The word "facility" does a lot of work in this industry. It can mean a purpose-built, climate-controlled building with cameras and individual unit alarms, or it can mean a row of shipping containers behind a warehouse. Both get advertised as a storage facility in Dubai, and the price difference usually tells you which one you are looking at.
This page explains what ours is, what to look for in any storage facility, and what to ask before you sign.
Security is the first thing every facility claims and the easiest thing to check. Four things matter, and you can verify all of them on a viewing.
A facility where anyone can walk in off the street is not secure, whatever is fitted to the units themselves.
Footage of the front gate does not help if the problem happened three doors down. Coverage should follow you to your unit.
You should be the only person holding a key to your own space. Ask who else can open it, and listen carefully to the answer.
If nobody can tell you who came in and when, nobody can investigate anything either.
Our facility is monitored by CCTV around the clock, units are individually secured, and access is controlled rather than open. Ask us to show you any of it when you visit — it is a reasonable request, and you should be wary of anywhere that will not.
This is the difference that costs people the most money, and it is invisible until the damage is done.
Dubai summers put stored belongings under sustained heat and humidity. In an unconditioned space, wooden joints loosen and veneer lifts, leather dries and cracks, electronics corrode quietly on the inside, documents stick together, and fabric grows mould in a sealed box.
None of it shows the week you put it in. It shows the day you take it out, months later.
Every unit at our facility is climate controlled and fully air conditioned. If you are comparing us with somewhere cheaper, this is usually the line item that explains the gap, and it is the one worth paying for on anything you actually care about.
A facility you cannot reach easily is one you stop visiting, which defeats the point of renting it. Two questions are worth asking anywhere you look: when can I come, and how far is the walk from where I park to my unit?
Ours is set up so you can get to your unit when you need it, with trolleys available, lifts where there are floors, and parking close to the entrance rather than at the other end of a compound. If you are moving a lot in or out at once, tell us in advance and we will keep the loading area clear for you.
The facility is in Dubai Production City, within a straightforward drive of most of the city and well clear of the worst congestion. For anyone in Dubai Marina, JVC, Motor City, Barsha or Business Bay, it is an easy run rather than a trip across town.
Location sounds like a minor detail next to price and security. In practice it decides whether the unit stays useful to you, or becomes a thing you mean to deal with one day.
Beyond the units themselves, the things that make a facility work day to day are mundane: good lighting in the corridors, clean floors, trolleys that are where they should be, a loading area you can reverse into, and staff on site who know where everything is.
We also run packing supplies, a moving team and the rest of our storage services in Dubai from the same site, so if you arrive underestimating how many boxes you need — almost everyone does — it is solved on the spot rather than with another trip.
Storage boxes covers which sizes are worth having and how many a flat of each size takes.
Sizes run from about 1 m² to over 10 m², which covers a few boxes of documents at one end and full villa contents at the other. You can move between sizes as your needs change rather than being stuck with the one you picked on day one.
Documents, archive files, sports equipment, suitcases and seasonal clothing.
A one or two bedroom apartment, e-commerce stock, or event material between uses.
Full-home storage, villa contents, bulk inventory and commercial stock.
Our storage units in Dubai page sets out each size with what realistically fits, and the unit size guide shows it with examples if you would rather judge by eye. For businesses storing stock, documents or equipment, business storage covers the same units with terms built around commercial cycles.
The single best thing you can do before renting anywhere is turn up and look at it. Photographs on a website are taken on the facility's best day, this page included. Ten minutes in the building tells you more than any of it.
Tell us roughly what you are storing and we will show you the unit we would recommend and the one a size up, so you can decide with your own eyes rather than from a floor plan.