Your guest cleaning fee and your professional cleaning bill are two different decisions. Start with the real turnover cost, then decide whether to recover all of it as a separate fee or absorb part through the nightly rate.
For Edinburgh Cleaning Co's premium managed service, the current base cost is £85 for a 1-bed flat, £110 for a 2-bed flat, £145 for a 3-bed flat and £185 for a 4-bed flat.
Prices last reviewed 11 August 2026. These are our own advertised service prices; we do not present them as an Edinburgh market average.
A practical cleaning-fee framework
1. Calculate the actual turnover cost
Include the professional clean, linen or laundry, consumable restocking and any coordination cost. Use the services your property genuinely needs rather than a generic online average.
2. Choose how much the guest fee should recover
- Full recovery: the separate fee covers the professional turnover bill.
- Partial recovery: the fee covers part of the bill and the host absorbs the balance through the nightly rate or margin.
- No separate fee: the turnover cost is built into the stay price.
None of these is automatically right for every listing. Compare the total stay price guests see for your usual booking length.
3. Test against your own booking economics
A £110 clean behaves differently on a one-night booking than on a seven-night stay. Review conversion, stay length and margin from your own account rather than assuming a fee percentage will guarantee revenue or occupancy.
Current professional cleaning cost by property size
| Property size | Managed turnover price |
|---|---|
| 1-bed flat | £85 |
| 2-bed flat | £110 |
| 3-bed flat | £145 |
| 4-bed flat | £185 |
| 2-bed house | £125 |
| 3-bed house | £165 |
| 4-bed house | £205 |
| 5-bed house | £250 |
Example: a 2-bed flat
The current base turnover price is £110.
- A £110 guest fee recovers the base clean in full.
- A £83 guest fee recovers 75%, leaving £27 for the host to absorb.
- A zero guest fee means the full £110 must be covered through the nightly rate or margin.
Selected extras, urgent work and peak-period arrangements sit outside that base example.
What not to do
- Do not copy an unsourced “Edinburgh average”.
- Do not assume a cleaning-fee ratio guarantees search ranking or bookings.
- Do not price below the actual service cost without understanding the margin impact.
- Do not hide optional services inside a vague fee if guests or owners need to understand the scope.
Model your options
Use the cleaning-fee calculator to compare full and partial cost recovery using your own nightly rate. For the live service price and extras, use the quote builder.