Service
Holiday Cleaning for Hosting Season in Orange County
What’s included
Exactly what we clean
- Guest bathroom detailed and stocked-area wiped so it is ready for company
- Guest room and spare beds made up with the linens you leave out
- Kitchen counters, sink, and stovetop cleared and cleaned for cooking and hosting
- Dining room and entry detailed — the rooms guests actually see
- High-touch points wiped: handles, switches, railings, faucets
- Floors vacuumed and mopped through the gathering spaces
- Post-party recovery: kitchen reset, dishes and surfaces, trash and recycling out
- Spills, sticky spots, and tracked-in messes addressed after the event
- Glassware staging areas and counters wiped down after entertaining
- Bathrooms re-cleaned after guest use over a multi-day visit
- Quick reset of common areas so the house feels calm again
- Pairs with a deep clean or add-ons — inside the oven, the fridge, interior windows — when you want more than the surface
Who it’s for
When to book it
Hosts running Thanksgiving, a holiday dinner, or a houseful of out-of-town family over the season. If you are the one cooking for twelve, hosting overnight guests, and trying to keep a guest bathroom presentable for four days straight, the before-and-after is what we take off your plate — the home is ready when guests arrive, and it is yours again after they go.
It also suits anyone hosting a holiday party or open house who does not want to spend the morning before cleaning or the morning after recovering. Because the calendar between mid-November and New Year fills up, this is the work people ask us about earliest — booking the before-clean and the after-clean together, well ahead, is the surest way to get the dates you want.
Our approach
The Rachelle’s standard
Most clients book holiday cleaning as a pair: a guest-ready clean a day or two before the event, and a recovery clean after. We schedule both up front because the season's dates go quickly, and we send the same team to each so the home is already familiar. Tell us how many guests, whether anyone is staying over, and which rooms matter most, and we focus the time there. When the home needs more than a surface refresh — built-up kitchen grease before heavy cooking, the oven before the turkey, interior windows before photos — we will tell you it pairs better with a deep clean or specific add-ons, and quote that honestly rather than stretching a standard clean to cover it.
Pricing, honestly
Quoted free — no fake price tags
Holiday cleaning is quoted free by home size, condition, and how much you want done before and after — a guest-ready refresh of the main rooms and a full post-party recovery are different scopes, and a deep clean ahead of heavy hosting is different again. We quote in writing before we start, with no fixed published rate. Booking the before and after together, early in the season, is also the most reliable way to lock in the dates you need.
Questions
Holiday Cleaning, answered
Most people do both, and we recommend it. A guest-ready clean a day or two before means the home is set when family arrives; a recovery clean afterward puts it back together so you are not facing it tired. We send the same team to each visit and schedule them together.
As early as you can. The weeks from mid-November through New Year are our busiest, and specific dates — the day before Thanksgiving, the morning after a party — fill first. Booking the before and after together, ahead of the season, is the surest way to get the dates you want. Call (949) 402-7425 to hold them.
Not quite. Holiday cleaning is timed around hosting — guest-ready before, recovery after. A deep clean is the top-to-bottom reset that reaches the oven, grout, baseboards, and build-up. If you are hosting heavy cooking or have not had a thorough clean in a while, we will suggest pairing a deep clean with your before visit and tell you honestly when the surface clean is enough.
Yes — the post-party recovery is half of what this service is for. We reset the kitchen, handle dishes and surfaces, take out the trash and recycling, deal with spills and tracked-in messes, and re-clean bathrooms after guest use, so the house is yours again without you spending the morning on it.
Yes. Tell us who is staying over and we make up the spare beds with the linens you leave out, detail the guest bathroom, and focus the time on the rooms your guests will actually use over a multi-day visit.
Tell us within 24 hours and we come back to make it right at no charge. The re-clean guarantee applies to holiday visits — and because hosting dates are fixed, we would rather you flag it early so we can correct it before anyone arrives.
Service areas
Holiday Cleaning across North & coastal OC
A home that feels cared for.
Tell us about your home and we’ll send a free holiday cleaning quote.