How Much Does Airbnb Cleaning Cost in Charleston?

What Charleston hosts pay

Independent cost guides put Charleston turnover cleaning at roughly $95 to $220 per turnover, depending on bedrooms, a hot tub or pool, and the laundry load. Nationally, most hosts pay $75 to $250 per turnover, with an average near $150 and large homes of four or more bedrooms running $250 to $400 and up.

Those are ranges for a single clean by an individual cleaner or small crew. They do not usually include linens, restocking, inspection or a report, which is where the real spread between quotes lives.

The five things that move the number

Flat rate or hourly

Hourly pricing looks cheaper on a quiet week and punishes you on a bad one. A flat per-turn rate is the same number whether the last guest was tidy or not, which is the only way to set a cleaning fee that does not lose money on the messy stays.

The flat rate is the most common model among hosts for exactly that reason.

Cleaning fee versus cleaning cost

Your cleaning fee is what the guest sees; your cleaning cost is what you pay. A flat, predictable cost makes the fee easy to set and easy to defend. Guests notice a fee that looks out of step with the property, so most hosts set it at or near the actual cost rather than as a margin line.

What a fee cannot cover is the cost of a bad turnover: a refund, a one-star review that follows the listing for a year, or a check-in you had to push back because the property was not ready.

What a cheap turnover actually costs