How does your application work?

Once we receive your invitation request, we review it with the people who is already in and if anybody has any objection with it and we still haven't reach the maximum number of external participants (5), we will accept it.

We are happy to receive invitation request for the safari for who want to join us in a self-reliant way. This means, solving transportation from and to the places, covering own accommodation, food and other trip expenses.

You have 2 different ways of joining the Safari (for stays of min. 2 days):

A) Discounted Safari daily hosting fee for 20€ x Day x Person for PH members* includes:

• Locations scouting 
• Local projects scouting
• Workplace scouting
• A minimum of 4h work during office days in the Kantor Karavan's work place http://www.kantoorkaravaan.nl/ with 4G wifi and a spot for laptop, etc.
• Interesting encounters with singular local characters
• Workshops and skill sharing sessions
• Free activities
• Free 4h workshops in some locations on as Growth Hacking, 360º Business Sustainability
• Free Discovery activities
• Interviews and interactions with previously scouted local projects
• Previous accommodation scouting
• Previous restaurant scouting
• + Up to 10% discounts in accommodation & workspace in our network of local host spaces
• + Up to 10% discounts on the contents of Pandorahub startup acceleration & career shifting programs during the year
• + Welcome gift in some of the local host spaces

(*PH membership = 4,90 eur x month in a yearly purchase of 58,80€)

B) Regular Safari daily hosting fee for 30€ x Day x Person including:

• Locations scouting
• Local projects scouting
• Workplace scouting
• A minimum of 4h work during office days in the Kantor Karavan's work place with 4G wifi and a spot for laptop, etc.
• Interesting encounters with singular local characters
• Free activities
• Free 4h workshops in some locations on as Growth Hacking, 360º Business Sustainability
• Free Discovery activities
• Interviews and interactions with previously scouted local projects
• Previous accommodation scouting
• Previous restaurant scouting
• Lots of space created in purpose for magic and chaos to happen

Not included in any of the Safari daily hosting fee's:

• VAT / IVA
• Accommodation
• Meals
• Travel expenses
• Drinks
• Medical Insurance
• Facilitation
• Extra optional activities that have a cost such as rentals, adventure sports, etc. (anyone is free to join or not)

FAQ’s

Why becoming a Pandorahub member?

During the Safari, each one of us will cover our travel expenses such as accommodation, car rental, meals and fuel. And as PH member, one can get advantages in each location such as welcome gifts and discounts in accommodation in rural coliving and rural coworking spaces up to 10%. You can also go by your own to our partner local host spaces without taking part of the Safari or being a PH member.

Why is interesting joining the Safari if I can go by my own to the rural locations?

If you want a discount on any of the mentioned cases, you will need to stay at least 1 week in most coliving and coworking spaces. Whereas joining during the safari, you go as a group so you won't have any time constraint because so you can stay for few days in each location to try it out, as a way of scouting a bunch of them and as a group. During the safari we also can try most rural coworking spaces for free for few days. Also, going as a group during the safari gives all of us the possibility of having better accommodation and meal fees since we have previously negotiated a group fee (i.e. up to 20% discount in accommodation, or getting affordable daily group menu's of around 10 eur meal). In the other hand, in any of the locations and without coming as part of the safari, one can expect to expend around 20 eur day in accomm, 30 eur day in meals + 10-25 day in car rental + 7-15 eur day in fuel if you are in movement during the day. Taking part of the safari, expenses in accommodation and meals may drop down around 5 eur - 10 less x day (so 20-25 on meals per day) . Which means that at the end you would actually be covering a 15-20eur safari daily hosting fee, the rest is money that you could be saving daily as a safari participant

Neither becoming a Pandorahub member nor joining the Safari and going to the rural locations from Pandorahub side

If you are not a Pandorahub member but you go by your own from PH side, you still can get (smaller) discounts in coliving & coworking spaces on stays / memberships of minimum 1 week length.

What kind of villages will you find in this Safari?

• Of max 1,500 inhabitants
• With a certain level of local engagement, where things are already happening
• With active young families, entrepreneurs, neo-rurals, and local initiatives of rural revival and development
• With regular events and local festivals
• With authentic houses for lodging, preferably within the village
• Or rooms within other village houses, made available by locals
• With a good wifi connection in the same house (or within a co-working space of the village)
• With basic appliances (kitchen, refrigerator, washing machine, furniture, bathrooms, etc.)
• With all facilities and appliances in working order
• With optional heating for the winter
• We prioritise vacant private properties that are free for most of the year and have tourist permits
• As well as commercial rural lodgings that want to increase off-season occupancy
• Or vacant properties owned by the town council
• An the only one that is completely off the grid at the very end of the road trip (Proyecto o'Couso)