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Explore the genuine Puglia's culture while helping at our Hostel!

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The experience

We offer you the opportunity to explore Lecce and Salento while you help us with for a few hours a week. Tasks includes: activities with guests, managing reservations at reception, helping with cleaning and making the beds in the rooms. Applicants must speak English and preferably some Italian but this is not essential. In return you will get free accommodation in a spacious mixed dorm room, free breakfast, free use of the kitchen, and discount

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Night Shift: Help with night shift tasks and create a relaxing environment for guests.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Housekeeping: Help with changing the bed linens and general housekeeping.

Additional fee required

Amount: € 25 One time

Fee pays for: Donation to project

Description: We require you to book, the first night only, managing your data as a guest, transmitting the data to the authorities, and assigning your bed in the hostel. PLEASE NOTE: the price starts from 25€ but may vary accordinlgly by the advance booking or hight season!

What you get

2 days off per week

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Parties: Get discounts at nearby parties and clubs.

Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

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Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English or Beginner Italian

Between 18 and 50 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Do you want to explore Puglia in a travel-work experience, do you agree to lend your help during your stay, and are you naturally suited for socializing? Then you will be welcome to join our team of volunteers. As a volunteer, you are a key figure of the Hostel. You make sure all guests receive a good welcome, and do your homework while keeping the focus on the guest experience. Furthermore, together with your team you will be a distinctive element of the hostel.

Activities & Shift

You are available for 25 hours a week for at least 1 month? Willing to move to the hostel and receive a free accommodation in a shared room? Can you speak English? Are you a team worker? Hospitable and extremely sociable? You don’t mind being present even outside your shift? Well, you are the right person!
If you have a type B (European) driving license it is a plus

Rules

What else is important to us?
Enthusiasm, having a strong physique, agility (to be able to reach our bunk beds), knowledge of Cloudbeds (booking system), flexibility in work and schedules (you can be scheduled in different parts of the day 5 days a week)

Confirm that, during your stay, you can fund other living costs (food, transportation, etc.) not provided by the hostel