I agree with Dougfitz on this: I'd like to stay away from replies on this subject, other than it reminds of booking a flight by phone a number of years ago. They'd ask inappropriate questions.
"What's your name?"
André Walker
"Smoking...
They just took our word for it. We were both wearing rings on our left ring fingers, so I don't know if that helped convince them we were telling the truth. Those were in parroquial albergues.
ops... we don't wear rings! :confused: The paradoxical thing if they will ever deny it, is that on the night of our wedding my wife and I slept in a hostel... 😆
We married in NZ, actually, in total solitude: just the Justice of Peace and her...
My partner and I always ended up being put in the same dorm room whenever we arrived at an albergue together. Didn't pay more, and it was no more complicated to sort out than when I'd walked a previous Camino solo. We ended up staying in a mix of...
In 2018 I stayed with the Benedictine nuns at Santa Maria albergue in Leon and we were separated in male and female sections. It was basically one huge room with a partition halfway down - men by the entrance side, ladies further down. I guess so...
You can get a private room in an albergue or we have also took a 4 person room (say it was 15/person, we paid 60 and got the room for a good nights sleep when needed.
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