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If you are between jobs, a freelancer, or simply travelling full time and have simple cleaning experience and especially can keep clean after yourself this would be a great fit for you!
I have been living in Turkey for over 10 years, including Istanbul 6 years and Cappadocia 7 years. There are lots of local knowledge and communication gaps between Turkish people and foreigner. I am passionate in sharing my knowledge and reducing misunderstanding between cultures and present the true beautiful color of Turkey to the world!
My Turkish husband and his family run a guest house in Goreme, you are welcome to contribute to the guest house with maintaining the common area cleaning (we have full time staff, but just need random help here and there).
It is expected for you to help 5 hours a day and 5 days a week. In addition to a bed in a shared room, materials and kitchen for you to prepare meals for yourself, you will be gaining a great local experience with proper introduction from your host, me, who is fluent in both English and Turkish.
Please keep in mind, do not forget to clean after yourself, either in the room, the kitchen or bathroom as these areas are shared with other guests as well. We have one full time and one part time staff doing these tasks, you will be helping maintaining it. Also note, Goreme, the heart of Cappadocia, is in deed a traditional village, the place you will be staying have the best of internet, water, electric, etc that we are able to get in the village, but still, please expect the water/internet/electric may be cut from time to time and that is totally out of our control. It is part of the local experience living in this village.
My name is Nicole and I have been living in Turkey for over 10 years. Before that, I have lived in the U.S. for 11 years (San Francisco and New York), originally from the beautiful island of Taiwan.
Currently I am a hot air balloon pilot, licensed tour guide, CELTA certified English teacher, advanced level horse rider, and have this passion of introducing Turkey to the world!
Please feel free to ask me anything :)
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
In exchange, I'd love to introduce you Cappadocia local living, in addition to all the tourist attractions: hot air balloon ride, hiking, horse riding, ATV, etc...lots of culture exposure in a deeper level.
You will learn Turkish culture, make friends with the locals as well as with guests, do activities as the locals do (for example, having BBQ at one of the local's farm house or at the horse farm when the weather is suitable or having meals with me :)
Please be in touch only if you are passionated in keeping a place sparking clean and enjoy interacting with guests.
Help
If you are between jobs, a freelancer, or simply travelling full time,
Thank you so much for reading our profile :)
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Turkish: Fluent
Twi: Fluent
Chinese (Mandarin): Fluent
Spanish: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
I'd love to improve my Spanish, learn basic French, German, Russian. In exchange, I can teach you English or Mandarin Chinese or Turkish. I am a CELTA certificated English teacher.
Accommodation
A bed in a shared room, located in the center of Cappadocia, Turkey. You only need your suitcase as if you are checking in to a guest house. Please note, we may need you to change bed/room according to the need of our booking situation. The room is NOT private room, it will be shared room.
Please note there are many dogs and cats living around the property so this is only suitable for the person who is good with cats and dogs.
We have the best location, for balloon watching and hiking trails. In additoin, the bus stop is only 3 minutes away, or walk to town center is only 700 meter, around 7 to 10 minutes by walking.
What else ...
There are lots of trails to do hiking, this is free. Or other paid activities which I can help to arrange at cost price, such as horse riding, ATV ride, hot air balloon ride, Turkish bath, village cooking experience, etc...
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Hi, we would be happy to host idigital nomads but please have the right expection about internet access. It may be cut or slow from time to time, although we have obtained the best there is available for this village.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Average 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (15)
We spent 10 days volunteering at the hotel, and it was a wonderful experience. The location is just incredible. The rooftop terrace was our go-to spot, especially in the mornings, watching hot air balloons. If you're up for a genuine Turkish experience, this workaway is definitely worth… read more
Oktay, Nicole, Veysel, and Sultan brought me in like family. They provided groceries, I had a wonderful kitchen to cook in, so I spent no… read more
She is easy going, hard working and very helpfull. She is always welcome in our place and we strongly recommen her to any host.
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We spent 10 days volunteering at the hotel, and it was a wonderful experience. The location is just incredible. The rooftop terrace was our go-to spot, especially in the mornings, watching hot air balloons. If you're up for a genuine Turkish experience, this workaway is definitely worth… read more
Oktay, Nicole, Veysel, and Sultan brought me in like family. They provided groceries, I had a wonderful kitchen to cook in, so I spent no… read more
She is easy going, hard working and very helpfull. She is always welcome in our place and we strongly recommen her to any host.
The staff Sultan and Veysel are really kind.
Unfortunately and just saw Nicole once, Oktay, her husband was really kind, gave me a lot of tips about the places… read more
Would recommend them to any host and they are welcome anytime..
At the time I was there there was not a lot of work… read more
Thank you very much 🙏🏼
I'd recommend to host him and I will be happy to host him again.
We are lucky to host him and recommend him to any host..
She is very friendly, clean, considerate and flexible in working tasks. She is so good at greeting guests and all guests love her.
She is always happy to help with things when we are busy. Such a sweetheart.
In… read more
smiley, friendly, easy going, hard working, clean.
strongly recommend them to any host
It was a place where we experienced many new things beyond getting to know great people. Our host was very nice , kind and helpful people.
Highly recommended 👌🏻🧡
Gabriel is a civil engineer. both hard working, clean, polite and smiley people. they are the rare kind that does the job when its time, no reminding needed. we felt like a friend as soon as we met. Strongly recommend them to any host.
