Hi guys, I'm travelling the camino from beginning of September for 5 weeks. Could any of you advise me whether a sleeping bag or a liner would be best, and if sleeping bag what sort would be best. Thanks guys x
The prices in Spain for the average private accommodation along the Camino really are inexpensive. I don't think I ever paid more that $60.00 US for a private room with bath in a pensiones, hostel or hotel. Most ranged from $30-$45 US a night. These are places that would be considered B&B's in the US and be at least $100-$150 a night. I stayed in a couple of pensiones with private room and shared bath for under $20 US a night. In 2014 three of us split a room at the historic Hostal Burguete where Ernest Hemingway used to stay when he was in Burguete. I think it cost us about 20 bucks apiece. None of the pensiones I stayed in, in Santiago cost me over 40-45 euros a night.I'm going with just a liner & if it's cold will also wear my clothes to sleep.
It will be early August so I don't expect any problems.
I should also mention that I will try & mostly stay in hotels & pensions with private rooms. I'm not rich, I'm middle class but I live in the New York City area and the prices in Spain seem very inexpensive to me.
Hostels and pensions do provide blankets, but offer no more protection against bedbugs than any other accommodation.If staying in Hostels and pensions, don't they:
A: Supply a blanket or blankets?
B: Don't have bed bugs as commonly as the alburgues?
I plan only staying in hostels and would like to leave my sleeping bag at home. I also heard someone say they had to throw away their sleeping bag from bed bugs!! Yikes! I'm not throwing my $250 Kelty sleeping bag away. And surely don't want to soak it in toxic poison.!
Thanks Steve!When I walked the Camino Frances in September of 2016, I reached out to every one of the Albergues I intended to stay in to ask if they had blankets available. They did, and I only brought a very light silk liner that I drenched in pemrethrin for bed bugs. BTW, it was so hot last September I never used a blanket any of the nights. Good luck. - Steve
Excellent choice. It will serve you well on the Camino.I haven't walked my first Camino yet, but I can tell you what helped me decide.
I tried sleeping under just a sheet at home when the house was at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, and I couldn't do it. I was cold. I like to sleep very warm.
I will bring both so I have options. I bought this bag http://www.enlightenedequipment.com/revelation/
It weighs less than a pound, but it's definitely not cheap.