Looking for some creative and practical help around our hostel in old house located in center city of Vlora, Albania

Albania

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25/01/2022
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Hello Hard workers! we need immediately someone to work and help us in our hostel , we are building a bar and a beautiful garden in our very famous hostel in town, we need now for beginning of season 2021 , are you ready to be part of our team ? if so run to south Albania let do something together.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
we can take them to the beach museums all other small tourist villages around Vlora
Help
a artist create ideas for drawing decoration on our hostel , reception some painting light cleaning and some BBQ
Languages spoken
Greek: Fluent
English: Fluent
Albanian: Fluent
Accommodation
a nice dorm bed breakfast and some time cook together in our family
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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Accuracy of profile:
(4.0)

Cultural exchange:
(4.7)

Communication:
(4.3)

10/05/2021

Left by Workawayer (Antoine & Adrien) for host

We stayed for one month with Festim and his family, it was such a great experience, his has a lovely family, we were welcomed very nicely and the place is very cool ! The hostel just opened so we did construction work and some help with decoration and finishing touches, it was interesting and pretty easy. We learned a lot about Albanian culture… read more

(Excellent )

19/12/2019

Left by Workawayer (Emma) for host

Festim and his Family hostel was my first ever experience as a Workaway volunteer in lovely city here. I stayed over two weeks but would definitely come back. Festim as a host was very kind, communication with him was perfect and all issues solved quickly. I had a lot of freedom to pick my duties each day so I did some basic hostel work like… read more

(Excellent )

02/12/2019

Left by Workawayer (佳宁 JiaNing) for host

I am writing this feedback four months after my stay. First i want to thank and Festim and his lovely family for having for two weeks in their hostel, the kids are absolutely lovely with whom i spent most of time playing with when i was free. Festim is a great guy with a warm heart, he responded very quick after i applied and pick me up at the bus… read more station, sonila is a great person as well with a genius heart and hard working spirit.
Then, i want to say to the dear future travellers what to be expected during the stay. It was not like mentioned in the profile that the host offers the volunteers to take them to the beach/museum/other small villages around, none of them happened during my stay which might be a result of busy season in the summer. The hostel is an old house without airconditioning, so it was very hot in the summer especially in august. The work was pretty easy, just some light reception work and to make the beds, but the communication was ineffective with the host when i asked for the working schedule, as it is a small family run hostel there is no such thing as shift or working schedule, the host expected me to stay in the hostel every day during the week for more than 12 hours. Sometimes i stay in the hostel from the morning to 5 pm, as we were two volunteers at that time we took turns to perform this schedule that made up by ourselves. So it was a lot of free time but in the hostel, i counldnt do manby visit to the city or places around the city, as the host was busy with other things would not be there, which are way more than 25 hours per week. And the host never mention the weekend break if i dont ask as we didnt have any schedule, and i didnt ask for it cause the host family was so nice and i wanted to avoid conflict, so during my stay of twoo weeks i think i had only one day when i was totally free.
The positive side is, i met great people and travellers in the hostel as it would happen in any other hostel, during my long period of staying at the reception, with some of them we became good friends and stayed in touch.
So dear workawayers, if you decide to stay with this hostel please make sure you ask for the proper scedule and the working hour, otherwise if you dont mention it would become almost like a full time job.
Festim and sonila are planning to open a new hostel which is more modern and closer to the beach, best wishes to you and i hope everything goes perfect!

(Good )

02/12/2017

Left by host for Workawayer (Emma)

Emma helped us in this end of season ,
Sh was apsolutly fatastic very responsible and hard working, the only person I would leave the all place to her by herself and no worry , she would do the job perfectly without tell .
I really hope she wI'll be back.the door is open for her any time ,
I will wish her good luck on next volunteer job .
We… read more

(Excellent )

01/12/2017

Left by Workawayer (Emma) for host

It was pleasure to WorkAway for the first time with Festim and his Family in this lovely city. I stayed in a hostel a bit more than two weeks but would definitely come back. Festim as a host was very kind, communication with him was perfect and everything could have been solved quickly. I had a lot of freedom to pick my duties each day so I did… read more

(Excellent )

28/08/2017

Left by host for Workawayer (Sebastian)

we had Sebastian help us in our hostel,he is nice and quite guy, we did appreciated hes help, he was a hard worker and very responsible is a guy that never say no when is come for help even on hes time off ,i recommended Sebastian

(Very good )

16/08/2017

Left by Workawayer (Sebastian) for host

I stayed 3 weeks in Festim hostel. It was a really good experience, the job is really easy and you have a lot of free time! Festim and his family are really nice and friendly and he is really helpful with the guest and the volunteers. I totally recommend this place for any person!

(Excellent )

28/06/2017

Left by host for Workawayer (Emanuel)

I really appreciate Emanuels help ,
He did help me a lot , we did a lot of things on renovated some stuff, he really can give you a hand when you need it and he sure did with me and thank you .
I sure recumeded Emanuels !

(Excellent )

21/06/2017

Left by Workawayer (Emanuel) for host

I had a great time at Festim's hostel. He is a really nice guy, always trying to make you feel at home.
He took me to a boat trip, he showed me the city, made me feel comfortable all the time.
The help is not hard, usual duties of a hostel, cleaning, making the beds, interacting with the guests.
I totally recommend Festim as a host.

(Excellent )

28/06/2017

Left by host for Workawayer (Victoria Agustina)

Was a pleasure to host Victoria , she was an hard working and responsible for her work ,she was easy going and fit perfect in our family ,I really appreciate her help and wish her the best in her career,
I apsolutly recumeded Viky !

(Excellent )

25/06/2017

Left by Workawayer (Victoria Agustina) for host

I was more than three weeks in the Hostel with Festim and his family. This days were excelent! Festim, Zona and the children were cute and friendly all the time.
The work was very good, I did the breakfast and cleaned the hostel.
In the free time I did a lot of things with the guests and alone too, like rent a bike, go to the beach, visit Tirana… read more

(Excellent )

18/03/2017

Left by host for Workawayer (Sara & Javier)

Sara & Javier are a great couple young and a lot of hard worker, we had them helped us in our hostel, was a pleasure have them in here,and appreciated and thanked them for giving us a hand
we had a great time
we wish you succeeded in you study and hope we see you in 2017 summer
Festim & sonila

(Excellent )

06/03/2016

Left by host for Workawayer (Ezyê)

A big thanks for this energetic couple from Brasil Marcos & Ezyê that help us in our new hostel we really apparition it the help , and hope they will be coming back, they were hard worker and very entertaining we really miss you guys
Festim&Sonila

(Excellent )

11/01/2016

Left by Workawayer (Ezyê) for host

We stayed here for one month and it was very nice! The work was easy and we had great conversations with the owner Festjm that is very friendly and talkative!

The place is new and simple, organised and very well located to explore Vlore. Festjm is working hard to let the place better everyday. Almost every guest that we met there, came to stay… read more

(Excellent )

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