Accommodation listing for Albergue Municipal de Peregrinos in Hornillos del Camino on Frances.
Address: Calle San Roman, 5, Hornillos del Camino
Phone: 689 78 46 81
Website: http://hornillosalbergue.es/
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The hostal is very cozy, the kind that gives you the real Camino de Santiago experience. It was offered a dinner for a small price that gave us opportunity to interact with other pilgrims in a cozy, home like, environment. Rooms and bathrooms clean and the hosteler accommodate some food for the morning. Real Camino experience.
We arrived at around 4 PM to this municipal Albergue. It has been a great experience all around. There are clean beds, hot showers, laundry, reasonable price, friendly atmosphere, available kitchen, nearby food store and bars, etc. Overall great vibes, and enriching conversation with Inma, the host. We have been using the Municipal Albergues along The Camino and found them to be the best choice so far. Great place to rest and connect with other pilgrims!!
After walking the Camino 3 times I was excited to come back and volunteer at this albergue for a month. I worked out a plan with Inma here that I would come during Summer 2024. From the very beginning I received mixed messages about what my responsibilities were. She told me on Day One that I should relax and not start working until the next day. The next morning as she was showing me my responsibilities she concluded that I had not come as a true volunteer but as a "tourist" which was an insult. I was not shown clearly what my daily responsibilities were and yet she would expect me to have done things that she did not communicate. She highly criticized me for a light being left on overnight. On Day Four I was alone in the morning taking care of the trash and couldn't replace the trash bags because she didn't leave me the key to the cupboard. Inma returned and then berated me for neglecting to put out new trash bags. I explained that I had no access to the clean trash bags. She continued to insult me and kept asking, "What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?". I told her that after 4 days of mixed messages and insults that I was leaving. She told me that she had already "hired" my replacement who was arriving in 3 days. I witnessed her treating the guests with the same insulting manner and giving them mixed messages. For example she would tell one guest that they could use the kitchen and then tell the next guest that they couldn't. I am a retired professional and at my own expense I flew across the ocean to do whatever would be needed at this albergue for a month. I came to help her in any way possible and to serve the peregrinos. I can't recommend this albergue under the current management as a place to come either as a pilgrim or as a volunteer.
The woman closed the kitchen at 6 pm and doesn't even mention so at the check in. Then she stresses about people cooking in it and that her work finishes at 6.. as if it's our problem. If you want a bed sheet you need to pay 1€ extra! The first words the woman actually talked to me was "13€". Very unfriendly. Terrible
The lady who recieved us was very kind. We travel with our dog, and she was so kind to accept us with her, wich is very rare. The dinner was very delicious!
