janinedawn
JanineDawn
- Time of past OR future Camino
- May-June 2019).
I heard one account where the bathroom in an albergue was coed and there were no shower curtains. Is this usual? Are the dormitories coed too?
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Thanks Michael, Coed = co-educational, basically mixed male and female.Hallo Janine,
welcome in this forum.
I´m German and not so good in English, so I don´t know what "coed" is, but I can imagine.
I would say, in 95% of all Albergues you have you privacy in the shower. Many times there are extra little rooms, not bathrooms, only with shower you can lock. Used from both peregrinos and peregrinas. In the other 5 % it´s like in a sport hall, splitted rooms, but a few showers inside each without privacy.
But the sleepingrooms are normaly mixed. There could be extra rooms for "snorers", but it´s a self-assessment
Hi Michael, Coed comes from the word and is short for Coeducation(al) or universities that admit both male and female students. Coed also referred to a female student attending a coeducational university. Coed can also refer to facilities, such as dormitories that students sleep in or sports team that have both male and female students. As you can imagine this term has lost favor and I have heard it rarely the last few years with young university age students. My daughters never used this term when they were in university. To say the least it is politically incorrect now. If you or I used the term coed in front of my daughters they would probably rip our heads off!!! But it is still acceptable (I think) talking about facilities like bathrooms or sleeping areas.Hallo Janine,
welcome in this forum.
I´m German and not so good in English, so I don´t know what "coed" is, but I can imagine.
I would say, in 95% of all Albergues you have you privacy in the shower. Many times there are extra little rooms, not bathrooms, only with shower you can lock. Used from both peregrinos and peregrinas. In the other 5 % it´s like in a sport hall, splitted rooms, but a few showers inside each without privacy.
But the sleepingrooms are normaly mixed. There could be extra rooms for "snorers", but it´s a self-assessment
Well I must have been lucky because the only time I didn’t get privacy was in O Cebreiro. I just showered VERY late that evening when everyone had pretty much gone.
Really? When I was there in 2016 there were partitions in the women's shower, but no curtains.Cannot speak for the ladies facilites, bu tthe mens showers in the municipal albergue in in O Cebreiro had private shower cubicles (curtains) but a 'communal' changing areaa.
Really? When I was there in 2016 there were partitions in the women's shower, but no curtains.
In September 2018 in the ladies' showers there were 'squeletons' of partitions (like, poles or something) but no actual partitions or curtains.Really? When I was there in 2016 there were partitions in the women's shower, but no curtains.
That's new, then. When we were there in 2016 they didn't have curtains. It made my teenage son quite uncomfortable. It was the first time on that Camino we came across that. After that, he wasn't so interested in the Xunta albergues.Cannot speak for the ladies facilites, bu tthe mens showers in the municipal albergue in in O Cebreiro had private shower cubicles (curtains) but a 'communal' changing area.
When I passed through O'Cebreiro (Sept 2017) we stayed at the municipal albergue; at the time there were separate shower stalls. The male stalls had no curtains. My wife also mentioned that the ladies stalls had no curtains either. But it was no biggy; no problem.Cannot speak for the ladies facilites, bu tthe mens showers in the municipal albergue in in O Cebreiro had private shower cubicles (curtains) but a 'communal' changing area.
The showers are not unisex in the Xunta albergue in O Cebreiro! And though I haven't stayed in the municipal in Melide I doubt that their showers are unisex either. Also, doors were not removed - they were never there to begin with.When I stayed at o’cebriero in May 2018 I found that the shower stall doors had actually been removed, possibly because to allow the larger pilgrims to fit in !! But it seems that the Galician authorities have real problems with showers since the doors were also missing in the municipal albergue at Melide! Amusing at the time as I thought the same builders had got it wrong again !! The showers were unisex in both towns with a communal changing area! Privacy was ensured as I was among the late afternoon arrivals !
Yes, I had the same experience on the Sanabrés. The exception rather than the norm.I did encounter a unisex shower with three shower heads and no door or curtain on the Camino del Norte. Definitely the exception rather than the rule though.
I posted about it here