Ruby Residence
Deyaar developed Ruby Residence, an 8-storey building in Dubai Silicon Oasis. The homes are apartments of one to three bedrooms. That range suits a business traveller as well as a family, and eight floors keep the building small enough to find your way around on the first evening.
Developer
Deyaar Development
Storeys
8
Unit mix
1, 2 & 3-bed
Location
Dubai Silicon Oasis (Nadd Hessa)
On this page
- Eight floors and a roof
- Your first evening
- For two: the sauna and steam room
- With children: play area and school
- Younger children and nurseries
- A week in the building
- With a laptop
- No metro station, but buses
- Roads and the morning peak
- Silicon Central and the weekly shop
- Smaller grocery runs
- Parks and the lake path
- Cooler months and hot afternoons
- Dinner out
- A hospital and clinics
- Day trips by car
- Where the community came from
- Gyms and visiting family
- Mosques and villa clusters
- What to weigh
- If you own here
- Sources
- Frequently Asked Questions
Eight floors and a roof
Dubai Silicon Oasis is a self-contained, mixed-use development that combines residential, commercial, educational and leisure space, run by the Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority, with residential towers and gated villa clusters. Ruby Residence sits among the residential buildings at a modest height. Eight storeys mean a short lift ride. The roof or deck area gives you a place above the street, while the landscaped gardens at ground level give you somewhere to sit once the afternoon heat has passed and the evening starts to cool.
Your first evening
Dubai International Airport (DXB) is the only airport you need, and it is 21.8 km from the building by road. Once the bags are down, you can reach Jannath Al Madina, 0.18 km from the building, for milk and water. Aster Clinic, 0.22 km from the building, helps if a child has a fever overnight, and no taxi is needed. A cafe or restaurant on site covers the first coffee, so the morning after arrival starts without a walk to the shops. Security and CCTV cover the building. Parking is available if you arrive by car.
For two: the sauna and steam room
A couple gets the most from the wellness floor. The building has a sauna and a steam room, and a gym sits inside it as well. For a second option, FitGym is 0.37 km from the building. You can split a day between the pool and the heat rooms and still be back for dinner, with no taxi and no booking.
With children: play area and school
The building has a play area for children and a swimming pool. GEMS Wellington Academy Silicon Oasis is 0.36 km from the building and teaches from Nursery to Year 13 with British and IB pathways, which matters if you are relocating with school-age children and want a school run measured in minutes.
Younger children and nurseries
Emirates British Nursery takes children from 3 months to 4 years and follows the EYFS curriculum. Toddlers International Nursery, in Silicon Gates 1, follows the EYFS curriculum too. You can compare both before a longer stay.
A week in the building
A week here has a rhythm you can plan around. Weekday mornings start in the gym, the pool takes the hour after, and the sauna and steam room close the evening for anyone back from a day of meetings. A one-bedroom apartment is enough for that routine. The two-bedroom and three-bedroom homes stretch it to a family. The roof or deck area closes the week.
With a laptop
A residents' lounge or function room offers a quiet corner away from the flat. The cafe on site is the other desk. Between them you can split a working day.
No metro station, but buses
The nearest bus stop, Silicon Oasis Lake, is 0.13 km from the building. The community has no metro station of its own, so you reach the network by bus or taxi. Centrepoint on the Red Line is the metro station most often suggested, with RTA bus 320 covering the last leg. RTA route X25 links Al Karama Bus Station with Dubai Silicon Oasis.
Roads and the morning peak
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311) and Dubai Al Ain Road (E66) run beside the community. Traffic builds up at the main entrances and exits in the morning and evening peaks, so leave a gap if a flight depends on it. Taxis and private cars are the way in and out.
Silicon Central and the weekly shop
Silicon Central is the nearest mall, at 1.6 km from the building. It has more than 150 stores, with Lulu Hypermarket and Brands For Less as anchor tenants. The Lulu hypermarket in the mall is where the full grocery shop happens inside the community.
Smaller grocery runs
Al Maya sits in Silicon Gates 1 and Green Belt Supermarket in the IT Plaza building, for smaller daily shops. A Carrefour Market operates at Binghatti Terraces, with a bakery and a butcher counter. Souq Extra is a retail strip with more than 30 outlets, among them Carrefour, KFC, McDonald's and Starbucks.
Parks and the lake path
Silicon Park has sports courts and children's play areas, with open green space around them. DSO Lake Ecological Park, on 57 Street, is open 24 hours and has a lake with paved paths for walking and jogging. DSO North Park, by IT Plaza, adds a football court and a running track.
Cooler months and hot afternoons
The 24-hour lake park and the other open parks have jogging and cycling routes that suit the cooler winter months. In the hot summer months Fabyland and Total Ninja at Silicon Central keep running, which gives families indoor options.
Dinner out
Casual dining in the community covers Indian and Italian cuisine as well as Lebanese, while the hotels add restaurants and bars. Costa Coffee and Starbucks operate in the shopping centres for a morning coffee.
A hospital and clinics
Fakeeh University Hospital is open 24 hours. It stands 0.82 km from the building. Academic City, next door, is where it stands, and it serves the community from there. Medi Family PolyClinic in SIT Tower offers general practice and specialist services, and Symbiosis Medical Centre in Cedre Village covers family medicine and paediatrics.
Day trips by car
Dubai Safari Park, IMG Worlds of Adventure and Global Village are the visitor attractions people combine with a stay here. Global Village and IMG Worlds are each about a 20-minute drive away, while the safari park is nearer. Each trip needs a car or taxi.
Where the community came from
Dubai Silicon Oasis was set up by the Dubai government as a free-trade zone, and it opened in 2004 as a hub for innovation and technology. It covers 7.2 square kilometres in Nadd Hessa.
Gyms and visiting family
Nitro Gym is in Apricot Towers and Gym Nation is on the top floor of Souq Extra Mall, for a class the building does not run. Fitness First is in Dubai Digital Park. Radisson Red, inside Dubai Digital Park, suits visiting family if your flat is full.
Mosques and villa clusters
The community has several mosques within the villa clusters and residential zones. Ruby Residence itself offers apartments of one to three bedrooms, so a larger group should look at the villa clusters instead.
What to weigh
No metro, traffic at the entries and exits and limited nightlife come with the community. If you want a larger building, look at Silicon Gates IV or Dunes, which each have their own guide.
If you own here
Dubai requires a DET holiday home permit for each unit before it is listed. A building or owners' association no-objection certificate may be needed on top of that, and many buildings run a registration process for arrivals. Royale Stays manages homes for owners from a management fee of 15%, covering furnishing, photography, pricing, check-in, guest communication and maintenance. Our notes on managing a Dubai apartment cover the wider picture.
Sources
Sources: Bayut, GEMS Education school page, Bayut area guide, Property Finder blog, RTA news, Property Finder area insights, Wikipedia, Property Finder, betterhomes, Houst, Propsearch.
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