Global Work & Travel Reviews

My experience teaching is indescribable. Truthfully there’s moments I’m pulling at my hair and banging my head on my desk and other moments I cry pure tears of joy! I teach 4-5 year olds and just last week after months of teaching them, I had a student read out the word carpenter and say it by sounding out each letter in front of an entire assembly, without help! Just 6 months ago she didn't know what the letter A was.

Thailand’s culture and amenities are something I can’t put into words, and through my ups and downs Global Work and Travel has really helped me with support and encouragement along with any logistics I've needed, way above and beyond the call of duty they could've been relieved of 6 months ago when I got here. I would definitely recommend their expertise and couldn't be more grateful for everything! Definitely using them in future to experience more of this vast world!

Global Work & Travel have been helpful in assisting with all my travel needs. They made sure I was setup with everything I needed to succeed in my travels, and I got home safe. Dustin ** the rep that was there who was like the translator for me made sure I was okay. The only reason I kind of had a good time was because he made sure everything went smoothly.

Upon arriving in Nepal my coordinator was there waiting at the airport and took me straight to my hotel. This was such a relief seeing it was my first big trip overseas. The following day I attended my orientation session, was given a phone and details and taken around the city before I was taken to my host parents. In the mornings I would head to my host parents' school for their assembly before heading down the road to the monastery where I spent the morning teaching English to the "little monks". After class I had the rest of the day free. I either sat in on a class at the school, had Nepalese tea with the Lamas discussing Buddhism, went into Thamel for shopping/lunch or I would just head home and relax before the kids got home from school. I was regularly contacted by the coordinator which was lovely.

Before I left Australia I spoke with another lovely lady who suggested I add tours to my holiday. I finished my volunteer program with an adventure tour to Chitwan National Park and Pokhara followed by a trek around the Himalayas. I would highly recommend speaking to her as she made the tours link up with my placement dates perfectly and she amended my return flight so that I could do the tours,. If it wasn't for her I wouldn't have known what was available. I highly recommend The Global Work & Travel Co. The staff are very professional, knowledgeable and helpful and the program was very organised. Thanks GWAT!!

The deal I did was great! I had an amazing week in Surfers Paradise, the hostel they put me in is the best hostel I have stayed in. I met some great people who also came with Global. They do everything for you, within that week I had a phone, bank account, tax number and Medicare card. I would never had known you needed all these things or how to go about getting them. Another useful factor of going with Global, you can get all your post delivered to their office, so when you're traveling and don't have a permanent address, this is really helpful. On top of all of this, they find you two jobs. Massive thank you to Global.

Global Work told me that I was going to have flexible flights and that’s what I paid extra for. When I tried to go home earlier, I was told that I would have to pay over $300. Thankfully, I got the person from Delta to take it out all the way to $300 extra. But when I thought it was flexible, I thought it meant that I could change it any time and then pay a very small fee of $100 or so.

When I was first told that I had to pay $900 for my way back home, it made no sense. I could have bought my own ticket. They told me that I had to get the round trip, period, like I had to no matter what. They let a friend who went through them do the one-way. I paid over $2400 for the round trip for a flexible flight with three months insurance, and I could have ended up just paying $1400 for my own round trip. I tried talking to them about it, I wrote them this email telling them about the whole experience and how disappointed I was, and they never wrote back at all.

I went from Orlando, Florida to Thailand to do this program. It was very cool and fun but they told me that my stay would be included during the first month and I find out that I had to pay the month that I was there while I was doing a course. Also I was under the influence that I was going to be by myself in my own room, and I find that I had a roommate. It wasn’t that big of a deal but it could have been told to me. A lot of things were hidden from me until I left.