Verb conjugation of "belohnen" in German

I hope you could understand my last letter to you. You see, when I write in Spanish I am not very confident. I always question myself and each and every sentence takes about fifteen minutes.
Anyway, once we arrived at the guest house the rules were explained: Washing my Jeans would be 2 dollars, a pair of socks 1 dollar and so on. I did not feel comfortable with these people.
The Halong Bay Red Dragon boat's capacity was around ninety passengers and had a much larger crew. We did not have a choice at all and the couple from Washington and we decided to go for it.