--- title: As Airbnb grows, so do cleaning fees - The Hustle description: Relative Google search interest for “cleaning fees” is up 212%. image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1494684360-HS-News-Brief_2022-04-14T034518.416Z.webp --- # As Airbnb grows, so do cleaning fees ![Jacob Cohen](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png?width=48&height=48&name=IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png) [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/jacob-cohen) [Jacob Cohen Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/ImJacobCohen) Published: April 04, 2023 Updated: October 11, 2023 Airbnb always looks like a great deal. Until you realize the cleaning fee for a 2-bedroom costs an extra $500. ![As Airbnb grows, so do cleaning fees](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1494684360-HS-News-Brief_2022-04-14T034518.416Z.webp?width=595&height=400&name=1494684360-HS-News-Brief_2022-04-14T034518.416Z.webp) Since Airbnb was founded in 2008, relative Google search interest for “cleaning fees” is up 212%, and ~85% of US short-term rentals now have them, [per](https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-airbnb-cleaning-fees-cost-so-much-now-11649717791) *The Wall Street Journal*. Some cleaning fee stats: - Fees increased 9.8% between 2020 and 2021, and then another 6.6% by 2022. - The average fee for 1-bedroom properties is $73 (up from $59 in 2020), and $410 for a 5-bed coastal property. **Who’s to blame?** Inflation and pandemic-era sanitation, no doubt. Still, some customers think the fees are just unreasonably high. And can you blame them? 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