Make friends & explore Central Europe with Angloville

I was a native English-speaker 'mentor' for this English conversation program in Poland. We were promised 6 nights in a 3-4 star hotel+3 meals a day. The reality was we were put 2-to-a room in the staff quarters-old dirty furniture with bugs+ yuki food which made you pyuke. In the evening nothing cooked -just cheese+ bread. 1 mentor was bitten in the eye by a bug in her room. Polish students pay Euros 1000+ for this program I doubt Angloville spent 100 Euros on the mentors. They even have the nerve to charge 35 Euros to the mentors as 'admin fee'. A horrible experience. Slave labour never again. Avoid like the plague.

I was very excited to return to Warsaw after twenty two years this time with Angloville. I first went on a coach travelling over twenty seven hours. However this time around it was a different experience as now many Polish people spoke English compared with 2001 when Poland was being prepared to join the European union. My stay was great this time at Lamza ...a train ride outside of Warsaw...beautiful countryside and serene. The program was at Arti hotel. Meeting Lovely Mentees and fellow international Mentors.

I very much enjoyed travelling and sharing my travels experiences during my conversion sessions with my mentees and my colleagues on this journey . I was very much impressed with the mentees enthusiasm to share their interests and their lifestyle to advance in their conversion practices . I also enjoyed the location, the food and the structure of the program. I met some lovely people international mentors and the national mentees who were very knowledgeable about the world affairs which they depicted in their presentations.

The conditions of the hotel accommodations and the food were not as promised by the marketing staff. The shared rooms for the volunteers were in a damp basement with a moldy, stinking smell. The mattresses were 2 inch foam and very uncomfortable. Two of the three meals/day were the same everyday. Cold cuts, cheese, boiled eggs.
I was scheduled to volunteer for another course two months later but immediately contacted the administration and told them I would not be attending and why.
Even with two months notice, they have refused to refund my 150 Euro deposit because I will not do another course, where according to other volunteers, those accommodations are worse than the one I did.