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Host rating
100 %
Last replied
25 Apr 2024
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Description
We're a laid-back, cozy hostel in Vienna, Austria. We've been around since 1968 and we are currently the best rated hostel in the city! Located just a 15 minutes walk from beautiful Schönbrunn Palace and just around the corner from famous shopping avenue Mariahilferstrasse.
We are a big international family coming from all around the world, speaking English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and more.. :) We take care about each other and we will take care about you.
Our hostel has a guest kitchen and laundry service, a beautiful garden, musical instruments and plenty of good vibes. :)
We offer you free accommodation, free laundry once a week, free bike rental, discount at the hostel bar, discounts on local restaurants and optional health insurance.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Over the years we have become really good friends and that is one of the reasons for the good atmosphere and team work at the reception. We care for each other, have fun together and it really feels like a big family! That is how you will be treated as well. Be part of our wonderful hostel tribe and get to know the hostel business from the inside, experience hospitality and meet people from all over the world and gather experience in one of Europe’s first and most famous hostels.
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
The workawayers will be expected to work around 30 hours per week supporting the cleaning team, the reception, the kitchen and the bar, help with renovation projects, organizing evening events with the guests, such as quiz nights, cooking and games with guests. Shifts will be arranged together with the other workawayers with some flexibility.
For a cozy get-together and getting to know other people and travelers.
If you are an easygoing, communicative, happy smiling person, that like traveling, meeting other people and want to visit Vienna, be well-organized and stay calm in stressful / tricky and unfamiliar situations, keep the overview and can act in a structured manner, but also take care and accept others, you will be very welcome!
There will also be nightshifts at the reception, you support the cleaning staff with preparing beds and cleaning, the breakfast-shift with cleaning and whashing the dishes, support the Bar-Shift in the evening and help with renovation projects in house and gardens.
We start different projects now and then - for this we need people who have their own ideas and who enjoy working together to implement them...
Payment is EUR 8,- for every working hour
Accommodation in dormitory rooms is for free
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
We are happy to help our workawayers to learn the basics of the local language.
Accommodation
A bed in a 4-bed dormitory (which you share with the other workawayers) . There is a kitchen in the common area, where you can prepare your own breakfast and meals. There are washing machines and dryers, which you can use.
What else ...
Take one of our bicycles (for free) and explore Vienna on the bike, visit Vienna's sights, visit the National Park (Lobau-Donau-Auen), go swimming in the Danube,... enjoy and feel free!
In Winter, Vienna's Christmas-markets are amazing!
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 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (8)
The communication and expectations were very clear from the beginning, and in case you had a question, there was always someone to help!
As a workawayer, I got a nice room which was shared with three other… read more
Since the moment I first went to the hostel (before I was a Workawayer) I loved the vibe. It has a nice energy and the people (staff and guests) are very friendly.
The hostel itself is big, three-building, and very beautiful! It has two gardens, one big… read more
We can definitely recommend Ludvig! Ludvig, all the best, you are always welcome!
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The communication and expectations were very clear from the beginning, and in case you had a question, there was always someone to help!
As a workawayer, I got a nice room which was shared with three other… read more
Since the moment I first went to the hostel (before I was a Workawayer) I loved the vibe. It has a nice energy and the people (staff and guests) are very friendly.
The hostel itself is big, three-building, and very beautiful! It has two gardens, one big… read more
We can definitely recommend Ludvig! Ludvig, all the best, you are always welcome!
Maddalena has been with us for over a year now, she is a very valuable key member of the reception and breakfast team!
I stayed in two different occasions, both on 2022, and every helper and every guest always get a great experience, and I… read more
That was my first time Workawaying and also my first time working in the hostel. It was a wonderful and forming experience! I am really grateful to Juan and Monika for giving me an opportunity to be the part of that amazing place! Thanks for them my social and… read more
The work conditions were absolutely fair and the communication wonderful and pretty easy.
I can absolutely recommend… read more
In the month he was with us, he implemented several projects on his own and helped us enormously in many areas. He works very precisely and very well organized, he is always available and likes to step in if someone is absent. He sees immediately what needs to be done, has good ideas of his own and… read more
Being surrounded by kind and proactive people means that now I can also call these traits of my personality. I learned about sharing, caring, helping… read more
Thank you very much, dear Ines, for your great support! All the best!
It was my first workaway experience and I think I'm quiet lucky to start in such an nice environment.
A week looked like this:
2-3 Days of work in the evening that means helping out at the bar and reception and common area, doing a activity (cooking,playing games… read more
