A good fit
- Boutique hotels and inns with sheets and towels they chose and bought.
- B&Bs and guest houses where the owner still does the laundry.
- Small motels and hostels whose on-site machine runs from checkout to close.
Hotel and inn laundry · San Diego County
Hotel laundry service in San Diego for boutique hotels, inns, B&Bs and motels
Checkout leaves a pile of sheets and one washer to get through it. We collect the linen your property owns, wash and fold it at our own facility and bring it back, so housekeeping can get on with the rooms.
- Return
- Next business day for standard loads. Your quote sets it for property volume.
- Terms
- No contracts. Net-30 billing after the third month.
- Price
- By the pound, from your items, volume and pickups.
- Linen
- Yours. We supply no rental stock.
See how pickup works at a small property Linen your property owns, collected from San Diego County addresses
Checkout is done. The laundry has barely started.
Picture a 12-room inn after a sold-out weekend. By 11 a.m. every bed is stripped: 24 sheets, at least 24 pillowcases and a heap of bath towels, hand towels and bath mats outside a laundry room with one washer and one dryer.
The first arrivals are due at 3. Housekeeping has cleaned the bathrooms and vacuumed, and now waits for the dryer so the beds can be made. The owner, who meant to spend the afternoon on reservations, is folding fitted sheets in the back. Nobody is doing anything wrong. The laundry just lands at the same hour as everything else.
Who this service fits
For properties that own their linen and have outgrown the back-room washer
Search for hotel laundry and most results are linen rental programs, industrial plants or hotels with a guest laundry. Freshly Folded is none of those. We are a family-run pickup and delivery laundry, and we suit a particular kind of property.
Look elsewhere if
- You want linen supplied. We wash linen your property owns and don’t supply, rent or replace sheets and towels.
- You run a large hotel. Our published business programs cover 100 to 5,000 lb a week, sized with the quote, and we confirm whether your volume fits before the first pickup.
- You host short-term rentals. Turnovers for individual units are planned around checkout dates instead; see our Airbnb and VRBO laundry service.
The planning shift
Think in par levels, not loads
A par level is how many complete sets you own for each bed, counted by size. While the washing happens on site, the machine sets the pace. Once it leaves the building, the par decides whether rooms get made up on time, and a par of three is the usual place to start: one set on the bed, one at the laundry and one clean on the shelf.
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Count beds by size, not rooms
A suite with a king and a sofa bed needs two kinds of sheet set.
- 02
Set the par at three
On the bed, at the laundry, on the shelf. Raise it to four if you often sell out several nights in a row.
- 03
Give towels their own par
Take whatever you put out for each guest, whether that’s a bath towel, hand towel and washcloth or more, times the guests each room sleeps. Pool towels get a separate count.
- 04
Match the par to your pickups
Your quote confirms how often we collect and the return day. The longer a batch is away, the higher the par.
Inside the City of San Diego, the permanent water-use restrictions require hotels and motels to give guests the option of not having towels and linens laundered daily. Guests on multi-night stays who take that option change how much leaves each day, so count a normal week’s bags before you settle on a par.
The handoff at a small property
Housekeeping bags it by the back door. Our driver takes it from there.
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Bag by type as rooms are stripped
Sheets and pillowcases in one bag, towels and bath mats in another, and anything that needs a care check set aside. The bags wait where we agreed: a linen closet near the service entrance, the laundry room or behind the front desk.
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Hand over during pickup hours
Our driver collects Monday to Friday between 7am and 5pm and on Saturday from 8am to noon. Tell us how often you need pickup; the quote confirms the schedule. Name the person on shift who hands the bags over, or explain how the driver gets in when the desk is unstaffed.
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Washed and folded by our team
At our own facility, the team sorts your linen, washes it in commercial Maytag and Speed Queen machines with ArtiClean ozone on every load, and folds it. You pick the detergent from Tide, Gain, All Free & Clear, Seventh Generation and Persil, which matters if guests have asked about fragrance.
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Back folded, ready for the shelf
Standard wash-and-fold orders are ordinarily back the next business day. For your property’s regular volume, the quote confirms the return day. Check the count against what went out, then shelve it as your clean set.
What to list
Hotel linen we wash, and what needs a word first
List items by type and size in your quote request. Acceptance is confirmed before the first pickup.
Room linen
Flat and fitted sheets by bed size, pillowcases and duvet covers. Say if any piece needs pressing, since pressing is a separate service with its own price and timing.
Bath and pool
Bath towels, hand towels, washcloths, bath mats and pool towels. If towels are all you send, our commercial towel service page covers towel stock and pricing in more detail.
Ask us first
Comforters and duvet inserts, mattress protectors, robes, breakfast-room table linen and staff uniforms. Send the care label or a photo so we can confirm before pickup. Sheets from a treatment room with massage oil belong with our massage and spa linen laundry.
Guest garments go through our dry cleaning service, not a linen order. Anything with blood, bodily fluids or sharps needs a conversation before it is booked, so keep it out of an ordinary bag.
How the quote is built
Your price comes from your linen, your volume and your pickups
Hotel laundry is quoted for each property. The quote reflects the items you send, your weekly volume and how often we pick up. There is no published hotel rate, so ask for yours in writing: the rate, any pickup charge, the schedule and the return day.
No contractsArrange service around your property.
Net-30 billingAvailable after the third month.
100 to 5,000 lb a weekThe published program range, sized with your quote.
Linen you ownNo rental stock to lease, count or give back.
Send these with your quote request
- Number of rooms, and beds by size
- Sets per bed you hold today
- Bags per week, or the weight of one full bag on a bathroom scale
- Pickups per week you’d like
- ZIP code, and where the bags wait
Compare it with washing on site
Put the quote next to what laundry costs you now: housekeeping hours, water, power, detergent and machine repairs. Laundry is one of a hotel’s larger water uses; the EPA’s WaterSense fact sheet for hotels puts it at about 16 percent.
The same business terms are on our pricing page. For other textiles your business owns, start with our commercial laundry service.
Who you’re dealing with
A family laundry serving San Diego
Freshly Folded is owned by Liz and Steve Carlin, who bring 28 years of combined experience in laundry and garment care. Your linen is washed at our own facility, and we pick up from properties across San Diego County. Send your ZIP code and we’ll confirm your address is on a route.
Text (619) 389-3206, call (619) 586-5755 or email hello@freshlyfolded.com. We’re open Monday to Friday from 7am to 5pm and Saturday from 8am to noon.
Before the first pickup
Hotel laundry questions
Straight answers for owners and housekeepers at smaller properties.
Ask about your propertyDo you rent hotel linen, or wash the linen we own?
We wash linen your property owns. Freshly Folded doesn’t supply, rent or replace sheets and towels, so you choose the linen and it stays yours. If you want a program that supplies the stock, a linen rental company is the better fit.
How fast does hotel laundry come back?
Standard wash-and-fold orders are ordinarily back the next business day. For a property’s regular volume, your quote confirms the pickup schedule and the return day, so plan how many linen sets you hold around the day in the quote.
How is hotel laundry priced?
Hotel laundry is quoted for each property. The quote reflects the items you send, your weekly volume and how often we pick up. There are no contracts, and Net-30 billing is available after the third month.
Is my property too small or too large for your service?
Our published business programs run from 100 to 5,000 lb a week, sized with the quote. Send your room count, bed sizes and a normal week’s bags, and we’ll confirm whether your volume and schedule fit before the first pickup.
What hotel linen can you take?
Sheets, pillowcases, duvet covers, bath and hand towels, washcloths, bath mats and pool towels are the usual list. Comforters, duvet inserts, mattress protectors, robes and uniforms need a care-label check first. Guest dry cleaning is a separate service, and anything with blood, bodily fluids or sharps needs a conversation before it is booked.
What linen par level should a small hotel or inn hold?
A common starting point is a par of three sheet sets per bed, counted by bed size: one on the bed, one at the laundry and one on the shelf. Hold more if pickups are less frequent or you often sell out several nights in a row. The return day in your quote tells you how long each set is away.
