Help us with daily tasks and have the time of your life!

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Connect with international travelers: 16 travelers recommend this host to meet travelers from all around the world
Connect with nature: 15 travelers recommend this experience for reconnecting with nature
Accepts couples and pairs of volunteers

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What you offer

25h

Hours per week: Help out and collaborate with your host only a few hours per week.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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

Administration: Help with booking systems and payments.

Reception: Help with check-ins, check-outs and guest assistance.

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What you get

Days off per week: Have some time off for yourself, go explore the city or rest for a while.

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

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

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Support: Get help from the Worldpackers support team in case you need it, at any point of your trip.

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Availability

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Stay at least: 4 weeks

Stay up to: 1 month

The Experience

We are a husband and wife who opened this hostel 3 years ago in Puerto Viejo, a lovely and chill Caribbean town in Costa Rica. This hostel is our home and we care deeply about it. We're looking for the right people who will be responsible and carrying to help us with the hostel with daily tasks. The hostel itself is small with a few rooms and a small camping area which makes this place very easy to manage and to get to know the other guests.

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Requirements

Fluent English or Fluent Spanish
Between 24 and 50 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

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25 Reviews

4.0

Host & Team

4.5

Hours & Tasks

4.5

Hostel

4.0

Learning & Fun

4.5

How this experience will transform you

16 Meeting international travelers
15 Get in touch with nature
8 Practicing English
5 Practicing Spanish
4 Immersing in the local culture
3 Meeting locals

Alícia

Spain

I had a great time at the hostel! Unfortunately I wasn't able to meet Tom, but the manager, Michelle, was so warm and nice! The schedule was really flexible, the job doesn't require too much work, just to be there if some clients arrive to the hostel! I had the chance to do small trips during my stay at the hostel because I asked to do double shifts. About the negative aspects, I will talk about the cleaning. The volunteers' kitchen was always dirty no matter how we cleaned everything, and also full of ants everywhere (in your food too)! Also, we experienced two robbery attempts :(

28 days ago

Martins

Latvia

This was a great place to volunteer. If you want to meet new people and socialize I definitely recommend this place.

6 months ago

Laura

Latvia

Great experience! As new volunteers, we were a little bit scared from the reception job, but Tom explained everything and helped whenever it was needed. We saw so many animals at the hostel, sloths, monkeys, even iguana! As a couple, we preferred to stay in a tent it was really nice to enjoy jungle experience. Toms wife was so sweet, really warm person. She suggested places to visit. The best part of this experience is meeting so many different people who stay in the hostel. We get some really good friend. :)

6 months ago

Rhianna

Australia

The hostel is in a great location to access gorgeous beaches and the property itself is home to monkeys, sloths, and iguanas. If involved in the hostel work, it is easy work. If involved with the Finca, expect more physical labor. The work at the Finca was fun to learn new skills, however, information about the opportunity isn't accurate. In reality, you will need to travel 1 hour in total to arrive at the Finca. This involves a bus ride which you must pay at your own expense (1060 colones 1 way). For volunteers hoping to keep costs down this is a critical bit of information needed.

11 months ago

Myranda

United States

I arrived I was warned by the other volunteers that the bed I would be sleeping on has a sink hole in the middle.Tom didnt do anything about it.I was told it had been that way for months and multiple volunteers had informed him of the situation.I met other volunteers who told me that everything on the listing was a lie. Tom is very condescending and will probably say something bad about me but HE is the problem. Me and another volunteer left because the water is contaminated and he wouldnt provide clean water.Every volunteer and guest hates the hostel.WP bought me a place to stay when i left

11 months ago

Tom replied

The mattress as been changed as soon as I been informed about it didn't know about it before you, you told me you would like to camp so didn't rushed to change it when you were there. All the rest of the volunteers really love the experience you can see by the review it can't be a lie! The water filters got changed 2 days after I was informed about it, you just didn't want to buy water for a couple of days, told me your room is dirty when it's your responsibility to clean it. We are really down to earth hostel some people like it and some not, that want make the world so beautiful. Usually guests don't like it when they get a bad services from volunteers with a bad vide. A lot of lies in your review and its really a shame to misleading other travelers whole can really enjoy and learn from this experience but like I already told you you're Still a child, and that's what kids do telling lies and get Frustrated for nothing.
Pura vida.

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