VOLUNTEER WORK WEEKENDS!
Bring your scraper and join the party!
 "Many hands make lighter work!" Join the legions of Chalfonte "loyal and hardy" volunteers and help us open up or close the hotel, pre- and post-season respectively. Have a truly unique weekend and paint, scrape, clean, landscape or lend any of your particular skills for a weekend in Cape May! The Work Weekends have created a richly diverse community of volunteers, coming from 27 states across the country.We require only 10 hours of labor (6 on Saturday and 4 on Sunday), a $35.00 non-refundable, non-transferable registration fee per person for the weekend, and in exchange, we'll provide you with a guest room, meals from Friday dinner to Sunday lunch, and an opportunity to gather with people who are dedicated to the preservation of a grand National Historic Landmark. Participants must be at least 18 years of age.
The 2008 work weekend dates are as follows:
- Friday, April 25 to Sunday, April 27
- Friday, May 2 to Sunday, May 4
- Friday, May 9 to Sunday, May 11
Friday, May 16 to Sunday, May 18 filled
Friday, May 30 to Sunday, June 1 filled
Friday, June 6 to Sunday, June 8 filled
We have added a new feature for volunteers, that being a VOLUNTEER WORK WEEK at a cost of $125.00 per person.
Friday, May 2 to Thursday, May 8 filled
COME FOR THE WEEKEND, STAY FOR THE WEEK! As with the work weekends, meals are included for the entirety of your week-long stay at the Chalfonte!
If you would like to be added to our database please e-mail your postal mailing address to us and we will be sure to add you to the database for future mailings! We will post the fall dates in late August '08, so be sure to check back for updates then!
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DOWNLOAD A pdf of just the registration form, you can do so here. Registration, again, is via postal mail only! We hope you can join us!
WORK WEEKENDS IN THE NEWS. . .
Excerpted from the Washington Post Style Section, September 26, 2001
Room and Boards: For a Constructive Holiday, Work on a Cape May Classic
By Ellen Perlman, Special to The Washington Post
"The first banging on the doors down the hall got louder as it came closer to my room. I could hear a loud male voice calling out, "Good morning, Sunshine"  and "I want to hear those feet hit the floor." Not exactly the genteel wake-up call you'd expect at a gracious Victorian hotel in the heart of Cape May, N.J. Not exactly the type of wake-up call you'd expect anywhere, actually, except perhaps if you're a Marine or a minor at home with your parents. But then, again, it was not an outrageous breach of hotel etiquette, considering that nobody in the rooms was there to be a pampered guest. We had come to the Chalfonte to work. There was painting, cooking, laundry and gardening to be done this weekend, and we were going to do it! "Note: This article generated hundreds of phone calls from the Washington Metro area, and resulted in the registration of 100 volunteers for our final fall Work Weekends, with an additional 250 names to add to our mailing list.Back to Top
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