Accommodation listing for ALBERGUE A QUEIMADA HOSTEL in Caldas de Reis on Portuguese.
Address: casco Urbano, HERRERIA 25-29, Caldas de Reis
Phone: 986 18 91 94
Website: http://www.albergueaqueimada.com/
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WARNING!!! THIS PLACE HAS BEDBUGS!!! Also the Laundry “service” is horrible. The lady takes your laundry, then washes it with no detergent, and destroy couple of your stuff by putting it into the dryer on a very high temperature. The place itself, location, barhrooms etc. are OK though it would be good for a one night stand if they had no bedbugs. Definitely something you don’t want to experience when you are at the end of a tiring day and just wanna sleep.
The water from the showers had no pressure. No proper kitchen, be aware that should you decide to go for dinner in the town they will lock you outside if you arrived after midnight. The worst part and if you read the many reviews (I wasn’t even aware of this until dealt with this person) is definitely the owner Antonio! He is truly a rude person, told my partner that if she was hungry “she could eat outside” (it was raining outside) as the common areas were closed and you can’t stay there but he also told us to hurry up as he would lock us past midnight… Then he proceeded to school us that this a hostel and you should just eat earlier, and we don’t know how the Camino works. Antonio is truly a person full of itself that doesn’t understand how to treat his pilgrims/his customers! This was definitely the worst hostel I’ve been on my 1 month doing the Camino and it’s because of this guy’s attitude! I recommend choosing another hostel for this town as it’s not okay to threat people like they were kids… I could pass the showers, the beds that make to much noise or the outside area still undergoing construction. But rude people is just something that is definitely not part of a good experience in this pilgrimage… so yeah that was my experience unfortunately the only hostel that I didn’t feel welcome or comfortable simply because of this person, I’m just glad that a lot of people had the same opinion as you can see by the many reviews always talking about the rudeness of this person. Avoid this one my friends!! Safe travels!
What makes an albergue good are the people in it, not the rooms, amenities, staff, etc. After 30km, you only want to rest, even on a stone. I was lucky that the day I stayed here, no one in the 20+ person room snored. I slept like a baby. The beds are spacious and good, as is the bathroom, although there is a problem with water pressure. The living room and kitchen are big, although you can't really prepare yourself a meal like in some other albergues. But hey, we can't have everything perfect all the time. That's not even the point in the end.
I do not recommend this accommodation, very unwilling people work here. As a group of pilgrims, we booked the albergue several days in advance. However, we had an accident and had to end our Camino and fly home. Despite several attempts at our initiative, the hostel was not willing to cancel the reservation free of charge. They didn't even reply to the message. Unfortunately, we blocked three beds for other pilgrims, despite the fact that we could not arrive.
The owners are very rude for now reason. We didn’t even decide to stay, tho we just walked 30 km! Very bad aura. I would definitely recommend walk 2 min straight and go to Albergue de peregrinos Timonel - where not only the host is very kind, but also for 2€ more we got a double private room and the kitchen also has an oven!
