How Much Does the Via Podiensis Cost? Chemin du Puy | GR65 | Le Puy Camino

Is the Via Podiensis expensive? We share our full budget breakdown and ways you can save money hiking the GR65. We started the Via Podiensis (Le Puy Camino or Chemin du Puy) on August 7, 2023, spending 28 days walking in France, arriving at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port on September 3rd. From there, we continued on the Camino Frances, arriving in Santiago on September 29th.

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This is our first time walking the Via Podiensis and our second time on the Camino Frances. We have hiked several other Camino routes in Spain including the Camino Primitivo (May 2023), Camino de Invierno (March 2023), the Camino del Norte (July 2019), and the Camino Frances (September 2017). We packed ultralight bags for all of our journeys.

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on August 7th 2023 Lany and I walked from leou enet to San jeor on the Via podiensis we had one travel day from Leon to Le where we explored the city and then we spent 28 days walking on the gr65 route we didn’t do any of the offshoots so it was just 28 days to St Jean pet Park from there that’s a different budget we were on the Camino France all the way Santiago compostella in this video we’re going to talk about how much money we spent what we spent it on and a few ways you can maybe save a few dollars or get a more accurate budget if you want to walk the shamal D D from Lei the the Le Cino I’m Sean and I’m Lany and this is days we spend this is days we spend money we spent €3 3,05 for the two of us to spend 28 days on trail with a day at the beginning it was around1 EUR a day right around 50 EUR per person if you only have two minutes to watch this video we spent 50 per person and it took us about a month I don’t think the prices change that much every year but they do increase I was checking some of the prices of the jeets that we stayed at online and already some of them have added another Euro or two to all their expenses so then again these numbers are all from this year in 2023 so if you want to adjust for inflation maybe add a couple Euros to the total expense and we’re going to do this all in Euros we can convert it to dollars but again it fluctuates so much that it’s better to just think in Euros if you’re making your budget so we broke our expenses down into it looks like 10 categories the Quick List is jeets which is the accommodation dining groceries alcohol coffee Health junk food fun stuff fees and gifts and just straight up7 75% of our expenses came from those first two categories jeets and dining so our first and most expensive category was accommodation we spent € 1,254 on our jeets and Aku and parochial that was for 29 nights of accommodation so it works out to about €43 per day for both of us jets are the French equivalent of the Spanish alberes except there’s fewer people staying in them and you’re almost always going to be getting a single bed instead of a bunk bed not always but most likely which is partially why they’re more expensive so our cheapest Jeep was like 15 and our most expensive one was like where we had a private room but a shared bathroom and that was like 25 or 30 5 or 30 per person we’re saying yeah and in this category though we’re also counting we had two nights that we just sted a Booking.com apartment that we shared with our friends and we think we had one other night that we were in more of a hotel like place place where we had a private bathroom attached but they were roughly the same price as a Jeet equivalent so we just kind of bundled them together you’re going to get more for your money for a Jeet than you will for an alberg so even though the price looks a little like sticker shock it is a nicer experience the only way to save money in that category would be if you wanted to tent camp because it’s really popular to camp in France and that’s not what we do if you want a tent camp have a good time probably watch another video the reason that the jeets are also an interesting difference from the alberes is that most if not all jeets have an option or outright just include a meal dinner oftentimes dinner and breakfast in What’s called the Demi pension pricee we a lot of times would just pay a flat fee for our accommodation and dining and then we looked it up afterwards to kind of see what it would have been just for the bed and what would have been for the dining so our dining number is € 10003 for again 29 days so it’s roughly €35 for both of us every day I think 99% of the time we got the Demi pension so the places that at Demi pension in those dining categories often times if you broke up the price it was between 5 and €7 for breakfast and for dinner it was somewhere between 15 and €18 and that’s like our average price some of them were outliers there if you compare the price of dinner at a restaurant out the dinners at the jeets are actually a fairly good price because you’re getting three courses sometimes four courses you’re almost always getting wine with your meal and it’s homemade beautifully cooked food 95% of the time yeah we did get a lot of rice and we talked to other pilgrims and they got a lot of like traditional French cuisine like aligo and all the stuff and we’re like we didn’t get aligo one not even one time so you could eat out in restaurants but again it’s just rural southern France so sometimes this means you’re into town on a Sunday or a Monday nothing’s open so you have to eat the Sheep meal some sometimes you’re just there during the holiday and nothing is open like literally everything’s closed so you got to eat the Jeep meal and sometimes the towns just the restaurants that are serving dinner are also kind of expensive like we saw hamburgers on a menu in a town a very small town for €1 16 for just the hamburger not even including the wine or the drink or anything you want we kind of felt like the dinners were often times worth it big part of the experience you meet other pilgrims you talk to the owners and also sometimes you just really tired and you don’t want to walk another 500 M to go get food you could probably shave 5 to 10 EUR of your per day off by like going out and just having one thing and a wine but you’re only saving a few Euros a day and you might end up spending more so I will say breakfast if you’re a very very early hiker it’s a good idea because nothing’s going to really be open so fuel up with a coffee and a toast or if it’s a Sunday or a Monday when nothing’s open I personally found the breakfast to be a little bit like underwhelming cuz it was usually just one small cup of coffee or like a weird bowl and like toast for 6 or sevenos to me that’s not great so the thing though some of these places are giving you homemade jams and like and really nice butter some of them homemade their bread so some of the breakfast were like wow this is great and I’m a breakfast person I like to wake up and eat something before I hike sea does not and neither do our friends so like sea and our friends did not want to eat breakfast when they woke up before they walked so it’s really about what do you feel for breakfast and if you don’t want the breakfast and you don’t want to spend the money on that you have to tell the Jeet owner when you’re making your reservation you don’t want breakfast yeah Petty de otherwise I’ll assume you have breakfast with them so our next category we only spent €220 on groceries and that includes basically anything we bought to cook for lunches snacks and lany’s favorite meal of the day the picnic picque when you get some nice fine French cheese and you put it on your baguette and you get a really juicy tomato and you just magical that was a good way to save money we didn’t we didn’t dine out for lunch very often it was almost always um just a sandwich in a field or we would buy something quickly from Aerie yeah you go to an EP of which is like a small grocery store and you pick up some ingredients and you eat it right there sometimes they have some pre-made kesas or something cuz the the two or three times we ate out lunch we were like w that’s expensive my one biggest regret from the votanis is that I did not eat at enough B leres not enough pastries I should have eaten at at three B leres every single day we needed more pastries that were like the size of our face pastries as I like to call them every day from there the rest of our categories combined weren’t even as much as like dining so we spent €89 on alcohol again that’s anything that didn’t include with dinner so if we got beers out with friends or if we got a glass of wine during the day coffee we spent €100 again these are combined numbers so 50 and 50 that’s like two coffees a day for health we spent €73 what was that like oh I got a massage that’s included in there and I bought a lot of rehydration salt at thees because we had a heat wave and I was just sweating through everything and France doesn’t have like Gatorade very it’s not easy to find Gatorade so make sure you have a little budget for buying some things along the way maybe that’s ibuprofen maybe that’s you know bandages you’re going to spend some money on health junk food we could have easily included that in groceries or something but if we just bought a bunch of candy or something I kept that separate fun was any entrance fees for like we went to the Museum of the bet or if we paid to go to a cathedral I considered that extra it’s like a fun thing so for stuff we spent €35 almost all of that was to buy an openl knife like a cork screw so that we could open wines and cut meats and cheeses it was beautiful it was the open L1 and then we found out that when we went home in Spain that you can’t take a knife with over 6 cm blade and that one was like seven well because of course you can’t it’s a big knife like I’m not mad that they took it away at security way to go security but you might need to replace a ripped pair of pants or a shirt or your socks might wear out so budget a little bit for that so the last two categories we spent €1 on fees which was5 each to get our pilgrim passport in Lai and then we bought gifts we only spent seven on gifts cuz we don’t like our friends very much postcard I think it was to send a postcard so that’s a grand total of € 3,05 roughly € 10103 per day which is about 51 per person I feel like that number is lower than it could have been but a little higher than I wanted it to be we were expecting to spend more money in France than we would on a Camino in Spain just because we knew that the prices of things were higher in France dinner was way higher yeah but it’s definitely a lot higher than we were initially thinking it would be we walked across a beautiful part of Europe eating out every day getting groceries having wine we didn’t really scrim if we’ really tried communal jeets versus the nicer jeets like we could have usually made that number probably 35 or 4 € per day lower than that I think it be really tough you’d have to be back back tent camping to be under 30 it’s an extra 10 or 20 a day which for us was worth it for you if that’s too much then there there are ways to trim it down yeah we made the choice to stay more the jeets that offered food rather than the handful of jeets that had kitchens there’s not that many that do that so that you can cook and we just we wanted to eat the French food that’s why we’re in France again my only regret was I didn’t have enough French food food at the Banger and we had rice too many times for Jeep diners 3,000 sounds like so much money but it was two people for almost a month in the High season in France again this was August we got to S Johan in early September so this is like peak season peak rates for the jeets peak tourist season for the restaurants I think it was super worth it yeah it was a great time if you’re thinking of hiking the shaman D or the vianes go for it if you have any questions or comments or do you also walk this and have suggestions for future pilgrims please put that in the comments below we can’t wait to return and finish some of the offshoot routes that exist in that area it was lovely I’m Lany I’m Sean and that’s how much money we [Music] spend