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Live the experience: Reception, Housekeeping, Activities.

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The experience

Be part of our team, if you are looking for a place where you can find yourself and have a space to meet people from over the world and from Mexico, visit the beautiful city of Puebla and learn from different cultures, Hostal Talavera is the place you were looking for.

We know that each person has different talents so we want your talent to help us at the hostel. Welcome to Hostal Talavera Puebla

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Party Promoter: Help organise and promote parties and social activities.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Requirements

Beginner Spanish or Beginner English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We want you to gain experience in our different areas and become an expert in each of them. Thus having the ease of covering 25 hours and having two days off, we know that all activities are important, so working as a team and having knowledge of the different functions depending on the schedule and functions to be covered will help you engage with others and It will make the tasks to be done easier for you.

Activities & Shift

We have 3 different reception hours:

*Morning: 8am-1pm
*Evening: 1pm-6pm
*Night: 6pm-11pm

Cleaning schedule:
*Cleaning: 10am-3pm

Activities:
We carry out different activities some days of the week, so we need your creativity and your most sociable side to carry out the activity, which will be taught one hour a week inside the hostel to be able to connect and talk with our foreign and national guests, between activities; Beer-pong, Karaoke, Mezcal tasting, movie night, walking tour and board game night.

The schedules are rotating, so that we can all work as a team and have knowledge and gain experience in the different areas of the hostel.

Rules

If you cannot cover your shift for different reasons such as rest, travel or illness, you must ask the other volunteers who can cover this shift and then make it up to them. We have accessibility to be able to change shifts with other volunteers as long as they also agree to cover the shift.

It is your responsibility to cover your shift, if you cannot cover it for different reasons it is your responsibility to find who will cover this shift.

A contract will be signed where both parties are responsible for what they offer: on the part of the hostel; food and lodging in exchange for the shifts to be covered, after 3 wake-up calls; volunteering will be terminated.

Respect belongings of guests and other volunteers.