What Do You Need From a Vacation Rental Cleaning Service?

Running a vacation rental is an exciting way to enter investment real estate. You get the fun of fully decorating a suite, home, or apartment like a luxury hotel room with coordinated decor and matching complimentary soaps. Once that is done, you book the place nightly for a stacking profit depending on local demand and time of year. Every guest is a new opportunity to enjoy your investment but few people run even one vacation rental by themselves.

A cleaning service is an essential partner for any vacation rental. Why? Because you need cleaning turnover every day between the narrow hours of check-out and check-in. This takes the dedication and precision of professionals, and not just any cleaning service. A casual weekly cleaning team may not know the ins and outs of cleaning a private home like a luxury hotel room, complete with little soaps. But we do.

Airbnb, VRBO, Homestay, Agoda, Plum Guide, and other platforms make it possible to host your home like a hotel. What exactly does it take to clean a home daily like a luxury hotel room? Here's what you'll need from your vacation rental cleaning service:

Daily Turnover Cleaning

First, you need a team ready to show up every day. You may be a popular stop for long stays, short stays, or both. Some weeks, you might have a different business traveler every weeknight, and a party over the weekend. These high-turnover stays are profitable, but you'll need a team ready to clean immediately between check-out (around 11 AM) and check-in (between 1 and 3 PM).

The cleaning will need to be complete, erasing all signs of the previous guest, restocking the supplies, resetting the decorations, and then leaving the unit exactly as it was photographed every time guests turn over. Vacation rentals perform best with daily dedication.

High Cleaning Standard and Attention to Detail

The best vacation rentals are those that amaze guests with how pristine and gift-wrapped their suites are when they arrive. From dusted light fixtures to polished baseboards, they can see the effort in every corner. Most guests mention the cleanliness and you want those reviews to glow like your countertops. This takes a team with high attention to detail and a high cleaning standard that matches that of your guests. We know what a luxury hotel room not just looks like, but smells and feels like and the right checklist to make your guests feel that, too.

On-Site Laundering Linens

If you have machines on-site, quick linen cycling is essential to running an efficient vacation rental. A cleaning service willing to cycle the bedding through the wash will keep your rental beautiful, fresh, and ready to restock. With multiple sets of sheets, that freshly cleaned round of laundry will become backup for the next turnover, or guests should decide to make up the couch for movie night.

Restocking Toiletries and Supply Updates

What really makes a vacation rental feel like a vacation are the little touches. For most of us, it's the little soaps. A great cleaning service doesn't just empty the trash cans of the old wrappers, they will replace new little soaps and guest-favors in each dish around the house. You know you've found a good team when you get helpful updates and a few refills before you run out of essentials like toiletries and mini-shampoo bottles. Restocking makes the room feel welcoming and special to your next guest while updates ensure that you are never out of something your guests may have counted on.

Communication, Responsiveness, and Precision

Because your cleaning team needs to work with your guest schedule, they become part of your on-call services team. If a long-term guest needs an interim cleaning, your vacation rental team can schedule a one-day clean of the house to refresh it for your guest. On the other side, if your cleaning team runs into a problem with the unit when they go in to clean, you want them to be ready to call you and find a solution immediately before your next guest arrives. From leaky sinks to property damage, it's important to have a team you can work with as part of your immediate post-guest response force.

Go-To Solutions for Non-Cleaning Solutions

Last but not least, you need a cleaning team who has their own solutions to issues outside their area of expertise. A great cleaning team can handle the occasional laundry order, call a plumber in an emergency, and help you find the right solution to tougher problems managing the unit.

Do you need a cleaning team that understands the nuances of vacation rental upkeep? Contact us today, Hunter Best Cleaning can provide dedicated, expert vacation rental cleaning services based on the needs of your property or properties.