Planner
The Camino from Sarria in 5 stages
This is a calculated split, not the only possible one: it comes from the real route and the hostels on record at each stop.
By Cesar Rodriguez · updated
This split comes from a calculation, not from a fixed guess: it takes the real route between Sarria and Santiago de Compostela, and the hostels on record at each stop, with their bed count and opening season. Asked for 5 days, this is what comes out.
It isn't the traditional split. The classic Sarria–Santiago walk divides the stretch into five fixed days, with a 28.5 km stage into Arzúa that pilgrims and guidebooks alike single out as the longest and hardest of the five — more on the last 100 km and its crowds. This planner tries to keep any single day from ballooning past the rest, so this split doesn't stop in Arzúa at all: the last stop before it is Boente, a village with fewer beds, and no day here reaches that spike. It isn't a correction of the traditional split: it's an alternative. If you'd rather walk the classic day-by-day stages, that is still the tried-and-tested way to cover this stretch.
Day 1: 22.2 km. Day 2: 25.1 km, the longest stage. Day 3: 19.6 km. Day 4: 24.3 km. Day 5: 23.9 km, the 100 km Compostela threshold falls here
Day 1 · Sarria → Portomarín
22.2 km22.2 km walked so far, 92.9 km left.
Where to sleep
396 beds on record
- Pensión Manuel · 23 beds · +34 982545385
- Albergue PortoSantiago · 16 beds · +34 618 826 515
- Albergue Ferramenteiro · 130 beds · +34 982545362
- Albergue O´Mirador · 31 beds · +34 982545323
- Albergue Casa Banderas · 10 beds · +34 982545391; +34 607431277
- Albergue Ultreia · 23 beds · +34 982545067; +34 676607292
- Albergue El Caminante · 43 beds · +34 982545176
- Albergue Villamartín · 20 beds · +34 982545054
- Albergue Novo Porto · 22 beds · +34 982545277; +34 610436736
- Albergue Folgueira · 32 beds · +34 982545166; +34 659445651
- Albergue Casa Cruz · 16 beds · +34 982545140; +34 652204548
- Albergue Aqua · +34608921372
- Casa Marabillas · +34 982 18 90 86; +34 744 45 04 25
- Albergue Pons Minea · +34 6 1073 7995
- Albergue Pasiño a Pasiño · 30 beds · +34665667243
- Albergue de Peregrinos de Portomarín
- Albergue Xuvenil Benigno Quiroga
Day 2 · Portomarín → Palas de Rei
25.1 km47.3 km walked so far, 67.8 km left.
Where to sleep
493 beds on record, 172 public (no bookings)
- Albergue Xunta de Palas de Rei · 60 beds · +34 660396820
- Albergue Buen Camino · 38 beds · +34 982380233;+34 682634049
- Albergue Meson de Benito · 100 beds · +34 636 834 065
- Albergue Castro · 56 beds · +34 609080655
- Albergue Outeiro · 50 beds · +34 982380242; +34 630134357
- Albergue A Casina di Marcello · 17 beds · +34 640 723 903
- Hostel O Castelo · 10 beds · +34 618401130
- Albergue Zendoira · 50 beds · +34 608 490 075
- Albergue Valín Lama · +34 982 143 746
- Pensión Km 66
- Arenas Palas
- Albergue San Marcos · +34 982380711
- Albergue de Peregrinos Os Chacotes · 112 beds · +34 607481536
Day 3 · Palas de Rei → Boente
19.6 km66.9 km walked so far, 48.2 km left.
Where to sleep
110 beds on record
- Albergue Boente · 40 beds · +34 638 321 707
- Albergue Fuente Saleta · 30 beds · +34 981501853; +34 629146826
- Albergue El Alemán · 40 beds · +34 981 50 19 84
Day 4 · Boente → Santa Irene
24.3 km91.2 km walked so far, 23.9 km left.
Where to sleep
102 beds on record, 36 public (no bookings)
- Albergue Municipal de Santa Irene · 36 beds · +34 660 396 825
- Albergue Rural Astrar · 24 beds · +34 981511463; +34 608092820
- Albergue El Chalet · 12 beds · +34 659380723
- Albergue Andaina · 14 beds · +34 9 8150 2925
- Albergue The Way · +34 9 8150 2990
- Albergue Santa Irene
- Mar De Frisia · 16 beds · +34 622 471 762
Day 5 · Santa Irene → Santiago de Compostela
23.9 km115.1 km walked so far, 0.0 km left. This is where you cross the 100 km walking threshold that qualifies for the Compostela.
Where to sleep
573 beds on record, 177 public (no bookings)
- Albergue do Seminario Menor da Asunción · 177 beds · +34 881031768
- Albergue O Fogar de Teodomiro · 20 beds · +34 981582920;+34 699631592
- Albergue Mundoalbergue · 34 beds · +34 981588625; +34 674415600
- Loop INN Santiago de Compostela · +34 981 585 667
- Albergue The Last Stamp · 62 beds · +34 981 56 35 25
- Albergue Roots & Boots · 48 beds
- Albergue Azabache · 20 beds · +34 981071254
- Albergue La Estrella de Santiago · 24 beds · +34 617 882 529
- Albergue Porta Real · 24 beds · +34 633610114
- Albergue La Estación · 24 beds · +34 639 228 617
- Libredón · +34 981 57 65 20
- Albergue Compostela
- Albergue Blanco · +34 8 8197 6850
- Albergue Basquiños 45 · +34 6 6189 4536
- Hostal Airas Nunes
- Albergue para Peregrinos e Xente sen Recursos Xoán XXIII
- Hostel SCQ · +34 622 03 73 00
- Albergue Santos · 24 beds · +34 881 169 386
- SIXTOS Hostel · +34881024195
- Meiga Backpackers · 30 beds · +34 981 57 08 46
- Hospedería San Martín Pinario · +34981560282
- Pensión Santa Cruz
- La Credencial · 36 beds · +34 639 966 704
- Hostal Costa Azul
- ArArAt · +34 604 04 08 92
- Hostel SP 55 · +34 692 41 67 30
- Stellae Luscofusco
- Albergue Santiago KM-0 · 50 beds
- Thostel Albergue
- Habitaciones Oxford
- Hospedaje San Pelayo · +34 981565016
- O Códice
- O Patrón
Total: 115.1 km · 5 stages
Hostel data from OpenStreetMap (ODbL), for guidance only. Checked on 2026-08-26.
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