Pricing Your Airbnb Cleaning Fee

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Unlike a regular hotel, guests using Airbnb do not expect a chambermaid to come into the room everyday to do bed turning and vacuuming.  But they do expect the unit to have crisp clean sheets and fluffy towels upon arrival.
 
Reasonable enough.  

You wouldn't lie in a bed used by others without changing the sheets first now, would you?

But then again, Airbnb rooms are priced lower than hotels.  And that there is the conundrum.

Hence the Cleaning Fee.

First time hosts shouldn't be afraid to add in a cleaning fee cost for their listing.  But, they shouldn't be greedy either.  Here are some tips to consider.

• How much are other hosts, in the same area, charging?
• Are you going to do the cleaning yourself?
• Are you going to hire professional cleaners to do the cleaning?
• How big is your rental unit?

Rule of thumb, is to charge the same rate as with hiring a 3rd party cleaner.  By this way, if you only have an overnight booking, you wouldn't be subsidizing the cost of cleaning the unit.

Just make sure you stick with the purpose of the cleaning fee... which is providing clean room for your guests to stay in. 


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