A Workawayer is: a traveller who wants to give back to the communities and places they visit. Open to helping hosts and using the experience to learn and immerse in the local culture.
Create a great profile, we will verify you within 24 hours
Contact your favourite hosts, discuss your stay and what is expected in return
Discover new cultures, friends, places and skills
Are you a solo traveller or looking to share your adventures with someone else?
Sign up for a single profile
For people travelling individually. You can contact hosts just for yourself from a single profile.
Connect with a travel buddy
If you'd like to meet up with other travellers and share your journey, use the travel buddy feature and connect your profiles.
Sign up or upgrade to a couple profile
Designed for either friends, couples or those that always travel and apply to hosts together.
Connect with a travel buddy
If you are travelling on single accounts, you can connect them to apply to hosts together.
Travelling with kids
Sign up as two adults (couple account) or a single account for a single parent. Kids under 18 can be included in your account.
Travelling as a group
All group members must have a completed profile. Connect your accounts to contact hosts together.
Over 50,000 opportunities in more than 170 countries worldwide. Inspiration abounds!
Find a travel buddy to join you on your travel adventures.
Our membership fees are simple with no hidden costs. Simply join today and start connecting with hosts.
Your membership is valid everywhere and allows you to connect with hosts anywhere in the world.
Our personalised reference letters showcase the feedback left by your Workaway hosts.
Our team personally check every profile and provide advice. We're also travellers and hosts, here to help.
For every new Workawayer who joins our community, we plant a tree in one of our selected reforestation projects on their behalf.
To increase your chances of getting a response, we offer personal advice and tips to help you contact hosts, and a refund guarantee if you receive no response.
99.7% of Workawayers who send 5 or more applications in the first 30 days of membership, receive responses from hosts
Our friendly 24 hour support team will do our best to help where we can. Our team personally replied to 6338 support emails in the last 30 days.
9736 host updates/applications were personally reviewed by our team during the last 30 days.
144 feedback were manually reviewed by our team in the last 24 hours. (There are 658576 feedback in total on the website!)
Workaway is primarily for cultural exchange or learning new skills and a way of making new friends.
If a host is looking for help with a business or business activity, they may offer payment to ensure that they are meeting the minimum wage requirements of their country.
Remember you will need the correct visa for any country that you visit.
Where a host is offering payment this will be clearly marked on their profile.
Here at Workaway safety is our top priority. We strive to provide all the resources for our community members to feel as safe as possible during their Workaway trips.
For more details about our safety measures please read our notes on safety: https://www.workaway.info/en/info/safety
You will also find some more advice and recommendation on how to travel safely as a workawayer: https://www.workaway.info/en/info/safety/traveladvice
As a community based on learning, sharing and exploring new ways of life, what makes Workaway work is the spirit and dedication of our members in providing positive cultural exchange experiences.
We've been around since 2002 and are proud of the trust and respect that has developed in our community ever since!
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658,634 reviews on Workaway
Workaway is the AirBnB of working holidays, with placements reviewed by past visitors.
If you dream of swapping the nine-to-five for more fulfilling work overseas… Workaway has placements across the globe.
