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sleep sacks recommended at private pensions/hotels?

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Hi all,
Thank you all for the information you've provided thus far in this forum. I will be walking with @jorutter in late August on the English Route and wondered if it is recommended that you take a sleep sack when planning to stay in private pensions or hotels along the Camino. I also wondered if bug repellent is needed along this route.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
 
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We stayed at many pensiones and small hotels along the English route last June and had no need for a sleep sack and didn't receive any bug bites along the way. Not sure if you meant bedbugs or mosquitoes (and the like), but I encountered neither. Buen Camino!
 
You do not talk about it but if you eventually choose for the very beautiful albergue in Betanzos, you'll need something to cover you.
We were very surprised not to find blankets last year. We allways take a silk sleeping liner with us and in Betanzos slept with our fleecevests on. No bother for one night.
We never met any bedbugs ,neither on the entire Portuges camino from Lisbon nor the English camino from Ferrol.
Buen camino
 
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We did not need sleeping bags on the Inglés in 2011 in private accomodation, just in the municipal albergues. If you plan to use B&B type paid accomodation you will not need a bag. We will not be taking our this year so keeping our pack weight down. We do take a small towel still as some places only provide one each and I like to dry my hair with a small one and have the big towel for the rest.
 
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I agree with SYates, keep options open.
Small travel towel and silk liner will give you the spontaneity to stay where you want. You just never know where the trail will lead you.
 
Could some-one who has walked recently confirm that the municipal albergues do/do not have blankets but that some of the private ones do. Our experience was that municipals did not but private rooms had towels, sheets and blankets. but that was in 2011. We have seen on the forum that the revamped Miras is open in Sigueiro (sheets etc in the old hostel) and that Albergue Delia has bedding but that places like Betanzos do not.
This is for the friend of a friend starting to walk 27th April (ie this weekend) so our future walk will not be soon enough to help. Thanks.
 
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