When the guest reset stops being enough
Turnovers are fast by design. Three or four hours, beds remade, surfaces wiped, bins out, photos sent. What they don’t catch is the stuff that builds quietly across a Larnaca summer - sunscreen film on the bathroom tiles, grease lining the extractor hood, sand worked into the grout of a Mackenzie seafront flat. Run enough back-to-back turnovers and that layer thickens until a guest leaves a review about “tired-looking” surfaces. A periodic deep clean is what pulls it back.
We book these in alongside your regular turnovers, not instead of them. Tell us your booking rhythm and we’ll slot a detail reset where it won’t clash with a same-day check-in.
What a periodic detail reset actually digs into
There’s no set bullet list, because what needs attacking depends on the flat. A Finikoudes studio on the promenade collects salt and humidity residue on every window frame. A family place in Oroklini builds soap scum and limescale around the shower trap. An airport-side flat in Dromolaxia or Kiti, cycling through short transit stays, gets traffic dirt you only notice in the corners. We start from where the buildup is, not from a template.
Roughly, expect the slow work: descaling showerheads and taps, degreasing the hob and the extractor, dusting the tops of units and doors where nobody looks, scrubbing grout, lifting marks off walls and skirtings, washing down balcony glass and rails, and getting under and behind the big furniture. Then a final walk-through and photos on WhatsApp, the same as a turnover.
Building it around Larnaca flight times
A deep clean needs a wide, quiet window - the opposite of a turnover. So we schedule it for the gaps your calendar already has: the day after a long-haul group checks out, the midweek lull between weekend stays, the dead afternoon when no flight lands at LCA for four hours. Tell us when the flat is genuinely empty and we’ll fit the deeper work in then, no rush, no overlap with a guest arrival.
For hosts running tight check-in chains, this matters. You don’t want a deep clean colliding with a 15:00 arrival off the Heathrow flight. We work backwards from your flight schedule, not the clock on the wall.
Bedsheets, towels, and what we don’t supply
Bedsheets and towels: we change them when clean replacements are already at the property - we don’t supply the items ourselves. During a deep clean we’ll often find linen that’s been sitting folded too long, or a stale set left in the washer - we photograph it, flag it, and only touch what you’ve got clean on site.
Pricing, and how to get a real number
A periodic deep clean costs more than a turnover because it takes longer and goes deeper - small apartments usually start from about €45 for a turnover, and a detail reset runs above that. The final number moves with size, how long since the last deep clean, condition, and access. Send the area, the flat size, and a couple of photos of the worst spots, and we’ll quote a clear figure on WhatsApp before anyone shows up.
Same-day, when it’s actually possible
Same-day cover on request when our diary allows - but deep cleans rarely fit a same-day window, because they need hours, not minutes. If you’ve got a genuine same-day gap and the flat is empty for most of the day, send the times and we’ll tell you honestly if we can take it.
Where we work across Larnaca
Finikoudes, Mackenzie, Livadia, Oroklini, Pyla, Aradippou, Kiti, Pervolia, and Dromolaxia. That covers the beachfront strips, the family suburbs, and the airport-side transit flats. Outside those? Send the location and we’ll confirm if we can reach you.