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.

Encounter of a 3rd kind volunteer/helper. I had a bad experience with a volunteer who came to help us a month ago, but honestly speaking I'd an encounter with a "Mafia like volunteer' He's a violent volunteer & he really scared me much because he easily got angry & screaming at me, about five of us presence. Neigbours were staring from three corners of the residence houses. We tried to calm down though he's still screaming at us. When he was not screaming at me anymore, he's threatening by ways of his body language. He banged my car so hard that the windscreen could have cracked!! The van that he borrowed from us, though his off day, was with petrol-empty & requested us to pull our van to the Petrol- station for refill. Later, I need to call a mechanic to repair as its engine was not functioning! These were some of the scary experiences but the rest I'll not write as it's very discouraging........ When he wrote review to Worldpackers.com Team about me it's untruth that he's presenting to the company team, saying that we didn't provide meals & not fulfilling our agreement & contract. Because of this reason, my Profile in worldpackers.com had gone down to 4 stars! So, this was a unreasonable, thoughtless, unfair & fraud review by a volunteer that came to my guesthouse. I hope worldpackers.com will look into this fraud review by a "gangster-like" volunteer.

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.

Would recommend Honestly, I've really enjoyed my exchanges with worldpackers above some other sites. There's a decent variety in many places. I only had one bad experience but worldpackers mediated between us as volunteers and the host to somewhat resolve the situation. I would recommend over other sites for the ease of searching and better variety of exchanges

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.