Workaway reviews, feedback and ratings

We stayed at Sonya's for 10 days over the Christmas holidays, to accompany and care for Bruno and Molly while Sonya was away visiting family. We are very thankful to be able to pass Christmas in a peaceful and quiet village surrounded by vineyards, hills and nature. Bruno is a very sweet boy and really loves our company. He is always curious about what we were up to and would follow along whenever we were out in the garden chopping wood, sweeping leaves or just soaking in some sunshine. Molly is very chatty and will let you know exactly what she wants. She is pretty independent but also enjoyed spending time with us. The 4 of us spent most of the day together, either keeping warm in the kitchen by the wood stove or sleeping in the same room/bed together! It was definitely very cosy and tranquil, a great respite from city life. As we arrived a few days earlier, we had about 3-4 days with Sonya before her flight. Sonya has a very calming presence, is very open minded, active, and has lots of interesting life stories and experiences to share. She made dinner for us a few times and always had time for conversation over a cup of tea before we each proceeded on with our day and activities. We are very glad to have met Sonya and share a precious little moment in time. Thank you for the trust in us to look after your house, Bruno and Molly!

E stato bellissimo essere con Mario :) abbiamo mangiato un sacco di buone cose dal giardino e Mario cucina molto bene! E stato un vero piacere discutere con lui, è interessato a molte cose, conosce un sacco di film e libri e ha molto umorismo. Ero da lui con un altra ragazza che ho incontrata qua e Mario ci ha fatto visitare il volcano, abbiamo fatto Kayak intorno a Strombolicchio e abbiamo visto qualche film insieme. Grazie per tutto!

We spent two weeks here between Christmas and New Year’s. To begin with, the place is located in the middle of a valley rich in history and incredible waterfalls to explore. Not only is the property charming and very well cared for, but it also offers spaces that cater to many different interests: from the vegetable garden to yoga, medicinal plants and mushrooms, cooking, and art, including a very well-stocked library that encourages you to satisfy any curiosity on these topics. Gianna and Sergio have created a beautiful project, as well as a wonderful family, and they are genuinely happy to share it with those who come. Our experience is a great example: when we arrived, the family had just been in an accident, but despite that they welcomed us with open arms and included us in every holiday dinner, making us truly feel at home. Thank you for letting us experience our first Christmas away from home in such a warm, family-like environment! The friends and artists who are residents at the lodge and whom you can meet every day in the workshop further enrich the experience and the opportunities for exchange. The accommodation is also excellent: a private little house with all the comforts (private bathroom, shower, and kitchen), plus a very sweet guard dog who watched over us the entire time. Finally, the work was not very demanding, considering that there were no guests at that time and it was mostly simple maintenance. Gianna and Sergio are cosmopolitan people who enjoy hearing different languages spoken and sharing knowledge. It’s a pity we didn’t have time to make pizza in the wood-fired oven—but that will be for next time!

Enzo was an excellent volunteer. He was very kind, easy to get along with, and a very hard worker. He always completed his tasks, keep his accommodation clean, and he took care of my cat Cali as if she were his. He even got her a Christmas gift. I would highly recommend Enzo as a volunteer. He is welcome back here anytime!

I spent three weeks on the farm and really enjoyed my time there. The tasks were varied, and our personal preferences were always taken into account, so we could choose from the daily tasks what suited us best, which I really appreciated. I learned many new skills and truly valued both the development process of the projects and my own personal growth during this time. Eyal showed us his ideas and vision at the beginning, but he was also open to our suggestions and happy to include them. After that, we were often able to work independently, which I found very rewarding. Overall, I had three great weeks and can highly recommend the farm.

If you are thinking about visiting this NGO I can definitely recommend it! I spent a month here in Bujagali, and it became a very special place for me. It is a small, community-based project, deeply connected to village life. The atmosphere feels warm and familiar more like a home than an organisation. Julius and Mama Flo welcomed me in a very open and kind way. I always felt respected, supported and treated well. The private room was comfortable, the food was good, and living there gave me a real sense of everyday life in a Ugandan village. During my stay I helped with developing their Instagram page, YouTube channel and creating a short video for the foundation. At the same time, there are many ways to contribute here, depending on what you bring and what the community needs at the moment. This place is best for volunteers who are flexible, independent and open-hearted. you can have a very meaningful and rewarding experience here. I am very grateful for the time I spent here and for the people I met. Thank you to Julius, Mama Flo, Shamim, My boys Crew and all the kids and everyone at the Foundation for making me feel part of the community. I hope to see you again one day.

What a beautiful and amazing souls!! Eveline and Alex are such heart warming, open-minded, hard working, reliable and flexible couple. They are literally really happy and comfortable people to be around with. 😊no words are enough to describe how much they contributed for the farm, how amazing they are and how much we heve missed them. (and writing this feedback makes us miss them more and tears are about to drop from our eyes!) They are very interested in organic rice farming, so we had a class about SRI methodology that we have been practicing here, and had a small class and hands-on about making fertilizer and compost. So, even we couldn’t do planting together with them, they learnt almost all the stages of growing organic rice. Eveline and Alex took initiative to start working from the early morning in the fields, released the ducks and chicken, collected the eggs, etc. so it was so easy for other volunteers coming later than them to follow and what to do in the morning. (thanks to all the October team, we finished weeding so quickly and as scheduled!) Other than that, they helped Captain in demolishing an old house, collecting the scrap woods, pulling out the nails one by one from the scrap woods, and cleaning the fish pond(!), collecting the fallen leaves, etc. Also, when it was raining, they were still trying to find out what they can do for the farm! They cleaned the kitchen, communal area, shelves, washing the dishes and cooking tools, making the things tidy, preparing the rooms for the upcoming events, and so on. Eveline is very curious about cooking, so she often came to the kitchen after the morning work and helped Kakak and Chikako almost everyday. And she is such a mood maker!;) Alex is really good at filming with drone and GoPro! He made lots of filming and photos of the daily beautiful moments but we could have never captured before..! His works will help us in many ways from making the presentation slides to the posts/reels for our social medias. Thanks to this beautiful, kind and respectful couple, not only with us but also with the volunteers at that time are very close each other, caring each other, and we really felt like a great big family. And we miss them a lot! We really hope and recommend to any Workaway hosts to welcome them in your great project! We are 100% sure that you will love them a lot as we do! 😊 Thank you so much again Eveline and Alex. We think of you guys a lot, miss you guys a lot! Safe journey and all the best to your travel ahead and your life ahead! Don’t forget to makan enough always! :D See you soon!

We’ve spent about 1 and a half month at Kiki&Mo’s, and the experience was waaay more than we could have imagined! From olive harvests to hikes to helping their friends to housesitting to yummy creative dinners to help with animals, loooots of breads and cakes, friends’ visits and good conversations, cold dips, doggies and cats cuddles, laughter, beach trips, and so many more! We learnt a lot about olives, oils, and now we know the real deal ;) Kiki&Mo are a young pasisonte couple that care about everyone/everything around them so much and it showed us what the real community is - be kind, be responsive, help people around you..and remember to laugh!! we also got a chance to help their friend with festival preps and met lots of other incredible people from the area and shared beautiful moments with other workawayers as well. The house is beautiful, Kiki puts her magic into decorating it, and you can tell there’s lots of love flowing around. Mo is always making sure you have everything you need/desire as we stayed in the guest house. The guest house is super cute and cozy, with a beautiful handbuilt metal/wooden kitchen. the nature there is incredibly fascinating, the silence and the contrast of the strong winds that blow in the area remind you of the strength of nature and surprises like river coming back after strong rains is something that really makes you alive, especially after dipping in it :) We are grateful for everything <3 Knee squish to you with lots of love, Anya&Ant!!

I originally planned to stay one week with Tom and Loïs, ended up staying ten days, leaving to stay with a friend and came back for ten days more. I guess that says enough.

One of the best experiences of my life. Jonathan is an incredible host: very kind, respectful, and extremely accommodating. The work required is fair, well explained, and totally achievable. The atmosphere at the ranch is amazing, and the people there are truly incredible as well. I felt welcomed and respected from the very first day. I highly recommend this Workaway experience.

It was great spending time with Joseph, his family and the children in the school. They made as feel very comfortable from the beginning. The experience teaching the kids at school was also amazing, and very rich. We wish you all the best in all your proyects guys.

Émilie and Joël stayed with us for about three weeks, and during that time Alex and I had a lot of work outside the farm. We were able to fully trust them with the daily activities of the farm: feeding and caring for the animals, helping improve spaces for new animals, and supporting with the coffee harvest. They are both very independent, proactive, and quickly understood the needs of the farm without needing constant guidance. Émilie is also an amazing cook, which was a big plus! We truly appreciated their energy, autonomy, and willingness to help. Their way of traveling is inspiring, and we feel very grateful to have shared this time with them. We wish them an incredible journey around the world and hope to cross paths again. Any host who welcomes them will be just as thankful as we are.

Lina! She is such a reliable, organized, respectful, open-minded, kind and calm person, and is always ready to give her hands! When we welcomed her on our farm, it was a bit less season as she mentioned and as it was Ramadhan month. So, she helped us in taking care of the garden and chicken and ducks, in post-harvest process such as drying the harvested rice, milling and packaging them, and so on. Even we couldn’t prepare the chance for her to learn how to plant, grow and take care of the organic rice, she was helping us a lot in those tasks and kept clean and tidy in the kitchen everyday. We are so glad that we could celebrate Hari Raya together and introduce lots of our traditional foods and how to make them such as shredding many coconuts to prepare Lemang, one of the malay traditional foods. We really hope she would come back here sometime in the future and in the active season, and we would love to share more time with her! Also, we hope you/the workaway hosts can welcome here to your amazing projects and have great time with her! We really recommend! Thank you so much again, Lina! We miss you a lot and often remember you! :D Come back anytime and we are looking forward to welcoming you again! 😊 Terima kasih!

It was a fantastic experience. I felt at home, and the people were friendly and helpful. They are very clear, precise, and kind. The atmosphere was truly welcoming. The accommodation was excellent, and the tasks weren't too demanding. The city is beautiful and full of things to discover. I hope to return in the future.

Flor was great to have around and helped with everything we needed. She did all tasks really well, always with a positive attitude and good energy. Super reliable, easygoing, and a pleasure to host. We’d definitely recommend her to whole Workaway communities around the world.

Cory has been an amazing workawayer to host, and we honestly couldn’t have asked for more. He helped us across multiple areas of the house and property... From painting and cleaning to general upkeep... always with great energy, responsibility, and attention to detail. Beyond the practical work, Cory brought something really special with him... his DJ setup and an incredible sense of music. He created beautiful musical moments here, setting up great vibes and sharing his talent generously with everyone around. He is easygoing, respectful, creative, and very reliable. Anyone hosting Cory would be lucky...We highly, genuinely recommend him to the entire Workaway community around the world.

To say that this stay surpassed my expectations would be an understatement still. Claire and Michiel are a lovely, energetic and in all the right ways crazy couple with a dream which requires from them an unreal amount of dedication, work and love. For me, having been a tiny part of this undertaking was an experience I will without a doubt cherish for a lifetime! Ask them about how they got to know each other (ask both, independently, they tell fascinating perspectives on this story), about their ups and downs with the project, about their times with the kids, their aspirations and hardships alike - I know only very few people who would let you in on their lives like that. Maybe it‘s a German thing to be used to closed-off people - Claire and Michiel are quite the contrary. The amount of trust they put into strangers they only got to know briefly before and the amount of love and care they show to include everyone and make them feel welcome is amazing. Now this is a Workaway and there are of course some expectations too, there may be conflicts, doubts or problems, misunderstandings and shortcomings, fatigue, boredom or missed expectations. That‘s normal, and to expect otherwise would be naive - but rest assured that you can talk to Claire and Michel, or usually the other Workawayers too, openly and find solutions and ways through. What I am trying to tell you is: If you are like me, try not to worry too much. I had strong doubts going at first (this was my first Workaway) - they were unfounded. To Claire and Michiel and the girls too: You know this already - I thoroughly enjoyed my stay and am looking forward to another time! Love, Ben ❤️

They arrived when we needed them most. Gonzalo is a fantastic woodworker, but not only that! Leonie helped us with clearing the land and building the seat. They have incredible energy and are excellent cooks!! I recommend them 10,000%!

I spend two weeks volunteering at Jorge’s place in Guarazoca in the beginning of 2026. The job was varied: painting, care of the chickens and rabbit, cooking, picking physalis, preparing bananas for dehydration and talking to customers and selling the beautiful art & crafts in his shop ‘Artesanía and Sueños’. Jorge was really warm and welcoming - he introduced me to some of his friends and it was a wonderful experience to meet some of the local Herreños and feel like a part of the community while I was there. I worked with three other volunteers, all really friendly and helpful people - on my last day we made pizza in the wood fired oven and enjoyed a final dinner together. The area of Guarazoca has a northern charm with a lot of hiking paths and the Mirador de Peña of César Monrique with stunning views over the ‘Golfo’ just 500m from the house. Thank you, Jorge, for being such a great, welcoming host, for opening your home to me and sharing your Canarian lifestyle in nature with us all. It was an unforgettable experience.

I came across this last-minute Workaway and it turned out to be an incredible stroke of luck. From the very first moment, Harold and Anya made us feel completely at home. They are not only incredibly kind, but also warm, understanding, and full of fun. They are great communicators, which made it easy to talk openly and resolve any issue. Working together never felt like work at all—on the contrary, it was always enjoyable. In the evenings, we would play Skyjo or Hitster together and share lots of laughter. I had an amazing time. I will always carry in my heart the moments spent in their peaceful little corner of nature. The house, right by the lake, is surrounded by breathtaking scenery. Even though the weather wasn’t always on our side, I truly couldn’t have asked for a better experience 💛