Do l get up and start packing? 😂

[DesTinney]

It’s 6:38 am, in a dorm of 20 beds, all full, but no one is awake or moving. Do I start to get ready?
We all have to check out by 8:30

Usually the majority of people are up getting breakfast?
I don’t want to be ‘that guy’

 

[Clodagh Benning]

Do it, everyone’s waiting for someone else to move first! Unless the weather is so bad that everyone has decided to pause today?

 

[Peterexpatkiwi]

Well the appropriate compromise is (as always) to get up, move your things out of the dorm as quietly as possible, and pack elsewhere. Then you are not 'that guy'.

At 6:38 I would still have another 52 minutes to sleep for an 8.30 checkout, I would not be thrilled if you woke me.

Those who practically roll out of bed and start walking would have even longer

 

[J Willhaus]

Usually you check out by 8 am, not 8:30. No checkout. Just leave.

 

[Aptrail]

I serve as a hospi every year. At Grañón during the summer we ask people to stay in bed until 6 out of consideration for others and the fact that the dorm is an open room with wood floors. Inevitably some get up early, wake others at 5:15 -- 5:30. It just happens. Last summer in Arrés (on the Camino Arragones) my fellow hospi and I talked about this often. He has done about a dozen Caminos and I have done 4. We were thinking that one thing that one *should* learn from a Camino experience is to be considerate. And, you are being just that. I liked Peter's compromise. Get up quietly, gather things, then pack and prepare in a different room. What I do now is pack my pack the night before I go to sleep, sometimes leave it outside the dorm room. So in the AM I just need to gather a few things and make a quiet exit. We all learn different lessons. But, I think that for me -- as a very indiividualistic American -- a major learning is about being a responsible and respectful part of a community.

 

[J Willhaus]

I get up at 5:30 as a hospi and a pilgrim and usually at home. As a hospi, I am putting on the coffee and starting breakfast. As a pilgrim, I put everything in the middle of my sleeping bag and take it to the common room along with my pack. I pack up and then read for 2 hours waiting on my husband and walking partner to finally appear from his beauty sleep.

BTW: If you are already on your phone in bed, you're likely already disturbing people.

 

[Roland49]

It’s 6:38 am, in a dorm of 20 beds, all full, but no one is awake or moving. Do I start to get ready?
We all have to check out by 8:30

Usually the majority of people are up getting breakfast?
I don’t want to be ‘that guy’

There a simple solution: one has to get up first!
Be that one! All other will follow!

I can only walk in summer-break, so 5:30 for me.

 

[dbeatriceb]

Best thing for early risers to do is
To quietly grab their stuff, take it out of the dorm room, and pack elsewhere. Because no matter how quiet one tries to be in the dorm room, it’s always too noisy and wakes people. If you organize your pack the night before, it will be easy to pick it plus sleeping bag up and remove them from the room.

 

[isawtman]

I serve as a hospi every year. At Grañón during the summer we ask people to stay in bed until 6 out of consideration for others and the fact that the dorm is an open room with wood floors.

I stayed at Granon and I said I needed a spot near the bathroom. So they gave me a spot in a room that was ground level that had a bathroom next door. I think there were people purposely in that room so they could get up early and leave. That room doesn't have the wooden floors where you would wake up everyone when you leave.

 

[Clodagh Benning]

I’d love to know what happened here this morning?
I should have put the caveat on my earlier response that it relied completely on you being packed already @DesTinney ! That is important.
It was also be useful to note that at the tome
Of writing I was on my morning commute, and counting down the days to the next installment of my ongoing Camino so longing to be waking up, or even being woken, in a dorm, and not on a packed train

 

[Robo]

I would wait until others start stirring.
Though if I knew I was planning an early start the next day, I would be prepared.
So I could just pick up my sleeping bag and pack and tip toe out of the room.

Having said that, I had an amusing early morning 'observation', staying in the wonderful Gaucelmo Donativo in Rabanal last year.

(My timings might not be accurate)

I forget the actual time of sunrise, but maybe 7:30 am.
I think I woke at about 6:30 am.
There was a dim light from a street light outside.

I relaxed in the warmth of my sleeping bag with no great urge to leave.
I was looking forward to being up at the Cruz de Ferro, but thought I might let the dawn rush subside first.

There would be plenty of people starting out early from Foncebadon.
I had left from there 3 times in the past aiming to hit the Cruz at dawn.

Nothing stirred in the dorm.

Then I noticed a slight shadow of a movement, and sensed more than saw. the room to the bathroom open. Then another...........

Maybe I dozed off for a few minutes?

The pre-dawn twilight then provided a little more illumination, but not much.

A few other people were stirring, silently, with no visible lights.
A tiny bit of light showed as the bathroom door opened a few times.
But there was not a sound.

I thought about getting up, but I was in no rush.
Maybe I dozed a few more minutes?

Now there were many people stirring, and I could just make out in the dim light, as they got their gear ready to depart. But there was not a sound or a light.......... It was like "the night before Christmas"

I was curious. Maybe it was 7:00 or 7:15 am by now.
Just how many people were still asleep in this dorm of perhaps 20?

It looked like only 2 !

But no.
Knees drawn up to provide a light proof 'tent' they were both maybe looking at their phones under the covers.

I felt like saying "maybe we just turn on the lights folks"
But of course I didn't.
Why disturb the silence..........

At some point the light came on.
I was in no rush that day, as I only planned to walk to El Acebo.

But I lay there thinking...............

"How nice and considerate are all these people"?
And it warmed my heart.

 

[Paladina]

As an early riser, I can't understand why others would willingly miss the best part of the morning by lounging in bed. I prefer to leave at 5.a.m, which is why I often camp out so as not to disturb the sleepyheads.

 

[isawtman]

As an early riser, I can't understand why others would willingly miss the best part of the morning by lounging in bed. I prefer to leave at 5.a.m, which is why I often camp out so as not to disturb the sleepyheads.

I prefer only to hike around an hour in the dark. Since I hiked in Sept/Oct that means it doesn't get light out until 8 to 8:30 am. So, 5 am is a bit early for me. Maybe in the middle of the summer.