2024 Camino Frances to Santiago de Compostela cost

Peterexpatkiwi said:

@Bog526, there have been multiple threads that have touched on this topic over the last couple of months. The general consensus has been that budget’s run from €30 pp, per day (one or two who achieve less!) to the sky is your limit. Many of us seem to fall in the €40-50 bracket, with occasional private rooms etc. Logically, that’s easier to achieve as a couple. As always, the less you self cater, and the more private rooms you take, the higher the costs. Astonishingly, you can still find some Albergues for just €8 pp, pn.

It totally depends on your expectations.

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Lemondrop said:

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

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PeteD said:

As a couple we completed the Frances in October 2023. Individually it cost 1,850 Euro for the 38 days i.e. 49 Euro per day each. We stayed mostly in albergues with a few donativos and treated ourselves to a private room in a casa rural, hotel or similar once a week. Food was mostly pilgrim meals, lots of coffee and cake and good vegetarian meals in larger towns. And as @JerryStroebele points out there would be expenses incurred if you stayed at home that should reduce the overall impact. Worth ever Euro IMHO.

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lt56ny said:

I could easily do 2 caminos for 45 days including airfare for the price you quoted. I would even have a nice chunk of change left over. If you want to walk and stay in upscale htels and eat out every meal than yes prices have gone up in Spain just like everywhere else in the world. If you want to do a camino for 30-35 euros a day, and some days even closer to 20 Euros a day I would be happy to talk with you about what I do. My point is not to criticize but to show we all have our own reasons and methods. If you want a "high end" camino then you have to pay a high end price. There are some that spend more than you and others who spend less than me. Then there probably is the majority that are somewhere in between.
For me, personally I believe a camino is not meant to be easy or comfortable. I think there are very valuable lessons to learn when one walks a very basic camino with few materialistic comforts.
Before my first camino my daughter had just returned from traveling the world for one year. After I hugged and kissed my baby girl I asked her the two most basic questions. How are you. She was glowing so I really didn't need to ask but you know parents, my second was how was it:
She held my hands and said: "Daddy I learned that all I need in my life is You and Mommy and Allie's (her sister) love and my few close friends and what I can carry on my back. The rest is bullshit and a burden.
I thought of what she told me on my first camino and I walked like that. I have tried to live my life and my caminos the same way ever since.

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PeteD said:

As a couple we completed the Frances in October 2023. Individually it cost 1,850 Euro for the 38 days i.e. 49 Euro per day each. We stayed mostly in albergues with a few donativos and treated ourselves to a private room in a casa rural, hotel or similar once a week. Food was mostly pilgrim meals, lots of coffee and cake and good vegetarian meals in larger towns. And as @JerryStroebele points out there would be expenses incurred if you stayed at home that should reduce the overall impact. Worth ever Euro IMHO.

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lt56ny said:

Well Wow haha. The way you worded your original post I think that almost all of us thought that you were talking about private rooms and restaurants each night. There was no mention of you looking to sleep in basic environs.
The least expensive and often the most rewarding options are donativos and municipal albergues. Remember donativo does NOT mean free. You should leave a minimum donations of what a municipal albergue would charge and if they offer a communal meal you should also leave at least 10E. If they offer both you should leave at least 20-22E. Some even offer breakfast. 3E would be the minimum for that.
You can also prepare dinner at many albergues. (Not the municipal Xuntas in Galicia). Most have a partial kitchen and many have a full kitchen. When you arrive check to see what pots and pans and spices etc an albergue may have before you go to the store to buy food. A partial kitchen will most likely be a refrigerator and microwave.
No one source has all available places to stay. You should always look at Gronze.com and there are also two very good apps called Buen Camino and Wise Pilgrim. They will all give you a description of the albergues and tell you if they are monasteries or donativos etc. There are some amazing donativos that have really only the most basic of basic services but reward you in many other ways. For example these are some wonderful and famous and as basic as they come albergues:

Albergue parroquial San Juan Bautista | Albergue de Peregrinos en Grañón | Gronze.com

Información del albergue de peregrinos Albergue parroquial San Juan Bautista, en Grañón: Precio, plazas, características, etc...

www.gronze.com

Albergue Hospital de peregrinos de San Antón | Albergue de Peregrinos en Convento de San Antón | Gronze.com

Información del albergue de peregrinos Albergue Hospital de peregrinos de San Antón, en Convento de San Antón: Precio, plazas, características, etc...

www.gronze.com

Refugio Gaucelmo | Albergue de Peregrinos en Rabanal del Camino | Gronze.com

Información del albergue de peregrinos Refugio Gaucelmo, en Rabanal del Camino: Precio, plazas, características, etc...

www.gronze.com

There are any others

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