As far as shared accommodation goes, I was pretty nervous. If you’re doing the Camino, it’s perfect. A few doors down from the passport office and next door to the place that sends your bag ahead for you. I needed to take advantage of this due to a knee injury and it worked great. I left my bag at the hostel and it miraculously appeared at Roncesvalles. Fernando is a work horse and makes smoothies all day with an open window bar to the street. Well worth the try.
What exceeded my expectations was the offer of preparing something for me when he learned I was leaving early due to my knee injury. At 5:50 am all I had to do was turn the stove on and my coffee was ready to go and for $5 euros I had a package including a banana, 2 apples, a bag or “power prunes”, corn bread and a sandwich. This got me through the whole day.
I may one day return!