Showers on the Camino Frances ??

[salazar]

Hi All,

I have been reading on the foum and some of the books I have as well as some of the great blogs here. And I still have not really found an answer to my questions about showers.

Are the showers always one big open room for men and women shared? Or are there seperate stalls with shower curtains or doors? Or a mix of everything?

I saw in a post that you should take a sarong to hang up as a shower curtain - okay silly question - but how to you hang that up? With string and suction cups or use something to clip it to a beam? I camped last year in Southern Spain and while the showers were great there - the doors were pretty see through. It was not a problem, but sometimes a man would stop and linger too long while you showered

But I guess the guys on the Camino will be too tired to look!! Anyway, any advice information would be great. I am going to start around 7 September in St. Jean Pied au Port and walk to Fisterra.

I have added a bathing suit and a sarong to my list but just can't figure out what i have to take to hang up the sarong. Also it will take another 700g in my bag!~!

thank you

[Covey]

The showers in the albergues are normally individual cubicles with/without doors. Occasionally there are male only or female only shower rooms and sometimes there are just 3 - 5 shower cubicles in a room and it is first come first served. In one of the albergues in Zubiri, it is just 5 shower heads in a single sex room.

The facilities in the private albergues are usually better because the private albergues are a more recent innovation when the numbers walking the Camino began to swamp the existing "official" albergues.

I have always suggested a sarong for Da Ladies after seeing a number of female pilgrims using them. They seem to be a very useful multi function item. Just drape it over the door frame if the door is missing!!

Do not rely on the men not looking!! We might not be in a fit state to do much about anything, but we can still appreciate a well turned ankle!!!

700g seems a lot! The sarong needs to be a very light cotton material and the swimming cozzy...............

[Leslie]

But I guess the guys on the Camino will be too tired to look!!

I met my fiancee on the camino 5 yrs ago.

But, seriously there is less aggravation like that on the camino than i would have come across anywhere else.

[Kay]

Do the showers have warm water?

[Covey]

If you get to the albergue early enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If not, then prepare for some tepid to cold showers.