Holiday cottage clear up etiquette

[Justkeepswiimming]

I'm the last night in a holiday cottage. I've swept up and will put the dishwasher on, and will have a final wipe round tomorrow morning, sort sheets and towels into a pile, but that's the most I'll do. Is that reasonable?

I have holidayed in self catering cottages since I was small and I always remember a huge clean up effort before leaving the evening before/morning we left. Part of me resents doing too much these days. For a start I'd like to think the place is being thoroughly cleaned, so what's the point in me doing too much as it will be gone over again.

Also I feel like the checkout time moved earlier and check in moved later over Covid due to cleaning, and has never gone back. How much can you really do as well as getting up and out, before 10? And finally, even 5-10 years ago, self catering used to be the bargain holiday. That isn't the case and more, and frankly at the prices you pay, people shouldn't be expected to do too much in the way of deep cleaning. How much does everyone else do?

We tend to take out bins, strip the bed/leave used linen in one place if asked, wash up, wipe down surfaces and give the floor a quick sweep.

Basically don't be gross.

Re:blood on linen it is easily removed by swabbing the area with a lot of cold water as soon as possible (I can be careless with the razor when shaving the back of my legs 🫣).

Some of these stories just prove to me that I am right to prefer my own touring caravan even in the pouring rain!!! I used my sisters static last year - it was only me and then my adult daughter but we left everything washed up and put away, beds stripped, tidy as we found it, just not hoovered and disinfected as thats what we paid the cleaning fee for!