[Gocamino] Camino costs?

[Tom Mahaffey]

I walked from SJPdP in 2006 and kept track of my expenses.  I spent 811.1
euro (not including my dinner and hotel in Santiago). This is almost exactly
30 euros per day for the 27 days I was on the Camino.  I did not scrimp at
all.  I stayed in hotels in Leon and Borgos and in pensions and hostels
after Samos (because of the crowding and I like to walk in the afternoon).
This includes phone cards, film, new socks, and some gifts.  One could
certainly do it more cheaply.

Tom


On 5/19/08, Rosina <blaroli at aol.com> wrote:
>
> A couple of years ago an Archconfraternity group made a study of the
> available information and concluded that the average cost of the Camino for
> pilgrims came to an Euro per kilometer walked.... presupposing that pilgrims
> would stay in the albergues. Today, an additional 3 Euros per day would have
> to be added to the estimate, since that has become the cost of the
> albergues. Everything else (food, supplies, etc., ) has, remarkably,
> remained the same.
> Those of us from the USA would need to translate the Euros estimate into
> U.S. dollars by a multiple of 1.70; this computation will be made easier in
> the summer?if, as expected, the Euro does rise?to $2.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rosina
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>
>
> I searched my emails, and found a thread from a year ago about Camino
> costs.  There seemed to be some consensus that one could get by,
> without scrimping too much, on 25 euros a day in Spain.  Does this
> still sound like an OK planning number?  I assume that would go up if
> you sometimes stayed in hotels.
>
> I have not heard a lot of cost data for France, I think that I have
> heard that it costs double what Spain costs.   Others have just said
> that it costs a lot more.
>
> Richard
>
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