When guests ask you for the key to the laundry room, do you ask them not to wash your towels or linens?
No, I don’t. I give them quarters to operate the machines, detergent if they don’t have it, quickly explain how the machines work then tell them where the washing line is - so that their laundry can get that wonderful fresh dried-in-the-sun aroma.
But because most guests stay for just a few days, they’re unlikely to want to wash the towels and bedding. (Although it has happened once or twice).
You have commercial washing machines, more than one!! They must have costed a fortune! Do you limit how many times guests can use your machines?
One of my first guests washed ALL bedding, to my puzzlement. Once they left, a family member confessed that they’d dropped a bottle of oil all over every thing!!!
Oh! So THATS what happened!!!
Luckily they’d done a good job in cleaning it up!!
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No. Because most guests are here for just a few days, so if they want to use them every day (but I can’t imagine why they would!) then that’s okay. They are paying for it, after all. 
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But why do you need to give them so many quarters? How many quarters do they need to wash and dry a load of laundry? How many laundries do a day? That said, a couple of guests made a reservation the same day for staying 3 nights last winter. They were in my city already. My attention was drawn to their 2 enormous suitcases when they arrived on foot because they travelled by public transport. She was very excited to learn that our washing machine is a dryer also. The weather was good but they didn’t go out. Upon check-out, I asked where their next destination was. They said they were going home by train. I then discovered that they had used up all the 6 laundry pods in the bathroom drawer, which meant they had washed all their clothes in the 2 enormous suitcases just before going home? Strange travellers.
Yes, this is sound advice: store the key where only you have access. Label the closet as advised. I agree on not making accusations that you cannot KNOW is true. The guest might not even know about it. Maybe it was the kid?