Hostel Linen Priced Per Bed Not Per Room

We run fixed rounds across London and the Home Counties — 1,034 areas, up to roughly 100 miles from our plants, taking in around 879 hostels and guest houses.

• Your area already has a collection day. We fit you to the round that already passes rather than adding a separate journey, which is why a twenty-bed hostel costs much the same per item as a two-hundred-bed one.
• Every area has its own page with that area's collection days, the distance from our plant and the properties already on that round.
• Multi-site operators run on staggered days, so no property is left short while another is being collected from.
• Outside the ring? Tell us where — if a round already passes nearby it is usually still workable.

That is the point of putting you on your area round rather than a separate trip. Hostel checkouts cluster hard — most of the building leaves between eight and eleven, and beds get stripped in one push.

• The time is agreed when the account opens, against your checkout pattern rather than a generic window.
• A delivery timed for the afternoon arrives after the beds needed making, which is the most common complaint about a previous supplier.
• If a drop is missed, it is recovered on the next round rather than the next week.
• A relief driver inherits the window with the route, so cover weeks do not become the weeks it goes wrong.

Both are expected in shared accommodation and are planned for rather than disputed.

• Expected loss is built into the par count at setup, so the shelf does not empty because the maths assumed nothing walked.
• On hire, fair wear is our cost. Thinning, greying and general bunk wear are ours to replace, not charged back.
• Linen is graded on return, so a sheet coming to the end of its life is pulled before a guest finds it rather than after.
• A sudden jump in loss is worth knowing about — it usually means a change on the floor rather than a laundry problem.

No long-term tie-in and no exit fee. The account should hold because it works, not because leaving is expensive.

• Terms flex with seasonal occupancy rather than holding you to a August volume through a quiet January.
• Nothing needs you to be out of your current contract first — the count and the quote commit you to nothing.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down, so no bed goes unmade while a contract changes hands.
• If it is not working, say so. Most problems are a wrong par count or a wrong delivery window, and both are fixable without changing supplier.

Per bed, and this is the single most important thing to get right. A twelve-bed dorm is one room and twelve changeovers; quoting it by room count puts the par level out by an order of magnitude before the first collection.

• We count beds and typical occupancy on site, not rooms off a booking system.
• Bunks are counted individually — a bunk is two beds and two sets of linen, however it appears on a floor plan.
• Seasonal occupancy is built in, because a hostel in August and the same hostel in February are different businesses.
• No minimum order, so a small independent is an ordinary account.

Both, and mixed accounts are normal. One collection covers whichever way each line is set up, on one invoice.

• Hire means we own the stock, replace what wears out and carry the cost of a sheet that thins after three months of bunk use.
• Wash-only means your own stock comes back to you — the same items, not pooled with anyone else's.
• Hire suits hostels particularly well, because high-turnover bedding wears out far faster than hotel linen and replacement is the real cost.
• You can move a line between the two later without reopening the account.

Yes — the account is built for the swing rather than for an average. Occupancy in budget accommodation moves far more than in a hotel.

• Peak season is planned in, not handled as a series of emergencies.
• Group bookings are worth flagging in advance — a coach party is a predictable spike and easy to absorb with notice.
• A quiet February does not carry a peak-season charge; terms flex with demand.
• If you run short twice, the count is wrong and we reset it against real usage rather than the opening estimate.

Yes — budget and shared accommodation is one market as far as the round is concerned.

• Guest houses run on the same rounds as hostels; around 879 hostels and guest houses sit inside our coverage.
• Student and group accommodation has the same per-bed economics and the same clustered turnover, so it is priced the same way.
• Bunkhouses and outdoor centres are normal work, including sites where the delivery is not a loading bay.
• Running rooms as well as dorms? Both go on one account — see our hotel laundry page for how the rooms side is priced.