Short-let linen hire supplies hotel-quality bedding and towels on a hire basis for Airbnb, Booking.com and holiday-let hosts, instead of the host buying, storing and laundering their own stock. Optus Glean UK delivers fresh linen and collects used linen for laundering in sync with your changeover schedule, so every changeover has clean sets ready without you managing a linen cupboard.
What linen hire means, versus owning your own
With linen hire you pay for the use of a rotating stock of bedding and towels rather than buying it outright: we supply, launder, replace worn items and top up stock levels, and you are never left short because a set is in the wash. It suits hosts and co-hosts who do not want the upfront cost, storage space or laundering logistics of owning linen — particularly across several properties.
If you already own your linen and only need it laundered and returned, that is a standard laundry arrangement rather than hire — see our wider laundry and linen services for that option.
Changeover-synced delivery
Fresh linen is delivered and used linen collected around your changeover times, so sets are on site for the clean rather than the clean waiting on linen. Where we also carry out the changeover clean itself, this is coordinated as one visit — see holiday cottage cleaning and Airbnb changeover cleaning.
Hotel-quality bedding and towels
Sets are chosen to a consistent hotel-style specification — bedding, towels and, where wanted, bath robes — so a guest gets the same standard whether it is their first stay or their fifth, and worn or stained items are rotated out rather than left in circulation.
Laundered to a controlled standard
Linen is processed through our managed laundry operation. Where hygiene assurance matters most — and for any linen shared across a portfolio of properties — laundering follows the RABC (Risk Analysis and Biocontamination Control) approach set out in BS EN 14065, which our RABC / BS EN 14065 guide explains in full; we will not repeat the standard here.