Which type of accommodation did you use?

[wayfarer]

Coming from a question @bystander asked I am posting this pole for anyone who would like to contribute. Voting is private.

 

[dougfitz]

@wayfarer, is your thinking that municipal albergues will cover all the non-private albergues, and include parish, confraternity and xunta albergues? Also, you haven't offered a hotel option. Was that deliberate?

 

[wayfarer]

@wayfarer, is your thinking that municipal albergues will cover all the non-private albergues, and include parish, confraternity and xunta albergues? Also, you haven't offered a hotel option. Was that deliberate?

Hi Doug, Yes is the answer to the first part of your question, putting any more options in would make the whole thing thing a bit cumbersome, and my understanding is that a Hostal is a hotel albeit a one to three star so that should cover both. I did not include paradores, camping or sleeping out either as I felt these would be the exception rather than the rule.

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

The problem I find is that I use all four types.
I love albergues [municipal and private] because then I integrate with my camino 'family'.
But after two nights of heavy snoring, a cheap hotel or hostal is sheer bliss .

 

[wayfarer]

The problem I find is that I use all four types.
I love albergues [municipal and private] because then I integrate with my camino 'family'.
But after two nights of heavy snoring, a cheap hotel or hostal is sheer bliss .

Multiple voting is allowed.

 

[bystander]

It will, if enough people respond, be fascinating to see the results.

Quite apart from the money aspect I am sure, although this poll won't be able to show it, there will be a serious age element as to which type of accommodation people chose!

My inclination, heading to my 69 birthday this summer, will be for a single room with en suite bathroom! Not only for my own comfort but also out of consideration for others who might, otherwise, be within hearing range of my stentorious snoring and nocturnal visits to the "facilities"!

 

[SYates]

... My inclination, heading to my 69 birthday this summer, will be for a single room with en suite bathroom! Not only for my own comfort but also out of consideration for others who might, otherwise, be within hearing range of my stentorious snoring and nocturnal visits to the "facilities"!

From the depth of my heart and in the name of all other pilgrims - THANK YOU! Buen Camino, SY

 

[dougfitz]

Hi Doug, Yes is the answer to the first part of your question, putting any more options in would make the whole thing thing a bit cumbersome, and my understanding is that a Hostal is a hotel albeit a one to three star so that should cover both. I did not include paradores, camping or sleeping out either as I felt these would be the exception rather than the rule.

Thanks. I can understand the first choice, but I found hotels where I stayed in them quite different to hostals. In the latter, unless one paid at about the same rate as a hotel, one was expected to share a room. In Carrion de los Condes, the manager found a way of getting five of us into a hostal room with four beds! That was never going to happen in a hotel.

 

[wayfarer]

Thanks. I can understand the first choice, but I found hotels where I stayed in them quite different to hostals. In the latter, unless one paid at about the same rate as a hotel, one was expected to share a room. In Carrion de los Condes, the manager found a way of getting five of us into a hostal room with four beds! That was never going to happen in a hotel.

Hi Doug, I never had that experience but then again I always asked for a double room in Hostals and I will have to say that the quality was sometimes better than many hotels I have stayed in over the years but at a fraction of the price.

 

[Dave2525]

I stayed primarily in the muni's with the odd private thrown in. As a treat there were a couple of nights in hotels

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

It will, if enough people respond, be fascinating to see the results. Quite apart from the money aspect I am sure, although this poll won't be able to show it, there will be a serious age element as to which type of accommodation people chose! My inclination, heading to my 69 birthday this summer, will be for a single room with en suite bathroom! Not only for my own comfort but also out of consideration for others who might, otherwise, be within hearing range of my stentorious snoring and nocturnal visits to the "facilities"!

Wow! Did you notice that SY thanked us for NOT staying in albergues!
Mind you, I can sympathise. Extract from my 2012 diary:
"Dusk was falling, so we returned to the albergue, and all went to bed. At 10:30 Paco started to snore. I’d experienced snoring in previous albergues, but this was different. Paco would be silent for about fifteen seconds. Then a noise would erupt from his mouth, followed by what sounded like a shout. This went on for four hours.
The volume was such that the empty room actually vibrated at every exhalation that Paco made. Paco could snore for Spain, and I’m sure he held the gold Olympic medal for snoring. I tossed and turned, and tried to ignore it, but all to no avail. At 2:30 in the morning, I gathered my sleeping bag, and went into the girls’ dormitory.
“It’s only me.” I said in a loud whisper.
“Stay!” said Catarina. I had no intention of doing anything else……
[Catarina told me later that they had been warned about Paco! “We could hear him snoring through two closed doors and twenty metres of passage. There was a moment when we had a discussion about whether we should come and rescue you! But we thought you might get the wrong idea......”]"

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

Hi Doug, I never had that experience but then again I always asked for a double room in Hostals and I will have to say that the quality was sometimes better than many hotels I have stayed in over the years but at a fraction of the price.

I often looked for hostals.
To my mind they are hotels with 1, or 2 stars.
I have often had en-suite rooms for under €20, have never asked for a double [didn't think I'd get that lucky] and have NEVER been asked to share a room - thank goodness!

 

[Albertinho]

Wow! Did you notice that SY thanked us for NOT staying in albergues!
Mind you, I can sympathise. Extract from my 2012 diary:
"Dusk was falling, so we returned to the albergue, and all went to bed. At 10:30 Paco started to snore. I’d experienced snoring in previous albergues, but this was different. Paco would be silent for about fifteen seconds. Then a noise would erupt from his mouth, followed by what sounded like a shout. This went on for four hours.
The volume was such that the empty room actually vibrated at every exhalation that Paco made. Paco could snore for Spain, and I’m sure he held the gold Olympic medal for snoring. I tossed and turned, and tried to ignore it, but all to no avail. At 2:30 in the morning, I gathered my sleeping bag, and went into the girls’ dormitory.
“It’s only me.” I said in a loud whisper.
“Stay!” said Catarina. I had no intention of doing anything else……
[Catarina told me later that they had been warned about Paco! “We could hear him snoring through two closed doors and twenty metres of passage. There was a moment when we had a discussion about whether we should come and rescue you! But we thought you might get the wrong idea......”]"

Paco told me the other day that he will sleep in a single room with ensuite bathroom and jacuzzi next time when he meets you again Stephen . He apologised dearly.

 

[Al the optimist]

I have never had to share a room in a Hostal unless I was with someone and we chose to share.

 

[AJ]

I have never had to share a room in a Hostal unless I was with someone and we chose to share.

Neither have I

 

[SYates]

Wow! Did you notice that SY thanked us for NOT staying in albergues!

Certainly I did and as an 'old hospitalera' I might add that every pilgrim NOT staying in 'my' albergue meant one more free bed for those that come later and couldn't afford a room in a pension or similar. So double and triple thank you to all hotel/hostal/pension pilgrims ;-) Buen Camino! SY

 

[wayfarer]

Interesting that the private albergues have it by a close head so far and I thought I was the only one who pampered myself.

 

[Al the optimist]

I note that there is no "hospital" category!

 

[dougfitz]

Interesting that the private albergues have it by a close head so far and I thought I was the only one who pampered myself.

The survey doesn't give any information about what percentage of accommodation was provided by each of the categories. It tells us that for those that responded, more used a private albergue than any other options. That might be interesting, but I wouldn't think it all that surprising.

The survey doesn't tell us that private albergues provided more pilgrim accommodation than the other options. A different question would be needed to determine that.

 

[Anniesantiago]

I've used all these types. Just depends on the year and what's going on when I arrive in town.