Continuing the discussion from Filter for cleaning fees:
Ive been home Swapping for over 10 years first with Love Home Swap, and then they were bought over by Home exchange, im in my 70s and the last thing i want to do is clean a two story home with terraces etc when im leaving , i personally always do a good tidy up and clean along the way but otherwise im perfectly happy to pay for a cleaner, we in the last 8 years of swapping our two homes always charge what we pay the cleaner , it seems really reasonable to me and we have never had anyone we swapped with complain, thinking or saying any hosts make money out of this is insulting and certainly not in the spirit of home swapping that ive experienced over the years. I would not expect anyone to spend their precious holidays cleaning , washing bed linen, making up fresh beds washing towels , beach towels etc etc. Or Cleaning , mopping terraces after weeks of use, perhaps two nights in apt is a different situation. Personally I totally support a cleaning fee. We have also found that some swappers ask if half way over a long swap then can book our cleaner.