Workaway reviews, feedback and ratings - page 4

Adam has been a wonderful, deep-thinking volunteer to have on program. They always provided great conversational topics both on and off the work site, and would complete any task assigned to them. We'd love to have Adam back on the program in the future :)

It was nice staying with Doriana🙂 Pleasant person : super auto-ironic, playful, and genuinely fun to be around. I found her energy really entertaining, but also meaningful, because we had a lot of real conversations. Her art is beautiful : amazing paintings, and the whole house is full of creative objects and collections 🎨 you get the feeling of living inside an artistic world. The place itself is great too: a big property surrounded by nature, and just a short walk from the seaside 🌊 which made everything feel calm and inspiring. She was also very kind and available in everyday life — sometimes driving me to the city or picking me up, introducing me to people in the village, and just being very open socially. We often went for walks by the sea and talked about all kinds of things.😄😊 The food was another highlight — very healthy, tasty, and always adapted to me. She would ask what and how much I wanted to eat each time, which I really appreciated 🍲 She also paid attention to comfort in the house (heating, bedding, room, etc.), so I always felt taken care of. About the work: it’s flexible and quite collaborative. She has many ideas and ongoing projects, and she shares them with you openly, asking what you feel more drawn to. She’s genuinely open to suggestions and actually appreciates new ideas, which makes the experience feel more like creating something together rather than just following instructions 🤝 Overall, I’d recommend this place to someone who enjoys creativity, freedom, and a more human, unconventional experience ✨

Dariush is a well-traveled, experienced photographer who brought great energy to our team. Unfortunately, we didn't get many chances to connect deeply due to scheduling. Still, I highly recommend him—professional and skilled!

A wonderful time with Elier, Soledad and Facundo!! The place is nice, the job isn't feeling like working for a person who loves to do art and craft and has many projects in mind and the family is adorable!! It's so nice to have been part of that family for a while 🙏 When you arrive in Kurileufu, you don't want to leave then... and when you have finally left, you keep wonderful memories in mind ✨ The room is cosy, the food is great and you share so many peculiar moments with family and friends without counting your time and appreciate never ending shared conversations 🫶 I (Camille) was there solo/by my own, but there is no difference for couples: wonderful shared time! Muchas Gracias, Elier & Soledad, mi tiempo con ustedes fue un tiempo que nunca olvidaré 🙏🫶

Ha sido un placer enorme conocer y compartir con Joaquín todas estas semanas. Se integro perfectamente al lugar que le correspondía. Siempre de buen humor su compañía era agradable y su ayuda con las diferentes tareas fue muy importante y valuable. Espero cruzarme con el en otro momento, saludos grandes hermano!

Sweet sweet Maya, Our son still dreams of her everyday. Everything was so easy with Maya, she really became a friend! She will come back InshaAllah 💕🤗

Very Nice persons boths, very carefull with the rest of the group, good to work, enjoining the place ☺️. We really enjoy this time with this couple. Great team !!

Annabelle et Eloie sont restées 20 jours a la ferme, et quels supers moment nous avons passés ensemble ! Elles sont joyeuses, enthousiastes, rigolotes et super conviviales: les gens du village en on un très bon souvenir et leur départ a été vecu comme une séparation !!! Si vous avez la possibilité de rencontrer Annabelle et Eloie, vous êtes chanceux.se !!!!

Very Nice person, very carefull with the rest of the group, good to work, enjoining the place ☺️

Very Nice person, very carefull with the rest of the group, good to work, enjoining the place ☺️. We has really a Big time here !

We had the most amazing 10 day experience with Bart and Lieve! They are an amazing couple that made us feel right at home. Their house is beautiful with such interesting history and we had an amazing private room and bathroom that was all newly renovated. The work was very fair with jobs such as cleaning the attic, yard clean up, gardening, and cleaning the windows. Every morning Lieve made us a delicious fresh breakfast of fruit, yogurt and oats which was the perfect way to start our day. All of their cooking was to die for and it is safe to say we were well fed! They also let us borrow their bikes which made exploring Ghent very easy. We also got to know their two children Relinde and Reginald who were also just as welcoming! We even got a city tour of Ghent with Relinde and got to know Reginalds children which was a lot of fun. We really just felt like part of the family and for that we are super appreciative. Thank you guys for everything we hope to be back one day to see you all! Lots of love Bree and Aiden. felt so lucky to stay here and also get to know there two kids Relinde

Very good experience with boths !! Really a Big couple and actitud for everything.. que have a Nice time together no only working, also sharing the place and life

Very Nice person, very carefull with the rest of the group, good to work, enjoining the place ☺️. Edo was always close to local people and cultura. Also was a very fun experience share his culture and views !

Very Nice person, very carefull with the rest of the group, good to work, enjoining the place ☺️

Very Nice persons boths, very carefull with the rest of the group, good to work, enjoining the place ☺️

Very Nice persons, boths very funy and carefull with the rest of the group, good to work, enjoining the place ☺️

Very Nice person, very carefull with the rest of the group, good to work, enjoining the place ☺️.

I spent a month here in February, which was a good and an interesting experience altogether. For the next possible workawayers I feel a responsibility to write down my experience unfiltered because it seems like none of the previous workawayers wrote down what I had here. 

Needless to say the nature here is amazing, had no idea Marche was such a beautiful place. During my stay, they provided me my own room and three meals a day in a large building where everyone live together. If you love animals, especially dogs, this is the place. They have six beautiful cane corso breed dogs. Be careful, once they know you, they will viciously attack you for PETS, but also keep in mind that they are guard dogs and they really don’t like black clothing. In a month I helped people in various tasks. I did run errands and collect donated foods with Nadja and really enjoyed her companionship, made a few English classes with the children and it was refreshing to see their interest in topic, one can say they really are brilliant kids, I helped around in the kitchen and cooked meals with Ayça and Dino, attended in taichi classes from world masters, made pizza for the first time in my life with il Maestro and worked in the garden, helped around in carrying goods and packages around the farm, worked together with Alessia on feeding cows and horses. Also need to add, everyone helped me a lot with improving my Italian. So why the two stars then? Well, a few aspects of my stay here was very interesting least to say. First of all, before coming here Ashanti and Rafaello have a long meeting with you and tell you anything you can potentially face here beforehand but nothing feels like living there. I thought they would be more friendly or “pace e bene” as they say but it was a different story. They have a lot of rules, I mean a lot. Most of them in my opinion are just there to make the life harder for everyone but I was a guest so, I tried to live in their manners as much as I can. If you slip and do something out of their set of rules, some of them sees it appropriate to give you an hour of lecture/scolding on how the world works based on rules and if you don’t obey it you should leave. To be specific, there is work here 7 days of week, 8 hours a day. One day I was 5 minutes late to my duty of washing dishes 8 in the morning and I took a warm shower after 3 days of not being able to take it. Which turned out to be a massive problem. You need to warm water over a wood stove or ask permission to have warm shower then someone to turns on the heating or not (switch is in your room btw). I was confronted in my room as if I committed a crime, even though I offered to compensate for my energy use and get back to work, instead they asked if I don’t live like them I need to pay 40eur for half a day of working/staying and 70 eur for no working or simply leave asap. Another problem is that you need to ask someone to give you food. I mean, food is there on the table, almost all of them are donated, you know because you carried them in the morning from eurospin, but someone comes to give you whatever you would like to have. I took a cookie out of a bag without thinking and it became an another massive problem. The same day I literally cooked for them, somehow the hygiene is not a problem when I cook Turkish dumplings or prepare salads but it becomes a problem when I touch a single cookie. Rules are rules and If you slip, they ask you to leave immediately, in the middle of the night. I think there were a few other things too but I think you get the feeling of it. 

I also write this review as a friendly suggestion to them, I think they are trying to make something good for everyone there but they don’t see workaway as a volunteering and cultural exchange opportunity. It appears like “work” in workaway is misleading for some of them. This is a platform mainly for cultural exchange, it is not for cheap labor and most of all, it is not for imposing illogical strict rules on people. It is fair to ask people to live like you but no need to turn a farm stay into a military compound. So, i give two for all the good people and things I had there but some of the things I faced here were kind of dehumanizing and uncalled for. 

 After all thanks for the experience. Pace e bene, Ekim. :))

I had an amazing time at Sarah and Davids farm! I would always come back and do it all over again. Their dog Louie is the best. He really loves belly scratches :) They are so lovely people and just really nice to live with. I learned so many new things. Each morning we were milking the goats and every few days we made some cheese out of the milk. The cheese tastes really really good! We also harvested the honey from the bees. That was so interesting The place to stay was perfect. You have your own little studio. Each evening you can see the kangaroos on the property next to them. Sarah and David were really the best hosts you can think of. They helped you out with everything they could and made you feel really welcome. Thanks for having me!

Isabella and Niko are very welcoming and kind people, we felt at home in their house and the accomodation was excellent, we really liked the work and we learned a lot of new things about their adorable sheep, gardening and more, it was hard at times but always very fulfilling. We had good conversations and Isabella cooked some really good food and we shared some recipes too, they are both easygoing and Niko can talk to you about anything and has always some interesting insights to share. We had enough time to explore the area and to relax in their property. We already miss them and all the animals, from Callisto to those free spirits the ducks!