Holiday Rentals That Travel With You

If holiday apartments around Australia are giving you a headache, why not consider holiday rentals that travel with you.

Committing to a six-month contract for holiday apartment rentals can restrict your sightseeing to two places if you are on a working holiday visa for 12 months.

Instead some backpackers are opting to

work while traveling, taking up jobs for moving employers, such as the owners of carnivals.

Carnival bosses are always after employees to help put up fun fair rides at different locations around Australia and provide weekly pay and accommodation for those that do.

Work is strenuous; expect to be picking up 50 kilograms of dodgems tracks and steel poles to construct ferris wheels, for example.

After putting the fair together, employees are given a ride or stall to operate. Popular games in Australia include fishing for bottles, throwing balls into buckets and putting balls inside laughing clown heads for prizes.

When the carnival is over members of staff are expected to take everything down, sometimes immediately after operating rides through to the early hours of the following morning.

Then it’s time for the trucks to be driven to the next carnival location, which can include the Sydney or Perth royal shows.

Accommodation is often in trailers, which can mean sharing a small room with a bunk bed and facilities are sparse; occasionally one shower is available for the whole crew.

Of course, backpackers can bring their own tents to sleep in as an alternative. Cooking facilities are provided, but you have to purchase your own food.

Expect pay in the region of Aus$200 per week, which is good considering you have free accommodation and this increases when you work on the royal shows.