Hostel Jobs
Free: All time Ever wonder how the cool guys and gals at your hostels’ front desks get their job from? Probably just by being there at the right place at the right time. Yet, they could have found out about the openings from the site Hostel Jobs! The website is technically a forum in which...
Trevolta | Crowd-Funded Travels
Free: All time Trevolta is a crowd-funded website focusing solely on travel. The goal of the site is to enable travellers to submit their extraordinary ideas for expeditions in order to raise funds for it. Projects can be backed up by inspired people or sponsors looking for marketing opportunities and brand awareness. Think Kickstarter, but...
Trusted Housesitters
Free: All time (US$79 / year membership) As the name suggests, the site Trusted Housesitters’ goal is to connect homeowners with trustworthy people who want to housesit for them while they’re away (usually for free). Typically, the housesitters’ task involves some pet care and carrying out a few chores like watering the plants or collecting...
Hospitality Club
Free: All time Hospitality Club is based on the same concept as Couchsurfing – hospitality exchange between travellers around the world. Members participate by either hosting passing travellers in their hometowns or being hosted by locals of the place they travel to. Hospitality Club is currently the second largest of such organization. The club is...
Global Freeloaders
Free: All time Global Freeloaders is very much like Couchsurfing, though on a smaller scale since it’s volunteer-run. Sharing the same philosophy of people’s willingness to “accommodate travellers completely at their own convenience, in any way that they can, completely free of charge,” Global Freeloaders has been a hub for travelers around the world to...
USE-IT Europe Youth Travel Guides & Maps
Free: All time If you’re a youngster travelling in Europe then USE-IT guides are perfect for you. USE-IT stands for no-nonsense tourist info for young people. USE-IT guides, maps, and websites are made and designed lovingly by young locals. So far, there are about 28 guides created for major cities in Europe, with about 10...
WWOOF Independents
Free: All time (15€ – 1 year membership) WWOOF Independents differs from International WWOOF by listing organic farms and smallholdings in countries that don’t have a national WWOOF organization. Wwoofing is a great way to learn about organic growing, country living and ecologically sound lifestyle and to connect with other like minded people. In exchange for your...
WWOOF
Free: All time (0€ – 56€ membership) WWOOF is a network of organic farms and smallholdings with people who are looking for volunteer work offering in exchange food, accommodation and opportunities to learn about organic lifestyles. Each country has a local WWOOF organization so, in order to get involved you must connect with the local...
Helpx
Free: All time (20€ – 2 years membership) Helpx is a work exchange network started back in 2001. The idea came from Rob Prince, who has traveled over several years throughout Australia and New Zealand. In order to keep travel longer, he started to work in farms and hostels for accommodation and, sometimes, food. Didn’t took longer to realize...
Workaway
Free: All time (22€ – 2 years membership) Workaway is another global work exchange community with a wide range of projects. Here you can find work like helping in an organic café in New Zealand or in an hostel in Las Vegas, give a hand on creating a meditation retreat in France or even help...
The Poosh
Free: All time The Poosh is an online and offline community and a global database of sustainable self-build projects and volunteers. The aim is to give an opportunity to self-build projects to find like minded people to share knowledge and get help. By volunteering to help, the volunteer, gets in exchange free accommodation, food and...
Mind My House
Free: All time (US$20 / year membership) Mind My House is an online community that brings home owners and house sitters together. The deal is, you get free accommodation in exchange of house and pet sitting when the owner is away. Not completely free because to subscribe as an house sitter you will need to...
