Albergue O Fervello

Albergue is very nice and amazing, all is prepared for your comfort, perfect equipped, beds with curtains, big space, quiet, dinning room, big and full equipped kitchen, garden. All you need you will find here - especially food - you can buy here a lot of different food to prepare dinner and breakfast, not necessary to bring it in backpack. Very friendly and wellcomming. Excellent last night on Camino

Physically, it’s very nice: clean beds with real mattresses. It has a spacious and homely kitchen and dining room which is conducive to social mixing at dinner and great chats. However you were subject to an array of strange rules: no showers past 7pm, leave your shoes outside below a big storage cabin (meaning your feat got wet walking back if it was rainy) and a ridiculous check out time of 7:45am! Additionally wherever you went the receptionist was hovering like a surveillance drone, ready to tell you to use a table mat when eating, to hang up your Mac outside, to stay away from the storage cabin. It wasn’t her fault (her boss obviously tyrannised her with a neurotic list of dos and don’ts).

By all means come here but expect to feel like you’re in the beginning of one of those films about a traveler staying with a cult. Felt a little surprised to leave the next morning having not been stitched into a human centipede, or offered up to dark and terrible gods the night before.