Spain visa itinerary ???

[melooon]

Hi!
Would anyone be able to share what their visa itinerary for a Spain visa application looked like? I'm filling it out right now and I'm having trouble figuring out the formatting of it all. I'll be doing the camino de santiago frances and i'll be on the trail for 38 days and i'm not sure if I should book all my hostels in advance and put them in the itinerary or is that not required by the visa office? I've been trying to contact the embassies and consulates in Canada but they haven't been very helpful. I would appreciate any info on this.

 

[Vacajoe]

What country’s passport will you be traveling under?

 

[melooon]

Canadian travel document

 

[Peterexpatkiwi]

@melooon, welcome to the forum.
Canadian citizens do not need a visa for travel to countries within the Schengen area, unless you intend to stay more than 90 days.
Therefore you do not need a visa - unless of course you intend to travel more within the Schengen Zone and the camino is just part of that.

Edited to add: or by "Canadian travel document" do you mean the blue Canadian travel document that you get as a permanent resident?

 

[melooon]

@melooon, welcome to the forum.
Canadian citizens do not need a visa for travel to countries within the Schengen area, unless you intend to stay more than 90 days.
Therefore you do not need a visa - unless of course you intend to travel more within the Schengen Zone and the camino is just part of that.

Hi Peter
I’m not a Canadian citizen but I have a Canadian travel document and I definitely need a visa to travel to Spain so I’m just wondering what that visas itinerary process looked like for other people.

 

[Kathor1]

@melooon, not a direct answer to your question but helpful I hope. Forum members from South Africa must have a visa for Camino trips of the kind that you plan. They often get a letter from the South African Camino association (Confraternity of Saint James of South Africa) and attach it to their visa application. Canada has a similar association - perhaps they offer this service also to their members and can even provide specific information about how to present itinerary and accommodation.

PS: I do understand that you do not have a Canadian passport and that Spain requires a visa for the kind of travel document issued by Canada that you will use for your trip.

 

[melooon]

@melooon, welcome to the forum.
Canadian citizens do not need a visa for travel to countries within the Schengen area, unless you intend to stay more than 90 days.
Therefore you do not need a visa - unless of course you intend to travel more within the Schengen Zone and the camino is just part of that.

Edited to add: or by "Canadian travel document" do you mean the blue Canadian travel document that you get as a permanent resident?

Yes that one

 

[melooon]

@melooon, not a direct answer to your question but helpful I hope. Forum members from South Africa must have a visa for Camino trips of the kind that you plan. They often get a letter from the South African Camino association (Confraternity of Saint James of South Africa) and attach it to their visa application. Canada has a similar association - perhaps they offer this service also to their members and can even provide specific information about how to present itinerary and accommodation.

PS: I do understand that you do not have a Canadian passport and that Spain requires a visa for the kind of travel document issued by Canada that you will use for your trip.

Thank youu

 

[Peterexpatkiwi]

Hi Peter
I’m not a Canadian citizen but I have a Canadian travel document and I definitely need a visa to travel to Spain so I’m just wondering what that visas itinerary process looked like for other people.

Sorry, missed this: you posted at the same time as I was editing my original post.
I have no personal experience, but variants on this question have come up before.

I presume you're referring to this:
(The italics are mine)

For tourism, please submit confirmed hotel reservations, stating name, address and telephone number of the hotel, including confirmation number and/or proof of group travel participation,etc

Source:

https://www.exteriores.gob.es/Embajadas/ottawa/en/ServiciosConsulares/Paginas/Consular/Visados-Schengen.aspx

If you don't receive any other useful responses and want to follow the suggestion from @Kathor1 above you could contact:

Canadian Company of Pilgrims
P.O. Box 36025, Victoria,
BC V9A 7J5

Alternatively, you could do what others have suggested in the past in similar situations, which is to book everything after Pamplona via booking.com. Ensure you have free cancellation. It's quick and easy to print that booking.com list out for the visa process.

Then once you get to Pamplona cancel the rest of those reservations if desired. (As you probably know it's generally a good idea to reserve those first few days from SJPDP to Pamplona) . Just use the standard stages from whichever guidebook or website you utilised to decide on your 38-day time frame.

Buen Camino

 

[MinaKamina]

Sorry, missed this: you posted at the same time as I was editing my original post.
I have no personal experience, but variants on this question have come up before.

I presume you're referring to this:
(The italics are mine)

For tourism, please submit confirmed hotel reservations, stating name, address and telephone number of the hotel, including confirmation number and/or proof of group travel participation,etc

Source:

https://www.exteriores.gob.es/Embajadas/ottawa/en/ServiciosConsulares/Paginas/Consular/Visados-Schengen.aspx

If you don't receive any other useful responses and want to follow the suggestion from @Kathor1 above you could contact:

Canadian Company of Pilgrims
P.O. Box 36025, Victoria,
BC V9A 7J5

Alternatively, you could do what others have suggested in the past in similar situations, which is to book everything after Pamplona via booking.com. Ensure you have free cancellation. It's quick and easy to print that booking.com list out for the visa process.

Then once you get to Pamplona cancel the rest of those reservations if desired. (As you probably know it's generally a good idea to reserve those first few days from SJPDP to Pamplona) . Just use the standard stages from whichever guidebook or website you utilised to decide on your 38-day time frame.

Buen Camino

St Jean PdP is in France.
If @melooon needs a specific visa for Spain, wouldn't the same apply for a stay in France in that case? Does Schengen apply or not?
If the visa is for Spain alone and it is not a Schengen visa, it is not valid for France.

How will you travel from Canada to the CF, @melooon ? Via Paris or Madrid?

 

[Kathor1]

Shouldn’t we just trust @melooon that he knows that he needs to apply for a visa and at the appropriate consulate or embassy in Canada?

He does not have (or cannot use) a passport for nationals of any of the countries that are listed under the Schengen visa waiver program.

He has a travel document that entitles him to travel from Canada to Schengen countries and to other EU countries. He wants to know how others have explained itinerary and accommodation in their visa application when travelling to go on Camino in either France or Spain or both.