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.