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Description
This hostel is a fun, laid back, social hostel in the centre of San Pedro on beautiful Lake Atitlan. Famous for hosting the largest boat party in Central America in addition to pub crawls and themed events. We're super passionate about our work here and are looking to run the hostel with a group of fun volunteers who want to help create a welcoming and adventurous environment and who love to work hard and play harder.
We currently have 12 paid local staff. This includes 5 cleaners, 1 cook, 2 night guards, a gardener and 2 maintenance worker.
We typically have between 8-12 volunteers, so it always feels like we're a big family hanging out :)
We're looking for immediate help from someone who want to have fun and help us by documenting our events on social media. If you can commit to 3 weeks, and you want to come and enjoy all that our hostel has to offer, please send us a message.
Special Positions:
- Community service - min 4 weeks (basic Spanish required)
- Photographers - min 1 week
- Social Media Content Creators - min 3 weeks
- Artists who are interested in painting murals, or doing special projects.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Hospitality/Tourism
Interests
Cooking & food
Photography
Culture
Events & social
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
San Pedro is a very small town and we work directly with local businesses like Spanish schools, local restaurants, craft stores, and other hostels in town. The town is one big community and during your time here you will come to see why this place is so magical, the way all different people of all backgrounds live together in one loving community makes this a culturally rich experience!
Help
Your role would essentially be to have a great time and contribute to the good vibes. We have a full time local staff of cleaners, gardeners, and maintenance workers. So we'll never ask you to do any of that, outside of cleaning up after yourself :)
We ask volunteers to help 25 hours a week - which may include: event/party planning, painting projects (if you're artistic), showing guests around town, leading events/bar crawls and boat parties, and anything else you think would be fun to do with guests. Basically, having a good time and keeping the guests happy! We also have community service projects such as a lake cleanup, and helping at a local dog shelter. We want to party and be leaders in the community!
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
You'll be given a bed in the volunteer dorm which is a sturdy bunk bed with your own locker. Breakfast is included we serve pancakes with fruit, tea, and coffee every morning. We serve weekly family lunches, and our kitchen is available for you to use to cook your own meals at any time.
Additionally, benefits from all of our partners hostels and businesses will be available to you including free accommodation, free event entry, discounted tours and travel to multiple locations throughout Guatemala.
What else ...
We encourage our volunteers to travel to our partner hostels and check them out! We have partners in Antigua, El Paredon, Semuc Champey, and Flores. Or chill at the lake we work with hostels in different locations around the lake like Free Cerveza or Dream Boat. We also work with dog shelters and local schools and have volunteer shifts available to focus on these areas outside of the hostel.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
I'm a digital nomad myself. I work as a software engineer at a US based company. We have solid wifi and I'm working on building co-working space.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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Usually I don't party so much but the staff let me chose my shifts so I can chose the event that suits my mood.
The staff is realllly nice, the breakfast is more than ok and the accommodation is ok.
It's a good place if you want to party for cheap
The job is… read more
Special love to Harvey ♥️
JJ es muy trabajador y a la vez super paciente. Un humano muy lindo.
Gracias por siempre estar pendiente de cualquier necesidad del hostel.
working. Made friends for life with staff, guests and other volunteers and working the bar was so fun it barely felt like working at all! pancakes every morning and Emily meals kept me well fed. Can't wait to go back!
Estaba buscando una experiencia de permacultura por lo que decidí irme antes… read more
As an artist I cannot recommend this place enough. I spent two weeks and I loved every second of it. I was free to paint whatever I wanted, however I wanted, whenever I wanted, wherever I wanted. I ended up creating 4 Murals and I have to say there really is nothing better than painting with the view of the beautiful lake. All… read more
I absolutely loved it, the friendliness of the staff really made me feel welcome and it wasn't long until I felt like part of the team even though my volunteering as an artist differed from the usual barwork/reception volunteers.… read more
