Linen and laundry service means Tampa STR Cleaning handles bed and bath linen between guests and partway through long stays — stripped, washed, dried, folded and reset — with stock sized for whichever way a property books rather than for its bed count.
Properties on this side of the county take two kinds of booking, and they break a linen plan in opposite directions. Short university-corridor stays cycle linen constantly; week-long and month-long bookings leave it untouched and then need everything at once.
A property doing both, which many here do, has to be stocked for the harder of the two rather than the average of them.
What does high-frequency booking demand?
Enough sets that a bed can be made from stock while the last set is still in the wash. A property turning over several times a week has no gap in which a wash cycle can quietly finish before the next arrival.
It also wears linen out several times faster than a monthly-let property, so replacement is a running cost rather than an occasional one.
And what do long bookings need?
A refresh partway through. A guest staying weeks uses the same sheets and towels far past where a short-stay guest would, washing them themselves, and none of that wear is visible to the owner until the booking ends.
Fresh sets in at the mid-stay visit and a proper look at what comes out is what stops a long booking from quietly finishing off a property's linen.
How much linen should a property that takes both short and long stays hold?
Enough for the short-stay pattern, since that is the harder of the two. Stock sized for a weekly changeover fails immediately on a property doing several turnovers a week, whereas stock sized for frequent turnovers covers a long booking without trouble.
Do linens get changed during a long stay?
Yes, at the mid-stay visit rather than only at the end. Guests staying weeks wash linen themselves and wear it hard, and an owner who only inspects at checkout finds out too late to replace anything calmly.
Do you supply linens or wash mine?
Either. Owners generally start with their own on a tracked par level, and move to supplied sets once a property is turning over often enough that a wash cycle can no longer sit on the critical path.