>>1205412>hutsSo there are a bunch of different types of hut. They can be anything from a vandalised shed to an all singing-all dancing alpine hut that will serve you dinner and breakfast. The free huts are super hit and miss, most of the time my tent was comfier. There are some exception, one or two are stunning free huts, however, in peak time they can fill up early. I made the mistake of pushing on an extra 5 miles to get to one I was desperate to stay in only to find it full. The paid huts are brilliant, the food is ok but comes in decent portions and often with free wine. The breakfasts are pretty crap. These huts ran from like 20-45 Euros a night. You can just sleep there, or sleep and have dinner, or sleep, have dinner, and breakfast. More often than not I would arrive planning only to sleep, but then the temptation would win and I'd fork out for full board.
>websiteJust get a copy of the Cicerone guide, it's great, their website publishes any updates since the last edition, but for the majority of stuff it was on point. I used Gaia GPS on my phone for navigation which was super, super handy, especially in the Basque country where we had two days of 1 meter visibility in the fog. Other than that navigation was very simple. There have been a few sneaky reroutes which are a bit lame as they seem to be designed to get you to stay in a hut, however, if you get a good .gpx file it'll have the old ""real"" trail so you can just follow that.
