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Help maintaining our holiday site and immerse in Finnish Nature

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The experience

Hello. We are also foreigners (Portuguese couple in Finland) growing our hospitality business, and we really need help as the park is big and there is lots of work to do.
Cleaning tourism cottages and services, maintaining lawn, helping with painting buildings or furniture or other similar tasks. Help run cultural events smoothly (concerts, community clubs...), help deliver the rentals equipments for water sports. Days can be different everyday

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

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

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

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

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.

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

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

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

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

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

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

Intermediate 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 expect that you are proactive during your working hours. We are only a couple running this business and not always can guide you through everything personally. After carefully ensuring that you know how to do things and provide you a list of what needs to be done, we are hoping that you can, independently pass from one work to another, filling the gaps, depending on what needs to be done on the day.
We offer breakfast and dinner on your working days and a camping cabin by the river (toilet and kitchen at the camping service building) or a small apartment room with own kitchen and toilet.

Activities & Shift

This is immersed in Nature (Rokua UNESCO Geopark) but only 30 mins to the city of Oulu by direct bus. Wonderful trails start at the park, and you can use the water equipments (kayak, SUP, canoe) with 50% discount (10 euros - 2 hours)
We can also use the rowing boat for free as long as it is not rented by guests.
There are grills and lounge areas where you can just relax by the river.
We are talkative and nice people, and hopefully we can share nice chatting moments, also with guests, or neighbours. People are really nice and they might invite you to their house or walks.
Our shifts may vary, specially if there is an event going on, so it would be great that you are flexible.
Mostly however it might be in the morning/early afternoon for Check out/Check in maintenance.


Rules

As a tourism business being nice and polite is absolutely essential. Tourists (or locals) may ask information from you, even if you are just mowing the lawn.

Finland is very strict with alcohol rules and we follow up. Drinking your own alcoholic beverages is possible only inside your cottage or its terrace. Drinking in the yards or common lounges is forbidden. As with paying guests, we also reserve the right to cancel your stay if you are drunk or disturbing others.
Nevertheless, we might all occasionally share a home fermented beer at the Glass Room after a tiring or successful day.
Guests and night guests are not allowed without information and permission.