Ras Al Khaimah is 31 named areas on tamam, strung along one coast from Shaam in the north to Al Jazirah Al Hamra in the south, with Khatt inland at the foot of the mountains. The housing is villas, townhouses and low-rise rather than towers, a good share of the coastal stock is let out to guests, and vendors here work a route rather than a district. This page is what that changes about booking a job.
Ras Al Khaimah is 31 named areas on tamam, against 366 in Dubai. That is less thin coverage than an accurate map: nearly everyone here lives in the city around the creek, in the gated coastal communities south of it, or in the villages strung north toward Musandam.
The mechanics do not change. Describe the job, set the address, and verified vendors covering it return AED ranges; you compare value, mid and premium, then confirm. Trade licence, insurance and technician ID are checked before any vendor is listed.
What changes is the driving. RAK runs along one coastal axis — Shaam and Ghalilah at the top, the city in the middle, Al Hamra Village and Al Jazirah Al Hamra at the bottom, Khatt inland at the foot of the Hajar mountains. A vendor covering both ends drives the length of the emirate, so a slot here behaves like a block of a morning rather than a gap between two other jobs.
29 services, 156 sub-services, the vetting standard, the published AED bands and the three tiers. None of it softens as you go north.
A shorter shortlist than a Dubai address returns, one long coastal route, and housing weighted to villas and low-rise instead of towers.
Of the 31 areas, 24 are typed residential and 7 mixed-use. None is typed hospitality — worth noticing, because Al Marjan Island and Al Hamra Village carry a lot of holiday-home stock. In the coverage list they are residential communities, and that is how they behave when someone books a cleaner: a private unit with an owner or tenant behind it, not a front desk.
The common thread is that RAK housing sits low and spreads wide, which changes jobs more than prices. A villa clean at AED 35–90 per hour runs longer than an apartment clean at the same rate. Painting at AED 25–45 per m² lands somewhere very different on a three-bedroom villa. And a garden and a pool are things plenty of homes here have.
The catalogue is identical in every emirate: 29 services and 156 sub-services against each of the 31 RAK areas. What differs is which of them fit the housing and the distances. This read comes from the stock and the geography, not a demand chart — tamam publishes no booking counts.
| service | why it comes up here | AED band |
|---|---|---|
| cleaning | Villa and townhouse stock at Al Hamra Village and Mina Al Arab means longer jobs than a flat, and let-out units on Al Marjan turn over between guests. Villa and move-out cleaning fit. | AED 35–90 per hour |
| ac maintenance | Sea air one side of the emirate, mountain dust the other. Coil cleaning, duct cleaning and servicing answer that. | AED 150–700 |
| gardening | Private gardens come with villa stock, and plots inland toward Khatt with more of it. Irrigation repair and tree trimming recur. | AED 150–800 |
| pool maintenance | The only band in the catalogue quoted monthly, and it exists because private pools do. Coastal townhouses are where it lands. | AED 300–900 monthly |
| handyman | Furniture assembly, curtain installation, TV mounting: the move-in list, which newer coastal units generate steadily. | AED 100–500 |
| painter | Per square metre, so villa work is a different order to apartment work. Exterior painting counts for more near the sea. | AED 25–45 per m² |
| pest control | Water and greenery drive it: the creek, the mangrove edges at Mina Al Arab and Hayat Island, farm plots at Khatt. | AED 150–600 |
| car wash | Errands here are drives. Mobile car wash comes to the parking bay instead of costing you the trip. | AED 30–120 |
| doctor at home | For an address in Khatt, Al Rams or Shaam a home visit removes a drive in and back. DHA or DoH licensed clinicians attend. | AED 300–800 |
| laundry | Pickup and delivery, curtain and duvet cleaning included — suits a villa, and a between-guests turnaround. | AED 30–150 |
These are not Ras Al Khaimah prices. They are the catalogue bands, identical on every emirate page, because they describe the job and not the address. Pricing sets out why the number is always a range.
A vendor turning your description into a number weighs a short list. Four items on it carry more weight here than in a tower emirate.
Distance is on neither list. The published bands are UAE-wide guide ranges, so there is no northern-emirates line in the catalogue; the drive shows up as fewer slots on a given day. Parts — AC gas, a tap, a battery, paint — are quoted separately and approved by you first, and worth flagging early on an address in Shaam or Ghalilah.
Alphabetical lists are useless for planning a visit, so here is the coverage list grouped by where it sits.
| stretch of the emirate | what is listed there | areas |
|---|---|---|
| the city and the creek | Ras Al Khaimah City, RAK Corniche Area, Julphar Towers, Dafan Al Nakheel, Al Nakheel, Julfar, Al Uraibi, Al Qusaidat, Khuzam, Al Dhait, Al Seer and Al Qurm. Apartment blocks and villa districts, almost all low-rise. | 13 |
| the southern coast | Al Hamra Village, Al Marjan Island, Mina Al Arab, Hayat Island, Al Jazirah Al Hamra, Bay Residences, Gateway Residences and Pacific. Gated master-plans of villas, townhouses and low-rise apartments, with a large share of holiday-home stock. | 11 |
| north and inland | Al Rams, Shaam, Ghalilah, Shamal, Dhayah and Khatt. Coastal villages under the Hajar mountains, plus the date-farm belt inland at Khatt. | 6 |
| the emirate itself | One emirate-level entry, for anyone searching Ras Al Khaimah as a whole rather than a named community. | 1 |
If your address is not on that list — a plot past Shaam, a house on the Jebel Jais road, a compound between Khatt and the city — book to the nearest listed community and put the exact location in the access notes. Matching runs on the address you enter. Every area has a page in the areas index.
The app is free to download and free to browse, so checking who covers an address in Al Qusaidat or Mina Al Arab costs nothing. Or message tamam on whatsapp at +971 50 601 1938 — also the route for an address up north the area list does not name.
31 named areas in three groups: the city and creek districts (Ras Al Khaimah City, RAK Corniche Area, Julphar Towers, Dafan Al Nakheel, Al Dhait, Al Seer, Al Qusaidat, Khuzam, Al Uraibi, Al Nakheel, Julfar, Al Qurm); the southern coast (Al Hamra Village, Al Marjan Island, Mina Al Arab, Hayat Island, Al Jazirah Al Hamra, Bay Residences, Gateway Residences, Pacific); and north and inland (Al Rams, Shaam, Ghalilah, Shamal, Dhayah, Khatt).
No. The published AED bands are UAE-wide guide ranges for the job: cleaning is AED 35–90 per hour and ac maintenance AED 150–700 here exactly as anywhere else. Distance affects availability instead — a long route means fewer slots on a given day, not a higher band.
Yes. Both are listed as residential areas, so a let-out unit books the same way a home does. Cleaning runs AED 35–90 per hour over a typical 2–6 hours and covers deep, move-in and move-out cleans plus sofa, carpet, window and mattress work. Say when the unit must be ready and who is handing over access.
A day ahead is the sensible default. Coverage here is 31 areas rather than Dubai's 366, so the shortlist is shorter, and a vendor may be fitting your slot into a route running from Shaam down to Al Jazirah Al Hamra.
Those areas are listed, so set the address and see who responds — handyman is AED 100–500 and plumber AED 120–600. Expect fewer names than the city returns, and flag anything needing a part: the second trip out to the northern villages is a long one.
Gardening at AED 150–800 covers landscaping, lawn maintenance, tree trimming and irrigation repair. Pool maintenance is AED 300–900 monthly, the only band quoted by the month, covering scheduled visits of 1–2 hours each. Villa cleaning, exterior painting and pest control round out the set.
All seven: nursing at AED 80–200 per hour, a doctor at home at AED 300–800, blood tests, lab tests, physiotherapy, iv therapy and eye tests, delivered by DHA or DoH licensed clinicians. For an address in Khatt or Al Rams the value is largely the removed drive. Nothing here is medical advice.
Book to the nearest listed community and put the exact location in the access notes — matching runs on the address you enter, not the area label. If nothing comes back, message tamam on whatsapp and a coordinator arranges a vendor through the same vetted network.
Set the address, describe the job, and compare AED ranges from verified vendors who cover it. Free to download, free to browse, and you pay only when you book.