Worldpackers gave me the opportunity to travel on a budget and engage in the local culture I personally did 3 projects with Worldpackers and I loved it! The community is amazing and I especially liked my stay in Indonesia where I lived with a local family for a month and taught English. For me Worldpackers gave me the opportunity to save money while traveling and engage in a unique way with the local culture. Obviously, not everything always goes perfectly, but friends of mine needed to cut a stay short due to problems with the host and Worldpackers paid for accommodation until the end of their originally intended stay (3days). Furthermore, I think reading the reviews of a project is very important and the possibility to reach out with question to people who been to the project before is amazing and helps you to answer any questions not mentioned in the project description. In my experience the hosts are also quite flexible about the length of your stay. And just a friendly reminder that you should not expect Luxurious accommodations, or at least that was never the case for me, but I made it work and I loved my experience with Worldpackers and would for sure do it again.

waste of money waste of money. They will not show you any requirements the place has until you pay the membership. A lot of places discriminate against your sex or even age! If you're over 40, good luck! There are also people to say they host but, when you apply they offer you to pay $30 a night. There are only 3-4 hostels available in the entire Los Angeles and if you get a response from at least one. You'll be super lucky. Don't waste your money.

I am travelling full time for one and a… I am travelling full time for one and a half years, almost exclusively using Worldpackers. It made travel affordable, safe and much more exciting. Most of my hosts were wonderful, and if not ,misunderstandings were managable. If you sign up and do 5 programs with positive reviews about you ,the next year is free. I payed much less for the second year, and now I can use it for free as I did over 12 programs. You have to always look up the reviews of hosts, and also don’t expect everyone to answer, but to my experience at least my second or third choices normally work out. I never had to leave an experience early, so I don’t know how is their support system with that, but the smaller issues I had they always replied me promptly. As with everything on the internet and travel, you have to be smart for yourself, trust your gut, be creative and ready to adapt. My hosts respected the agreement and worked with many volunteers before. I can recommend it if you want to travel sustainably and smartly.

I've been using sites such as this one… I've been using sites such as this one and workaway and after several trips abroad I have learnt the ugly truth that its just a way of people using you for cheap labour. Remember that most of the hosts are using these sites to avoid having to pay for workers in the first place (, which raises questions about their ethics) you are insignificant to them as there will always be someone else to replace you. Essentially the website is taking your money in order for someone else to use you as free labour. Please have a long think about this fact Before you start buying expensive plane tickets.

Unethical business Be careful with what you read online about Worldpackers - these guys are paying people to post good reviews about them online. I am a micro travel influencer and was approached by them to do sponsored post. I have no previous experience with their website so have signed up to their platform, and I was shocked to find out that there’s absolutely no control of host qualities. Many of their hosts are businesses and they are blatantly using travellers to replace cheap labours. Worldpackers do not give a s*** … There are way better companies out there offering much more genuine services in the same industry.