Sarai Apartments, Palm Jumeirah
Sarai Apartments is a seven-storey hotel-style building on The Crescent, Palm Jumeirah, developed by Al Osaimi Group and completed in 2019. The building offers furnished one, two and three-bedroom apartments alongside ground-floor retail units, with private beach access, a shared pool, landscaped gardens and a gym set right on the water. Short-term letting is already active here under at least two operator brands, a useful real-world signal for anyone considering the same for their own unit.
Developer
Al Osaimi Group
Location
Palm Jumeirah, The Crescent
Building Type
Hotel-style tower, 7 storeys
Completed
2019
About Sarai Apartments
Sarai Apartments is a seven-storey, hotel-style building on The Crescent, Palm Jumeirah, developed by Al Osaimi Group. Construction wrapped in 2019, delivering furnished one, two and three-bedroom apartments plus a handful of ground-floor retail units suited to cafes, pharmacies and other small businesses serving residents and guests.
'Sarai' is a common Persian, Urdu and Hindi word (a rest-house or inn) and a common place name across South Asia. This page is specifically about the completed Palm Jumeirah apartment building of that name, not a generic sarai or an unrelated project elsewhere.
Location and Nearby Landmarks
The Crescent puts Sarai Apartments on the curved outer arm of Palm Jumeirah, with several established resort hotels within a short walk or drive, including Sofitel Dubai The Palm Resort & Spa, Anantara Dubai The Palm and the Royal Atlantis Resort & Residences.
For a fuller picture of the whole island, from the Trunk to the Fronds and both Crescents, see Royale Stays' Palm Jumeirah area guide. Owners comparing other Crescent buildings can also look at Royal Amwaj Residences, another apartment building on the same stretch of the island.
Unit Types
One-bedroom apartments run from around 1,020 to 1,200 sq ft with two bathrooms. Two-bedroom units come in at roughly 1,615 sq ft with three bathrooms, and three-bedroom apartments range from 2,368 up to 4,500 sq ft with four bathrooms. All units are furnished, and most balconies face the Arabian Gulf or the wider Palm Jumeirah development.
Unit-size figures are sourced to a single portal (Bayut's building guide) and have not been independently cross-confirmed by a second source at time of writing -- treat as a strong reference point, not a guaranteed exact figure for every unit.
Amenities and Lifestyle
Sarai Apartments is built around its beachfront setting: private beach access and a shared swimming pool sit alongside landscaped gardens, a fully-equipped gym and covered, access-card-controlled parking.
Round-the-clock concierge and security staff, plus a CCTV system covering entry and exit points, round out the building's day-to-day operation. A small retail strip at ground level covers everyday convenience needs without leaving the building.
Transportation & Access
From Sarai Apartments it is roughly a 9-minute drive to the Palm Jumeirah gateway, 21 minutes to The Walk at JBR, 22 minutes to Burj Al Arab and 26 minutes to Dubai Mall in typical traffic. Dubai International Airport (DXB) is around 34 minutes away by car, and Al Maktoum International Airport around 44 minutes.
Rental & Price Trends
Live portal listings for Sarai Apartments show yearly rents of roughly AED 120,000 for a one-bedroom, AED 165,000 for a two-bedroom, and up to AED 269,900 for a three-bedroom plus maid's room, most quoted with beach access included. These are portal-listed asking prices at the time of writing, not an independently verified average, and actual achievable rates vary by exact unit, floor and view.
Owners weighing a specific unit's earning potential, whether as a long-term let or a short-term rental, can run their own numbers through Royale Stays' Dubai property ROI calculator.
Airbnb and Short-Term Rental Potential
Short-term letting is already happening at Sarai Apartments today, not just theoretically possible. At least two operator brands run live, bookable holiday-home listings out of this building: one under the GLOBALSTAY name (listed on Booking.com, Agoda, Trivago and TripAdvisor), and a separate dedicated holiday-apartments product run by fam Living, both marketing private-pool and beachfront units at this exact address.
Sarai Apartments is classified by property portals as a hotel-style building rather than a standard freehold residential tower. As with other hotel or serviced-apartment buildings on Palm Jumeirah, the DTCM holiday-home permit here is arranged through the building's own management company rather than as a standalone owner application. This is a normal, established route, not a barrier: the two live operator listings above confirm the process and the guest demand both already work at this address.
Royale Stays manages Airbnb and short-term rental units across Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Marina, Downtown Dubai, JBR and Business Bay for a fee starting from 15%, covering furnishing, photography, pricing, check-in, guest communications and maintenance coordination. Owners ready to move forward can submit their property for a free earnings estimate, or call +971566424239 to talk through what a unit here could realistically earn.
No building-specific occupancy or nightly-rate figures were independently confirmed for this guide; the two competitor listings referenced above confirm live STR activity exists at this address, not specific earnings figures.
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