Guest Experience Host

What you'll bring to the team

Ever dreamed of welcoming peasants to York’s darkest depths and dishing out dungeon delights? We're recruiting Guest Experience Hosts to drag visitors kicking and screaming (with laughter) through York’s most gruesome past.

You’ll be:

• Greeting our rebel rabble with a cold, sarcastic grin.
• Stocking them up with Dungeon goodies (no refunds for cursed items).
• Answering foolish questions like, “Is it scary?” (Yes. Next.)
• Lurking around as a sales demon extraordinaire.

Sure, it’s cold, damp, and smells suspiciously of rotting flesh, but isn’t that part of the charm?

This is a seasonal role offering a minimum of 5 guaranteed hours per week and contracted up until Sunday, 1st November 2026 (with the possible extensions thereafter. Flexibility is needed including the ability to work weekends and must be available during Autumn Half Term, including weekend 31st of October and Half term: Saturday 24th of October until Sunday 1st of November.

Ideally interviews will be held from Wednesday 16th - Sunday 20th of September, with start dates from 5th October onwards.

Qualifications & Experience

• Lots of experience working in a customer facing environment
• Have an outgoing personality
• Confidence and energy to interact with the dungeon dwellers and of course the traitors
• A sharp tongue and a love of customer chaos
• The energy to keep up with dungeon dwellers and traitors alike

Benefits

Alongside working with a great team and marine life, we also offer:

• 25% discount in our retail shops and restaurants and 40% off LEGO online
• Merlin Magic Pass - giving you free tickets to all our attractions worldwide for you, your family, and friends every year
• Employee pricing up to 55% off cinema tickets

If you are interested in this opportunity and you would like to hear more, please click on the apply button now.

At Merlin we welcome the world to our magical attractions and resorts every day and we want to reflect that same multicultural mix inside our business too. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse workplace where people can be themselves, have the same opportunities and thrive together. Because at Merlin, everyone matters!

Together, we work to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, no matter their age, race, gender, disability or sexual orientation. Although we understand that we'll always be learning and growing, we aim to be the most inclusive and flexible employer in our industry.

We reserve the right to remove this vacancy advert early, should sufficient applications be acquired.

Pay Range

GBP £12.81/Hr.