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The booming holiday home business has led a Matakana couple to offer a new service aimed at lessening laundry stress for accommodation providers.
Alan and Jill Jones’ Linen 2 Go is a linen hire service providing a range of premium quality sheets, towels and table cloths for baches, B&Bs, hotels, motels and event centres throughout the region.
“We handle everything from individual cottages to lodges, wedding venues, right up to holiday home businesses such as Omaha Holiday Houses,” Alan says. “We want people to know that they don’t have to do their own laundry, and they don’t have to buy sheets and towels.”
Linen 2 Go will supply whatever linen is needed, collect it when it needs changing, and deliver it back, commercially cleaned, ironed and folded, with prices starting at around $2 per item.
“You save on water and electricity, your time, wear and tear on your linen, drying time, and ironing,” Jill says. “It’s to make people’s lives easier.”
Alan says the range of linen provided is of premium industry quality, and he should know, having spent most of his working life wholesaling and importing textiles for linen companies. The couple started their new business just before Christmas as an extension of an existing business on Waiheke Island, and have had a positive response.
“All of the people who have tried us out – even some who were a bit cautious at the start – they have all come back and are still using us.”
Alan and Jill currently run Linen 2 Go from their home at Rainbows End, which they bought two years ago to escape the rat race in Auckland, but they are looking for a base in Matakana.
“We’ll do anything just to let people see we’re good and reliable. There’s no minimum charge – we’ve had orders from $23.50 to $500,” Alan says. “Give us a try.”
