Cleaning fees

[Carol302]

Just bear with me on this.

Are cleaning fees for:

1 Prepping the listing for an incoming guest?

OR

2 Cleaning up after the guest who paid the cleaning charge?

I always believed it was 2.

I realise that with back to back reservations these co-incide but I have recently been asked about this by a guest and I wouldl like to know the right answer. 

Thank you.

[Paul1255]

Hi @Carol302  I hope you are well!

There isn't a 'right' answer to be honest- the cleaning fee is for whatever you feel it is for.

Some hosts just use it to add a premium to single night bookings, to offset the host service fee- and of course for cleaning!

Personally, I see it as for the prep of the listing for an incoming guest, rather than an excuse for guests to leave the listing in a mess because they have 'paid' for it to be cleaned-up once they leave 🙂

Paul.

[Mark116]

It's semantics, if you are cleaning to prep for the next guest, you are cleaning up after the previous guest, it's  the same.  I would just say it's for the fixed costs related to cleaning, sanitizing and staging the apartment for each guest.