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tamam connects Marasi Drive households and businesses with vetted cleaning providers. You see the options, the AED range and the availability, then book directly.
Because Marasi Drive is a mix of residential, commercial and hospitality, so vendors here handle home, office and hotel jobs interchangeably, the practical details differ from other parts of Dubai: how a vendor gets in, where they park, and which hours actually work.
Demand here is high, so slots move quickly — booking a day ahead usually gets you the window you actually want. Most move out cleaning jobs in this kind of area take around 2–6 hours, though access and scope shift that.
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move out cleaning generally falls in the AED 35–90 per hour band. Comparing several verified vendors on the same job description is what stops you overpaying.
| what needs doing | the honest band |
|---|---|
| Materials and supplies surcharge, per visit | AED 10–30 |
| Regular clean, 2-bed apartment (3–4 hours) | AED 120–350 |
| Deep clean, 1–2 bed apartment | AED 400–900 |
| Move-in / move-out clean, apartment | AED 400–900 |
| Sofa or mattress shampoo, per piece | AED 100–300 |
Treat these as guide bands. The vendor you select confirms the exact price in-app before the job begins.
The headline number in the UAE market is an hourly rate per cleaner, and it sits in a wide band of roughly AED 35–90. At the bottom you are usually getting one cleaner, no supplies, a weekday daytime slot, and a company that keeps overheads thin. At the top you are paying for provided materials, a supervisor, weekend or evening timing, insurance cover for breakages, and sometimes simply a brand premium in areas like Downtown Dubai or Saadiyat where companies know clients rarely compare.
Break the hour apart and the cost structure is consistent across the Emirates: the cleaner's wage and accommodation, transport between jobs, consumables if included, the company's trade licence and visa costs, and margin. That is why a rate of AED 25–30 per hour should worry you rather than please you — at that price something is being skipped, usually either the worker's legal status or any accountability when your glass dining table cracks.
Hourly booking is flexible and suits irregular needs — a pre-guest tidy, a post-party recovery, a one-off before an inspection. But per-hour rates on ad-hoc bookings sit at the top of the band, typically AED 50–90 with materials. If you are booking the same visit every week, you are paying a premium for flexibility you are not using.
Packages flip that. A monthly plan of one four-hour visit per week commonly lands around AED 550–1,300 depending on emirate and materials. Worked back per hour, that is often AED 35–65 — noticeably below the same visits booked one by one. The trade-off is commitment: check cancellation terms, whether unused visits roll over, and what happens during your annual leave, because a package that charges for four August visits while you are abroad has quietly erased its own discount.
Every cleaning quote in the UAE answers a slightly different question, which is why comparing headline rates misleads. First fix the job: bedrooms and bathrooms, floor type, materials included or not, whether you need ironing or interior-cabinet work. Then ask each vendor to price that exact scope. A vendor that revises its estimate after hearing details is being accurate, not evasive.
Reprice everything as total AED, then sanity-check the time assumption. A studio takes two to three hours; a two-bed apartment three to four; a villa five to eight cleaner-hours. A quote assuming two hours for a four-bedroom villa is not a bargain — it is a plan to leave early, or to call you mid-visit asking for more hours at a rate you can no longer negotiate. This is the single most common way cheap quotes become expensive visits.
Not everything fits neatly into an app form. For anything custom in Marasi Drive, whatsapp a coordinator and it gets handled manually.
Dubai is the deepest and most price-dispersed market: the same two-bed clean can be quoted at AED 35–50 per hour by a company based in Al Quoz and AED 70–90 by one marketing to the Palm and Downtown. Tower communities add friction worth planning for — many Emaar, Nakheel and JLT buildings require cleaning staff to register at security with company ID, and some restrict service-lift hours. Move-out cleans matter disproportionately here: with Ejari-registered tenancies and frequent deposit disputes, a documented professional clean with photos is cheap insurance.
The vetting happens before a vendor is listed — municipality licence, valid insurance, identifiable staff — so the comparison you make is between businesses that already cleared the bar.
Underbooking is the classic trap: the team runs out of time, and you either accept a half-finished home or buy extra hours on the spot with zero negotiating position. Book realistic hours for the first visit, then trim once you have seen actual finish times.
One session with vinegar or a supermarket descaler can etch cloudy patches across a marble floor that only grinding and repolishing at AED 15–40 per square metre will remove. Confirm pH-neutral products at booking, and if you supply materials, remove the wrong bottles from reach entirely.
A genuine deep clean holds its value for months; a company proposing one every four weeks is selling regular cleaning in expensive packaging. Two or three deep cleans a year plus disciplined weekly maintenance is the cost-efficient rhythm for almost every UAE home.
Not automatically — weekday, no-materials rates from lean Sharjah or Ajman companies legitimately sit there. It becomes a red flag combined with no trade licence, cash-only payment, or staff who are not the company's own employees, because then there is no accountability for damage. Verify the company, not just the price.
For regular weekly cleaning, your own kit usually pays for itself within two to three months against a surcharge of AED 10–30 per visit, and lets you control what touches marble and delicate surfaces. For deep cleans, pay the inclusive rate — the machinery is the point.
Two to three times a year for most UAE apartments, plus always at move-in and move-out. Homes near construction or with heavy shamal exposure may justify quarterly. More often than that and you are buying regular cleaning at deep-clean prices.
Yes, and you should — a cleaner who knows your home works noticeably faster by the third visit, which is a real saving on hourly billing. Rebooking the same vendor through the tamam app is the practical way to keep that continuity without a contract.
Below roughly ten to twelve genuinely needed hours a week, almost always — the full cost of sponsorship including visa, insurance, accommodation, flights and gratuity commonly reaches AED 30,000–60,000 a year, well above the salary figure people quote. Above twenty hours, or where the role includes childcare and cooking, live-in starts to make sense.
Marasi Drive is within our Dubai coverage. Open the app to see which vendors have slots near you today.
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