Camino Del Norte 2025

[astratt]

HI! I am so excited I found this forum! It has been so informative so far. I am walking part of the Norte route in 2025 with my husband. We will be starting in Santander and are looking at starting the end of May. Those of you who have experience, do you think this is too early as a far as acquiring open accommodations in the albergues?

 

[Tincatinker]

Gronze is a reliable source for opening dates: https://www.gronze.com/etapa/santander/santillana-mar

 

[billC]

I started the Norte at Santander in late May 2024. I booked the first few days about a month out. Then booked a couple days ahead for the rest of my route to Oviedo where it was possible.

 

[trecile]

May I suggest that you don't start your Camino from Santander on the official route. Walking along the coast is much more interesting. There are a couple of towns where you can stop to spend the night. I spent the night in Liencres at the hotel Calas de Liencres, which was very nice. It was about a 27 km day, but if you start farther north than I did (I spent the night near the train station) it would be few km shorter. Another popular place to spend the night is Soto de la Marina which is closer to Santander.

You can see the blue dotted line of the official Camino on this map from the Wise Pilgrim app, and the red dotted line is the Senda Litoral along the coast.




You might also be interested in this thread:

Thread 'Coastal alternatives to the Norte's asphalt'

Jul 25, 2017

To explain -- I walked the Norte in 2007 and suffered mightily with all the pavement. In fact, I found my foot in a walking cast for about 4 months afterwards due to the pounding. Tarsal tunnel is what they called it.

I went back to the Norte this year and got a lot of forum help in finding coastal alternatives. For me one of the biggest Norte frustrations was that it is a Camino that is frequently within a few kms of beautiful coastlines but the arrows keep you pounding the pavement on the side of the national highway.

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[KiwiJohn]

Trecile, you're a treasure for information. Thank you!

 

[astratt]

Gronze is a reliable source for opening dates: https://www.gronze.com/etapa/santander/santillana-mar

Thank you!