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Come help our hostel and have fun in Albania :)

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The experience

We are looking for highly social volunteers to help with reception tasks, some cleaning, and events. You will spend a lot of time interacting with guests to create a warm, fun, and welcoming atmosphere. This can look like spending the evening playing board games with guests, chatting up shy travelers , or selling drinks to a busy crowd. People come to hostels in search of friendship and we would love your help in making sure they find it.

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

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

Administration: Help with booking systems and payments.

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

Bartending: Make and serve drinks and help maintain the beverages inventory.

What you get

2 days off per week

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

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

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

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

Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.

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

Requirements

Fluent English

Between 18 and 40 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

We ask our volunteers to help either the morning shift or afternoon shift for four days in a row. That means they have three days off in a row to explore nearby areas. We ask for help with reception tasks and guest interaction. This is a highly social role as we ask volunteers to help guests feel welcome. We have a varied working team that is a mix of volunteers and local employees.

Activities & Shift

Activities include reception tasks, checking guests in, answering their questions, showing their rooms and making them feel welcome. The morning shift will help with breakfast and bed making and the evening shift is more social. From time to time we may have special house projects like painting or gardening that the volunteer might help with. One night on their streak of shifts, we ask volunteers to cook for the team (4-5 people maximum). We do provide all other meals for the volunteer either by cooking for them, taking them out to a restaurant, or providing ingredients for them to cook for themselves.

Rules

We provide the volunteer with a bed in a dorm and breakfast and ingredients to make lunch and dinner. Usually you will be making lunch and dinner together with our local team and other volunteers. Twice a week we will cook dinner for you.