Oyster Worldwide Arvostelua 

I used Oyster to go to Whistler, Canada on a ski season. They were amazing and helped so much with getting my job, my visa and housing for the trip. They are great for getting jobs like ski instructor, working in ski support and being a lifty. I couldn’t recommend using them more!

My son did a ski season in Whistler through Oyster. Whilst in the Uk, before going, he had regular calls with Sami, who guided him what needed to be done in order to increase his chances of getting a job as an instructor.
Once he was in Canada, Oyster were great. Transport was provided up to the resort, which meant he met other people doing the same thing as him. In the first few days, there was lots of guidance to help them settle in, open bank accounts etc. there were also regular drinks / socials after work - oyster felt like a friendly family. They were at hand to help him when he had a visa issue too, and were good to him regarding days off after minor injuries.
Overall a very positive experience. So much so that my daughter is now applying for next year!

The first week went great and the training farm was wonderful. Brisbane was beautiful and I was able to do a lot of cool stuff with the people I met through the program. The training farm was very helpful and I learned a lot that I didn’t know before. Now I am at my job at Suttor Creek, mustering and branding cattle as well as doing some maintenance work. It’s been a lot of fun and I’m having a great time.

Best time ever. Couldn’t have done it without oyster. Unforgettable moments. At points it was TOO GOOD to be true. Feels like a dream.

Oyster have been amazing to me. Originally I had planned to go to Whistler for a ski season however, my Visa didn’t arrive in time. I was able to transfer to one of Oyster’s New Zealand programmes and I’m having a fantastic time so far. Sami and Georgie were so helpful when helping me sort everything out. If you are looking to do any kind of gap year I can’t recommend Oyster enough! 🇳🇿

Working with the horses and the livery clients has been incredibly fun and the flexible working hours have meant it’s been really easy to do some exploring in my downtime! The horses are all really sweet and I’ve been able to ride in my free time as well.

The local area is beautiful and the beach is only 5 minutes down the road. There are shops close by and amazing beaches all along the peninsulas coast, plus it’s close to Phillip Island so we’ve seen lots of adorable penguins in their natural habitat!

My employers have been so incredibly welcoming and you really feel like part of the family working here, I would throughly recommending it to anyone looking for a working holiday with horses. The two dogs on site are also really fun and love to have cuddles and explore the beach with you!

I went to South Africa for a little over two weeks and in those two weeks i participated in two of Oyster Worldwides trips (one week per trip plus a couple days between flights for transport purposes) and i had an amazing time. The main reasons I went on this trip is for work experience however i also had my birthday during my time there and it was important to me that there would be no complications. I had a very kind and informative member of the admin team, her name is Kate Tipler, who helped my sister and i during the entire process, from the booking of flights, to the arrangements of mid-trip transport (my experience was unique due to taking part in two different excursions which were located in different areas of South Africa- Kate helped us arrange overnight accommodation due to flight times, transport to and from the airports and so much more when it came to moving from one excursion to the other). Kate also was extremely helpful when i had some technical difficulties when trying to access my personal oyster worldwide portal and she very efficiently got it sorted for me. This was my first time flying long haul as a young person and my first time flying without my parents and naturally i was nervous about the many things that are entailed in the planning of a trip like the one i was on, Kate made my experience a lot more comfortable and explained everything clearly and concisely and overall much more manageable process. I am so grateful to her for helping make my trip as magical as it was and it has definitely convinced me to user Oyster Worldwide again in the future.

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I booked a wildlife volunteering trip in Thailand with Oyster Worldwide, and knew immediately that I was in capable hands. My coordinator was so quick to respond to emails and queries, happy to move my dates when life got in the way and delayed my initial booking, and provided me with all the info I needed before I set off. My three weeks in Thailand were an absolute dream. I spent the first two with primates, bears, birds and all manner of other beautiful animals, and then did the third week with elephants, and both experiences were magical. The work was hard – you're up with the dawn preparing food, harvesting banana trees, scrubbing bear pools and monkey enclosure – but it was the most rewarding I've ever done. I met so many brilliant people, staff and other volunteers, and made friends and memories for life. I cannot recommend it enough, and will definitely be booking another trip.

Brilliant time researching elephant behaviour in South Africa. Oyster were great in organising the trip - just the right level of information. Everything went smoothly - faultless.
I have no hesitation in recommending them.

Wow this was such an incredible experience with the elephant research team! It was so amazing to get up close & learn about these animals & their conservation. It has been one of the best things I've ever done, thanks to the Oyster team for their support throughout. Communication was great & always very responsive.

From the very first day, I felt incredibly welcome. Razvan is always there when you need him, and the town of Brașov is such a special place with a wonderful atmosphere. The sanctuary itself is incredibly peaceful, truly one of the most enchanting places I’ve ever been. Traveling to Romania to work at the sanctuary is definitely worth it!

Volunteering with turtles in Costa Rica

The transfer packages and were super efficient and smooth. Communication before and after the trip was always reliable. The actual experience itself was also brilliant. Can’t fault it

My project was to go to a rehabilitation center for baboons in South Africa. I don´t think a better place for volunteer work can exist. My contact person at Oyster was Kate Tipler. Always easy in all communication and fast respond. Even if I´m quite used to travel alone Oyster offered a good system for all preparation that I found helpful.

I booked a Working Holiday in Australia for my son - I realised quite soon after booking that the company had totally ripped me off. You can book directly with Ultimate Travel if you want the same service but without Oyster Worldwide being involved. When I addressed this with Oyster, I got a very angry response from the member of staff in charge of the Australia trips who told me that my son was not suitable for these trips anyway.

Oyster makes a few hundred pounds by being the middle men between Ultimate Travel and the customer. If you want to go for a working holiday visa I suggest you do it all by yourself because you do it by yourself anyway with one of these companies. Its a real scam.

In response to Oyster's reply.
1. Please can Oyster delete my son's name from their response as they do not have permission to use his name in a response (see Trustpilot’s guidelines for reviewers) – hopefully this will be deleted soon.

2. I did not write the review because my 'firm request for a full refund was denied'. I asked for some compensation as what was advertised was not offered to us. In fact I have done very little in terms of asking for compensation, I simply want people to understand what to expect from this service, which is actually very little.

3. There were issues with transport from the airport not being provided so we did not receive the full service. My son arrived in Oz after a long flight with no person to meet him.

4. Oyster’s “guidance” was offering links to websites such as the Australian visa issuer, application for tax reference, all things that we could have done ourselves with a small amount of googling.

5. Regarding jobs, its not as easy as Oyster make out. Firstly Ultimate Travel, who they seem to broker through their site do have a jobs board, but with an extremely limited number of jobs. In fact Ultimate themselves don’t even use it. The Backpacker jobs mostly available are commission only jobs for companies like Hello Fresh. The advice that Oyster should be giving is that to find a job in Oz, it’s a numbers game and to look through sites like Indeed and Jora. There's no added extra by paying them to tell you that.

6. Oyster's help was a couple of phone calls and an email when we expressed concern. This was before we made our final payment.

7. We changed location to from Sydney to Melbourne because that was what my son wanted, one day after booking Sydney. But we did this because on your site you advertised that you had working holidays which started in Melbourne, as Ultimate Travel does too. This is non-argument and not an excuse for the lack of service we got.

My son is having a good time in Melbourne but he had a stressful few weeks at the start due to the fact that your package and advice was not in touch with what it actually is like on the ground in Australia in terms of finding jobs and accommodation. In fact there are companies that do set people up in Oz with jobs and accommodation on the holiday working visa. This is not one of them and it is a waste of money.

Hi I had the most amazing time what a beautiful place and the elephants Wow was so taken back with most wonderful people in the world so helpful and made me feel so welcome learning so much about what they do for elephants and all the information they help other sites who save elephants. I will definitely be returning there in the future.

The Libearty Sanctuary for Bears is my Happy place. Being able to volunteer and do a little bit to help these amazing animals is incredible. Although I was ill at the beginning of my trip and missed a couple of days at the sanctuary I was very well looked after. The in country support from Razvan is outstanding. Bear welfare is at the heart of everything they do - and they are very good at people welfare too.. This was my second time volunteering at the sanctuary and hopefully not my last.

Georgie at Oyster was helpful through out the booking process and nearer the time of leaving. Razvan, the in country contact, could not have been more helpful, briefing us each day on the tasks we would be doing during the day. Ovi, our taxi driver was able to talk about any topic in very good English. We had a great time at the bear sanctuary, seeing bears each day, getting to know the dogs, who are very friendly and getting close up to the donkeys. Most times we were sorting and preparing food for the bears. We were there for 2 weeks and joined in the feeding round twice, seeing many more bears than most visitors, and were fascinated to see how they ate and their relationships. Volunteering in places like this is not just for young people but us oldies as well. I am in my 70s and had a great time. Brasov is also a wonderful town to be based in.

My daughter visited Port Elizabeth in May for the Vet Experience and had a fantastic time at the Game Reserve. It was somewhat nerve-wracking as she travelled on her own there and back at age 17, but Kate in the UK, and the staff in Port Elizabeth, were extremely helpful, kind, and welcoming, and we felt confident with the programme organization and the safety precautions and support that were in place. Thank you Oyster, and Kate for an unforgettable, wonderful experience.

Whilst the programme looked great and my son had a great time as a parent I do not thnk it suitable for 17 as advertised. I thought there would be a little more supervison then there was, and the details given of who would be collecting at the airport were not correct (they didnt even meet that person the entire month there) as well as that the emergency (because unfortunately there was one) contact number that as provided didnt work. Its unfortunate that the parental reassurance that was promised wasnt in place