Vine Ridge Retreats

Our place comprises of 3 lovely self contained units connected to our house just below Comares which is one hour from Malaga.
The views are amazing and local village of Comares is stunning.
We live here with our dog Bruno who is old and friendly, so we can't accept pets as we don't want him upset.
Our motto is Value and Views Beyond Belief and we really do our best to offer our guests a great experience.

We are fairly flexible and have decided to ask for help for most of the year , we could do with help on ongoing maintenance and ground work with some building tasks thrown in. Please note the help is for around our own grounds and house only. We also employ local staff to work on our rentals if it is work I cannot do myself and any rentals we manage. In having volunteers it frees up our time so we can keep our own house to a decent standard and our grounds, which include Olive and Almond trees. There will be plenty of Gardening and Painting. The idea is for a mutual experience and flexibility in your helping patterns so that you get time off but also commit yourselves to helping. It is easier if we have couples as we are a rural location and although you can walk to Comares if you don't have transport then during your time off it is good to have company. We offer a lovely self contained rental , we can send you more info in regards to the accommodation, but it is of a high standard. Helpers will not be doing any maintenance or gardening in spaces that will be used by our rental guests. You get lovely independent living and we ask for 5 hours work per day for 5 days a week. Depending on a schedules we may need longer hours some days but of course the hours will be reduced another day. We do ask that helpers are diligent, we feel we are offering a lovely experience and in summer when our paying guests are not using the pool or Jacuzzi you are free to use them, so a lovely experience. Ideally 1 month or longer stays would be better, so we get know helpers and can train them for the work needed. Please feel free to ask questions and be prepared to enjoy the experience but also work hard when needed. You must also love dogs as we have 1, so unfortunately we can't accept pets. Kind regards David and Jacqui


Avis

3.0
(2 avis)2

Personnel et hôte

3.5

Heures et tâches

5.0

Auberge

3.5

Apprentissage et plaisir

1.0

Allemagne

3

David and Jaqui provided a really nice place. Small Apartment, great view, Pool and Overall a nice location. David and Jaqui are nice people, they helped us getting a package and were always oben for questions. Working was really boring and mostly the same one task over and over. It also was not really a social experience, it felt like we were there only for work. If you wanna habe a nice time at Davids place, make sure to have a car, otherwise you afe not really free to see new things. It might be a bad experience if your travelling alone and search for social contact.

il y a 19 jours


David a répondu

Sadly Valentin and Elena , really had no work experience and simple tasks like cleaning were not done well, so giving slightly more difficult tasks seem to cause confusion and poor work effort, we clearly let people know they are staying near a beautiful village which you can walk to in 20 minutes , so you don't need a car and we are also flexible with days off so you can travel this lovely part of Andalucia, the funny this is they had a car and never really used it to explore the area.

Allemagne

3

David and Jaqui are nice people and provided a cozy place for our living. Without a car you don't really get somewhere as it is very off grid. Also important to mention is that you get 30€ for food per week per person. Sadly, the work was no fun, almost all of the three weeks we did the same thing. Besides that, they counted our arrival day as one of our free days. We didn't have much contact with them, really just for work organisation and we didn't meet other people there. If you are looking for a remote place to stay, I can recommend it.

il y a 23 jours


David a répondu

Elena and Valentin, having no real life skills making it hard to give them the 5 hour work , as often I got a blank look when explaining what needed doing, they never really explored the area even with a car and with buses and our help you can get around, I have been hosting for over 15 years on other sites and have lots of 5 star reviews, sadly this couple want to really just be part of a family and do easy chores, hopefully my next helpers from this site will be more pro-active and sociable.


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