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Hola Workawayers!
We’re a community hostel located in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. Although we are still early in our hostel days, we are known for our creative, relaxed, and inclusive atmosphere. It is important to us that our guests and volunteers not only enjoy the very close beaches, waterfalls, and dozens of restaurants but the kind and colorful vibe of our hostel as well!
We are currently looking for volunteers with great ideas and passion for developing an environment and activities that travelers will love. Our ideal volunteer is someone who is self-motivated, is customer service oriented, and has skills to help our team and hostel learn and grow.
If you are interested in business and entrepreneurship, this is a great opportunity to see and learn the successes and challenges of a new business endeavor. You can learn/practice your Spanish and seek to understand more about local ways of living. We hope volunteers can create a warm and welcoming space for all.
Typical volunteer tasks include housekeeping, reception, laundry, general maintenance, gardening/landscaping, painting, murals, social media, photography, and website development. We also have a yoga space and are seeking yoga instructors and folks with related training such as in meditation and healing. We pride ourselves on providing excellent service to our guests - experience in hospitality and being bilingual is a major plus!
As we are trying to create a community where everyone feels at home, we ask that volunteers stay at least 1 month but provide preference to those that can stay longer. Volunteers are asked to work 5 days a week. Each shift is 5 hours or 6 hours including a 1 hour break (5 hours actively working). You will have 2 days off a week in a row. Days off generally stay the same week to week. We ask for a minimum stay of 4 weeks.
Your perks as a volunteer include vegetarian food, shared dorm-style apartment for housing, on-site laundry, discounts on tours and opportunities to connect with people from all over the world.
If this sounds like a good fit, please tell us a bit about yourself and your skills. We look forward to hearing from you!
Pura Vida!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will have a shared room with other volunteers with vegetarian food included. You will have the chance to learn Spanish with our local staff if you take the time to talk to them. In your free time you can enjoy the beauties of Costa Rica.
Help
We are looking for a little bit everything, if you have knowledge cleaning, gardening, contruction, web designer, painting, diy project, etc. You will work 5h a day, 5 days a week
Languages spoken
English: Intermediate
Spanish: Intermediate
Accommodation
Shared room and shared bathroom. Dorm-style room will be provide of a maximum 5 person. Towels and bedding are provided with machine laundry on-site.
There is a shared kitchen for all volunteers and we provide plenty of vegetarian food to be prepared by yourself.
What else ...
We work hard to provide our guests with a calm, relaxing environment where they can connect with nature and themselves. We have a lot of wildlife that we share this space with and a regularly visited by monkeys, guatusas, macaws, toucans, iguanas and even occasionally a sloth. This is not a party hostel.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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I met tons of… read more
Would definitely go… read more
The manager has changed since I left so I can't speak on future experiences of management.
There are two ticos working there (not 7 as the profile says). In the morning, I made breakfast with Carla (a tica) and she was so friendly and a great opportunity to speak Spanish. She… read more
He had no issues with the tasks involved and helped us out with cleaning, housekeeping, gardening and reception.
He integrated well as part of the team here and helped created a happy and welcoming environment for guests… read more
It's in walking distance of two beautiful beaches, and compared to other hostels there is a much higher value here.
modern kitchen / utensils.
-spices
-Workout area with yoga matts and weights
-breakfast
She had no problems with the given tasks which were varied but mainly involved maintaining all the hostel areas clean and tidy, helping guests… read more
The work: The shifts are from 7am-12pm, 12pm-5pm, and 5pm-10pm. We were assigned different shifts per day depending on the day with two consecutive days off per week. The work included: helping with breakfast,… read more
