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Reclaiming a spare room
The most common booking here. 25 to 40 square feet and a room back.
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Dubai · Al Warqa
Storage for Al Warqa — we collect, store and bring it back
No driving to a unit. No van hire. No lifting.
Al Warqa is a long-settled residential area next to Mirdif, and its storage is the storage of people who have not moved in years.
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12.65 AEDPer sqft, per monthVAT included🚚
Door to doorCollected in Al WarqaWe pack and load🗓️
No minimumStore a fortnightor for years↩️
24–48 hoursTypical retrievalall of it or partWhat Al Warqa stores
Why People Here Call Us
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A parent's household
Contents kept rather than dispersed, stored for as long as it takes to decide.
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Villa garages
A decade of things in a space that was meant for a car.
Storage in Al Warqa, Specifically
Al Warqa runs from Al Warqa 1 through 5 off Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road, next to Mirdif and near Mushrif Park, mixing family villas with mid-rise apartment buildings. It is one of the more settled parts of the city — families here have frequently been in the same property for a decade or more, and the population skews towards long-term residents rather than the two-year expat cycle.
That means Al Warqa produces almost no lease-gap bookings and a great many accumulation ones. The typical job is a family that has run out of room rather than one that is moving: a spare bedroom being reclaimed, a garage being cleared, or a household storing the contents of a parent's home. Bookings run 40 to 120 square feet for a flat and 200 to 300 for a villa, and they run long — several years is unremarkable, and because there is no maximum term and no renewal, nothing needs revisiting. Access is generally straightforward with driveway or street parking, though the older apartment buildings in Al Warqa 1 have narrow stairwells and no service lift, which matters for wardrobes and sofas. Mushrif Park's weekend traffic is the one local scheduling factor worth planning around.
Where your things actually go. Your belongings are stored at our Dubai facility, Building 23, Warehouse 5, DIP-1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We collect from your address in Al Warqa, so you do not need to drive anything anywhere. Transport is quoted separately and confirmed before anything is booked.
What the price includes
Everything Except The Bit You Were Dreading
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Collection from your door
Our crew comes to your Al Warqa address, wraps what is going and loads it.
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Measured, not guessed
Billed on the floor space your items occupy, not on a unit size you have to fill.
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Indoors and covered
Multi-angle CCTV covers every corridor, entry point, loading area and storage zone.
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Partial retrieval
Take back one box or everything, normally within 24–48 hours.
How it works
Four Steps
Tell us what you have
A call, a WhatsApp or the quote form. A rough list is enough for us to size it.
We come to Al Warqa
The crew arrives on the agreed date, wraps everything and loads the van.
Stored and logged
Items go into the covered facility under camera, logged so they can be found again.
Delivered back
All of it or part of it, back at the address you choose, usually within 24–48 hours.
Pricing
One Rate, VAT Included
Charged on the space your things actually take up. Transport from Al Warqa is quoted separately and told to you up front rather than added afterwards.
- No minimum storage term
- No charge for the quote or the survey
- Wrapping and loading included in the collection
- Partial retrieval without closing the account
12.65 AEDper square foot, per month
VAT included
VAT included
Questions from Al Warqa
Before You Book
How long can I store for?
As long as you like — there is no maximum term and nothing to renew. Several years is unremarkable here, and billing simply continues monthly on the same space at the same rate.
My building in Al Warqa 1 has no service lift. Is that a problem?
Not a problem, but tell us. The older buildings here have narrow stairwells and no lift, which changes the crew size and the time for wardrobes and large sofas — and occasionally means a piece has to be dismantled that would otherwise go whole.
Do you have a storage facility in Dubai, or is my stuff stored in Dubai?
We operate a warehouse in Dubai, so what we collect in the emirate is stored in the emirate rather than driven to Dubai and back. Your belongings are stored at our Dubai facility, Building 23, Warehouse 5, DIP-1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. What we run on top of that is the collection service: our crew comes to your address, wraps and loads, and takes everything to the facility.
How much does pickup from Dubai cost?
It is quoted on the actual job — your address in Al Warqa, how the access works (lift, stairs, parking) and how much there is to move. We do not price transport from a table, because a ground-floor flat with parking outside and a ninth floor with a booked service lift are not the same job. You get the transport figure and the storage figure before anything is booked, and the number you are given is the number you pay. Storage itself is 12.65 AED per square foot per month, VAT included.
How long does collection from Dubai Marina or Business Bay take?
What decides it is access, not distance. A villa or ground-floor flat with somewhere to park is quick; a high floor in a tower where the service lift has to be booked and shared with other residents takes longer, and that is the single biggest variable in Dubai. When we quote we give you a time window for the day and the crew confirms on arrival. Packing loose items into boxes yourself beforehand is the one thing that reliably shortens it.
I'm moving from Dubai to Dubai — can you hold my things between leases?
Yes, and it is the most common reason people here call us. We empty the property on the day you hand the keys back, hold everything for however long the gap runs, and deliver to the new address once you can receive it. Billing is monthly on the space used with no minimum term, so a twelve-day gap costs twelve days, not a month. If the handover slips again you simply tell us a new date. It works the same in reverse coming into Dubai.
Can I visit my items? How much notice do you need?
Yes — access is arranged on request rather than by turning up, because your things are stored in a working warehouse rather than a unit you hold a key to. Tell us when you would like to come and we book a slot and have your items ready. 24/7 facility access available for existing customers on request. If you only need something back rather than to see it, delivery to your door is usually the easier answer and is normally arranged within 24–48 hours.
What's the minimum storage period and is there a lock-in?
There is no minimum period and no lock-in. Storage is billed month to month on the floor space your items actually occupy, and you can end it whenever you like with no early-termination penalty. A fortnight is charged as a fortnight. There is equally no maximum — some customers store for years — and you can add to or take from what is stored without renegotiating anything.
Do you store during Dubai villa or flat renovations?
Yes, and it is one of the steadier reasons we get called here. We can take the whole property or work room by room as the job moves through it, collecting in stages and delivering back the same way, so you are never paying to store more than you need to. Each collection is quoted before it happens. Tell us roughly how long the work is expected to run — and expect it to overrun, which costs you nothing extra because there is no fixed end date.
Is my furniture insured while in storage?
Ask us for the current cover position in writing before you book, and tell us if you are storing anything high-value — art, antiques, instruments, specialist equipment — so it is addressed on your quote rather than assumed. What we can state plainly is how your things are kept: wrapped before they leave your property, stored off the floor inside a covered warehouse rather than a yard or a container, and logged on a signed inventory at collection so there is a written record of every item. Multi-angle CCTV covers every corridor, entry point, loading area and storage zone.
Do you pack, or do I need to pack myself?
We wrap and load. Furniture is wrapped before it leaves the property, and our crew carries it and handles the lift booking and loading bay — you do not hire a van, carry anything, or negotiate with building management. What is worth doing yourself is boxing up small loose items beforehand: it makes the collection faster and cheaper, because you are billed on the space your things occupy and packed boxes stack where loose belongings do not.
Can students at Dubai International Academic City store over the summer?
Yes, and it is what the end of each term looks like here. Paying to hold a room over a summer you are not in the country for costs far more than storing what is in it. We collect from the residence at the end of term, hold the boxes over the break, and deliver back when the new year starts — to a different address if you have moved. There is no minimum term, so a three-month summer is charged as three months. Book the collection date early: end of term is the busiest fortnight of the year and slots go quickly.
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