Help us in the reception & enjoy the Mexican sun!

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Connect with international travelers: 12 travelers recommend this host to meet travelers from all around the world
Practice English: 11 travelers recommend this host to practice English
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What you offer

25h

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

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

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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.

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

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.

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

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities 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: 6 weeks

The Experience

We are looking for volunteers to helps us around reception and housekeeping, and also to create a fun family environment in our hostel in Bacalar, Quintana Roo. Week shifts will be 20 hours total, and ideally will be four hours a day, for five days a week. Main activities will be reception, housekeeping and animating activities at the hostel :)

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Requirements

Intermediate English or Intermediate Spanish
Over 18 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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17 Reviews

4.0

Host & Team

4.5

Hours & Tasks

4.5

Hostel

3.5

Learning & Fun

4.5

How this experience will transform you

12 Meeting international travelers
11 Practicing English
8 Immersing in the local culture
8 Meeting locals
5 Get in touch with nature
2 Practicing Spanish

This host contributes to Sustainable Development Goals

7 5. Gender equality
4 10. Reduced inequalities

Gianna

United States

The hostel is a wonderful and relaxing hostel, perfect for recharging and enjoying the beautiful lagoon! The work is straightforward, and the tasks are easy to complete. They're in the process of reorganizing things, so it can get a little chaotic at times, but as long as you're flexible and communicate well, it's not a big issue. The leadership is super approachable and always ready to problem-solve with you. I felt really welcomed and taken care of here, and there are always fun activities happening. Bacalar itself has such an open and welcoming vibe, and I highly recommend this place!

4 months ago

Celeste

Argentina

Ended up extending 2 weeks :) If you value having chill work shifts and free time to wander around this is perfect for you! The atmosphere is great and the volunteers team really bonded. Also great location and a beautiful sunrise view to the lagoon Accommodation could be better: really small dorm, smells funky & just one shower for all, but could be worse haha Communication between managers should be improved in order to give clear instructions to volunteers (specially the new ones), and resources to motivate team work (e.g there is no formal commission system for selling tours and such)

5 months ago

Jade

Canada

First of all I want to say that bacalar is a beautiful place, the hostel was very well located!! 5-6 minutes from the centre and super close to the lagoona. The view from the hostel was beautiful:) This experience got frustrating for me tho. The hostel is not well organized at the moment, they were always overbooking problems +the system at the reception was chaotic. Often we didn't know what's going on because manager didn't communicate with us and we had to improvise all the time saying sorry to the guests. The owners Juliette and Sergio were so sweet tho and welcoming:)

6 months ago

Banafshe

Luxembourg

My time at the hostel and in bacalar were really beautiful, thanks for makibg me feel like home, the location is great, my wishes were respected and I could openly comminucate everything with the team and compromises were found, I really felt comfortable to adress any discomfort and they really wanted me to be happy and Bacalar is so beautiful and stunning and the tasks were doable during the shifts:) thanks everybody, Kim and all the team, for everything!🫶🏽

11 months ago

Juliette replied

Banafshe! Thank you for your kind message, we appreciated very much having you over <3 You are a reliable and open person and this will serve you amazingly in all your future endeavours. Enjoy your trips and adventures! Come back to visit any time :)

Amelia

United Kingdom

There is a bond between the volunteers because this hostel is nice and small so it has a family vibe to it! The work hours are balanced, sociable and fair and the actual work itself is fine! It gives you a good amount of time to explore bacalar as the location of the hostel is great. There are family dinners and opportunities for group days/nights out. I would definitely recommend the hostel to anyone looking to volunteer in bacalar!

over 1 year ago

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