I had a holiday home in Devon, until Covid, when the lack of income forced me to sell up. I did have a floor plan on my website plus a description of each room.
It slept 8 in 4 bedrooms, 3 upstairs and 1 down, plus a large garden.
It’s interesting the comments about how long it takes to clean a holiday property. You can be lucky with some visitors - but it’s not always the case. You need time to clean it properly anyway, especially in a large property. It took me 6 hours to clean the house and the garden properly. I had commercial bed linen (properly boiled washed each time, which you often can’t do with domestic bedding, to make sure it was squeaky clean), plus stripped all the beds and washed everything - and after every second visit washed the mattress covers and pillow covers as well (every week if the weather had been hot). Washed the pillows every few weeks. Left a choice of pillows and spare bed linen for both a single and double bed, in case of accidents.
Unlike a hotel room you have to think about all possibilities - for example I’d pull all seat cushions off both sofas and both chairs in the living room - you’d be amazed what was there - sandwiches, toys, Lego bricks, half eaten biscuits etc. Cleaning the showers took ages - especially if the shower trap was full of hair. I antibacced every switch, dusted everything, restocked all toiletries, put away any toys and books, checked all crockery, pans, glasses and cutlery to check it had been put away clean (and all too often it wasn’t). I used to buy the cheap tea towels from IKEA - they were 40p each then - wash them, iron them, and then leave out two as complimentary - it worked out cheaper than the laundry charge of £2 per tea towel.
Most guests were great. However one changeover day I drove down to find the family of 7 still packing. They didn’t go till 11am. What a mess - dirty dishes piled up in the sink, furniture moved all over, sticky rock trampled through the carpets, the oven - immaculate the previous week - covered in some kind of baked on batter - worst of all they’d decided to strip the beds - they weren’t asked to - and piled the duvet covers - still on the duvets - sheets and towels in both baths - and then turned the taps on! Everything was soaking wet. My garden chair cushions were spread across the garden - one was under a bush - and had been left out so were wet. They’d even taken the balcony keys with them (they denied it but did return them weeks later - with insufficient postage so that cost me too). Even one loo seat was smashed. I had another set of guests en route and couldn’t see how I could sort every thing out in the time; luckily a neighbour helped me. It took the two of us 12 hours to get the house back to a lettable state - fortunately there were loads of spare bedding. The following guests weren’t much better - found extra beds made all over, party glitter everywhere - it was obvious they’d had a party (so many bottles and cans left everywhere) and their friends had clearly all stayed on for free, no doubt invalidating my insurance. It was annoying to find rings left by hot cups on polished surfaces when there were heat resistant mats right next to them - almost touching the mugs. I could go on, but it’s why you need time to make the house gorgeous again. The worst one of all actually left the house looking great - but oh the smell! No idea what it was from, but a rancid acid smell permeated every soft surface throughout the house. Fortunately the house was empty for two weeks after them, and it took all of it to get the smell out. Had to steam everything - including all the curtains - and borrow an ozone generator. I was lucky - always had great reviews, but a further booking that week wouldn’t have been good at all.
Hotels only have a room and bathroom usually to do though the staff are often asked to do the impossible. I was at a hotel recently - one of the larger chains - the staff there get 20 minutes per room (I asked them) - that’s twenty minutes to strip and change the beds, empty the kettle and curl up the flex, clean the bathroom, change the towels and complimentary items like tea and coffee, and vacuum. It can’t be done. The truth was it looked ok on the surface but I ended up getting cleaning products from reception at 10pm as it was so filthy- and judging by the hairs in the bed the sheets were never changed at all - I ended up sleeping on top of the bed (and yes, did get a refund).