Albergue Casona da Ponte

The main floor bunk room is crammed and miserably hot despite having the one window in the room open all night. To make it worse, the window is on the edge of the patio with an incredibly bright light that they refused to turn off at night. (You could close the exterior shutter to block the light and die from the heat or allow for air flow and flood the room with light all night.) People stayed out on that patio drinking, smoking, and laughing after midnight, which was literally less than 6 feet away from the 3 end bunks. The nighttime front desk person was no help.

There are a few things to like about this place, but restful sleep, isn't it.

Not sure what others are having an issue with. Food comfortable bunks with cotton sheets and a cozy blanket for each bunk. Lockable cupboards for each bed with enough space for your backpack. Power socket for each bunk. Nice kitchen if you want to cook. Good showers which don’t have changing area inside but this is pretty rare in hostels and not much of a problem. Very close to everything in town, supermarket restaurants and banks. And very clean. So all in all a good place to stay.

The showers were barely lukewarm. And there is no place to privately undress for showers. There is a bench with hooks all the way across the room from the showers, so you have to undress and walk across to the showers, but the room opened directly into the hallway, allowing anyone to see in when someone enters or exits. There is not even a hook/barfor your towel near the shower.

The laundry room has no baskets or flat surfaces to put laundry, so if someone uses a machine but does not return to collect quickly, there is no place to put their clothes and use the moving. On dryer was out of commission all evening after a rainy day because someone never came to collect their clothes.

The albergue is clearly not new, as is stated everywhere. There is mould in the bathrooms. Almost none of the taps in the toilet work. The beds were kind of dirty. And the worst thing is that there is no airflow through the room. There is one tiny window in a big room filled with beds.

One more example to make the image complete: this is the only albergue where you don’t have to take your shoes off to enter the sleeping area, which makes the rooms dirty and stinky.

This is a very well laid out, modern and very clean albergue. Great view of the river from the front.

Clean, well organized, lockers for your packs, power at each bunk, kitchen space good with a fridge and microwave, great location. Recommend!

Bright, brand new, clean, spacious and comfortable, this place is worth it. The kitchen is reasonably well equipped. Recommend.

I would stay for another day here.

Good location. Clean. Modern. Very pleasant stay. And then the two massive dogs next door decided to bark at everyone and everything that caught their fancy all night long. The two loudest dogs in Spain. Repetido latir si no vecino distinto oímos de canes siempre despiertos. Pagamos el hospedaje con el sueño. Más nos valiéramos errar en montaña que morir de la suerte que allí morimos. Just sayin

Had a private room here. Nice room/bathrooms, very comfy. Bar open for coffee or breakfast in the morning.

Very good alberque: clean (super clean), good showers, cotton bed covers for every pelgrim, new building, small bar, beautiful view and most of all comfortable. Would stay here again.

July 2021…great, clean albergue. Showers are tricky but someone showed me how to use the modern nobs…cotton sheets, locker, outlets&lights…laundry room, lounge room w microwave, small fridge, sink and 4 burners. Currently there is a sign that kitchen is off limits due to the epidemic. Small bar on premises…would stay here again.

Nice big albergue but we were all crammed into one room to almost maximum capacity during Covid. Staff not very helpful or particularly bothered. Scalding hot showers but beautiful views.

Very modern looking albergue, my friend stayed in the private room and said how beautiful it was. Dorm rooms of 6 had individual power points and you’re given clean sheets and pillow case on arrival. All in all, a nice clean and modern albergue, that had a slight hotel feel to it

It is a very beautiful and clean. The attention is very good.

Not to mention the first Albergue on town! Nice firms with new, comfortable dorms where everyone gets their own charging point!