PENSIÓN ALBERGUE MATIAS LOCANDA

I booked a private room with my boyfriend and we have a shared bathroom—fine. But there are no toilet seats in the men’s AND women’s room. I guess we’ll hold it 🤷‍♀️

Awful. They should be ashamed. Sure, it’s
only 15 € - but it is dark, smelly, and you share a bathroom/shower room with restaurant customers coming in. No effort at all by owners.

This is probably the worst Albergue in a month on the Camino I have stayed at.
A huge open dorm with close to 40 bunks. Two electrical outlets, dark no windows that can be opened. It smells bad. I wpaid for two nights but am very happy to have found a place for the second night.

It is a place of the Camino. The hostel has Pension with private rooms and also hostel with bunk beds for 12€. If you want disposable sheets 1€ extra. You have a laundry and dryer right next door which is very convenient. It has two entrances. The hostel itself or if you want they let you pass through the restaurant until 10 pm.
The hostel is beautiful with the walls painted with murals. It is very clean with hand paper and toilet paper at all times. The staff who
run it are new and very friendly. They helped with credentials, with the transport of backpacks to the next stages and we were even able to buy pilgrim shells. There is no kitchen to cook for you, but the restaurant and the pizzas are amazing. Very good....

This is by far the oddest albergue I ever stayed in on the whole Camino.

You enter through the Restaurant, go where they are making pizza... Hygiene???

All bunkbeds in one big room. Only windows in the roof, so no fresh air and almost no light. Artificial light not sufficient.
It smells odd and stale because it is an old building.

The washing mashine - used by the Restaurant staff!!! - is in the same room. No chance of sleeping during the day when it is working. The staff enter and leave without knocking or caring at all, sometimes with the kids.

You are supposed to let your wet clothes dry in the sleeping room.

Every customer of the Restaurant, pretending to go to the toilet, can access the albergue without notice!
Don't let your things unattended!
Also the people who stay in the private rooms above have to go through the dormitory to enter and leave.

This was the first albergue EVER, I searched actively for bedbugs. Because this all look so suspicious. (Found non, luckily.)
They are not offering disposable sheets.
Just showing you the room (before you pay. That's a plus.)

No kitchen, because they have a own restaurant.
Overcharged for only a bed without extra services.

I only stayed here, because I was the only one in the room. So hope for a quiet night.
Will see, because you can hear the rain on the roof and the sounds from the Restaurant.

Summary: Go somewhere else!

Good pizza
And nice shady patio to eat it on on a hot evening. But be aware the drinks are a bit pricey, it cost me 6.50 for a small glass of sangria, that’s half wine and half lemonade with ice. But only use as an albergue if everything else is full, I almost stayed there but it was like staying in a cave. Ok if no other choice but otherwise look for somewhere else.

I thought it was a mistake to have pizza in Spain but I was wrong. It’s delicious and the atmosphere, especially the patio, is lively and pretty.

The pizza we had here was just great! This place was so nice, and the hosts were so kind and accommodating.

Antonio is Awesome. Such an enthusiastic host. Super good Italian food. A must stop for Italian Pellegrino's.