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Made reservation for the first 3 days of our April May 2016 journey. After that we winged it. Had several guides down loaded but bought the Michelin Camino de Santiago guide in Saint Jean. All we used and all we needed for 500 miles.I've read that staying at albergues some require reservations and some don't. For those who've experienced this how did you plan on where you stayed? Did you just wing it and see if there's room or depending how fast/slow it's taking you did you call ahead. I'm aware of the albergues listings and have printed the PDF which was amazing by the way. Any information would be helpful. Thank you in advance!
To be clear, because you have gotten all sorts of info that may have your head spinning: no albergue requires a reservation and some do not take them (municipal and religious ones mostly).
Should you book in private ones? It depends first and formost on the time of the year you are walking (May to September is high season), it depends on how late jn the day you plan on walking (if you want to walk until 6pm in May, then I would say yes), also what is more important to you: will you be distraught if you get to your destination and find out the village is full and you have to walk another 3 or 4 km or will you be on edge all day not knowing for sure where you'll find a bed?
Made reservation for the first 3 days of our April May 2016 journey. After that we winged it. Had several guides down loaded but bought the Michelin Camino de Santiago guide in Saint Jean. All we used and all we needed for 500 miles.
Buen Camino
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If I may, if this is your thought process on the Camino you will be miserable. There are so many albergues (and Orisson is just that, an albergue like any other) that realistically you will only experience a very small percentage of them.3. If you don't experience it you will always wonder what you missed out on.
Whilst appreciating that you can't have everything in life and that you have to make choices all the way though your life, is there any other albergue on any camino that has so much discussion as to whether to stay there or not?If I may, if this is your thought process on the Camino you will be miserable. There are so many albergues (and Orisson is just that, an albergue like any other) that realistically you will only experience a very small percentage of them.
One could also argue that by opting to stay in Orisson you will out on the exhilleration of arriving in Roncesvalles with those you were with in SJPP and who challenged themselves to make the full walk in a day.
If you over think things, all you will achieve is missing out on things.
(And when you say staying at Orisson would make for an easy day, well, the hike up there is grewling, but short, so it would still make for a difficult day, but also a bery boring one watching others walk by for hour after hour, after hour).
This one gets talked about only because people going on the Camino have fears and anxieties due to the unknown. If they didn't you wouldn't hear much about it. Granon and San Anton certainly get a lot of air time here, and not because of anxieties.Whilst appreciating that you can't have everything in life and that you have to make choices all the way though your life, is there any other albergue on any camino that has so much discussion as to whether to stay there or not?
I would dispute your assertion that it is only because of fears and anxieties that people stay at Orisson. It wasn't the reason I stayed there.This one gets talked about only because people going on the Camino have fears and anxieties due to the unknown. If they didn't you wouldn't hear much about it. Granon and San Anton certainly get a lot of air time here, and not because of anxieties.
There is no need to start early from SJPDP if you are stopping at Orisson. I left around 11:00 and arrived early afternoon, which was perfect.(And when you say staying at Orisson would make for an easy day, well, the hike up there is grewling, but short, so it would still make for a difficult day, but also a bery boring one watching others walk by for hour after hour, after hour).
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