Windsor Residence
Windsor Residence rises 37 storeys above Dubailand Residence Complex, and most of what makes a stay here easy sits inside the tower itself. The homes run from studios to three-bedroom apartments, so one lift carries solo travellers, couples and families. The next few sections start in the building, then step out to the complex around it, then to who it suits and how you get about.
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On this page
- A wet floor with heat on tap
- The play area and four parking levels
- Bread, milk and the podium shop
- Doors, desk and daily upkeep
- What surrounds the tower
- Across the road and next door
- Why the ground has the name it has
- Who gets the studio and who gets three bedrooms
- Classrooms for a longer stay
- Pharmacy, clinic and the long drive
- Dinner without a long drive
- Open air in the cooler months
- From the arrivals hall to the lobby
- Two big roads and a bus
- If you own here
- Where to start
- Sources
- Frequently Asked Questions
A wet floor with heat on tap
Think of the pool, the gym, the sauna, the steam room and the jacuzzi as one long evening rather than five separate rooms. You swim or lift first, then move through the sauna and the steam room, and finish in the jacuzzi, and by the time you dry off and walk to the lift the day has cooled outside and the evening is yours. Residents have all of it without leaving the building, which matters in July when a walk to anywhere is a bad idea. The jacuzzi is where the evening ends.
This suits a stay longer than a weekend. A traveller who is working or recovering from a long flight uses a pool and a steam room every day, and a short trip rarely lets you build that habit. If you only want a bed and a window, you pay for a lot of facilities you will not touch.
The play area and four parking levels
A play area for children sits in the building, so a family with a toddler has somewhere to burn off an hour before dinner without crossing a road or strapping anyone into a car seat. Parking for residents is built into the tower. Four levels are given to it, which is the reason a hired car is easy to live with here. You are not circling blocks at night looking for a gap.
Bread, milk and the podium shop
A supermarket sits within the building or its podium, which makes the first-evening shop a lift ride rather than an errand. Shua Al Madina is 0.41 km from the tower if the podium shelves lack something. That is a short stroll.
Inside the community, Shua Al Madina Supermarket trades from Durar 1, and West Zone Fresh Supermarket trades from the ground floor of Desert Sun Tower. For the big weekly shop, Silicon Central Mall beside Dubai Silicon Oasis has a hypermarket, fashion stores, a cinema and cafes. Silicon Central Mall is 1.96 km from the tower. Desert Sun Tower has its own page if you want to compare it with this one.
Doors, desk and daily upkeep
The reception desk is your first stop. Security and CCTV cover the building, and maintenance services are provided on site. In practice that means a key question gets an answer at the desk, and a light or a tap that fails has someone to report it to. For a long stay this is the part you notice after the second week, long after the pool has stopped being new and the sauna has become part of the routine.
What surrounds the tower
Dubailand Residence Complex is a mixed-use area of mostly mid-rise apartment blocks with a few high-rise towers, plus hotels, retail, schools and commercial plots. Low and mid-rise towers are grouped in clusters rather than around one centre, so the streets are low-density. Skycourts is a six-tower complex within the community. Its towers stand 0.59 km from Windsor Residence, and Skycourts Towers has its own guide as well.
Homes across the area range from studios to three-bedroom apartments, and the area is freehold, open to UAE nationals and foreign buyers.
Across the road and next door
Dubai Silicon Oasis, directly across Dubai-Al Ain Road, is a free zone with a startup hub, a university campus and gated villa enclaves, unlike the apartment blocks of the Residence Complex. The Villa, to the south-west, has Spanish-style homes in four clusters. Each neighbour has a different feel. Neither has a compact street grid. Inside the complex, Solitaire Cascades is another tower with a page of its own.
Why the ground has the name it has
The wider Dubailand project was announced in 2003. It was put on hold in 2008 and resumed in mid-2013. Tatweer, part of Dubai Holding, developed it. The pause was long. That long pause is one reason the clusters around the tower were built in different waves.
Who gets the studio and who gets three bedrooms
A studio suits one person. A work trip fits it best, because the gym and the pool give you a day's routine without a car. A one-bedroom fits a couple who want a quiet week, and the jacuzzi does the work of a restaurant evening. Two- and three-bedroom apartments give a family or a group of friends room to spread out, with the play area downstairs for the youngest.
A tower of this height shares a lot between its floors. You are one among many in the lift at eight in the morning. It suits you less if you want a boutique building with a handful of neighbours.
Classrooms for a longer stay
GEMS FirstPoint School is 0.98 km away, and it teaches a British curriculum. The school is in The Villa, the neighbouring community to the south-west. Chubby Cheeks Nursery and Step by Step Nursery are both inside the community, which matters if you travel with a small child.
Pharmacy, clinic and the long drive
LIFE Pharmacy is 1.52 km from the tower, and HealthHub Clinic is 1.69 km from the tower. No large hospital sits inside the community, though smaller clinics and pharmacies operate within it. HLG Umar is the nearest hospital, 2.97 km out, so for anything serious you would drive.
Dinner without a long drive
A drive-thru strip and neighbourhood plazas have Burger King, Texas Chicken, Chaa Bazaar, Falaknuma and Spice N Nice. For a sit-down meal, Four Square Cafe and Restaurant serves international dishes, Al Fatayir Al Dumashqia serves Middle Eastern food and Kabila Restaurant serves South Asian food.
Open air in the cooler months
Global Village and Dubai Miracle Garden both run only from October to May, so their outdoor evenings and flower displays belong to the cooler winter season. Global Village brings together more than 90 cultures. Country pavilions, shopping and food stalls fill the site. Between May and October the tower's pool and steam room do the work of an afternoon out.
From the arrivals hall to the lobby
Dubai International Airport (DXB) is 24.6 km from the tower, about 26 minutes by road. A taxi brings you to the building in one leg, and the reception desk is the first stop.
Two big roads and a bus
The community sits at the junction of Dubai-Al Ain Road and Emirates Road. Both carry traffic towards Downtown Dubai and the rest of the city, and both give road access to Academic City and DXB.
The community has no Dubai Metro station of its own. Feeder bus services link it to nearby metro stations, and RTA Bus 30 serves stops inside the community. Bus 30 connects onward to Dubai Mall Metro Station. Al Ruwyah Bus Depot is 1.11 km from the tower, and most journeys are made by car.
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 Dubai holiday home management explains the wider picture.
Where to start
Begin with the pool floor on your first evening and the podium supermarket the next morning. Those two stops tell you most about daily life here. Centro Courtyard 11 is 1.1 km away if you want to walk further.
Sources
Sources: dubizzle blog, Bayut area guide, Property Finder area insights, Wikipedia, Global Village official site, Bayut, Propsearch.
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