I completely understand that, I am not advocating it as a requirement, but it is an option and one that hosts who take that route at the moment are not getting credit for.
Interesting, I didn't realise the measures in the handbook was for dealing with a situation where an occupant had developed COVID 19 in situ. Obviously in that situation things would be very different. I had thought this was what we were expected to do between each booking because we wouldn't know if someone had been present who was asymptomatic.
Having thought about this further, I have decided that I am going to ask guests who play the games we provide or watch the DVDs or read our books (we have literally hundreds of books) etc just to leave those items out when they leave so I know they need extra attention. I hope that would also be reassuring for guests. I couldn't be sure that I had cleaned every page of every guidebook or every inch of every map otherwise. I will continue to leave the oils, spices etc that I have always done, and clean the bottles between bookings but warn them in advance in case they would prefer to bring their own. Our house sleeps 9, I literally couldn't do the level of cleaning they suggest in less than three solid days . Two of us needed 5 hours to do a changeover pre-COVID, and that's without washing ceilings. I feel the pain of the gap between bookings but I feel more secure with it there. I think that is partly because this is our home, so we have lots of stuff here, it isn't an emptier holiday home. Hosts are best placed to risk assess their properties, but I was just saying that we should get credit for taking other measures that help avoid cross contamination.
Our tiny village has just had a new case, so I also think I can't rely on hoping that the UK figures are low enough not to worry. The real horror of this disease is not being able to tell.
Good luck to everyone.