Accommodations range from the best to the basic. Everything from deluxe international hotels, resorts and paradores (converted monasteries or castles) to pensions, hostels, apartments, wayside inns (albergues de carretera), refugios (in mountains), campgrounds (often within or just outside city limits) and budget hotels are available. Pensions and some of the modest accommodations are sometimes located in old, atmospheric apartments. Budget travelers willing to partake of the monastic life for a night or two can stay in working monasteries (but check in advance—some don't allow women).
