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Host rating
80 %
Last replied
15 Apr 2024
Feedback
25
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Host offers payment
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Description
Your hosts, Celia and Nicholas, have been married for 40 years with 2 grown-up kids; and have been on Salt Spring for 20 years. We opened our Gallery B&B 15 years ago with 2 units - a suite attached to the house and a cabin, and we require full time help through the busy season to keep up with the changeovers. For the b&b work: the cleaning, laundry, ironing, and stocking of the suite and cabin, we pay an hourly wage at the BC minimum wage rate.
We also provide accommodation and meals in exchange for some house and garden work.
We are looking for a single woman who can stay in the house spare room (with a mostly private bathroom) or for a couple who can stay in our glamp-site which has a safari tent with queen bed, light and heat, a kitchen with a good stove, bathhouse with sink and shower and an outhouse. We are particularly looking for a couple who might like to stay through the summer June July & August.
Our place is within walking distance of the main village on the island, Ganges and a beach nearby. We have a large garden and orchard
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
This is a very good place to practice your English - we are both serious readers and there are lots of books in the house. The island is a beautiful place to explore, lots of outdoor activities and young people, concerts, cafes and bookstores.
Host offers payment in line with the minimum wage
This host offers accommodation and payment.
Host has indicated that they will pay at least the minimum hourly wage of their country for each hour worked and that accommodation will also be provided. They are asking for help with a business or business activity. Contact the host directly via the site messenger for more information and details about the wage provided. Any arrangements should be agreed in advance with your host.
Help
We need help with the bed and breakfast changeovers for 2 units (suite, cabin) preparing the accommodation for new guests. Cleaning, laundry, ironing and stocking. Also house cleaning and garden maintenance.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Accommodation
We provide a very comfortable spare room with private bathroom, and tasty nutritious meals with our workawayers.
What else ...
Salt Spring is a thriving island between Vancouver and Victoria with lots of music, arts and crafts and good food. Also lots of hiking, kayaking, swimming in the ocean and many lakes. There is a good bus system so volunteers can get around without a car.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (13)
The work in the B&B and around the house and garden was always fun to do. Besides, I had a lot of freedom in scheduling the tasks. That way, it barely felt… read more
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The work in the B&B and around the house and garden was always fun to do. Besides, I had a lot of freedom in scheduling the tasks. That way, it barely felt… read more
After work I explored the… read more
Celia and Nick were incredibly kind, open-minded, cultured and respectful people (as well as great cooks!). They always made sure I didn't work too much and gave me plenty of free time to… read more
Celia and Nick are very lovely hosts they took me for a hike, to Victoria for a day trip and explored the… read more
It was a pleasure to share their life, to meet their sweet family, their interesting friends and to feel that you belong to their wonderful world!
They treat you with so much respect and attention that it's actually a gift to be with them.
I will encourage only… read more
My stay was an short-term arrangement because another host cancled my stay, but thanks Celia and Nick i had a wonderful time on Salt Spring!
Their exerted to give me a lot of several opportunities for my free time.
But at last my time with them where much more fun, their are very… read more
