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** Must be ok with big friendly dogs and responsible enough to help for a few hours helping to spring cleaning house and car, weeding and gardening without supervision. ***
**Availability is for the last part of August and possibly the first 2 weeks of September and may involve some house sitting as well**
Hello from beautiful Cairns!
We are a friendly, easy-going family that is seeking a couple of hardworking and trustworthy non-smoking travellers to help out with around 3 solid hours of cleaning/household work a day in exchange for up to 3 weeks of free accommodation and some basic food provided.
We have had a lot of family staying over recently and now the house, garden and car need a really good clean! Plus, our dog, cat and chicken may need some caring for on occasions whilst I'm away.
We normally like to get the jobs out of the way in the morning due to the tropical nature of Cairns. The kind of jobs could include spring cleaning house (scrubbing bathroom, mopping floors, washing walls, dusting, vacuuming, shampooing furniture etc), helping to looking after dogs (walking, cleaning, feeding, taking photos), cleaning and polishing cars, gurneying (pressure washing) paths and driveways, weeding, mowing, picking up dead leaves, washing windows, tidying/cleaning kitchen cupboards and general household cleaning.
Our house is air-conditioned and comfortable with friendly pets, internet, Netflix and a pool. There is a bus stop to town almost directly outside the door.
We really love meeting people from other countries and are really happy to welcome you and show you around the local area. But, please contact us only if you are clean with a great self-driven work ethic, are happy to get up early, be quiet after 10.30pm and can work unsupervised with initiative. I work full time and I'm busy enough with work and family and really don't like chasing people to do things, so I am happy for you to choose whatever you like from a long jobs list. But if you prefer to sleep past 9 am and party all night a backpacker hostel will be better suited to you. :)
Please let me know if this is you! 😊
Thank you for your interest, please contact me if interested for further details!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
Animal Care
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We love to show travellers around Cairns and often have people from other countries stay. Please treat the house like your own whilst you are here.
Help
Jobs would depend on your previous experience but mostly includes household cleaning, gardening (weeding and sweeping mostly) , gurneying,
walking, feeding, cleaning up after dogs, taking photos for their owners (I dog sit)
cleaning cars inside and out.
We really prefer people with a mature work ethic who will contribute to jobs in the morning when it is not raining and who we can trust to get on with things without us having to chase them. Please don't apply if you like to party all night and sleep all day or if you need a lot of direction to get on with doing things. With 4 kids, working and a lot of adopted dogs coming and going things are already busy enough without chasing people, thank you for your initiative and understanding :)
Thanks for looking, please contact me if interested for further details!
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
Double Bed room with air conditioning. x2
What else ...
We are 10 minutes from the city with a bus stop right outside. We can lend you a bike and show you around the beautiful natural sights of Cairns.
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
We have space on the street for your van.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
Holly
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She is so lovely and caring all the time with you, always asking if you need something; you feel like to be at home, living in a super friendly atmosphere, surrounding by cute dogs and interesting people from around the world.
Thanks so much for all your hospitality and kindness, and even for the… read more
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She is so lovely and caring all the time with you, always asking if you need something; you feel like to be at home, living in a super friendly atmosphere, surrounding by cute dogs and interesting people from around the world.
Thanks so much for all your hospitality and kindness, and even for the… read more
We stayed 4 nights with her and were the best! Kind and loving person ❤️
She constantly shows gratitude and care about us and we really enjoyed our time with her and helping to get things done in her house.
She is always helping people around and the best part was having so many and different dogs around.
We… read more
She is so helpful with everithiyng and so flexible with the working hours, to allow you to travell and visit other places around.
We hightly recommend this host!
He was polite, courteous, clean and my children loved him.
I didn't need to worry about him at all, he did his jobs without supervision and then made the most of his travel experience, going off in the… read more
