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CORREOS retakes the baggage transport service between stages of the Camino de Santiago
Santiago de Compostela, March 23, 2018.- From today until October 31, CORREOS resumes its Paq Mochila service - the baggage transport service between accommodations on the Camino de Santiago - in the main Jacobean Routes so that pilgrims can perform their stages without having to carry all their belongings.
This service, which is provided all year round from O Cebreiro (Lugo) to Santiago, is again available in the rest of the Roads and Stages: on the French Way from Roncesvalles, on the English Way from Ferrol, on the Primitive Way from Oviedo , on the Portuguese Way from Tui, on the Sanabrés Way from Ourense, on the Fisterra and Muxia Way and, as a novelty, will begin to lend at any of the 35 stages of the Northern Way, from Irun to Santiago.
Pilgrims can contract this baggage transport service between accommodations on the Camino de Santiago on the website www.elcaminoconcorreos.com. There you will find a simple online recruitment form that will allow you to leave your Paq Mochila between the stages you choose to make. In addition, CORREOS has an email address - paqmochila@correos.com- and a phone number - 683440022 - where it also handles these hiring requests.
Once the reservation is made, CORREOS is in charge of organizing the daily collections of the luggage in the hostels, hostels and hotels that the pilgrim indicates, and of delivering them in the next accommodation that same day before 2:00 p.m. so that the pilgrims they can dispose of them at the end of the stage.
The service is provided every day of the week, from Monday to Sunday, including holidays, for a price of 5 euros for the transport of a single stage, and 4 euros / stage if more than five are hired.
Post office of attention to the pilgrim in Santiago
In addition to the transport service of backpacks between stages, CORREOS reopens from today its post office of attention to the pilgrim in Santiago, which will be operative from Monday to Sunday until October 31.
From this office, located 2 minutes from the Cathedral, in the Rúa do Franco, pilgrims can access the main services that the postal company puts at your disposal: sending bicycles and luggage or backpacks, a service of consignment to be able to leave the luggage and be able to enter the Cathedral, etc.
All these services can be consulted on the web page www.elcaminoconcorreos.com, where all the information useful for the pilgrim is described: the different roads and their stages, accommodations, interesting telephone numbers, etc.