A Laxe or Lalin?

[Raindrop]

Is it worth going off the regular path to Lalin or stay and go to A Laxe? Thanks

 

[AlanSykes]

The Invierno goes right through Lalín, or it's a few km detour from the Sanabrés. It's a lively town with some nice restaurants and hotels. A Laxe is 4km closer to Santiago and has a xunta albergue, with a restaurant nearby on the main road than can deliver food (the albergue kitchen had one bowl and a grapefruit knife last time I stayed there).

 

[Robert Wawrzyniak]

We stayed at A Laxe in August 2024 and it's the typical Xunta albergue (lots of concrete, push showers and two dormitory rooms; the kitchen situation hasn't improved). If we had our time over, we would have stopped at Lalin simply for the variety it offers

 

[Sydney Peregrinos]

We stayed in Lalin in 2018 when we walked the Invierno. It was a lovely little town with some good food options. Last year when we were walking the VDLP/Sanabres we heard many accounts and saw the evidence on people’s arms of mosquito bites in the Xunta albergue in A Laxe.

 

[pilgrimjim]

Just finished the Invierno. Lalin, definitely. More choices. Nice city. Almost missed Laxe as I walked by.