House Cleaning in St. Simons, Jekyll Island & Brunswick, GA: A Local Guide

Easy Living Cleaners is a family run, background checked house cleaning company serving the Golden Isles, St. Simons Island, Jekyll Island, and Brunswick, Georgia, along with the rest of the Georgia coast. This guide covers the cleaning you can book locally, how pricing works, and what a Golden Isles home actually needs, from a rental turnover timed to a guest’s checkout to a full time house a few blocks off the Village.

The Golden Isles are really three different places under one name. St. Simons Island mixes full time homes, second homes, and a busy short term rental market near the Village and East Beach. Jekyll Island is a state park with historic cottages, rental homes, and condos, most of them turning over between guests all season long. Brunswick, on the mainland, has a walkable Old Town laid out in squares much like Savannah’s, full of Victorian and turn of the century houses, plus a working port. What ties the three together is the salt air. It works on windows, screens, hardware, and vents whether a home is lived in every day or sits closed up for weeks at a time, so a house here tends to need more attention than the same house would need further inland.

What house cleaning services can you book in the Golden Isles?

Six, and here the split is usually between guest turnovers and everything else. A turnover clean resets a rental between one guest and the next on a tight schedule. Standard, deep, and recurring cleaning cover a full time home or a second home that isn’t rented out.

• Standard Cleaning. A one time, room by room reset: dusting, vacuuming, mopping, and kitchen and bathroom surfaces, fixtures, and appliance exteriors.
• Recurring Cleaning. The same clean on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly schedule, at a lower rate per visit.
• Deep Cleaning. The grime that builds up and the areas a standard clean skips: baseboards, inside the oven and refrigerator, grout, vents, and behind furniture.
• Move Out and Move In Cleaning. A full clean of an empty home for a lease turnover, a closing, or a new build, inside every cabinet and appliance.
• Vacation Rental and Short Term Rental Cleaning. Guest ready turnovers timed to checkout and check in, with fresh linens and restocking.
• Office and Commercial Cleaning. Offices, retail, and small business space, scheduled around business hours.

How much does house cleaning cost in the Golden Isles, GA?

House cleaning in the Golden Isles is priced per visit, not by the hour. Four things set the number: how many square feet the home is, how many bathrooms it has, what condition it is in right now, and how often you plan to book. There is no standard flat rate, and any company that gives you a firm price without seeing the property or asking those questions is guessing.

A one time clean of a home that is already kept up costs less than a first deep clean of a home that hasn’t had professional attention in a while. An empty home for a move or a new build costs more than either, because every cabinet, drawer, and appliance gets done inside and out. A rental turnover is priced by the property and the level of restocking involved, and it settles into a predictable per turn rate once we know the layout. A recurring plan on a full time home carries the lowest rate per visit, and that rate improves as the visits get closer together.

Easy Living Cleaners quotes every job in writing before any work starts. The fastest way to a real number for your home or property is to request a free estimate with your square footage, bathroom count, and a short note on what you need, whether that’s a one time visit, a recurring plan, or a rental turnover schedule. You will have the written estimate by email, and nothing is scheduled until you approve it.

Vacation rental turnovers on St. Simons and Jekyll Island

If you rent out a place near the Village, along Ocean Boulevard, out toward East Beach, or on Jekyll’s Beachview Drive, the turnover between guests is what your reviews are built on. Our turnover cleaning runs on your checkout and check in times, not the other way around. That means fresh linens, kitchen and bathrooms sanitized, sand and salt dealt with, supplies restocked, and a condition check before the next arrival, so a late morning checkout and a same day check in still work.

We also send a quick photo walkthrough after each turnover, so you know exactly how the property looked before the next guest arrived without having to drive over and check yourself. If a maintenance item comes up, a running toilet, a broken blind, a stain a normal turnover can’t fully lift, we flag it right away rather than let it become the subject of your next review.

Second homes and seasonal houses on the coast

A lot of Golden Isles homes are used part of the year rather than year round. We can do an open up clean before you come down, a close down clean after you leave, and periodic checks in between so a house never sits long enough to get musty or take on the mildew that salt air humidity can leave behind on window tracks, closet corners, and bathroom grout. A deep clean is the right call for the first visit of the season, especially if the house has been closed up since your last trip.

If you’d rather not think about the calendar at all, a standing recurring visit, even a light monthly pass to run water in the drains, check under sinks, and keep dust from settling, does a lot to protect a second home between trips.

Standard, deep, or move out: which clean fits a Golden Isles home?

If your home or rental is already in decent shape and just needs a refresh between stays or visits, book a standard clean. If it has been closed up for a season, sat empty for a while, or has visible buildup on baseboards, in the oven, or around fixtures, start with a deep clean. If the home is empty because you are moving in, moving out, or handing off a new build near Sea Island or Frederica, that’s a move out or move in clean. If it’s a rental changing hands between guests, that’s a turnover, which we cover under vacation rental cleaning.

A common and sensible pattern here is a deep clean as the first visit to reach a baseline, even in a well maintained home, then standard, recurring, or turnover cleaning on a set schedule to hold that line. Salt air works on baseboards, ceiling fans, window tracks, and hardware year round no matter how new or well kept the house is, so that baseline needs revisiting more often than it would inland. If you aren’t sure which fit is right, describe the property and how you use it on the estimate form and Easy Living Cleaners will recommend it.

How often should turnovers and recurring cleaning run in the Golden Isles?

For a rental, the answer is every checkout, which in high season can mean back to back bookings with only a few hours between guests. We build the schedule around your calendar, not the other way around, so tell us your typical checkout and check in windows and we’ll plan around them.

For a full time home, weekly works well for busy households, homes with kids or pets, or anyone who wants the house to always feel just cleaned. Biweekly is the most common choice and keeps dust and salt film down without weekly scheduling. Monthly suits a tidy home, a smaller space, or a second home that isn’t lived in full time. See how recurring cleaning works.

Old Town Brunswick’s historic homes

Brunswick’s Old Town is laid out in squares much like Savannah’s, and the houses reflect it, Victorian and turn of the century homes with original floors, plaster walls, and in some cases single pane windows that need a gentler hand than a newer build. We treat those surfaces the way they need to be treated, and we’ll talk through any finish you’re protective of at the estimate stage. Past the historic core, neighborhoods like Country Club Estates and the area around Dock Junction are a mix of established family homes and working households near the port, where the work tends to be steady upkeep rather than restoration.

Darien, McIntosh County, and the rest of the Golden Isles

We also clean regularly out toward Darien and through McIntosh County, along with Sea Island, Frederica, and the quieter stretches of St. Simons away from the Village. These areas run a slower pace than the busiest rental corridors, and the work here is usually steady upkeep on family homes and part time properties rather than back to back turnovers. If your home is out this way and you’re not sure whether it’s in range, ask on the estimate form and we’ll tell you honestly.

How do you choose a reliable vacation rental cleaning company in the Golden Isles?

A few things separate a company you can hand a key or a lockbox code to from one you can’t.

• Background checked cleaners. Ask directly. Every Easy Living Cleaners cleaner is background checked and trained before working in a home or a guest property.
• Written pricing before any work. You should know the cost per visit or per turnover in writing, not find out after the fact.
• A clear checklist. The company should be able to tell you exactly what a turnover or a standard visit covers, and what costs extra.
• A schedule built around your bookings. A company that only offers fixed appointment windows isn’t a fit for guest turnovers with tight, changing checkout times.
• Photo confirmation after each turnover. A quick set of photos after the clean means you know the property is ready before the next guest walks in.
• A real local presence. Easy Living Cleaners is family run and rooted in the Georgia coast, not a franchise or a national brand routing calls to a call center.

What areas around the Golden Isles does Easy Living Cleaners cover?

St. Simons Island, the Village, East Beach, Ocean Boulevard, and Frederica. Sea Island. Jekyll Island, its historic district, Beachview Drive, and the condos and rental homes there. Old Town Brunswick and the surrounding historic streets, along with Country Club Estates and Dock Junction. Darien and McIntosh County. Just outside that? Ask, and we’ll tell you. The full list is on the Golden Isles page.

How to book a cleaning

Request a free estimate online through our estimate form, or call (912) 421-8621. Include your property’s size, number of bathrooms, its current condition, and whether you need a one time visit, a recurring plan, or a standing turnover schedule. You’ll get a written estimate by email before anything is scheduled. A deposit is due when you book and the balance is due when the cleaning is done, paid by card through a secure portal, with the option to add a tip electronically. Hours are 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM, seven days a week, and rescheduling is free with 24 hours notice.

Related reading

• House cleaning in Savannah and Pooler, GA
• House cleaning services explained, the difference between standard, deep, recurring, and move out cleaning.
• The benefits of a recurring house cleaning service

Ready to hand it off? Get a free, written estimate from Easy Living Cleaners, one time, on a schedule, or turnover by turnover, for your home or rental on St. Simons Island, Jekyll Island, in Brunswick, or anywhere on the Georgia coast.