Ajmal Sarah Tower
Ajmal Sarah Tower is a 15-storey block in Dubailand Residence Complex, developed by Ajmal Properties, with homes that run from studios up to three-bedroom apartments. The swimming pool and the jacuzzi sit up on the roof deck. This page starts with an ordinary month in the building and the roof deck, then widens out to the cafes and roads of the complex, the clinics and schools, the shopping run and the points that may put you off.
Developer
Ajmal Properties
Storeys
15
On this page
- A month of ordinary days
- The roof deck at the end of the day
- Breakfast downstairs, dinner across the road
- Which road, which bus
- Reading the clusters around the tower
- Clinics and nurseries
- Students and sixth-formers
- Milk and bread at the podium
- What to weigh before you book
- Where the ground came from
- If you own here
- Where to start
- Sources
- Frequently Asked Questions
A month of ordinary days
Think of the first week as a routine, not a holiday. You wake in a studio or a one-bedroom, ride the lift down past the reception desk and find a supermarket in the building or its podium. Laundry goes to the service on site. Nobody asks you to start a car, and that is the quiet argument for a block that carries its own errands.
The mix of homes shapes who you meet in the corridor. Studios and one-bedrooms suit one person or a couple on a longer stay. The two and three-bedroom apartments give a family room to spread out. Security guards and CCTV cover the building around the clock, and maintenance services sit on site, so a failed light or a dripping tap is not yours to chase across the city.
The roof deck at the end of the day
On most evenings the roof is where you end up. Residents swim in the pool on the rooftop, and a jacuzzi sits on one side of it, which makes the deck the one place in the tower where the whole building meets. A gym inside the building covers the early workout that the heat outside rules out for much of the year, so a morning workout is a lift ride away and not a trip across the complex.
Parking for residents keeps a hired car in the building between trips. Beyond the tower, UFC GYM operates in Dubai Silicon Oasis. Nitro Gym operates there too, across Dubai-Al Ain Road.
Breakfast downstairs, dinner across the road
Cafes and restaurants share the same podium, so a coffee needs no plan and a quick lunch needs no booking. When you want a sit-down table, Four Square Cafe and Restaurant serves international dishes. Al Fatayir Al Dumashqia serves Middle Eastern food, and Kabila Restaurant serves South Asian food. Between them you can eat a different cuisine each night of a long stay.
A drive-thru strip holds Burger King and Texas Chicken. Neighbourhood plazas add Chaa Bazaar and Falaknuma, plus Spice N Nice, which gives a long stay a few dependable evenings that need no reservation. Spinneys The Villa is mapped as a restaurant too. It sits in the neighbouring community to the south-west.
Which road, which bus
The complex sits at the junction of Dubai-Al Ain Road (E66) and Emirates Road (E611), the two roads that carry traffic towards Downtown Dubai and the rest of the city. Dubai Silicon Oasis sits directly across Dubai-Al Ain Road. Crossing that road is the link between the two.
The complex has no Dubai Metro station of its own. Feeder buses link it to nearby metro stations, and RTA Bus 30 serves stops inside the community before it connects onward to Dubai Mall Metro Station. Most trips are made by car.
Arriving from Dubai International Airport (DXB) means a road transfer. Dubai-Al Ain Road and Emirates Road run alongside the complex, so a taxi from the terminal reaches the tower in one leg.
Reading the clusters around the tower
The complex is a mixed-use area of mostly mid-rise apartment blocks with a few high-rise towers, with hotels and retail alongside. Towers are grouped in clusters rather than around one centre. The streets are low-density. Skycourts is a six-tower complex within the community. You can read about its neighbours on the pages for Skycourts Towers and Desert Sun Tower.
For green space, Circle Park is run by Dubai Properties. Hill Park is run by Villanova. So is Amaranta Park, which has a playground. Each is a small neighbourhood patch, a place for a stroll after dinner and not a day out. Bring the children to Amaranta Park for the playground.
Clinics and nurseries
Ace Medical Centres has a clinic in Skycourts Tower. Dubai London Clinic operates in The Villa next door. No large hospital sits inside the complex. Smaller clinics and pharmacies operate within it. Mediclinic Parkview Hospital in Al Barsha South is the nearest named hospital. You would go by car for anything serious.
If you are travelling with small children in a three-bedroom, Chubby Cheeks Nursery and Step by Step Nursery are both inside the complex. GEMS FirstPoint School sits in The Villa. It teaches a British curriculum for ages 3 to 18. The Aquila School follows a British curriculum. It is adapted to the UAE.
Students and sixth-formers
Dubai International Academic City on Dubai-Al Ain Road holds 27 colleges and universities, including Heriot-Watt University Dubai and Curtin University Dubai. If you are here for a term of study, that campus cluster sits on the road the complex runs beside, which suits a studio or a one-bedroom on a lease of a few months. At sixth-form level, The Aquila School offers the IB Diploma Programme and BTEC Level 3 pathways for older students.
Milk and bread at the podium
Retail units share the podium with that supermarket. That makes the weekly shop a matter of minutes and turns a forgotten item into a lift ride rather than a trip. Further into the complex, Shua Al Madina Supermarket trades from Durar 1, and West Zone Fresh Supermarket trades from the ground floor of Desert Sun Tower. If you rent a month here, the cupboard stays full without a single taxi.
KP Mart operates at Abidos Hotel Apartments, and smaller grocers such as Al Ajwa Mini Mart and Blue Mart sit beside the Sondos blocks. For a big weekend shop with a cinema thrown in, Silicon Central Mall beside Dubai Silicon Oasis has a hypermarket and fashion stores, plus a cinema and cafes.
What to weigh before you book
It suits you less if you want a walkable street scene. Dubai Silicon Oasis is a free zone with a startup hub, a university campus and gated villa enclaves. The Villa has Spanish-style homes in four clusters. Neither neighbour gives you a high street, and the complex itself is mainly apartment blocks, so the pace you find here is closer to a quiet residential cluster than to a district with a promenade.
The honest trade is distance, because with no metro station and no large hospital in the complex, most plans start with a car or taxi, so the parking in the building counts for more here than it would in the city centre. If you compare blocks here, Windsor Residence is another block to look at.
Where the ground came from
The wider Dubailand project was put on hold in 2008 and resumed in mid-2013. Tatweer, part of Dubai Holding, developed it. Across the road, Silicon Oasis became independent in 2005.
If you own here
If you own here, the community is a freehold area, so UAE nationals and foreign investors can buy apartments there. Royale Stays manages homes for owners at a management fee from 15%. The service covers furnishing and photography. It also covers pricing and check-in, plus guest communications and maintenance coordination. Our guide to holiday home management in Dubai explains the wider picture.
Where to start
Begin with the supermarket in the podium and the roof deck. Those two stops tell you most about daily life in a block of this size. If both suit your routine, the rest of the complex is a bonus you can reach by car or bus.
Sources
Sources: Bayut area guide, dubizzle blog, Property Finder area insights, Wikipedia, The Aquila School official site, Bayut.
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