that helps.

 

[cj2003]

I didn't sleep in albergues much, but with the great people here we compiled a list of them - but from Porto to Redondela it is along the coastal route.

In the file linked in https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...df-route-portugues-route-monacal-coastal.404/

you can filter by "albergue" and enjoy the list
(direct link is this ne - you'll find references to pdf and excel version in the link above https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15YjQVotp9btlbTUx6YDMgFpHcm3__9msYMJ_nHKOe2E/edit#gid=0)